Tag Archives: Terry Teachout

WSJ and NYT Agree: John Lithgow Totally Gets Ring Lardner

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

For years now, the hardworking staff has expressed not fulsome (which means “effusive, excessive, or insincere praise”) but full-throated admiration for the work of Ring Lardner, who is either a minor major 20th century American writer or a major minor 20th … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged “How to Write Short Stories—With Samples”, Haircut, Jesse Green, John Lithgow, New York Times, P.G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, Stories by Heart, Terry Teachout, the Big Town, Uncle Fred Flits By, Wall Street Journal | 3 Comments

Hell-no, Dolly! NYT, WSJ Critics Make Very Different Bettes

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

It’s always fun when the bull goose theater critics in The Big Town provide the Broadway version of Bizarro World over some megabucks production. Case in point: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal reviews of Bette Midler as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barbra Streisand, Ben Brantley, Bette Midler, Carol Channing, Dolly Levi, Hello Dolly!, New York Times, Shubert Theater, Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal | 6 Comments

WSJ’s Terry Teachout Totally Loves Boston’s Lyric Stage

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

As the playgoing staff has previously noted, Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout has a thing for Boston’s Lyric Stage Company. Start with this rave for Light Up the Sky last year: “[F]luffy, funny and performed with limitless panache … Continue reading →

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The Arts Seen in NYC (Long Day’s Journey Edition)

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and, say, it was swell. Except for the drive to get there, of course. We hit four – count ’em, four – major traffic jams on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Anton Raphael Mengs, Antwerp, Arthur Miller, Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Ben Brantley, Ben Wishaw, Charles Perrault, Chartres, Ciarán Hinds, Comme des Garçons, Cooper Hewitt, Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play, duquesa de Huescar, Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Eugene O'Neill, Fairy Tale Fashion, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, Gabriel Byrne, Hans Christian Andersen, Human Head Cake Box Murder, Ian Volner, Isaac Mizrahi, Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History, Jessica Lange, Jewish Museum, Job Smeets, John Dillinger's Feet, John Gallagher Jr., Long Day's Journey Into Night, Manish Arora, Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective, Marie Antoinette, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Shannon, MOMA, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New Republic, New York Times, Nynke Tynagel, Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, Roundabout Theatre Company, Saoirse Ronan, snaphappy hordes, Sophie Okonedo, Studio Job, Studio Job MAD HOUSE, Terry Teachout, the Brothers Grimm, The Crucible, The Frick Collection, The Little Mermaid, The Met, The Met Breuer, Thierry Mugler, Thom Browne Selects, Train Crash, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France, Wall Street Journal, Walter Kerr Theatre, Weegee | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging ‘My Fair Lady’ at the Lyric Stage

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled downtown last night to see the Lyric Stage production of My Fair Lady and say, it was . . . fabulous. (Bet you thought I was gonna say “loverly.” Well, it was that too.) … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Jay Lerner, Alfred P. Doolittle, Amanda Dehnert, Christopher Chew, Colonel Pickering, Eliza Doolittle, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, J.T. Turner, Jennifer Ellis, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Melissa Errico, My Fair Lady, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playbill, Pygmalion, Remo Airaldi, Richard Chamberlain, Terry Teachout, TKTS booth, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment

Why Tom Stoppard Is Right to Be a Snob

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Several months ago British playwright Tom Stoppard created a tempest in a theaterpot with an interview he gave to the Telegraph. Quiz: Are Tom Stoppard’s plays too clever for you? As the playwright says he has to dumb down his … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dana Dusbiber, Goneril, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, NatIonal Theatre, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Shakespeare, Slings & Arrows, Terry Teachout, The Hard Problem, The Telegraph, Tom Stoppard, Travesties, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post | Leave a comment

Mike Wallace’s 1958 Dali-ance

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout’s invaluable About Last Night blog at ArtsJournal: First, marvel at the Parliament cigarette plug Wallace delivers. Then, marvelous Salvador Dali. The interview is two ships passing in the TV night: Wallace is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged About Last Night, ArtsJournal, Midnight in Paris, Mike Wallace, Salvador Dali, Terry Teachout, WSJ. | 2 Comments

Glengarry Glen Roast

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The latest revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s landmark update of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, finally held its press opening this week, and the reviews are decidedly mixed. The major Mixmaster? New York Times theater critic Ben … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Al Pacino, Alan Alda, Ben Brantley, Bobby Cannavale, Glengarry Glen Ross, Liev Schreiber, New York Times, Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment

Small World (Edward R. Murrow, Maria Callas, And The Bottle Of Brandy)

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout has a lively blog (About Last Night) at ArtsJournal.com, and here’s his latest offering: Maria Callas and Sir Thomas Beecham chat with Edward R. Murrow in 1959 on the CBS program Small World. Callas is … Continue reading →

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Chewing The Scenery So Hard They Need To Floss

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

From Terry Teachout’s About Last Night blog (via ArtsJournal): TT: Just because Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, and Elsa Lanchester in the denouement of Witness for the Prosecution, Billy Wilder’s film version of Agatha Christie’s play: The hardworking staff loves … Continue reading →

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