Friday, November 15, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review a Pennsylvania revival of Once. Here’s an excerpt. * * * The commercial triumph of “Once,” which moved to Broadway in 2012,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMVarious forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMRay Charles plays Neal Hefti’s “Li’l Darlin’” with his touring band at the Newport Jazz Festival. This performance, which took place on July 2, 1960, is introduced by Willis Conove…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments whic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, November 14, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.” Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, November 13, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMThe forty-first 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 l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“A Welcome to Britain” (later retitled “How to Behave in Britain”), a World War II training film “presented by the War Office to U.S. Troops arriving in the United Kingdom” and s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“On another continent, 4,000 miles away, I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AMI posted this for the first time on November 11, 2008. It’s still relevant, and (I suspect) always will be. * * * On October 9, 1918, an HMV sound engineer named Will Gaisberg set up a pri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02AMBritish Pathé newsreel coverage of the hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities on August 25, 1948, during which Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers publicly confronted one an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01AM“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (trans. Constance Garnett)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMFriday, November 8, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review two new musicals, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and Cyrano. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Yet another new jukebox biomusical, “Tina: The Tina T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I explain how American theaters rarely perform older plays—and what effect that has on our theatrical culture. Here’s an excerpt.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AMVarious forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02AMBuddy Rich appears with his band on a 1967 episode of The Mike Douglas Show: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01AM“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.” H.L. Mencken, “Footnote on Criticism”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMThursday, November 7, 2019
Titus Techera, who hosts a podcast for the American Cinema Foundation on which he and his guests discuss important films of the past and present, invited me back for the latest in a series o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:28PMVarious forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.” John Galsworthy, Justice
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMThe Platters perform on The Perry Como Show. This episode was originally telecast by NBC on February 18, 1956: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Dear God, don’t take Adrian away from me. This is the man I’ve been drawing strength from since I was eleven years old. Never a vigorous man. Not a brilliant man. Not a man whose pass…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02AM“She watched his eyes. Why is it that some people display themselves in their eyes, she wondered, while others do not? Her own eyes, she well knew, usually displayed only what she wanted t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMFrom 2009: Harcourt sent me the first finished copy of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong last Tuesday. It was an inordinately busy week crammed full of shows and deadlines, but I talked a sym…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AMMonday, November 4, 2019
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMA digitally restored version of the kinescope of the original live TV version of Rod Serling’s “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” broadcast by CBS on October 11, 1956, as an episode of Play…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM 
