Monday, January 27, 2020
“One needs a town, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A town mens not being alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the soil, there is something of yourself, that even when you�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, January 24, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review the Broadway premiere of A Soldier’s Play. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama can be a mixed bless…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMDecca’s original-cast album of the 1950 Broadway production of T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party, directed by E. Martin Browne and starring Alec Guinness, Robert Flemying, and Irene Worth:…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.” George Orwell, “Lear, Tolsto…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, January 23, 2020
“FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Newsreel footage of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope singing “Mairzy Doats,” a chart-topping 1943 novelty song, at an outdoor show for enlisted men stationed at the air base outside Santa Ana, C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.” George Santayana, The Life of Reason
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, January 21, 2020
From 2006: I woke up this morning at nine-thirty, an hour later than my normal get-up-and-go time. As I descended from the loft in which I spend my nights, it struck me that I had nothing wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.” Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, January 20, 2020
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is interviwed by Merv Griffin on an episode of The Merv Griffin Show, taped in New York in 1967: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-relate…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, January 17, 2020
Don Stewart and Carl Marlow, who held Perry Como’s cue cards on his weekly TV series, appear as the mystery guests on an episode of What’s My Line? John Daly was the host and the paneli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done.” Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30AMThursday, January 16, 2020
“A happy childhood can’t be cured. Mine’ll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that’s all, instead of a noose.” Hortense Calisher, Queenie
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, January 15, 2020
A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMImogene Coca and James Starbuck perform their comedy version of the pas de deux from Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty on TV in 1951. This performance was originally telecast live as part…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.” Sholem Asch, The Nazarene
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, January 14, 2020
As I watched Dolemite Is My Name on Netflix the other day, I realized that I never anticipated living to see the end of movies as a public and collective viewing experience. Yet it’s well…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMFrom 2005: I went to my framer yesterday afternoon and picked up the presidential commission for my appointment to the National Council on the Arts. It is a splendidly old-fashioned document…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Lately I have had the feeling that I have my whole life to consider and enjoy, especially the periods that were especially nice and that when I was younger I might have regretted because …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, January 13, 2020
One month ago this past Saturday, Mrs. T and I were sitting on the couch in our living room in upper Manhattan, watching Gone With the Wind on TCM, when she went into a full-scale respirato…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02AMGlenn Gould plays his own transcription for solo piano of Maurice Ravel’s La Valse. This performance was originally telecast by the CBC in 1975: (This is the latest in a series of arts- a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:01AM“One of the advantages of almost losing everything is the knowledge that everything is a gift. It’s given and can be abruptly taken away. There’s no entitlement. Few of us, fortunately…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMFriday, January 10, 2020
A rare 1995 TV interview with the film composer Jerry Goldsmith, originally telecast by The Movie Channel as part of its “Take One” series: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.” Ray Bradbury, “The Queen’s Own Evaders, an Afterwor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, January 9, 2020
“I have said that this pseudo-rational view of human nature led to a thinness, a superficiality, not only of judgment, but also of feeling.” John Maynard Keynes, “My Early Beliefs”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, January 8, 2020
Johnny Carson interviews Bette Davis on The Tonight Show. This episode was originally telecast by NBC on January 7, 1988: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“To look back is to relax one’s vigil.” Bette Davis, The Lonely Life: An Autobiography
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, January 7, 2020
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you know that Mrs. T is gravely ill and has been in the intensive-care unit of New York-Presbyterian Hospital for the past three weeks—but that she…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMFrom 2004: Blogs are the 21st-century counterpart of the periodical essays of the eighteenth century, the Spectators and Ramblers and Idlers that supplied familiar essayists with what w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Leisure is a form of that stillness that is the necessary preparation for accepting reality; only the person who is still can hear, and whoever is not still, cannot hear.” Josef Pieper,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM 
