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TT: Here we go

July 30, 2012 by Terry Teachout

show12-satchmo.jpgToday I drive to Lenox, Massachusetts, where I’ll be spending the next few weeks. Rehearsals for Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, begin tomorrow at noon, and the show opens at Shakespeare & Company on August 22.
I expect to post with fair frequency between now and then, but don’t be surprised if I drop out of sight on occasion. John Douglas Thompson, Gordon Edelstein, and I are going to be incredibly busy, which suits me just fine. I’ve been waiting for weeks to roll up my sleeves and get cracking. This is the moment I’ve been waiting for.
Theater people don’t wish one another luck–they say “Break a leg” or Merde! I invite you to supply a euphemism of your own choosing. Whatever it is, wish me plenty of it.

TT: Just because

July 30, 2012 by Terry Teachout

The King Cole Trio, with Oscar Moore on guitar and Johnny Miller on bass, perform “Errand Boy for Rhythm” in 1946. The dancer is thought to be Nadine Robinson, Nat Cole’s first wife:

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

TT: Almanac

July 30, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.”
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

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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