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TT: See me, hear me (cont’d)

October 29, 2013 by Terry Teachout

I continue my string of Duke-related public appearances on Tuesday with a visit to the Philadelphia Free Library, where I’ll be talking about and signing copies of my Duke Ellington biography. The address is 1901 Vine Street and the festivities start at 7:30 sharp.
For more information, go here.
I’ll also be talking about Duke this morning at eleven a.m. ET on “Radio Times,” broadcast over Philadelphia’s WHYY-FM.
For more information about this show, or to listen on line in streaming audio, go here.
UPDATE: My Radio Times interview has now been archived. You can listen to it by going here.

TT: Lookback

October 29, 2013 by Terry Teachout

TheMalteseFalcon3_sz175.jpgFrom 2003:

I wrote earlier today, apropos of The Turn of the Screw, that “all good adaptations” of pre-existing works of art are “fairly free.” Alas, John Huston’s film of The Maltese Falcon momentarily slipped my mind. It’s extremely faithful to Dashiell Hammett’s novel. In fact, it’s said that Huston’s secretary prepared the first draft of the script by simply going through the book and retyping it as dialogue. That can’t be right, but it’s not far wrong. I don’t know a more literally adapted film version of a well-known book, or a better one….

Read the whole thing here.

TT: Almanac

October 29, 2013 by Terry Teachout

“I wondered whether life was actually worth recording in this detail. I preferred an artistic impression of the truth: this was how artists made the everyday beautiful.”
Wesley Stace, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

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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