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TT: See me, hear me (cont’d)

May 28, 2013 by Terry Teachout

If you live in New York and feel the irresistible urge to see me hold forth in person on Wednesday night, I’m participating in a panel discussion called “Writing and the Digital Revolution” that will be moderated by my old friend Alane Salierno Mason, an executive editor at W.W. Norton.
Alane and I both live in Manhattan’s Washington Heights, as do Meena Alexander, Brenda Copeland, Jim Dwyer, Dorian Karchmar, Veronica Liu, and Clive Priddle, the other panelists, and that’s where the discussion is taking place. We’ll be performing from six to eight p.m. at PS/IS 187, which is at 349 Cabrini Blvd. between 187th and 190th Streets. (Take the A train to 190th Street and you’re steps away.)
Admission is $40, but students will be admitted free. For more information, go here.

TT: I rejoice to report…

May 28, 2013 by Terry Teachout

SATCHMO%20TEAM.jpg…that Long Wharf Theatre‘s 2012 production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, has been nominated by the Connecticut Critics Circle for two awards. John Douglas Thompson, the star, was nominated as Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play, and Gordon Edelstein, who staged Satchmo, was nominated as Outstanding Director of a Play. This is, needless to say, a new experience for me, and I couldn’t be more pleased for my eminently deserving colleagues.
The winners will be announced in New Haven on June 10. For a complete list of nominees and information about the award ceremony, go here.

TT: Lookback

May 28, 2013 by Terry Teachout

From 2003:

The “untheatricality” of rock music is a complicated subject about which I’ve never gotten around to writing. It’s far too complicated to go into in a short posting, but I can say that to blame the decline of the Broadway musical on rock is to mistake a symptom for the disease. What happened in the Sixties was that the old-fashioned standard-style ballad ceased to be the lingua franca of American popular music–and that nothing replaced it. Instead, our musical tastes shattered into a million pieces….

Read the whole thing here.

TT: Almanac

May 28, 2013 by Terry Teachout

“Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, ‘God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'”
Cesare Lombroso, The Man of Genius

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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