Friday, April 24, 2015
In the last of three season-wrapping drama columns that appeared in The Wall Street Journal this week, I review the Broadway transfers of The Visit and Airline Highway Here’s an excerpt. *…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I write about Henry Folger, who amassed the collection that became the Folger Shakespeare Library, and about art collectors in general…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.” William Hazlitt, “On Cant and Hypocrisy”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMThursday, April 23, 2015
In the second of three season-wrapping drama columns that will appear in The Wall Street Journal this week, I review two new musicals, Doctor Zhivago and Something Rotten! Here’s an excerp…
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“The world owes all its onward impulse to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
In the first of three season-wrapping drama columns that will appear in The Wall Street Journal this week, I review the Broadway transfers of Fun Home and Living on Love. Here’s an excerpt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMA rare kinescope of an abridged TV adaptation of The Fantasticks, originally telecast on NBC’s Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1964. The production was directed by George Schaefer and the cast in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Everyone likes a kidder, but no one lends him money.” Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
I love my job, but I don’t much care for April, the last month of the Broadway season, when I have to spend nearly every night on the aisle seeing shows, some of them wonderful and others …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMFrom 2005: Why is it that only two of my friends meet me on time? Because none of the others do, not ever. As in never. N-E-V-E-R. And you know what? Even though I know they’re going to be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“There is an impression abroad that everyone has it in him to write one book; but if by this is implied a good book the impression is false.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, April 20, 2015
The publication of Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed has triggered much discussion of the phenomenon of social-media “shaming,” most interestingly and convincingly by my fr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMPaul Moravec and I are at work on a new project—but this time, it isn’t an opera. My old friend John Sinclair is celebrating his twenty-fifth anniversary as artistic director of the Bach…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMRichard Rodgers is interviewed by James Day on an episode of CUNY-TV’s Day at Night originally taped in 1974. A new revival of The King and I, which Rodgers wrote with Oscar Hammerstein II…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it very properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, April 17, 2015
In the second of my two Wall Street Journal drama columns for this week, I report on another pair of Broadway openings, The King and I and Finding Neverland. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Point…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM“There was not much need for retribution in the life hereafter. You usually paid for the party while you were still on earth.” John P. Marquand, Melville Goodwin, USA
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, April 16, 2015
Here’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“Dottie was always saying that she loved to entertain graciously, and by this she meant that she liked to do things with a sort of weight-throwing ostentation attributable to her simple be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
The Wall Street Journal has given me an extra drama column today to report on two Broadway openings, An American in Paris and It Shoulda Been You. One’s a triumph, the other a clunker. Her…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMVáclav Talich leads the Czech Philharmonic in a 1955 performance of Dvořák’s E Minor Slavonic Dance: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space eac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“There always came a time when you wearied of listening to the fallacies of self-justification because you learned finally the basic truth that no one in a jam was in a position to give yo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
I mentioned the other day that Mrs. T and I were thinking about adding a new piece to the Teachout Museum. After long and careful consideration, we decided to take the plunge and place a bid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMFrom 2005: I like Antonio’s, mostly because it reminds me of all the other barber shops I’ve visited regularly. Not the mall-type franchise stores that I patronized in college–I never …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“It was no one’s fault that it was hard to keep memories of wives perpetually green in that extreme and changing environment, even with the aid of the photographs and love-gauges that on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, April 13, 2015
Mrs. T and I missed the worst of the horrific winter just past, but we were intensely aware at all times of its viciousness. No sooner did we return from Florida at the beginning of March th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMI’m pleased to announce yet another staging of Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, in the upcoming 2015-16 season. Immediately after the show concludes its run at San Francisco’s Amer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMWillis Conover, the Voice of America’s legendary jazz disc jockey, attempts to stump the panel on an episode of To Tell the Truth originally cast on CBS on April 8, 1963. The Voice of Amer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMEdward R. Murrow interviews Harpo Marx on Person to Person in 1958: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“I was just thinking that life makes almost everyone into something that he never exactly wanted to be, and then the time comes when he can’t very well be anything else.” John P. Marqu…
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