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TT: A proposed First Commandment for performance artists

March 19, 2012 by Terry Teachout

If you go on a stage and say that you personally saw something, and the show in which you make this claim is not clearly identified in some meaningful way as “fiction” or “fictionalized,” then you’d better have seen it–especially if you tell your audiences that they need to take action based on what you claim to have seen.
Otherwise, you’re a liar.

TT: Speechless

March 19, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Things have been more than a little bit crazy around here, as you’ll have guessed if you’ve read my latest blog entries (and you don’t know the half of it!). Hence I find myself with nothing to say this morning, a condition that may persist throughout the week.
I will, as always, dish up all the regular postings: daily almanac entries, art-related videos on Monday and Wednesday, the usual theater-related stuff, and our new weekly feature, “Lookback,” which will henceforth appear on Tuesdays. You won’t want for reasons to keep coming back.
Till whenever.

TT: Just because

March 19, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Gary Burton plays an unaccompanied solo version of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Chega de Saudade” in Copenhagen in 1968:

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

TT: Almanac

March 19, 2012 by Terry Teachout

I shall have more to say when I am dead.
Edwin Arlington Robinson, “John Brown”

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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