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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City

Short but sweet

July 15, 2019 by Terry Teachout

Mrs. T was discharged from New York-Presbyterian Hospital last night and returned at long last to our apartment in Upper Manhattan, weary but happy. Her overall condition is far more stable than I’d expected it to be—she says it’s been months since she’s felt this good—and it now seems reasonable to hope that she’ll be able to wait for the Big Call at the apartment instead of the hospital.

If you’ve kept up with the labyrinthine tale of Mrs. T’s illness-related travails, you won’t need to be reminded of what the two of us have been through since her health first took a frightening turn for the worst (and no, that’s not a typo) last August. What’s more, nobody needs to remind us that things could still get worse, suddenly and without warning: we’ve been there, over and over and over again. All we can do now is follow the doctors’ orders, revel in being together again, and hope for the best. That’s our plan.

To the countless people who’ve sent us good wishes: bless you all. We hear you loud and clear, and it means the world.

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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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