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TT: It’s a hit!

October 17, 2012 by Terry Teachout

lake-tahoe-fireworks.jpgI rejoice to report that due to audience demand, the Long Wharf Theatre production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson and directed by Gordon Edelstein, has just extended its run in New Haven from November 4 to November 11. (The show will then transfer directly to Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater, where it opens on November 16 and runs through December 2.)
Says Joshua Borenstein, Long Wharf’s managing director:

The audience response to Gordon, Terry and John’s work has been both outstanding and gratifying. We are delighted to be able to feature the skill and craft of these fine theatre artists for another week.

For more information, or to order tickets, go here.

TT: Snapshot

October 17, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Richard Burton speaks Hamlet’s soliloquy in a live performance of the 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet, directed by John Gielgud:

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

TT: Almanac

October 17, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“Nothing will persuade me that accident is art.”
Richard Burton, diary entry, Aug. 8, 1969

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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