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Tag Archives: Terry Teachout
Glengarry Glen Roast
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
Small World (Edward R. Murrow, Maria Callas, And The Bottle Of Brandy)
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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Tagged About Last Night, ArtsJournal, Maria Callas, Sir Thomas Beecham, Small World, Terry Teachout
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Chewing The Scenery So Hard They Need To Floss
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
Southie-Based ‘Good People’ Gets Good/Bad Reviews
The Missus and I saw David Lindsay-Abaire’s new play “Good People” in previews last month and loved it. As did New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley: Don’t make the mistake of thinking you understand Margaret Walsh from the get-go, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Brantley, Boston Globe, David Lindsay-Abaire, Good People, New York Times, Southie, Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
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Terry Teachout: Teach In!
Terry Teachout is a knockout. He writes a lively blog (About Last Night), recently authored a well-received biography of Louis Armstrong, and contributes regular theater reviews to the Wall Street Journal. And on Friday there was this: The Cowardly Lion … Continue reading
“Shame on Elie Wiesel”
In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, theater critic Terry Teachout whacked Elie Wiesel for “trampl[ing] on a playwright’s freedom of speech.” Back story: Deb Margolin recently wrote a play called “Imagining Madoff” that purported to offer audiences a fictional version of … Continue reading
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Tagged Deb Margolin, Elie Wiesel, Imagining Madoff, Terry Teachout, Theater J, Wall Street Journal
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Seeing “Red”
The reviews for the Broadway production of “Red” – which the Missus and I caught last month in previews – hit the New York dailies on Friday. The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout – a theater critic I persistently admire … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Molina, Ben Brantley, Mark Rothko, Red, Terry Teachout
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Reviews From the Bridge
The New York revival of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge,” which the Missus and I caught in previews, opened this week to rave reviews. Begin with New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley: I had wondered if “Bridge” … Continue reading
The Politics of Art
Ever since the New York Times ran a piece last week on the artwork the Obamas borrowed from several Washington museums to decorate their private White House residence and the West and East Wings, there’s been a raging debate in … Continue reading
Roman Nolanski
The Boston Herald’s Margery Eagan and the Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout got it exactly right: Roman Polanski is a rapist. Despite what his Hollywood posse might want to think is a “so-called crime” (thank you, despicable Harvey Weinstein), Polanski … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvey Weinstein, Margery Eagan, Roman Polanski, so-called crime, Terry Teachout
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