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TT: Helen Frankenthaler, R.I.P.

December 27, 2011 by Terry Teachout

The New York Times obituary is here.
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“Grey Fireworks,” 1982:
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UPDATE: I agree with everything that this piece by Eric Gibson says about Helen Frankenthaler’s work and significance.

TT: Almanac

December 27, 2011 by Terry Teachout

“As teachers, towering individualities usually are vampires who suck out their pupils’ personality.”
Carl Flesch, Memoirs (trans. Hans Keller)

TT: Just because

December 26, 2011 by Terry Teachout

Robert Preston sings Meredith Willson’s “Trouble” (from The Music Man) on the 1971 Tony Awards telecast:

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

TT: Almanac

December 26, 2011 by Terry Teachout

“Now, an ingrained habit of the defensive is a prime condition of defeat.”
Hilaire Belloc, Essays of a Catholic Layman in England

REVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

December 24, 2011 by Terry Teachout

“To look back on the year of ‘Follies’ is to be reminded that it’s revivals, not new work, that make American theater go ’round these days…”

TT: The best theater of 2011

December 23, 2011 by Terry Teachout

In today’s Wall Street Journal I talk about the shows, directors, performers, and theater companies that made the strongest and most favorable impressions on me in the year just past.
Among those mentioned:
chrisrockbroadway.jpg• Best new play: Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker with the Hat
• Best revival: Classic Stage Company’s The Cherry Orchard
• Best musical revivals: Porgy and Bess at Chicago’s Court Theatre and Show Boat at Connecticut’s Goodspeed Musicals
• Best Shakespeare revival: Amanda Dehnert’s Julius Caesar at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
• Performer of the year: Chicago’s Carrie Coon
To find out what and who else delighted me in 2011, go here.
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Carrie Coon talks about the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in which she appeared earlier this year. The production, directed by Pam MacKinnon and also starring Tracy Letts, is scheduled to transfer to Broadway in the fall of 2012:

TT: The sound of hope

December 23, 2011 by Terry Teachout

Laura Newell plays the solo harp interlude from Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols:

TT: They don’t make Christmas specials like they used to (III)

December 23, 2011 by Terry Teachout

Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, starring Geraldine Page, directed by Frank Perry, and originally telecast on ABC Stage 67 in 1966. Capote is the narrator and wrote the teleplay:

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

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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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