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Excerpts From Edwin Wilson’s ‘Magic Time’ A memoir of a lifetime’s active engagement with American theater, by a former drama critic for The Wall Street Journal. Broadway at night. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo Dec. 17, 2020 6:13 pm ET As a schoolboy in the early 1940s, Edwin Wilson saw Al Jolson drop to his knees in the footlights of the Shubert Theatre and belt out “Mammy.” As a young man he thrilled to the original Broadway productions of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Death of a Salesman,” “Oklahoma!”�...

Ducky, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg: NCIS hero David McCallum was a gangsta rap star NCIS hero David McCallum became an unlikely chart star 20 years ago at the age of 67 with the godfather of gangsta rap. David McCallum, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg. NCIS hero David McCallum became an unlikely chart star 20 years ago at the age of 67 with the godfather of gangsta rap. Dr Dre included a swaggering sample from McCallum’s 1966 instrumental record The Edge on his 2000 single The Next Episode which featured Snoop Dogg. McCallum, now 87, who has family links to Macduff, played Russian spy Illya Kuryakin in the...

The NZSO at practice in the Michael Fowler Centre. Handel’s Messiah. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gemma New with Anna Leese (soprano), Sarah Court (alto), Frederick Jones (tenor), Robert Tucker (bass) and The Tudor Consort. Michael Fowler Centre, November 12. Reviewed by Max Rashbrooke. From the first moments it felt like we were in the hands of a master. Conductor Gemma New, a study in pale, concentrated energy, had complete control over the stunning orchestral writing of Handel’s famous Messiah. Committed, as is the modern trend, to a story-telling Messiah and not just ...