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TT: Audible

April 8, 2009 by Terry Teachout

I’ll be appearing today on Soundcheck, WNYC’s daily talk show about music, to discuss my recent Wall Street Journal column on booing with John Schaefer, the host, and Ben Zimmer, a linguist who has studied the origins of the custom.
Soundcheck airs each afternoon at two p.m. EDT. You can listen to WNYC via terrestrial radio by tuning to 93.9 FM. Go here for more information on today’s episode or to listen live via streaming audio on your computer.

TT: Snapshot

April 8, 2009 by Terry Teachout

Tex Avery’s “King-Size Canary,” released in 1947:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

TT: Almanac

April 8, 2009 by Terry Teachout

“‘Marriage’: this I call the will that moves two to create the one which is more than those who created it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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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