2,374 stories by "Terry Teachout"
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" is back on Broadway, thi…
The thirtieth 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 liste…
Alfred Deller sings Purcell's "From rosy bow'rs" in an undated film clip: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday…
"The things of men will break"whether weapons, machines or bodies. When that time comes, know what you believe. It will be the only thing that keeps you going." John R. Allen (quoted in Chri…
I've been so horrifically busy throughout the past couple of weeks that I forgot to mention that the twenty-ninth episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter M…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway premiere of Tootsie. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * It was inevitable that "Tootsie," Sydney Pollack's much-loved 1982 romcom abo…
"Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages." Samuel Johnson, The Idler (…
John Lennon and Chuck Berry perform "Memphis, Tennessee" and "Johnny B. Goode" and are interviewed on a 1972 episode of The Mike Douglas Show: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and…
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity
Charity Tillemann-Dick, a coloratura soprano who suffered from pulmonary hypertension (the same rare disease that afflicts Mrs. T) and who resumed her singing career after undergoing a doubl…
From 2009: One of my closest friends, a writer whom I admire greatly, has dedicated his latest book to me. I was one of the first people to suggest that he write it, and he claims to have pr…
"To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, whic…
Patricia McBride and John Clifford dance George Balanchine's Tarantella, set to the music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, in an undated telecast: (This is the latest in a series of arts- a…
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak." John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson (February 2, 1816)
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review two Broadway openings, Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton and a revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â…
Humphrey Bogart endorses major-league baseball in an undated TV commercial filmed and originally telecast in the Fifties: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos …
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of …
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Hadestown. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Does the Broadway musical have a future? Only if a new generation of artist…
"The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep." Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change
Blossom Dearie sings and plays "I Like You, You're Nice" on an episode of Parkinson, originally telecast by the BBC in 1972. The music is by Dearie, the lyrics by Mahriah Blackwolf: (This…
"What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity." Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna
Harry Jenks, for many years the ballpark organist for the Kansas City Royals, died in 1980. He was already mostly forgotten by then, and scarcely anyone recognized his name when I wrote abou…
From 2009: A good biographer will do just about anything to comb snippets of apocrypha out of his book. Fortunately, Louis Armstrong almost always told the truth about himself, but anyone wh…
"So long as a man's power, that is, his capacity to realize what he has in mind, is bound to the goal, to the work, to the calling, it is, considered in itself, neither good nor evil, it is …
Lili Kraus plays Mozart's D Minor Fantasy, K. 397, in a rare kinescope of a 1957 TV performance: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space…
