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Satchmo in Washington, D.C.

April 4, 2016 by Terry Teachout

12932572_10156884233955128_65666441410506836_nSatchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, is going to be performed by several regional theater companies during the 2016-17 season. The first of them, the Mosaic Theater Company of Washington, D.C., has now announced that it will be leading off its second season with a new production of Satchmo starring Craig Wallace and directed by Eleanor Holdridge. Performances start August 25 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, and the show will run there through October 2.

I’m thrilled that Satchmo is going to be produced by the Mosaic, which was launched this past season by Ari Roth, lately of Washington’s Theater J, and is already by all accounts well on its way to establishing itself as a leading regional voice. I don’t know the work of Wallace or Holdridge, but their credits are impressive, and I have no doubt that they’ll do right—and then some—by Satchmo.

For more information, go here.

Just because: George Bernard Shaw talks about the filming of Pygmalion

April 4, 2016 by Terry Teachout

TV CAMERA George Bernard Shaw talks about the filming of Pygmalion in a 1939 British Movietone newsreel:

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

Almanac: George Bernard Shaw on celebrity

April 4, 2016 by Terry Teachout

INK BOTTLE“You and I are worse than characters: we are character-actors.”

George Bernard Shaw, letter to T.E. Lawrence, March 7, 1927

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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