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TT: Art Linkletter, R.I.P.

May 27, 2010 by Terry Teachout

Once Art Linkletter was ubiquitous. Now he’s forgotten, save by senior citizens and those who, like me, are inching slowly but surely toward the sixtieth meridian. Such is fame in the age of television.
For those with very long memories, here’s the opening segment of a 1965 episode of House Party, Linkletter’s long-lived CBS daytime series–it ran on radio from 1945 to 1967 and on TV from 1952 to 1969–in which he interviews Lucille Ball:

TT: Where in the world are Terry and Mrs. T? (2)

May 27, 2010 by Terry Teachout

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TT: So you want to see a show?

May 27, 2010 by Terry Teachout

Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. For more information, click on the title.


Warning: Broadway shows marked with an asterisk were sold out, or nearly so, last week.


BROADWAY:

• La Cage aux Folles * (musical, PG-13, adult subject matter, reviewed here)

• Fela! * (musical, PG-13, adult subject matter, reviewed here)

• Fences * (drama, PG-13/R, adult subject matter, closes July 11, reviewed here)

• Million Dollar Quartet (jukebox musical, G, reviewed here)

• South Pacific (musical, G/PG-13, some sexual content, brilliantly staged but unsuitable for viewers acutely allergic to preachiness, closes Aug. 22, reviewed here)

OFF BROADWAY:

• Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (comedy, G, suitable for bright children, original Broadway production reviewed here)

• Avenue Q (musical, R, adult subject matter and one show-stopping scene of puppet-on-puppet sex, reviewed here)

• The Fantasticks (musical, G, suitable for children capable of enjoying a love story, reviewed here)

• Our Town (drama, G, suitable for mature children, reviewed here)

• That Face (drama, PG-13, not suitable for children, reviewed here)

IN CHICAGO:

• Killer Joe (black comedy-drama, X, extreme violence and nudity, extended through July 18, reviewed here)

IN GLENCOE, ILL.:

• A Streetcar Named Desire (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, reviewed here)

CLOSING SOON OFF BROADWAY:

• The Glass Menagerie (drama, G, too dark for children, closes June 13, reviewed here)

CLOSING NEXT WEEK ON BROADWAY:

• A Behanding in Spokane (black comedy, PG-13, violence and adult subject matter, closes June 6, reviewed here)

• God of Carnage (serious comedy, PG-13, adult subject matter, closes June 6, reviewed here)

CLOSING NEXT WEEK OFF BROADWAY:

• Doctor Knock, or The Triumph of Medicine (satire, G, not easily accessible to children, closes June 6, reviewed here)

CLOSING SATURDAY IN CHICAGO:

• The Good Soul of Szechuan (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, reviewed here)

CLOSING SUNDAY OFF BROADWAY:

• The Temperamentals (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, reviewed here)

TT: Almanac

May 27, 2010 by Terry Teachout

“When the American movie-maker becomes aware of a discrepancy between his film and the appearance of life, he corrects the difference in favor of ‘realism.’ The search for the direct and the literal produces some of our best effects.”
Orson Welles, “Orson Welles Today,” New York Post, May 23, 1945

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This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

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Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

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Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

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To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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