• Home
  • About
    • About Last Night
    • Terry Teachout
    • Contact
  • AJBlogCentral
  • ArtsJournal

About Last Night

Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City

You are here: Home / 2016 / July / Archives for 18th

Archives for July 18, 2016

Message from Vacationland

July 18, 2016 by Terry Teachout

20160716_202500Mrs. T and I are midway through a much-needed seaside vacation in Maine. For me that means no deadlines of any kind and no shows until Friday, when we pass through Massachusetts to see The Pirates of Penzance on our way back home. Instead we’re eating lobster rolls, taking day sails, looking at paintings and flowers, and watching the sun set. So far the weather has favored us, and if it ceases to do so, we took care to pack plenty of books. (The inn where we’re staying this week has a library, but we learned when we came here two years ago that the collection is a bit random.)

I’ve already written and filed my Wall Street Journal drama column for Friday, and the usual routine daily postings will continue to appear in this space, but I won’t be writing anything else, here or elsewhere, until next week. Leisure beckons.

Just because: Judy Collins sings Bob Dylan

July 18, 2016 by Terry Teachout

TV CAMERAJudy Collins sings Bob Dylan’s “Daddy, You’ve Been On My Mind” on Rainbow Quest, a TV series hosted by Pete Seeger. This episode was taped in 1966:

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

Almanac: V.S. Pritchett on reading the classics in wartime

July 18, 2016 by Terry Teachout

INK BOTTLE“We turn to literature not only for respite, relaxation or escape from the boredom of reality and the gnaw of suffering, but to get away from uncertainty. And certainty is in the past. There, so it seems to us, things have been settled. There we can see a whole picture. For to see something whole becomes a necessity to people like ourselves whose world has fallen to pieces. Perhaps, we think, the certainty of the past will help our minds to substantiate a faith in the kind of certainty we hope for in the future.”

V.S. Pritchett, My Good Books (courtesy of Patrick Kurp)

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...]

About

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...]

Follow Us on TwitterFollow Us on RSSFollow Us on E-mail

@Terryteachout1

Tweets by TerryTeachout1

Archives

July 2016
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Jun   Aug »

An ArtsJournal Blog

Recent Posts

  • Snapshot: Rudyard Kipling speaks about writing and truth
  • Almanac: Rudyard Kipling on the prevalence of obsessions
  • Lookback: on being sworn in to the National Council on the Arts
  • Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on inhibited families
  • Just because: Flannery O’Connor appears in a 1932 newsreel

Copyright © 2021 · Magazine Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in