Monday, November 4, 2019
A 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“Don’t ever think you’ve succeeded. Always try to do better—otherwise, drop dead.” Arturo Toscanini (in rehearsal with La Scala’s orchestra, 1946)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, November 1, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review two off-Broadway shows, Seared and for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Here’s an excerpt. * *�…
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 07:02AMBen Webster and Oscar Peterson perform Webster’s “Poutin’” in Hanover, Germany, in December of 1972. The bassist is Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and the drummer Tony Inzalaco: (T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Even though every individual possesses the truth, when he or she gets together in a crowd, untruth will be present at once, for the crowd is untruth.” Søren Kierkegaard, undated journ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMThursday, October 31, 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“In the face of the lack of direct mathematical demonstration, one must be careful and thorough to make sure of the point, and one should make a perpetual attempt to demonstrate as much of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, October 30, 2019
The fortieth 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 listenin…
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 07:02AMIBM Presents Clarence Darrow, a TV version of David W. Rintels’ one-man play, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Rich. This performance, taped at a live performance of the show, was…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.” Christopher Hampton, The Phila…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, October 29, 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 07:02AMFrom 2009: I always remember the fate of Carrie Buck whenever I hear a judge praised for the literary artfulness of his opinions. I yield to no one in my admiration for what Walter Lippma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Horatio looked handsomely miserable.” Charles Dickens, Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, October 28, 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 06:02AMDock Boggs plays and sings “Pretty Polly” at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival. Before the performance, he talks about making his first phonograph records in New York in 1927: (This is the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01AM“There’s enough sorrow in the world, isn’t there, without trying to invent it.” E.M. Forster, A Room With a View
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMFriday, October 25, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review the off-Broadway opening of Soft Power. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Talk about timing: “Soft Power,” the new David Henry Hwan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:04AMIn the online edition of today’s Wall Street Journal, I review an off-Broadway revival of Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney. Here’s an excerpt. * * * “Molly Sweeney,” Brian Friel�…
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 07:02AMShura Cherkassky plays Igor Stravinsky’s Circus Polka: For a Young Elephantas an encore at a 1995 recital. This piece was originally commissioned by the Ringling Brothers & Barnum &a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with multiple interests instead of one single mission, are certain …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, October 24, 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 06:02AM“For Socialism did indeed die with the guns of August of 1914 when the Socialist masses rejected proletarian solidarity and enthusiastically embraced nationalism and fratricidal war instea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMWednesday, October 23, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I write about Edith Halpert, whose career as a pioneering gallery owner who specialized in modern American art is memorialized in a n…
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 07:02AMGene Kelly and Sugar Ray Robinson dance a duet in the opening sequence of “Dancing: A Man’s Game,” an episode of Omnibus hosted by Alistair Cooke and originally telecast by NBC on Dec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“You are a senior executive of a big company and you know the first rule: authority and responsibility must be congruent and commensurate to each other. If you don’t want authority and s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, October 22, 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 05:02AMFrom 2009: Film was the master medium of the twentieth century. Within a few years of its invention, it had supplanted live theater and the novel as the main way in which most people experie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01AM 
