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TT: Landmark

February 5, 2007 by Terry Teachout

Our Girl and I received our two millionth page view at 9:05 yesterday morning. (The lucky viewer, in case you’re curious, was from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Pat Metheny’s home town.) That

TT: In case you didn’t notice

February 5, 2007 by Terry Teachout

Take a look at the right-hand column and you’ll see that the “Top Five,” “Out of the Past,” “Teachout in Commentary,” and “Teachout Elsewhere” modules have been extensively updated.


Enjoy!

TT: Dark delights

February 5, 2007 by Terry Teachout

A friend writes:

I’ve been interested in exploring films noir further, and have been meaning to ask if you could suggest the ten (or twelve, or whatever) essential movies that fall under that category. I saw that you included a couple of them on your list last month of the

TT: Almanac

February 5, 2007 by Terry Teachout

The things that were coming to be talked about

Have come and gone and are still remembered

As being recent. There is a grain of curiosity

At the base of some new thing, that unrolls

Its question mark like a new wave on the shore.


John Ashbery,

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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