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About Last Night

TT: Down the road
Last night I heard wild cheering and honking horns in the streets of the Upper West Side of New York City. For my part I found myself thinking not so much of the immediate moment as of the increasingly distant past. I was born in 1956...

TT: Eighty and counting
I commend your attention to "Frankenthaler at 80: Six Decades," which goes up at Knoedler & Company tomorrow and will be on view there through January 10. Here's part of the press release: ...

TT: Speaking of Mencken

TT: Snapshot
UPA's 1953 animated version of James Thurber's "The Unicorn in the Garden," with music by David Raksin: (This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

TT: Almanac
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." H.L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major

DVD
Budd Boetticher: The Collector's Choice (Sony, five discs). At long last, the five Budd Boetticher-Randolph Scott Westerns made between 1957 and 1960 have made it to DVD. (Seven Men From Now, the first film in the series,

The Critical Condition

Why “Hairspray” Epitomizes Tonight’s Election for Me
Change. At this point, it’s an obvious buzzword, but it’s an incredibly appropriate one. When my parents were children in the south, they drank from different water fountains than black children. Things have changed.

The Fortress of Jason Grote

Did you guys know there was an election today?
I'm paralyzed in an internet trance, virtually unable to blog (New Yorkers vote for Obama on Row E, people in swing states document irregularities, Bush has authorized an Army unit to quell civil unrest on US soil,

The Globe and Mail - Theatre

From Edmonton: Bob Baker and CockTales
Bob Baker, artistic director of the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, is a really refreshing interviewee. He dispenses with false modesty, and he tells you what he actually thinks. For instance, in this here article in the Globe today, he says what he thinks about the Edmonton theatre scene before he returned - Follow link to read full post

Reflections in the Light

A Tale of Two Cities Will Close
Citing the economy and diminished ticket sales, A Tale of Two Cities will end performances on Broadway Nov. 16. A national tour is being planned.

theatre notes

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