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 front of you waiving his arms. You now what he's doing. You don't know what the… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made to work if it is charged with freshness and originality. You can have an entirely political… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
(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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
