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Brian Lin: "At the start of the pandemic, I emailed friends, colleagues, and mentors, all POC, to ask two questions about their literary lives. What is a recurring situation that's destabili…
Why did Jujamcyn switch from Ticketmaster to SeatGeek (more commonly a sports ticket app in the U.S.)? For one thing, SeatGeek is very commonly a contactless system, which now seems possible…
Mary-Kay Wilmers was one of LRB's co-founders in 1979, and after co-editing it since 1988 became sole editor in 1992. Two women will take over: "Wilmers will continue at the paper as consult…
Cohan founded an outpost of Martha Graham's school in London in 1966, and, a couple of years later, The Place. That venture (including the London Contemporary Dance Group) "initially perform…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column, I review the Irish Rep's webcast of AedÃn Moloney in Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom. Here's an excerpt.
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Fredric March appears as the mystery guest on What's My Line? (His first name is misspelled on the nameplate.) John Daly is the host and the panelists are Steve Allen, Bennett Cerf, Ar…
"One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service."
Harry S. Truman, letter to Harold E. Moore (September 27, 1949)
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"There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself."
Somerset Maugham, The Summing …
Vladimir Horowitz plays Schubert's Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 2, at a recital in Vienna in 1987:
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"It is drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entert…
From 2005:
I went to my framer yesterday afternoon and picked up the presidential commission for my appointment to the National Council on the Arts. It's a splendidly old-fashioned docume…
"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
Continue reading Almanac: Thornton Wilder on hope at About Last…
"To want power is corruption already."
Gore Vidal, The Best Man
Continue reading Almanac: Gore Vidal on the will to power at About Last Night.
A survey of frequent theatregoers says that widespread vaccines are the only way most people will feel comfortable in the theatre " and, even with that, 94 percent of those surveyed said the…
In an undated TV interview, Gore Vidal talks about Franklin J. Schaffner's 1964 screen version of The Best Man, his 1960 play, and the ideas about politics on which it was based:
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To an extent, yes, it has. Reporter Natasha Tripney talks with theatremakers around Britain about the positive developments " the success of streaming, increased engagement with communities,…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column, I review Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's Shaw! Shaw! Shaw!. Here's an excerpt.
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Webcasts of the plays of George Bernard…
In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I talk about how to jump-start a post-pandemic revival of the arts in America. Here's an excerpt.
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Alfred Hitchcock is interviewed by Dick Cavett on TV in 1972:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Frida…
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
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"Set in fin de siècle Paris but supercharged by 75 pop songs, it opened to a rave from The New York Times ('This one's for the hedonists,' exulted Ben Brantley), and it was regularly sellin…
"PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom"and of whom only"it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President."
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Jesse Green: "I admit that I do it too. … But even these comparisons are reductive " in both directions. Shakespeare's characters are much richer and more readable than someone as unforthc…
"We will definitely find you … and we will hang you side by side." So said a column in Sovietska Belarus, the more-or-less official newspaper of the post-Communist dictatorship. The target…
Sound footage of the presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, W…
