Friday, March 11, 2016
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review four New York shows, Familiar, Eclipsed, Blackbird, and Disaster! Here’s an excerpt. * * * Danai Gurira is the zombie-whacking star of “The Walk…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMThe James Brown Revue performs a medley of “I Can’t Stand It,” “If I Ruled the World,” “Cold Sweat,” “Try Me,” “I Feel Good,” and “There Was a Time” on The Hollywoo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I have got to where I should like for my work to be humane, and I do not much care if it even becomes sentimental.” Fred Chappell, afterword to The Fred Chappell Reader
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, March 10, 2016
My “Sightings” column for today’s Wall Street Journal is occasioned by Forest Whitaker’s unsuccessful Broadway debut. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Forest Whitaker’s much-ballyhooed B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AM“There are already so many artists whom one admires more than he likes. Am I the only reader who finds in the achievement of James Joyce something that is—well, a little obtuse? Who sees…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMWednesday, March 9, 2016
Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic perform the “Scene d’amour” cue from Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo: (This is the latest in a series of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Good craftsmen are not expressing themselves. They’re expressing something outside themselves. In that sense, craft is not about selfhood. When somebody declares to you, ‘I feel I hav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, March 8, 2016
I’m a middle-aged semi-homebody whose chosen line of work requires me to spend a fair amount of time traveling. I don’t do it resentfully (except for the time I spend sitting on airplane…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:10AMFrom 2006: I rarely go to classical concerts. It’s not that I love the music any less, but over time I’ve become increasingly alienated from the experience of concertgoing: the noisy aud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:05AM“It is hate that unites people, whereas love is always individual, rather than collective. To this we may add what immediately negates whatever moral essence the purposes of class struggle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMMonday, March 7, 2016
Vivian Blaine sings “Adelaide’s Lament,” from Guys and Dolls, at the 1971 Tony Awards. The song is by Frank Loesser. Blaine created the role of Adelaide in the original 1950 Broadway p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“One of the fundamental differences between extremes of Right and Left is this: in most instances hatred moves the former; fear the latter.” John Lukacs, Democracy and Populism: Fear and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, March 4, 2016
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review a Florida show, Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s production of a new, modernized “translation” of Pericles. Here’s an excerpt. * *…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMAlfred Drake sings “Where Is the Life That Late I Led?” in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV version of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, directed by George Schaefer. The musical numbers were st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMMen tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding. T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, March 3, 2016
“Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.” Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Peggy Lee sings Bart Howard’s “Fly Me to the Moon” (originally titled “In Other Words”) on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1960: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, what the French call his donnée; our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. Naturally I do not mean that we are bound to like i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, March 1, 2016
From 2006: Alas, I’ve found over the years that many people (especially midwesterners, who are trained to say “sir” and “ma’am” and be polite to strangers) become uncomfortable w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Nothing has instilled more melancholy in me than the discovery that the number of intelligent men is extremely small.” José Ortega y Gasset, On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme (transla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, February 29, 2016
After living out of suitcases for the past two months, Mrs. T and I said farewell to Florida, returned at long last to our Manhattan apartment on Saturday night, and fell into bed with abjec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMPat Metheny plays “And I Love Her,” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“The guitar for me is a translation device. It’s not a goal. And in some ways jazz isn’t a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination—a musi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, February 26, 2016
“‘Yeah,’ I said, ‘I heard the speech. But they don’t give a damn about that. Hell, make ’em cry, make ’em laugh, make ’em think you’re their weak erring pal, or make ’em …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:09PMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I report on Forest Whitaker’s Broadway debut, in Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie, which also stars Frank Wood. Here’s an excerpt. * * * What ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMJoan Baez sings Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe” on the BBC’s In Concert in 1965: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.” Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, February 25, 2016
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I discuss a problem that has become an epidemic in the world of American theater—cellphone abuse—and offer a solution. Here’s an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“I am writing little for the moment and I prefer to think rather than to realize.” Francis Poulenc, letter to Georges Jean-Aubry, June 10, 1919
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
Jean-Pierre Rampal and Robert Veyron-Lacroix perform Francis Poulenc’s Flute Sonata: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15AM“Ah! Chabrier, I love him as one loves his father! An indulgent father, always happy, pockets full of tasty morsels.” Francis Poulenc, Moi et mes amis
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AM 
