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TT: St. Louis, here I am!

December 16, 2009 by Terry Teachout

StLouis.jpgI’m flying from Chicago to St. Louis very early this morning so that I can appear on KMOX’s Charlie Brennan Show to talk about Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Tune your radio to 1120 AM at ten-thirty a.m. CT to listen to me live. For more information, or to listen over the Web in streaming audio, go here.
Tonight I’ll be speaking about and signing copies of Pops at Maryville University’s Buder Commons in an event co-hosted by Left Bank Books. The address is 650 Maryville University Drive and the show starts at seven p.m. Go here for more details.

TT: Snapshot

December 16, 2009 by Terry Teachout

Fred Astaire performs “One for My Baby” in The Sky’s the Limit:

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

TT: Almanac

December 16, 2009 by Terry Teachout

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey

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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