In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review a show in Sarasota, Florida, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s revival of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. I also take no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMThe video for Donald Fagen’s “New Frontier,” directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, originally released to promote Fagen’s 1986 solo album The Nightfly: (This is the latest in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“When everything’s working right, you become transfixed by the notes and chords and the beautiful spaces in between. In the center of it, with the drums, bass and guitar all around you, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AM“How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!” Eric Hoffer, “Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: ‘Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely’” (New York Times Magazine, April…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMBob Elliott, who died yesterday at the age of ninety-two, was the longer-lived member of Bob & Ray, a much-loved comedy team whose subtle, at times near-surrealistic routines were devel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:17PMDustin Hoffman talks about how he became an actor in a 1968 CBC interview: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMa href=”http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/INK-BOTTLE.jpeg”>All we are not stares back at what we are. W.H. Auden, The Sea and the Mirror: A …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFrom 2006: I do solemnly swear that I will never again review a new recording of the complete Brandenburg Concertos. If you want to get my attention, you’ll have to think of another way, p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Just because we’re born as SOBs doesn’t mean we have to live that way.” Roger Ebert, review of Groundhog Day (Chicago Sun-Times, February 12, 1993)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMRachel Symes wrote a very nice piece for Sunday’s New York Times about Rupert Holmes’ Remember WENN, which has the distinction of being the first original TV series ever to air on AMC. W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMI rejoice to report that the amazing John Douglas Thompson, who is currently starring in the American Conservatory Theatre’s production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, has been n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMSpike Jones and His City Slickers perform their version of “Cocktails for Two” in a 1945 theatrical short. Jones plays the bartender: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related vide…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.” Joseph Wood Krutch, The Twelve Seasons
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review a show in Sarasota, Florida, Asolo Repertory Theatre’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!. Here’s an excerpt. * * * It’s one of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM“Emeralds,” the first act of Jewels, a three-act plotless ballet by George Balanchine. This act, set to the music of Gabriel Fauré, is performed by St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Ballet. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.” Samuel Johnson (quoted in James Boswell’s Life of Johnson)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMy Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column (which now appears every other Thursday) is occasioned this week by Alicia Kopfstein-Penk’s Leonard Bernstein and His Young People’s Concert…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMAction is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMI think it’s fair to say that most people think of me as a highbrow-egghead type whose tastes in pop music are meticulously consistent with his tastes in the other arts. For this reason, I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMEthel Merman sings Cole Porter’s “I Get a Kick Out of You” on NBC’s Texaco Star Theater. She is introduced by Milton Berle, the host. Merman introduced the song in the original 1934 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease—of suffering as opposed to doing. To ‘do’—it hardly mattered what—would therefore be an escape, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMChicago’s Court Theatre announced yesterday that its critically acclaimed production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, will extend its run through February 14 “due to overwhelmin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMFrom 2006: The age of mechanical reproduction, alas, has sharply diminished the value of the eyewitness account: I saw Count Basie in concert a half-dozen times when I lived in Kansas City, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his vie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMSatchmo at the Waldorf opened in San Francisco last Wednesday. I flew back to Florida’s Sanibel Island and my beloved Mrs. T early the next morning, having spent the preceding eleven days …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMBaby Laurence does a tap-dance solo on an episode of The Hollywood Palace, originally telecast on ABC on September 26, 1967. This is one of the few surviving telecasts of Laurence’s dancin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review the Broadway premiere of Richard Greenberg’s Our Mother’s Brief Affair. Here’s an excerpt. * * * I didn’t have high hopes for �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMCarl Perkins sings “Blue Suede Shoes” on The Perry Como Show in 1956: (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 worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.” Karl Marx, “Alienated Labor”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM“Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
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