Archives for May 13, 2009

I depart New York this morning for the first leg of a long theater-related trip that will take me to Washington, D.C., followed by points south and west. I’ll be describing my adventures in this space, though not necessarily as they happen, since I’ll also be filing Wall Street Journal columns from the road in between shows. Work comes first!
I’m going to be on the move for much of the next couple of months, after which I settle down in Santa Fe for rehearsals of The Letter. I arrive in New Mexico on July 12, and the opera opens thirteen days later. Needless to say, you’ll be hearing all about it in this space.
Now, though, I’ve got to catch a train….

Sir Thomas Beecham rehearses the London Philharmonic in a 1932 newsreel:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

“I don’t believe anything that happens in films. But on stage there are no tricks except the tricks you see. The tricks are the actors and actresses persuading you of what they are.”
Alan Ayckbourn (quoted in Paul Allen, Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge)