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TT: Passing by

July 25, 2012 by Terry Teachout

0724121455.jpgI blew through New York last night, staying just long enough to pick up my mail, get caught in a traffic jam, sweat profusely, eat sushi, and update the right-hand column with fresh “Top Five” and “Out of the Past” picks.
Today I fly to Minneapolis for a Guthrie Theatre revival of Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys. From there I head to the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in New York, followed by a quick trip to Connecticut to see Goodspeed Musicals’ Carousel. Come Tuesday I report to Shakespeare & Company, where I’ll be spending the next three weeks rehearsing Satchmo at the Waldorf with John Douglas Thompson and Gordon Edelstein.
Whew!
In lieu of anything more elaborate, allow me to pass on two interesting links:
• The mills of academe grind slowly, but the Journal of Jazz Studies has finally gotten around to reviewing Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. The reviewer is Michael Cogswell, director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and what he says about Pops is…well, see for yourself:

Terry Teachout’s Pops is the definitive, one-volume, narrative biography of Louis Armstrong….Teachout’s ability to place a whirlwind of events in context is masterful and is easy to overlook because it does not draw attention to itself.

I’ve never been so proud of a review.
Read the whole thing here.
• After you’ve finally gotten around to seeing Margaret, you might enjoy knowing what music Kenneth Lonergan listened to while making the film.

TT: Snapshot

July 25, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Leopold Stokowski conducts the second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony in the 1947 film Carnegie Hall, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer:

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

TT: Almanac

July 25, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“Mind on mind kindles warmth.”
Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede

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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