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TT: All fixed up

March 4, 2008 by Terry Teachout

Apologies to those of you who recently tried to reach this blog via its alternate URL, www.terryteachout.com. Due to circumstances temporarily beyond our control, that address didn’t work yesterday. Now it does. Sorry about that.
In other news, the workshop rehearsals for The Letter are going smashingly well. More when they’re over, but here’s the bottom line: I think we’ve got a hot one here. Watch this space for details….

OGIC: Fortune gets around

March 4, 2008 by ldemanski

Via Boing Boing via Gaper’s Block via Coudal Partners comes news of a fortune cookie fortune that inspired someone to create a web page deeming it “the best fortune cookie ever.” That’s neat, but do they all know the very same fortune also inspired the lovely and talented Erin McKeown to write a terrific song, beloved by me and Terry? (See track #3, “Life on the Moon.”) Maybe someday we can live on the moon,” the song goes; but “because we can doesn’t mean we have to.” What’s next, the novel?

TT: Almanac

March 4, 2008 by Terry Teachout

“A masterpiece is just a successful experiment. You never hear of the unsuccessful ones.”
Gil Evans (quoted in Gene Lees, Arranging the Score)

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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