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TT: Slightly over my head

August 28, 2012 by Terry Teachout

pacing.jpgAs some of you know, I’m simultaneously revising Satchmo at the Waldorf for its transfer to New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre in October and working with Paul Moravec to revise The Letter for its New York premiere in February. (Operas have much longer lead times than straight plays.) I also have to write two Wall Street Journal columns, a Commentary essay, and a program note for the Long Wharf production of Satchmo at the Waldorf between now and Thursday morning.
Complicating matters still further is the fact that the lovely country cottage where Mrs. T and I are living during our stay in Lenox is so far off the beaten path that my cellphone doesn’t work there, nor do I have access to a wi-fi signal. I have to drive five miles to the nearest McDonald’s in order to pick up my e-mail and check my voicemail.
For all these reasons, I’ve got quite a bit more to do than I can easily handle this week, so if you’re trying to get in touch with me, please be patient–I may not get back to you until after Labor Day.

TT: Wheee!

August 28, 2012 by Terry Teachout

I know, I know, don’t read your own reviews, but the Boston Globe review of Satchmo at the Waldorf really is too gratifying not to pass on….

TT: Lookback

August 28, 2012 by Terry Teachout

0501vet_01z%2B1999_Chevrolet_Corvette_Hardtop%2BRight_Hand_Rearview_Mirror_View.jpgFrom 2008:

I was sitting on the couch eating a bowl of high-fiber cereal yesterday morning when the phone rang. It was Paul Moravec, my collaborator on The Letter.
“Can we talk?” he said. “I’m stuck on the high C in scene four. What do we do next?”
Translation: Paul is composing the fourth scene of our opera….

Read the whole thing here.

TT: Almanac

August 28, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“A list of books that you reread is like a clearing in the forest: a level, clean, well-lighted place where you set down your burdens and set up your home, your identity, your concerns, your continuity in a world that is at best indifferent, at worst malign.”
L.E. Sissman, “The Constant Rereader’s Five-Foot Shelf”

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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