Monday, June 20, 2016
Ivy Compton-Burnett admitted in old age that she could no longer read the novels of Jane Austen, which she loved, because she knew them so well that they could no longer hold her attention. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:30AMJeri Southern sings “Do I Love You (Because You’re Beautiful?)” on The Jonathan Winters Show. The song was written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for the score of Cinderel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15AM“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMFriday, June 17, 2016
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review off-Broadway productions of two shows by Alan Ayckbourn. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Alan Ayckbourn, England’s comic Chekhov, is also a famously ac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMSalvador Dali appears as the celebrity guest on an episode of I’ve Got a Secret, originally telecast by CBS on February 25, 1963. Garry Moore is the host and the panelists are Bill Cullen,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Genius is unquestionably a great trial, when it takes the romantic form, and genius and romance are so associated in the public mind that many people recognize no other kind. There are ot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, June 16, 2016
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I pay tribute to the late Peter Shaffer. Here’s an excerpt. * * * The obituaries for Peter Shaffer, who died the other day at the ag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2016
The Wall Street Journal has given me a second drama column this week in which to review the Public Theater’s Central Park production of The Turn of the Screw. Here’s an excerpt. * * * �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:20AMA rare kinescope of Woody Allen doing his standup routine on British TV in 1965: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15AM“My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
A fast-growing number of the magazines and newspapers that I read on line are now imposing rigid limits on free articles-per-month for non-subscribers. I know why they do it, and I couldn’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:58PMFrom 2006: Lauren and I went to the Empire State Building observatory today, an undertaking that entails standing in line for at least an hour (unless you pay extra for an “express” tick…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMAnger’s my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, June 13, 2016
Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of Satchmo at the Waldorf closed yesterday afternoon after a month-long run. The occasion was necessarily darkened, for me and everyone else, by what happ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMDenny Zeitlin plays his composition “Quiet Now” at the 1983 Berlin Jazz Festival: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.” Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, June 10, 2016
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review a Washington-area revival of Floyd Collins. Here’s an excerpt. * * * “Floyd Collins,” the 1996 musical in which Adam Guettel and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMGroucho Marx sings “Lydia, the Tattooed Lady” in At the Circus, directed by Edward Buzzell and released in 1939. The words are by Yip Harburg and the music is by Harold Arlen: (This is t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I believe that in India ‘cold weather’ is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, June 9, 2016
“I don’t believe that the ordinary people in fact resemble the normal description of the masses, low and trivial in taste and habit. I put it another way: that there are in fact no masse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
Twitter, like the world itself, is populated partly by thoughtful, open-minded people and partly by knee-jerking robots of flesh and blood who are incapable of reacting other than automatica…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMAn extremely rare film clip of Carol Channing performing the title number from Jerry Herman’s Hello, Dolly! in 1965 with members of the original Broadway cast. This is a (mostly) silent fi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“You know, more often than not, a so-called ambitious fellow is simply showing off for someone he loved a darn sight more than the job he’s doing. A woman, usually. A woman who thinks he…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, June 7, 2016
From 2006: Of the giving of prizes there is no end, and it’s hard to think of a single one, however ostensibly prestigious, that hasn’t been devalued by the promiscuity and/or la…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Most people in my day went on stage to annoy their parents.” Robert Newton (quoted in Charles Duff,The Lost Summer: The Heyday of the West End Theatre)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, June 6, 2016
On Saturday afternoon I went directly from Penn Station to New York’s Center for Italian Modern Art to see an exhibition of some forty-odd paintings and works on paper by Giorgio Morandi. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMMerrill Ashley, Maria Calegari, Susan Pillarre, Stephanie Saland, Marjorie Spohn, Tracy Bennett, Victor Castelli, and Robert Weiss of New York City Ballet dance the slow movement from George…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Nevertheless, just as one of our young men had during these days in London found the air peopled with personal influences, the concussion of human atoms, so the other, though only asking …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, June 3, 2016
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review John Doyle’s Classic Stage Company revival of Peer Gynt. Here’s an excerpt. * * * American stagings of “Peer Gynt” are scarce t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“Back of the Mike,” a promotional film about sound effects on radio produced by the Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet in 1938: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos t…
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