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OGIC: No cow, it turns out, is sacred

August 19, 2005 by Terry Teachout

Thank you to everyone who has emailed me with their unfavorite movies. Seems there’s a little Evil Ebert inside all of us, and it is perfectly delighted to be asked out to play. Time has been short, so regretfully I haven’t been able to write most of you back yet. I promise to do so this weekend, and I’ll also share your b

OGIC: No cow, it turns out, is sacred

August 19, 2005 by Terry Teachout

Thank you to everyone who has emailed me with their unfavorite movies. Seems there’s a little Evil Ebert inside all of us, and it is perfectly delighted to be asked out to play. Time has been short, so regretfully I haven’t been able to write most of you back yet. I promise to do so this weekend, and I’ll also share your b

TT: Utterly out of it

August 19, 2005 by Terry Teachout

I’ve been invaded by a virus. It must have been sneaking up on me for the past couple of days, but I didn’t realize what it was until early yesterday evening, when I started coughing and feeling increasingly crappy at dinner. I then strolled over to Lincoln Center to see Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, and by the end of the first act I was clammy and exhausted. I stuck it out, but my weak chest and I passed a thoroughly awful night together. I just cancelled out of the show I was going to see tonight, and I’m planning to spend the rest of the day in bed or near it.


More as it happens, but don’t be too terribly surprised if you don’t see much of me here on Monday.


Later.

TT: Utterly out of it

August 19, 2005 by Terry Teachout

I’ve been invaded by a virus. It must have been sneaking up on me for the past couple of days, but I didn’t realize what it was until early yesterday evening, when I started coughing and feeling increasingly crappy at dinner. I then strolled over to Lincoln Center to see Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, and by the end of the first act I was clammy and exhausted. I stuck it out, but my weak chest and I passed a thoroughly awful night together. I just cancelled out of the show I was going to see tonight, and I’m planning to spend the rest of the day in bed or near it.


More as it happens, but don’t be too terribly surprised if you don’t see much of me here on Monday.


Later.

TT: Imagine there’s no Lennon

August 19, 2005 by Terry Teachout

Friday again, and time for the weekly postmortem…er, Wall Street Journal drama-column teaser. This time around I slit the throat of Lennon and report on Terrence McNally’s Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams:

I give the cast full credit for trying to make something out of nothing, but halfway through the first act I was muttering, “Bring on the deranged assassin!” Alas, “Lennon” needed no Mark David Chapman to supply the coup de gr

TT: Imagine there’s no Lennon

August 19, 2005 by Terry Teachout

Friday again, and time for the weekly postmortem…er, Wall Street Journal drama-column teaser. This time around I slit the throat of Lennon and report on Terrence McNally’s Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams:

I give the cast full credit for trying to make something out of nothing, but halfway through the first act I was muttering, “Bring on the deranged assassin!” Alas, “Lennon” needed no Mark David Chapman to supply the coup de gr

TT: Mailbag

August 19, 2005 by Terry Teachout

To begin with, I want to thank the sharp-eared reader who read this posting about Joseph Taylor’s 1908 recording of “Unto Brigg Fair” and wrote to tell me that it has indeed been transferred to CD. It’s part of English Rhapsody, a really lovely collection of music by Frederick Delius, George Butterworth, and Percy Grainger, performed by Mark Elder and the Hall

TT: Mailbag

August 19, 2005 by Terry Teachout

To begin with, I want to thank the sharp-eared reader who read this posting about Joseph Taylor’s 1908 recording of “Unto Brigg Fair” and wrote to tell me that it has indeed been transferred to CD. It’s part of English Rhapsody, a really lovely collection of music by Frederick Delius, George Butterworth, and Percy Grainger, performed by Mark Elder and the Hall

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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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