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Lookback: preparing to rehearse the premiere of my first opera
From 2009: I arrived in Santa Fe early yesterday evening, dropped my bags at the rented condo where I’ll be spending the next three weeks, ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-16
Almanac: Arthur Miller (and Sidney Lumet) on the pleasure of collaboration
“Arthur Miller’s first and, I think, only novel, Focus, was, in my opinion, every bit as good as his first produced play, All My Sons. I once ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-16
Short but sweet
Mrs. T was discharged from New York-Presbyterian Hospital last night and returned at long last to our apartment in Upper Manhattan, weary but happy. ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-15
A ghost walks
I reviewed my first out-of-town show for The Wall Street Journal fifteen years ago. What started out as an experiment soon became a mission, ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-15
Just because: Pentangle performs “Willy O’ Winsbury”
Pentangle performs “Willy O’ Winsbury” on Set of Six. This episode was originally telecast by ITV on June 27, 1972: (This is the latest in ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-15
Almanac: Sidney Lumet on melodrama
“Melodrama is a heightened theatricality that makes the implausible plausible. By going further, it seems more real.” Sidney Lumet, Making Movies ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-15
This Week’s Top Audience Stories: How Algorithms Are Changing Audience Taste
This Week’s Insights: How technology changed TV… Study says we’re not so hot on movie remakes… The remake of the Indianapolis Museum challenges what a ... read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2019-07-14
Permission to laugh
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s new production of Cymbeline. Here’s an excerpt. * * * “Cymbeline” has ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-12
Replay: Thomas Mann on antisemitism
Thomas Mann talks about antisemitism on the BBC in 1942. This is one of the few surviving recordings of Mann speaking in English: (This ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-12
Almanac: Alexander Pope on doing good
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Alexander Pope, “Epilogue to the Satires” ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-12
In memoriam: Rip Torn in 1962
Rip Torn and Tuesday Weld co-star in “A Case Study of Two Savages,” an episode of Naked City written by Frank Pierson, directed by William A. ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-07-11
Grass Is Greener?
In my recent travels to Australia and Chile I saw two places where government funding for the arts is far more generous than is ... read more
AJBlog: Engaging MattersPublished 2019-07-09
Cold, Dead White
Forget the red, erase it. Before bloodied by berries, its surface was white. But unlike that of cottage cheese, coconut flesh, or the armor around ... read more
AJBlog: Out TherePublished 2019-07-09