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TT: Full Cleveland

October 4, 2010 by ldemanski

I’m still on the road, but travel conditions have improved significantly. Not only is Mrs. T with me again, but we’re in Cleveland, a town to which we’re both partial, where we’ll be seeing two shows performed at the Great Lakes Theater Festival and paying a visit to the new and improved Cleveland Museum of Art. Nor are we in our usual tearing hurry to head for elsewhere: we flew into town on Sunday and don’t have to leave until Thursday, which happens to be our third wedding anniversary.
photo_376_sm.jpgBest of all, we’ve returned to the Penfield House, one of the half-dozen houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that are available for short-term rental. I wrote about the house at length when Mrs. T and I last stayed here a couple of years ago, so I won’t repeat myself–suffice it to say that I can’t imagine a more satisfying place to live.
I’m also pleased to report that you can’t connect to the Web at the Penfield House. You have to drive to the parking lot of a Wendy’s that is located a mile from the gate. Normally I’d find this oppressive, but under the circumstances I regard it as downright liberating. We’ve brought along plenty of books and compact discs, and we mean to turn loose the burdens of dailiness and enjoy being where we are while we’re here.
To this end, I guarantee that you will hear nothing whatsoever from me between now and next Monday save for the usual routine almanac entries and theater-related postings (I do have to write my Friday drama column, after all!). My colleagues will do the heavy lifting until I return.

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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...]

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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...]

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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...]

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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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