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TT: Right on time

January 1, 2007 by Terry Teachout

I don’t feel like looking back today–I’ve been doing more than enough of that in recent postings. Suffice it to say that 2006 was scary and happy in like proportions, with the latter finally edging out the former.


This year, like last year, will be busy, and since I haven’t any shows to see until Sunday, I’ve decided to vanish into the woods of Connecticut to catch up on my writing. Except for the daily almanac and the usual theater-related postings on Thursday and Friday, I don’t plan to blog for the rest of the week. (If I change my mind, kindly give me hell.) I don’t know what Our Girl has in mind, but I’ll leave it to her.


Have a nice week, and a nice year.

TT: My (public) New Year’s resolutions

January 1, 2007 by Terry Teachout

– To finish Hotter Than That: A Life of Louis Armstrong. (The contract will help!)


– To see fewer plays–and write more thoughtfully about the ones I do see.


– To spend more time listening to music, not in the background or on the fly, but with the total concentration and involvement that it deserves.


– To read Bleak House and War and Peace at long last, and report on my progress in this space.


– To go to the gym four days a week, every week.


– To take more time off.


– To visit the Grand Canyon.

TT: Almanac

January 1, 2007 by Terry Teachout

Come, children, gather round my knee;

Something is about to be.


Tonight’s December Thirty-First,

Something is about to burst.


The clock is crouching, dark and small,

Like a time bomb in the hall.


Hark! It’s midnight, children dear.

Duck! Here comes another year.


Ogden Nash, “Good Riddance, but Now What?”

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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