About Last Night

I regret to write that Terry Teachout, one of ArtsJournal's original bloggers since 2003, has died unexpectedly at his home in New York at the age of 65. Continue reading Terry Teachout, 65 ...

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In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Irish Rep’s revival of The Streets of New York. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * Theater lovers throughout America owe a huge debt to the Ir...

https://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2022/01/gripping-musical-melodrama.html

Alan Pryce-Jones interviews Somerset Maugham at his villa on the Mediterranean in 1965: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Mon...

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“Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.” Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook Continue reading Almanac: Somerset Maugham on sentimentality at About Last N...

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Richard Strauss leads the Vienna Philharmonic in a 1944 performance of his Till Eulenspiegel. These are a series of single-camera views intended to be cut together. At the end is the only su...

https://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2022/01/snapshot-richard-strauss-conducts-till-eulenspiegel.html

“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.” Somerset Maugham, The Moon and S...

https://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2022/01/almanac-somerset-maugham-on-human-suffering.html

Hilary and I used to spend two or three weeks each winter on Florida’s Sanibel Island, our favorite place in the world. Alas, her deteriorating health caught up with her at last, and the doc...

https://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2021/12/right-around-the-corner.html

There will be no posts this week—I have no shows to review and so will not be filing a Wall Street Journal drama column, and it struck me as appropriate to shut the shop down between the hol...

https://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2021/12/taking-a-time-out.html

In today’s Wall Street Journal I review stage versions of A Christmas Carol in Providence, Rhode Island and Philadelphia. They can both be viewed in person and on line. Here’s an excerpt. ...

https://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2021/12/in-person-or-at-home.html

Go here to listen to John Fahey play “Joy to the World”: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)...

https://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2021/12/replay-john-fahey-plays-joy-to-the-world.html