Terry Teachout Performed Quotations

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.

'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours.