In today’s Wall Street Journal I review two New York productions, the Broadway premiere of Misery and an off-Broadway revival of Incident at Vichy. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Now that the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I offer a transatlantic perspective on the racial-sensitivity imbroglio at Yale. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Erika Christakis, a lectur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMThe pas de deux and finale from George Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes, danced by Melissa Hayden, Jacques d’Amboise, and New York City Ballet. The music is by John Philip Sousa, arranged …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea.” Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal intime (trans. Mrs. Humphry Ward)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.” Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMartha Argerich plays Liszt’s Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody on TV in 1966: (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“Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Lovel the Widower
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMI’ll be flying to Chicago in two weeks to start rehearsing the Court Theatre’s upcoming production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, which opens in January. We’ve got a lot to do between now …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:05PMFrom 2003: I was a small-town second-grader on November 22, 1963. My teacher, Jackie Grant, told the class that the president had been shot and killed, and then we all went home. For me, hom…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.” Ezra Pound (quoted in Grazia Livi, “Vi Parla Ezra Pound,” Epoca, March 24, 1963)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM“My Friends,” a video directed by Lindsey Copeland for the song of the same name by MaryLeigh Roohan. The song is from Roohan’s EP Living Alone: (This is the latest in a series of arts…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practises. He always has hope.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review two Broadway shows, the New York transfer of Ivo van Hove’s London revival of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge and the New York premiere o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMAlicia de Larrocha plays Manuel de Falla’s arrangement for solo piano of “Ritual Fire Dance,” a movement from El amor brujo: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I approach my 79th birthday this month with growing awareness. I celebrate it by building a garden in my place of reuge in Shikoku. It is a gift to the future, and to the people who harbo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMI’m flying to Beverly Hills on Friday to make an onstage appearance at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, which presented Satchmo at the Waldorf earlier this year and is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:50AMJohn Douglas Thompson can do just about anything, but so far as I know, he can’t be in two places at once. If you follow my calendar, then you know that Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first pl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AMHere’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall St…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I guess I’ve accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It’s too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness. It’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMArturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays the “Funeral March” movement from Chopin’s Second Piano Sonata: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space eac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, ‘it is the quality which guarantees all others.’” Winston Churchill, “Alfonso XIII” (in Grea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFrom 2005, a month before I nearly died of congestive heart failure: I was thinking about the haircut I’d gotten in New York earlier in the week. The barber tied a dark blue apron arou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“The milk of the sacred cows has a way of turning sour.” Henry Mancini, Sounds and Scores: A Practical Guide to Professional Orchestration
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMI’m back from Lubbock, Texas, where I gave a speech at Texas Tech that by all accounts went over well, ate really excellent Mexican food, and paid an afternoon visit to the Buddy Holly Cen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMMike Nichols and Elaine May perform on the 1959 Emmy Awards telecast. They are introduced by Richard Nixon: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“You always aim high in something low.” Mike Nichols, in conversation with Steve Martin (quoted in Vanity Fair, October 2015)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Boston premiere of Katori Hall’s Saturday Night/Sunday Morning and two New York premieres, On Your Feet! and King Charles III. Here’s an exc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I write about a historically important home-video release. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Peter Pan is everywhere these days, and I, for o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMBirgit Nilsson sings “In questa reggia” (from Puccini’s Turandot on a 1967 episode of The Bell Telephone Hour. The conductor is Donald Voorhees: (This is the latest in a series of arts…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMHere’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall St…
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