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TT: Watching the weather

December 27, 2010 by ldemanski

Mrs. T and I are flying back to New York tomorrow afternoon–or so we hope. We’ve been watching the news of the Great Christmas Blizzard of 2010 from a very safe distance, and I can’t begin to tell you how relieved we are not to have been on the move yesterday.
A week in Smalltown, U.S.A., has slowed my mental clock down to a comfortable crawl. I don’t have any more deadlines to hit until 2011, and I’m profoundly grateful for that as well. Instead of hammering away at the MacBook, I’ve been spending time with my mother, brother, sister-in-law, and spouse, opening presents and eating casseroles and doing dishes. Mom, Mrs. T, and I watch a movie every night (the week’s fare has included Mildred Pierce, The Bishop’s Wife, and The Great Escape) and sleep late every morning.
I could get used to this, except that, of course, I can’t. My real life beckons: I have a show to see on Saturday and a review to file the next morning. Snow or no snow, the merry-go-round awaits me, and I guess I won’t be sorry to get up on the horse again–but I suspect it won’t be long before I start to miss the deep white peace of our happy, uneventful week in Smalltown.

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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...]

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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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