21,645 stories from ArtsJournal
"They are the greatest living masters of the subtlest and kindliest of the arts."
Rex Stout, Too Many Cooks
Continue reading Almanac: Rex Stout on the fine art of cooking at About Last Ni…
Theatres that normally function as places of gathering, storytelling and entertainment have found themselves playing a very different role in the age of coronavirus. " The Stage
After the pandemic blew up the plans of every American stage company for this year, Blanka Zizka, director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, got the idea to create a COVID bubble for cas…
Lenny Bruce appears on The Tonight Show. This episode, which was portrayed on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, was originally telecast by NBC on April 5, 1959:
(This is the latest in a seri…
"The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an author…
There will be two strands to the service: productions from National Theatre Live that were broadcast to cinemas; and a selection of plays from the NT's archive being released online for the …
As part of the transaction, former MGM Resorts International chief executive Jim Murren and Catalyst Capital managing director Gabriel de Alba were named as co-chairmen of the company's boar…
Almost six months after co-owner Andrew Alexander left the company after accusations of embedded institutional racism there, Jon Carr has been named to succeed him as executive producer. A l…
"Per the theater's mission statement on its website, the Squirrel's goal is to become 'New York's premier destination for sketch and improv comedy, …" The guiding principles of the theater…
From 2006:
One of my mother's most treasured heirlooms is a copy of the second edition of Our Baby's First Seven Years, the "baby book" in which she set down the particulars of my early c…
"There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children."
Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living
Continue reading Almanac: Cesare Pa…
"You had Spider-Man dangling seven feet above the first two rows. It was the worst possible position because no one could reach him. One of the crew members fetched a stick to prod him with,…
But these aren't just any TikTokkers. "Thousands of TikTok users, including many with Broadway credits, have paid homage to the 2007 Disney Pixar film, about a rat who dreams of becoming a F…
The 76- and 71-year-old women who founded and run Split Britches were in London when COVID-19 hit New York hard, so they didn't come back for a while " but where to stay, and how to make the…
I long ago lost count of the number of times that Satchmo at the Waldorf, my one-man-three-character play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced. I do, however, take note whenever I hear o…
Julian Bream talks about and plays Malcolm Arnold's Guitar Concerto live in 1991, accompanied by Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and…
Did … did it need saving? Well, perhaps the theatres do; it's been such a large money maker for theatres in the U.S. for, well, many years. Now, as the holiday season kicks into high gear,…
"Whatever the old girl says, do"do it!"
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Continue reading Almanac: Dickens on wifely advice at About Last Night.
Ari Roth was fired from Theatre J after 18 years as an AD, and so he quickly founded his own company " Mosaic. Recently, he resigned under pressure from Mosaic. Why? A liaison with Equity sa…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review American Players Theatre's reading of Lydia R. Diamond's Smart People. Here's an excerpt.
*Â Â *Â Â *
Lydia R. Diamond's "Smart People," a har…
A scene from NBC's 1960 telecast of the musical version of Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin and adapted and directed for the stage by Jerome Robbins. The song is by Carolyn Leigh and Moose…
"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Continue reading Almanac: James M. Barrie on death at About Last Night.
Not long after Hilary died, an old friend of mine who is also a psychiatrist said something that stayed with me: "You should try to reach a point where you can see your marriage to her as a …
"VLADIMIR: Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens.…
As the theater's biggest commercial motor, Broadway, has languished, resourceful artists and producers are making work that incorporates video, gaming and interactivity into hybridized digit…
