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TT: South to a warmer place

January 4, 2010 by Terry Teachout

Mrs. T and I flew the coop last Friday and headed down to Florida for a weekend of snow-free playgoing. On Saturday we saw Asolo Rep’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo in Sarasota, then drove across the peninsula to West Palm Beach to catch a revival of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen at Palm Beach Dramaworks.
GROlin-Library.jpgToday we drive north to Winter Park, where I’ll be spending the next six weeks in residence at the Winter Park Institute, a talking-and-thinking shop on the campus of Rollins College, the liberal-arts school where I spoke last March. That experience was so uncomplicatedly enjoyable that I happily accepted an invitation to set up shop there this winter. Among other things, I’ll be giving speeches, teaching a class in journalistic criticism, and signing copies of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong whenever and wherever anybody puts one in front of me.
Life goes on no matter where I happen to be, so I’ll be spending my weekends seeing plays on Broadway and elsewhere in Florida and writing about them in The Wall Street Journal. I’ll also be making a pair of Pops-related appearances on Thursday and Saturday in Washington, D.C., and at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens. (Read all about them here.)
Insofar as possible, though, I mean to settle into the life of a peripatetic academic. I teach my first class tomorrow–and I can’t wait.
UPDATE: It’s not warm enough in West Palm Beach this morning! Can I send this state back for a refund?

TT: Almanac

January 4, 2010 by Terry Teachout

“Every artist is in business for his health.”
Patricia Highsmith, notebook entry, August 31, 1966

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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