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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City

We made it

January 9, 2017 by Terry Teachout

Mrs. T and I were forced to temporarily postpone our annual trip to Florida in order to resolve a lingering health problem that had laid her low. The good news is that her doctors finally assured us last Tuesday that we could fly down over the weekend, leaving the gloomy weather in Connecticut far behind us.

It had just started to snow in Hartford when our plane took off, but we got underway in the nick of time and without incident. We landed in Fort Myers at four o’clock, drove straight from the airport to Sanibel Island, dined on Doc Ford’s Yucatan shrimp, and slept deeply and well a stone’s throw from the Gulf of Mexico. On Sunday we drove back across the causeway to see a revival of John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves that I’ll be reviewing later this week in The Wall Street Journal, then returned with alacrity to our beach hideaway.

Today I’m writing an obituary for Nat Hentoff that will appear this afternoon in the online Journal, after which I’ll go to work on my review of The House of Blue Leaves. Once that’s filed, my plan is to spend a few days doing plenty of nothing. If you need me, it can wait. It’ll have to.

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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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