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TT: Off we go

September 28, 2011 by Terry Teachout

It seems as though Mrs. T and I just unpacked our bags, and now we’re hitting the road again. Our first stop is Chicago, where we’ll be driving up to Glencoe to see Writers’ Theatre’s production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, a play that I adore, then spending the night at an airport hotel. Tomorrow we fly to St. Louis and drive from there to Smalltown, U.S.A., to visit my mother and attend the marriage of Lauren Teachout, my beloved niece, who is getting hitched to her longtime boyfriend on Saturday. I don’t doubt for a moment that a good time will be had by all.
erez.jpgAfter that we’ll spend most of Sunday driving up to Kansas City, where I’m going to deliver a public lecture on Monday at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, about which more here. (Come hear me if you’re in the vicinity!) In addition, Mrs. T, who’s never been to Kansas City, will join me for her first visit to the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, a great and insufficiently appreciated institution whose innumerable treasures include one of my all-time favorite American paintings, Fairfield Porter’s “The Mirror.” I also hope to feed her some authentic Kansas City barbecue chez Arthur Bryant, though I have a sneaking suspicion that all our meals are already spoken for, damn it.
Would that we could spend a few days unwinding in Kansas City, but we have to fly back home the morning after my speech. The theater season is getting underway next week and I’ll have four shows to see in New York, two on Broadway and two off, and three Wall Street Journal columns to write.
You can guess the rest. I’ll see you when I see you. Until then, whenever “then” ends up being, content yourself with the usual almanac entries and regular theater-related postings, and wish me barbecue-related luck.

TT: Snapshot

September 28, 2011 by Terry Teachout

Big Joe Turner, live at the Apollo in 1955:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

TT: Almanac

September 28, 2011 by Terry Teachout

“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.”
Alan Bennett, Writing Home

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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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