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Aedín Moloney says Yes!

January 29, 2021 by Terry Teachout

In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review the Irish Rep’s webcast of Aedín Moloney in Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom. Here’s an excerpt.

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Throughout the pandemic, New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre has been setting the standard for theatrical webcasts in America. Now all nine of the shows that the company presented in 2020 are being replayed in rotating repertory—four times each—as part of its Theatre @ Home Winter Festival. I reviewed most of them with high enthusiasm during their original runs, but “Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom, ” a revival of Aedín Moloney’s one-woman show adapted by her and the Irish novelist Colum McCann from James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” inexplicably got past me. It is an unmixed pleasure to catch up with it now. Ms. Moloney is one of the Irish Rep’s most gifted actors—I have reviewed her in several of that great company’s productions, including its unforgettable 2011 revival of Brian Friel’s “Dancing at Lughnasa”—and I didn’t see a more impressive individual performance by anyone last year….

Joyce’s unpunctuated run-on sentences, though resistant to the eye, explode into life when read aloud or—better still—acted by an artist like Ms. Moloney, who was born and raised in Dublin and whose accent is as Irish as a triple shot of Jameson….

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Read the whole thing here.

Replay: Fredric March appears on What’s My Line?

January 29, 2021 by Terry Teachout

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, Arlene Francis, and Margaret Truman. This episode was originally telecast live by CBS on March 21, 1954:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

Almanac: Harry Truman on public service

January 29, 2021 by Terry Teachout

“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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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

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...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

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...]

About My Podcast

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...]

The Long Goodbye

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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