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January 11, 2011 by ldemanski

LGAsnow.jpegMrs. T are packing our bags this morning on Florida’s Sanibel Island. I won’t soon forget what a blissful time we’ve had there, but if anything can put our happiness out of my mind, however temporarily, it’s my schedule for the next seven days, which is more than a little bit crazy.
Later today we’ll drive north to Sarasota to spend a few days catching up with Asolo Rep, whose revival of Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo made my Wall Street Journal best-of-2010 list. Unfortunately, there’s a catch, which is that I have to drop Mrs. T off in Sarasota this afternoon and fly north to New York so that I can see two plays there on Wednesday, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Desert Cities. Then I’ll fly back down to Sarasota to see Asolo’s Twelve Angry Men–and then I’ll fly back up to Philadelphia to attend a pair of staged workshop performances on Saturday and Sunday of Danse Russe, my new opera. I’ll also be catching a play in Philly, the Arden Theatre revival of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten. The craziness is over a week from today, when I return to Florida and begin my latest residency at Rollins College’s Winter Park Institute. Whew!
In case you’re wondering, I’ve been watching the weather, and it looks like I’m going to get into New York tonight before the snow starts in earnest. My hope is that by the time I’m supposed to leave, the runways will be clear and I can fly back down to Florida without incident. We’ll see–and so will you. In the meantime, don’t expect to hear much of anything from me other than travel updates! This is, to put it mildly, one of those weeks….
P.S. The blizzard caught me–my flight to New York has already been canceled. We’ll see how the rest of the week turns out!

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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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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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