Wednesday, April 29, 2020
To live in hearts we leave behind
is not to die.
Thomas Campbell, “Hallowed Ground”
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, April 28, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I consider Robert Benchley’s work as a drama critic. Here’a an excerpt.
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Few things are so fleeting as the fame of a p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMFrom 2010:
If you need to adjust your attitude–and I did–a repeat viewing of Groundhog Day will likely do the trick. I laughed and laughed, then found myself overcome with gratitude at…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMGive sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, April 27, 2020
In order to divert those of you who, like me, are staying home these days, I’ve been posting images of some of the prints and paintings that hang on the walls of the Manhattan apartment th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMMack Sennett is the guest on This Is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards. This episode was originally telecast live by NBC on March 30, 1955:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and his…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMIt nearly cancels my fear of death, my dearest said,
When I think of cremation. To rot in the earth
Is a loathsome end, but to roar up in flame—besides, I am used to it.
I have flamed with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, April 24, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review a webcast of the Goodman Theatre’s Chicago premiere of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. (In addition, the column ends w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMA Visit to CBS Color Television, an extremely rare film of a demonstration of early color television that was produced by CBS in 1954 for its affiliates and sponsors prior to the introducti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMWhere there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, April 23, 2020
That a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
Vladimir Horowitz plays Scarlatti’s E Major Sonata, K. 380, at Carnegie Hall in 1968. The video is from a concert telecast by CBS. The audio has been synchronized from a high-quality audio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.”
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, April 21, 2020
From 2010:
I expect that David Mamet’s Theatre, which was published last week, is going to stir up a stink, and I plan to write about it at length at some point in the future. For now, th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Ignorance never settles a question.”
Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons (May 14, 1866)
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, April 20, 2020
In order to divert those of you who, like me, are staying home these days, I’ve been posting images of some of the prints and paintings that hang on the walls of the Manhattan apartment th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMKim Stanley, Geraldine Page, and Sandy Dennis co-star in a 1966 Actors Studio film version of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters directed by Paul Bogart:
(This is the latest in a series of a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”
W.H. Auden, “Notes on the Comic”
Continue readin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, April 17, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review Florida Repertory Theatre’s streaming theatrical webcast of its production of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2. Here’s an …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMLiberace plays excerpts from the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. This performance is drawn from Sincerely Yours, a 1955 feature film directed by Gordon Douglas and s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them—the one, in fact, which is not a mask.”
W.H…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, April 16, 2020
“Self-trust is the essence of heroism.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Heroism”
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Part of the havoc wrought by the coronavirus is that artists of all kinds now find it increasingly and fearfully hard to pay their bills and stay afloat. To help them, the painter Makoto Fuj…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMIn this week’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I discuss Frank Sinatra’s little-remembered career as a part-time orchestral conductor. Here’s an excerpt.
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Most p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMGeorge Van Eps plays “The Boy Friend” and “I’ve Got a Crush on You” on his specially made seven-string electric guitar in a 1987 telecast:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMYet one word more: grief boundeth where it falls,
Not with the empty hollowness, but weight:
I take my leave before I have begun,
For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
William Shakespear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, April 14, 2020
In order to divert those of you who, like me, are staying home these days, I’ve been posting images of some of the prints and paintings that hang on the walls of the Manhattan apartment th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMFrom 2010:
A friend on the West Coast sent me an e-mail the other day that ended, “Give me a call. We never talk.” When I read this, it struck me that the only people I call simply to ta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, April 13, 2020
Jason Robards talks about Eugene O’Neill. Robards appeared in the original stage production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night and the 1956 New York revival of The Iceman Cometh:
(This …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Plausible reasons have never been lacking for putting off all merely cultural activities until some imminent danger has been averted or some crying injustice put right. But humanity long …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM 
