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TT: Eat my smoke

May 13, 2009 by Terry Teachout

I depart New York this morning for the first leg of a long theater-related trip that will take me to Washington, D.C., followed by points south and west. I’ll be describing my adventures in this space, though not necessarily as they happen, since I’ll also be filing Wall Street Journal columns from the road in between shows. Work comes first!
I’m going to be on the move for much of the next couple of months, after which I settle down in Santa Fe for rehearsals of The Letter. I arrive in New Mexico on July 12, and the opera opens thirteen days later. Needless to say, you’ll be hearing all about it in this space.
Now, though, I’ve got to catch a train….

TT: Snapshot

May 13, 2009 by Terry Teachout

Sir Thomas Beecham rehearses the London Philharmonic in a 1932 newsreel:

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

TT: Almanac

May 13, 2009 by Terry Teachout

“I don’t believe anything that happens in films. But on stage there are no tricks except the tricks you see. The tricks are the actors and actresses persuading you of what they are.”
Alan Ayckbourn (quoted in Paul Allen, Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge)

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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