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TT: Turkey-related status

November 19, 2007 by Terry Teachout

Mrs. T and I are flying back from Chicago, where we spent the weekend seeing two shows in the company of Our Girl. Tomorrow Hilary returns to Connecticut, while I write two pieces and go to the Jazz Standard to hear the Maria Schneider Orchestra. On Wednesday I drive north to spend Thanksgiving with Hilary and her family, see two musicals, and continue working on my Louis Armstrong biography.
The joint, in short, is jumping like hell, and things were further complicated when I learned last Friday night that my mother had fallen and cracked her pelvis. (She’s in the hospital, resting comfortably.) All this means, not surprisingly, that posting will be iffy for the rest of the week. Expect the usual almanac entries and theater-related items–including news about the stagehands’ strike, which is still very much up in the air as I write these words–but otherwise I shall try to stick to my last.
OGIC and CAAF will do whatever they do, or don’t.
See you around.
UPDATE: Strike talks broke off last night and Broadway producers announced the cancellation of performances through Nov. 25.
For a list of Broadway shows that remain open, go here.

TT: Almanac

November 19, 2007 by Terry Teachout

“It’s hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.”
Paddy Chayefsky, screenplay for The Hospital

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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