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TT: Tick-tock, tick-tock

April 11, 2011 by ldemanski

topsy-turvy_02.jpgWhat with the steady stream of Broadway and off-Broadway openings and the fast-approaching world premiere of Danse Russe in Philadelphia on April 28, I’m too distracted to do any blogging beyond the usual almanac entries and theater-related posts. So in lieu of holding forth at endless length on whatever, I’m posting a link to a transcript of a recent interview about Danse Russe. (In case you’re wondering, this really is the way that Paul Moravec and I talk when we’re in the same room.)
To read the interview, go here.

TT: Almanac

April 11, 2011 by ldemanski

“Americans are generous but not magnanimous, because the grand gesture is too aristocratic for comfort.”
Florence King, “Florence King Opens Her Diary” (The Spectator, Mar. 12, 2011)

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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