Friday, September 20, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Massachusetts opening of Bedlam’s new revival of The Crucible. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Sixty-six years ago, everyone who saw “The C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMLeopold Stokowski conducts a studio orchestra in his arrangements of Bach’s Chorale-Prelude “Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott,” BWV 720, and the G Minor “Little” Fugue, BWV 578, i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night-light; she knew that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, September 19, 2019
“She liked sex very much, but years ago she had learned something about men; most of them are terrified of entailing a burden.” Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Harry Nilsson sings a solo version of his song “1941.” This performance is an excerpt from The World of Nilsson, originally telecast by the BBC on January 1, 1972: (This is the latest i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Just as there is nothing more boring than boredom, nothing more exciting than excitement, nothing more lovable than love or hateful than hatred, so is there nothing that arouses interest …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, September 17, 2019
From 2004: None of my closest friends in Manhattan knew me when: we didn’t meet until after I’d figured out who I was and what I wanted to become. On the other hand, the friends of our y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“It seemed to Graham that he had learned nothing in forty years: he had just gotten tired.” Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, September 16, 2019
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Ravel’s “Le Gibet” (from Gaspard de la nuit) on TV in 1975: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I’d been having a little too much talk with people whose business was talking. It was good to sit at the counter of a working-class restaurant where men spoke when they wanted something…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, September 13, 2019
The thirty-seventh episode of Three on the Aisle, the (usually) twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:55AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review a Baltimore revival of David Auburn’s Proof. Here’s an excerpt. * * * David Auburn is having an excellent year. His new stage adaptation o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMBill “Bojangles” Robinson, Jeni LeGon, and Fats Waller perform “I’m Livin’ in a Great Big Way,” by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, in Hooray for Love, directed by Walter Lang a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I went inside the club, where the late afternoon crowd were enjoying themselves, if gamblers can be said to enjoy themselves. They wheedled cards or dice like sinners praying to heaven fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, September 12, 2019
“I’d given up offering advice. Even when people asked for it, they resented getting it.” Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, September 11, 2019
• A few weeks after 9/11, I wrote an essay about where I was and what I did that day: “Get up, son,” my mother said, tapping softly on the door of the bedroom of my childhood home in M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMBecause music is my first language, it stands to reason that for me, the memory of 9/11 should be inextricably caught up with the sound of music. I attended and wrote about many memorial con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th’ Lord wud do if He knew th’ facts iv th’ case.” Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, September 10, 2019
From 2009: Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence and D.G. Myers of A Commonplace Blog are jointly conducting a serial symposium called “The Function of Book Blogging at the Present Time” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on.” Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, September 9, 2019
Fats Domino sings and plays “Valley of Tears,” “It’s You I Love,” and “I’m Walkin’” on The Perry Como Show. He is introduced and interviewed by Como prior to the performan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“A story really isn’t any good unless it successfully resists paraphrase.” Flannery O’Connor, “On Her Own Work”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, September 6, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, starring Tom Hiddleston. Here’s an excerpt. * * * “Betraya…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street,” a rare silent film shot in 1905 and originally released by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.: (This is the latest in a series …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.” Sydney Smith, letter to Georgiana Harcourt (1838)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, September 5, 2019
In this week’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I call for shorter, better biographies. The immediate occasion is the publication of Con Chapman’s Rabbit’s Blues: The Life a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“For moviegoers to get the idea of real combat, you’d have to shoot at them every so often from either side of the screen.” Samuel Fuller, A Third Face
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, September 4, 2019
Mabel Mercer and Jimmy Lyon appear on The Mark of Jazz, hosted by Sid Mark and originally telecast on WHYY-TV in 1976: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Jed Harris, in the full tide of success, could not imagine that anything he would do would fail; this is a form of imagination that must be acquired early by anyone who consigns his life …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, September 3, 2019
From 2009: • Rooftop TV antennas. I don’t miss the lamentably fuzzy reception that they provided, or the fact that my family could only pick up three channels in Smalltown, U.S.A. (I n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“The author of a well-received novel never knows whether his book, even if it sells, is also read. Nor does he know where his reader yawns, at what page he may have decided that he wants n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM 
