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P.P.C.

August 21, 2019 by Terry Teachout

I forgot to mention it on Monday, but I just started a two-week holiday from my duties as drama critic of The Wall Street Journal. As regular readers of this blog know well, Mrs. T and I have just been through the wringer, and I’m sorely in need of a respite from playgoing and caregiving.

To this end, an old friend of ours is spending the week at our apartment in New York, looking after Mrs. T’s needs, while I hole up at our place in Connecticut and (as Jake Gittes says in Chinatown) do as little as possible. I’ll be spending the next two nights at a harborside hotel on Long Island Sound of which I am inordinately fond, and on Saturday I’ll return to New York—but not to the Journal. I figure that a full week of absolute rest, followed by an additional week without shows or deadlines, will be enough to restore at least some of my equilibrium.

I will, as always, continue to post the usual daily blog items during my absence—they’re done well in advance—and I’ll also be looking in on Twitter and Facebook from time to time. Mostly, though, I plan to sleep late, read books, watch movies, and sit in a hot tub. So don’t look for reviews until after Labor Day: there won’t be any.

See you around.

Snapshot: Britten’s First String Quartet

August 21, 2019 by Terry Teachout

The Escher String Quartet plays the first movement of Benjamin Britten’s First Quartet, composed in 1941:

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

Almanac: Lennox Berkeley on artistic originality

August 21, 2019 by Terry Teachout

“True originality in an artist does not consist in his being peculiar, but in his being peculiar to himself.”

Lennox Berkeley, “Britten and His String Quartet” (The Listener, May 27, 1943)

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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