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TT: Many happy returns

December 28, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Today’s Wall Street Journal drama column is devoted to my best-of-2012 list. Here are some of the items on it:

• Best performance in a play. Greta Wohlrabe was luminous as Kyra, the troubled lover of David Hare’s “Skylight,” which was revived with piercing sensitivity by Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre.
• Best performance in a musical. The slight, huge-eyed Cristin Milioti vaulted into the spotlight in the Broadway transfer of “Once.” She’s here to stay.
2b1be89b4bc289a089f0a993a17a.jpg• Best revival of a play. The competition was stiff, but Bedlam took the prize with its Off-Off-Broadway version of George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan,” directed with uncanny ingenuity by Eric Tucker. All 24 roles were divvied up among a crack cast of four led by Andrus Nichols, and the result was the most exciting Shaw revival I’ve ever seen.
• Best revival of a musical. Another small-scale production, this one in Glencoe, Ill., rang the bell: William Brown staged “A Little Night Music” to emotionally overwhelming effect in Writers’ Theatre’s 108-seat house, accompanied by a five-piece pit band and graced by the perfect performance of Shannon Cochran as Desirée Armfeldt….

To see the rest of the list, including my picks for best musical, playwright, and company of the year, go here.

TT: Almanac

December 28, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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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