Monday, May 25, 2026

Review: The NT Live Production of Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons,’ at the Barrymore Film Center, Fort Lee NJ

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Under the NT Live banner, Britain’s National Theatre has made available live productions to cinemas around the world. Last year, a movie ho...

Quote of the Day (Louisa May Alcott, on Volunteering as a Civil War Nurse)

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“The sight of several stretchers, each with its legless, armless, or desperately wounded occupant, entering my ward, admonished me that I wa...

Photo of the Day: ‘Last Stop USA,’ John F. Kennedy Memorial Park, Piermont NY

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“GI Joe,” the waving soldier in this statue in upstate New York’s Rockland County, represented a common figure in World War II: the 1.5 mill...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Photo of the Day: 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, St. Cecilia Church, Englewood NJ

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A number of people, including myself, lined up after morning Mass on Pentecost Sunday in front of this display at my longtime spiritual home...

Spiritual Quote of the Day (Acts of the Apostles, on the First Pentecost)

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“When the day of Pentecost had come,   they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came   a sound like the rush of a...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

This Day in Theater History (Henrik Ibsen, Playwright-Provocateur, Dies)

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May 23, 1906—Characteristically exclaiming Tvertimod! (On the contrary!”), playwright Henrik Ibsen , who influenced the international theat...

Quote of the Day (Raymond Chandler, on the Truth of Science and the Truth of Art)

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“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the seco...