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TT: Lookback

August 21, 2012 by Terry Teachout

aa9d3061-d71e-4fb9-86e9-80c0ac53cade.jpgFrom 2009:

A minute or two before the house lights went down and the world premiere of The Letter got underway, Paul Moravec tapped me on the shoulder. “Turn around and look,” he said. I was sitting in an aisle seat toward the front of the left side of the theater. I turned around and saw that all two thousand of the seats in the Santa Fe Opera’s Crosby Theatre were full. Paul grinned. “Did you ever think you’d see anything like that?” he said. Mrs. T snapped a picture of the two uf us. Then we sat back down to watch the show.

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TT: A week of Satchmo (II)

August 21, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Louis Armstrong and the All Stars perform “Lazy River” at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958:

TT: Almanac

August 21, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern.”
Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams (Apr. 8, 1816)

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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