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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City

TT: See me, hear me (cont’d)

June 5, 2013 by Terry Teachout

Now that I’m millimeters away from putting Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington to bed, the time has come to face the public. On Tuesday night I’ll give the first public reading anywhere–yes, anywhere–of an excerpt from the prologue to Duke.
983779_178182302345891_303340577_n.jpgThe occasion is a program called “Music to Your Ears” that’s being presented by Big Umbrella Nonfiction, a Manhattan-based reading series that takes place each month at the impeccably cool 2A. I’ll be sharing the bill with Touré, author of I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon, and Brendan Jay Sullivan, author of Rivington Was Ours: Lady Gaga, the Lower East Side, and the Prime of Our Lives. While I’m not entirely sure that I’m hip enough to share a stage with these gentlemen, I’ll don the black outfit and give it my very best shot.
Quoth the press release:

There will be $4 whiskey deals, there will be books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson, there will be giant video projection, as usual. There will be a great time had.

I regret to say that Duke is not yet on sale, but you can pre-order a copy by going here.
2A is at 25 Avenue A. The proceedings start at eight p.m. For more information, go here.

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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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