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TT: All in

August 31, 2005 by Terry Teachout

Hurricane Katrina bumped into my end-of-the-month deadline glut, meaning that I had to stay up all last night writing–a Commentary essay from midnight to seven, my Friday Wall Street Journal drama column from seven to ten. John Pancake, my editor at the Washington Post, was able to give me a one-day extension for this Sunday’s “Second City” column, which I’ll write in the morning.


For the moment, though, I’m cross-eyed and sleep-deprived, so I’m not even going to try to blog. Our Girl, bless her, has taken over our “Live from Katrina” page, which continues to draw heavy traffic. Me, I’m going to post some pre-written items, then crawl into my loft and seek a bit of oblivion.


See you later.

TT: Down the road

August 31, 2005 by Terry Teachout

Up and coming on my calendar:


– SEPTEMBER 20-25: The Bad Plus performs at the Village Vanguard


– SEPTEMBER 25: The Mint Theater presents the world premiere of Walking Down Broadway, an unproduced 1931 play by Dawn Powell


– OCTOBER 11: Street date of the DVD of Me and You and Everyone We Know (MGM)

TT: Number, please

August 31, 2005 by Terry Teachout

– Commissioning fee paid to William Walton by Jascha Heifetz in 1939 for Walton’s B Minor Violin Concerto, including two years’ worth of exclusive performance rights: $1,493.00


– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $19,589.35


(Source: Michael Kennedy, Portrait of Walton)

TT: Almanac

August 31, 2005 by Terry Teachout

“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. To open the mind so wide as to keep nothing in it or out of it is not a virtue; it is the vice of the feeble-minded.”


G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography

TT: Almanac

August 31, 2005 by Terry Teachout

“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. To open the mind so wide as to keep nothing in it or out of it is not a virtue; it is the vice of the feeble-minded.”


G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography

TT: A European perspective on Katrina

August 31, 2005 by Terry Teachout

A reader from Norway writes:

I just want you to know that I’m one of the many people who are deeply grateful for your list of Katrina blogs.

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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