I have yet to see Best of Enemies, the film documentary on the William F. Buckley, Jr.-Gore Vidal TV debates, originally telecast by ABC in 1968, about which acres of windy prose have lately…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMLionel Hampton and his orchestra play “Flying Home” on The Big Record, originally telecast by CBS on October 23, 1957. They are introduced by Patti Page: (This is the latest in a series …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain; and it is hardly possible to step aside from the pursuit of truth without falling a victim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMBrian Friel was barely more than a name to me when I became the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal in 2003. No play of his had been seen on Broadway since Translations ran briefly there…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Deaf West Theatre’s revival of Spring Awakening and the Chicago transfer of the Aaron Posner-Teller production of The Tem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMNorman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan talk about technology on The Summer Way, originally telecast on the CBC in 1968: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMNor is the people’s judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few. John Dryden, “Absalom and Achitophel”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMApropos of this really embarrassing piece, my kind of person… • …prefers hot dogs to hamburgers. • …prefers trains to planes—in theory. • …likes Johnny Mercer best: • …li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMHere’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 Wal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.” George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMI was playing records for Mrs. T in our hotel room late last night. She claimed to be more than usually pleased by my eclectic playlist, so I thought I’d share it with you as well: • Joh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMFrank Sinatra and Count Basie perform “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Please Be Kind,” “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Everybody Has a Right to Be Wrong,” and “The Gal That Got Away” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“You see, when one’s young one doesn’t feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not ‘for good’; one thinks everything is a rehearsal. To be repeat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFrom 2010: A number of friends have invited me to play the following game that’s been making the rounds in cyberspace: The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it–choose fifteen a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“Plot is for those who already know the world; narrative is for those who want to discover it.” V.S. Naipaul (quoted in David Hare, The Blue Touch Paper)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMMrs. T and I are in Pittsburgh to see a play. Our last visit here took place four years ago, when we flew out to catch a rare revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s House and Garden, then drove back …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:30AM“Mighty Manhattan, New York’s Wonder City,” a 1949 Technicolor documentary short written and narrated by James A. FitzPatrick and directed by James H. Smith: (This is the latest in a s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15AM“Hatreds are the cinders of affection.” Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Sir Robert Cecil (May 10, 1593).
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I report on two regional revivals, a small-scale My Fair Lady in Boston and a storefront staging of The Time of Your Life in Chicago. Here’s an excerpt. * …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMThe Gerry Mulligan Quartet appears on Ralph Gleason’s Jazz Casual. Bob Brookmeyer is the valve trombonist, Wyatt Ruther the bassist, Gus Johnson the drummer. This half-hour episode was tap…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“It seems that in this country, you’re expected to be a specialist. People get used to you in a certain role in life, and they don’t like you to step out of it. In other countr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM“We’re all forgotten sooner or later. But not the films.” Burt Lancaster, quoted in Alain Silver and James Ursini, What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMBurt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas sing “It’s Great Not to Be Nominated” at the 1958 Academy Awards ceremony. (The song was written for them by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen.) Neither m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Whether you like it or not, when you’re sixty-two you’re fulfilled.” Burt Lancaster, quoted in Photoplay (June 1975)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFrom 2003: I continue to see obviously excited concertgoers shamefacedly sitting on their hands at the very moment when they ought to be raising a ruckus. What’s more, the concert hall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.” Burt Lancaster, in conversation with Ernest Lehman (quoted in Kate Buford, Burt Lancaster: An American Life
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I write about jazz as a cultural signifier—and how Hugh Hefner’s Playboy helped to shape that significance. Here’s an excerpt. *…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:13PM• My theater-related travel and the resulting deadlines haven’t left me with much spare time of late, but I’ve still managed in the past couple of weeks to consume and enjoy an album a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMDietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Kiri Te Kanawa sing “Contessa, perdono,” an excerpt from the finale of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), accompanied by Karl Böhm and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“Laskell had made a stab at a station he could not usually get and by some luck of atmospheric condition he broke into the recorded Glyndebourne performance of The Marriage of Figaro. It w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I write about a Chicago revival of The Rainmaker and the New York transfer of a very important regional production of A Midsummer Night’s Drea…
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