2,374 stories by "Terry Teachout"
From 2006: I set my iBook on shuffle play the other night and sat down at the kitchen table to fill up my seven-day pillbox. (Don't let anybody tell you that the life of a Manhattan drama cr…
"One of the main horrors of journalism is having to produce appropriate emotions for every public event." Auberon Waugh, diary entry, October 26, 1973
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 Life.…
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings "Der Leiermann," a song from Franz Schubert's Winterreise, accompanied by Alfred Brendel. This performance, subtitled in English, was taped for German TV in…
"It occurs to me that of all Shakespeare's plays King Lear is the one I have been and continue to be most moved by. It is probably the bleakest of the plays, the most unconsoling." Ant…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review a Pennsylvania revival of Once. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * The commercial triumph of "Once," which moved to Broadway in 2012,…
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 Life.…
Ray 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 Conover of the V…
"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 which …
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 Life.…
"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
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 Life.…
The 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…
"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 shown to U.S.…
"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 it…
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 Life.…
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 Life.…
I 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 primi…
British 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…
"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)
In today's Wall Street Journal I review two new musicals, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and Cyrano. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Yet another new jukebox biomusical, "Tina: The Tina…
In 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. *Â Â …
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 Life.…
Buddy 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…
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." H.L. Mencken,  "Footnote on Criticism"
