I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping…

“One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.”

— Terry Teachout

And Paul Moravec, not being a theater person, would always trust me when I said things that I am like, "you're going to need…

— Terry Teachout

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in…

— Terry Teachout

We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world…

— Terry Teachout

I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it easy to…

— Terry Teachout

Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay…

— Terry Teachout

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

— Terry Teachout

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

— Terry Teachout

It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or whatever concept…

— Terry Teachout

(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of…

— Terry Teachout

If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle. These tend…

— Terry Teachout

The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go…

— Terry Teachout

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

— Terry Teachout

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer,…

— Terry Teachout

There will be this mix of people like me who write for major national newspapers and amateur critics, practitioner critics, whose primary way of…

— Terry Teachout