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TT: Almanac

November 3, 2004 by Terry Teachout

“The only moral to be drawn is that honourable causes are seldom advanced by the employment of lawyers.”


Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?

TT: An unclearable throat

November 3, 2004 by Terry Teachout

My cold seems to have given me a swollen uvula, which is one of life’s more comical complaints. It’s helping me concentrate on my writing, though, since I can’t really talk. On the other hand, I’m still feeling moderately crappy!


Once I get Today’s Piece written, drink several gallons of gently warmed fluids, and rack up a hard-earned nap or two, I might well feel moved to blog some more. But don’t count on it.

TT: The cone of silence

November 3, 2004 by Terry Teachout

I continue to feel…well, crappy. Earlier today I went through with a face-to-face interview with a guy who’d set it up weeks ago and had come from out of town just to see me. I didn’t have the heart to blow him off, so I talked until what was left of my voice gave out. Since then I haven’t uttered a word, and outside of a couple of e-mails I haven’t generated any written ones, either. I’ve blown a deadline (not fatally, but it’s badly bruised). I cancelled my longstanding plans for dinner with four very attractive women–a good idea, too, since it’s not even eight o’clock and I can barely hold my head up. After I quaff some hot soup and NyQuil, I hope to become deeply unconscious and remain so until tomorrow morning.


That was my day. How was yours, OGIC?

TT: Alternative medium

November 3, 2004 by Terry Teachout

“About Last Night” is currently being viewed in thirteen time zones. Obviously, somebody wanted to read about something else tonight.


And now I am soooo going to bed….

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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