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To all my friends, colleagues, and readers

October 14, 2015 by Terry Teachout

180527_10150154435977193_4321807_nI’ve been putting it off for the past couple of years, but the time has finally come for me to buy a new laptop—a MacBook Air, to be exact. In order to make the Big Switch, I’ll have to drop off my obsolescent laptop at Tekserve for two days. As a result, I won’t be able to send or receive e-mail from Thursday at noon to Saturday at noon.

I’m not sentimental about inanimate objects, but neither am I looking forward to retiring my trusty MacBook, which I’ve used every day for the past eleven years. During that time I launched this blog and wrote All in the Dances, The Letter, Pops, Satchmo at the Waldorf, Duke, and a thousand-odd essays, articles, and reviews. That’s a long and eventful run.

While I have a lurking fear that changing computers at the age of fifty-nine will feel like getting a double hand transplant, the kindly folks at Tekserve promise me that it won’t be nearly as stressful as all that. Check this space on Monday and I’ll let you know who was right. In the meantime, I’ve preposted Friday’s blog entries, so business will continue as usual in my temporary absence.

Wish me luck.

UPDATE: It turns out that I’ll be off line until Monday, October 18. See you then.

Snapshot: Deborah Kerr and Paul Scofield in Noël Coward’s A Song at Twilight

October 14, 2015 by Terry Teachout

An excerpt from BBC2’s 1982 TV production of Noël Coward’s A Song at Twilight, directed by Cedric Messina and featuring Deborah Kerr and Paul Scofield. The role played by Scofield is a fictionalized portrayal of Somerset Maugham. To read more about the play, go here:

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

Almanac: N. Richard Nash on rectitude

October 14, 2015 by Terry Teachout

INK BOTTLE“Noah, you’re so full of what’s right you can’t see what’s good!”

N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker

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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