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New York Times Gives Boston’s ‘Moulin Rouge’ Big Thumbs Up
Turns out it’s not just the Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout who’s smitten with Boston theater productions. New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley likes them too. Songs to Sin By in a Smashing ‘Moulin Rouge!’ Its pieces zoom through … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Jay Lerner, Alfred P. Doolittle, Amanda Dehnert, Baz Luhrmann, Ben Brantley, Christopher Chew, Colonel Pickering, Company, Eliza Doolittle, Emerson Colonial Theater, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, J.T. Turner, Jennifer Ellis, Light Up the Sky, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Melissa Errico, Moulin Rouge, My Fair Lady, New York Times, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playbill, playgoing staff, Pygmalion, Rafael Jaen, Remo Airaldi, Richard Chamberlain, Spiro Veloudos, Stephen Sondheim, Terry Teachout, TKTS booth, Wall Street Journal
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The Arts Seen in NYC (#StraightWhiteMen Preview Edition)
Well the Missus trundled me down to the Big Town for my birthday last weekend and, say, it was swell. (It also marked the start of a year’s worth of my saying, à la Raymond Chandler, that I’m pushing 70 … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Anna D. Shapiro, Annette Arm, Armie Hammer, Bill Cunningham, Chaim Soutine, Château de Versailles, Clara Driscoll, Color, Conflict, Constantin Brancusi Sculpture, Cooper Hewitt, David Copperfield, Diego Rivera, Fashion Institute of Technology, Fashion Unraveled, FIT, Flesh, Fondation Giacometti, Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Harry Houdini, Heavenly Bodies:Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, James Gardner, Josh Charles, Like Life: Sculpture Color and the Body (1300-Now), Louis Comfort Tiffany, Louis XIV, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miles Malleson, Mint Theater Company, MOMA, Morgan Library, Museum of the City of New York, New-York Historical Society, Paul Schneider, Public Parks Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, pushing 70 hard enough to break a wrist, Raymond Chandler, Scofield Thayer Collection, Second Stage Theater, Stephen Payne, Straight White Men, Summer of Magic: Treasures from the David Copperfield Collection, Terry Teachout, The Jewish Museum, The Magic of Handwriting: The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection, The Met Breuer, The Met Cloisters, The Weekly Standard, Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs, Visitors to Versailles, Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, Wall Street Journal, Wearing Memories, Young Jean Lee
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WSJ’s Terry Teachout Totally Loves Boston’s Lyric Stage
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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Tagged Alan Jay Lerner, Alfred P. Doolittle, Amanda Dehnert, Christopher Chew, Colonel Pickering, Company, Eliza Doolittle, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, J.T. Turner, Jennifer Ellis, Light Up the Sky, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Melissa Errico, My Fair Lady, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playbill, playgoing staff, Pygmalion, Rafael Jaen, Remo Airaldi, Richard Chamberlain, Spiro Veloudos, Stephen Sondheim, Terry Teachout, TKTS booth, Wall Street Journal
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Dead Blogging ‘My Fair Lady’ at the Lyric Stage
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
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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
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Why Tom Stoppard Is Right to Be a Snob
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
Mike Wallace’s 1958 Dali-ance
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
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Tagged About Last Night, ArtsJournal, Midnight in Paris, Mike Wallace, Salvador Dali, Terry Teachout, WSJ.
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