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TT: In recovery

October 1, 2008 by Terry Teachout

n652497192_1044702_2505.jpgAs I look back on the past few weeks, it’s a wonder that I didn’t get sick sooner. The climax came when I hopped on a plane and flew to Raleigh to see Carolina Ballet, returned to New York two days later to see Equus and write five pieces in a row, then hopped on another plane and flew to Chicago to see two shows. Not surprisingly, a fuse blew toward the end of this nine-day gallop, and by the time I got back to New York on Sunday afternoon, I was sneezing, coughing, and generally feeling awful.
I was already planning to take Monday and Tuesday off, during which I’d meant to go see the Metropolitan Museum’s Morandi retrospective. Instead I stayed home, sat on the couch, watched John Wayne movies, drank all the fluids I could choke down, and tinkered more or less effectually with the manuscript of my Louis Armstrong biography, on which I’m about to put the final touches.
I feel better today than I did two days ago–not all the way back to par, but better. It helps that this week’s schedule is somewhat more reasonable: I have three Broadway shows to see, one piece to write, and a video review to tape. (Yes, I’m now reviewing Broadway openings on video for The Wall Street Journal‘s Web site. To see what I said about Equus last week, go here.)
house1_lg.jpgOn Sunday morning Mrs. T and I depart for Cleveland, where we’ll be seeing shows at the Cleveland Play House and the Great Lakes Theater Festival, visiting the Cleveland Museum of Art, and spending four nights in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Penfield House, about which much more next week.
Busy but not crazy, in other words, and I’ll try to work in some blogging while I’m at it. In the meantime, I appreciate your forbearance. A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, and sometimes he’s gotta take a nap!

TT: Snapshot

October 1, 2008 by Terry Teachout

Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill’s “Surabaya Johnny” in 1962:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday–or are supposed to, anyway. Sorry about last week. I forgot!)

TT: Almanac

October 1, 2008 by Terry Teachout

“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”
Bertolt Brecht, “A Short Organum for the Theatre”

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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