“When the aspiration and exclusiveness of high art were countered with the vigour and craft of entertainment, then the pretensions of the one and the sentimentality of the other were both under mutual surveillance, and it was somewhere there, in the middle of this collision that you were likely to find a healthy–a Shakespearean–kind of theatre.”
Michael Blakemore, Arguments with England: A Memoir
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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