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TT: Gearing up

March 13, 2006 by Terry Teachout

It’s time to start blogging again–or at least it would be if I hadn’t been too busy of late to sit down and write. In addition to seeing Ring of Fire, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, and Grey Gardens, I also went to Zankel Hall to hear Ian Bostridge, caught Mark Morris’ conducting debut in Brooklyn, got to DC Moore Gallery just in time for the last day of their Milton Avery-Jacob Lawrence show, and (drumroll) bought a Marsden Hartley lithograph at auction last Monday, which is now hanging proudly in the Teachout Museum.


Whew, huh? Sounds like the Bad Old Me, right? Well, it was, sort of, except that last week’s whirlwhind of art-related activity was (A) the first time I’ve been anywhere near that busy since I got out of the hospital in December and (B) a one-time deviation from my new, saner lifestyle. I slammed on the brakes as soon as I got home from the theater last night, and I intend to take it nice and slow for the rest of the month.


Having done all those cool things last week, I’ll be spending this week and next blogging about them. No rush–I have plenty of stories to tell. For the moment, I’ll start by making a major announcement: I painted my very first painting two weeks ago! Here it is, courtesy of Ms. Pratie Place, who talked me into it. (The photo posted on her site is wrong side up, by the way: the left-hand edge of the painting should be on top.) A homely thing, but mine own, and I had great fun doing it….


And now, if you’ll pardon me, I’ve got a drama column to write. See you tomorrow.

TT: Almanac

March 13, 2006 by Terry Teachout

“I need to feel a love and immediate contact with a picture. I do not like to be lectured by it or instructed to work out a puzzle. Why shouldn’t art please immediately?”


Peter Pears (quoted in Christopher Headington, Peter Pears: A Biography)

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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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