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TT: Well spent

September 28, 2010 by ldemanski

images.DC.jpegI’ve had some sharp things to say in the past about the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius grants,” so I am entirely delighted to report that David Cromer, the greatest American stage director of his generation, and David Simon, the creator of Homicide, The Wire, and Treme, have both received MacArthur fellowships.
I’m especially pleased about Cromer because of the role that my Wall Street Journal drama columns, in particular this 2008 piece, have played in bringing his work to the attention of a national audience. So far as I know, I’m the first person ever to have described him as a “genius” in print, in my review of his extraordinary production of Our Town. Of all the useful things that a critic can hope to do in the course of his career, few are more gratifying than ringing the bell of acclaim for an artist deserving of much wider recognition, then looking on from the sidelines as he receives it.
I am enormously proud of having written with enthusiasm in The Wall Street Journal about Diana Krall and Maria Schneider long before they became widely known. Now it is my privilege to add David Cromer to that list. I hope his name won’t be the last one on it.

TT: Almanac

September 28, 2010 by ldemanski

“News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.”
Karl Kraus, The Last Days of Mankind

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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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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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