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TT: Coast to coast

October 3, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Here’s a how-de-do! Satchmo at the Waldorf got written up in the San Francisco Chronicle:

One of the differences between his book and his play, Teachout said, is that while “Pops” makes it clear that Armstrong’s critics were short-sighted, “Satchmo at the Waldorf” is meant to allow audiences to draw their own conclusions about the controversy that raged around the musician.
“If you want to know what I think, you can find that in the book. At the end of the play, I would like the audience to draw their own conclusions–to be thoughtful about what they’ve seen,” he said….

Read the whole thing here.

TT: Just in case it slipped your mind…

October 3, 2012 by Terry Teachout

The first public preview of Satchmo at the Waldorf is tonight at seven p.m. at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre. Preview performances run through Tuesday, followed by the official press opening next Wednesday.
For more information, go here.

TT: Snapshot

October 3, 2012 by Terry Teachout

David Ives talks about becoming a playwright:

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

TT: Almanac

October 3, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“The stage is an actors’ medium. When the curtain goes up, there are those crazy actors. The story comes through them. The director can pull his hair in the back of the house and the producer and the playwright can cry on each other’s shoulders. But there go those galloping actors.”
Pat Hingle (quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 5, 2009)

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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