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An update on Mrs. T’s condition

March 9, 2020 by Terry Teachout

Mrs. T’s doctors told me a few minutes ago that she is continuing to make excellent progress recovering from last weekend’s double-lung transplant surgery. She has been fully sedated since then, but the gradual process of bringing her around is about to get under way.

Given the emerging realities of coronavirus and the fact that there are patients at New York-Presbyterian who are being treated for COVID-19, the feeling has been that it would be sensible for me to stay home until Mrs. T is in a more wakeful state. That time, however, may come as early as tomorrow morning. Hence my plan is to head down to the hospital after breakfast (it’s a mile from our apartment) and stand by for further developments. She is intubated and so won’t be able to talk to me yet, but her doctors think there’s a pretty good chance that she will reach a point some time during the day when she is aware of my presence.

I cannot begin to tell you how ready I am for that to happen.

UPDATE: The doctors are most likely going to wait another day or so before starting to bring Mrs. T around from sedation. For the present, I’m content to sit by her bed and look at her.

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For previous reports on Mrs. T’s surgery and subsequent recovery, go here, here, here, and here.

To learn more about her rare illness, go here.

To find out how to become an organ donor, go here.

Just because: New York’s nightclubs in 1946

March 9, 2020 by Terry Teachout

“Night Club Boom,” a March of Time newsreel about New York nightclubs originally released in 1946. Among the musicians seen performing are Jimmy Dorsey, the Ink Spots, and Eddie Condon’s All Stars, featuring Wild Bill Davison, Brad Gowans, and Dave Tough:

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

Almanac: Julius Hare on hypocrisy

March 9, 2020 by Terry Teachout

“Do you wish to find out a person’s weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors.”

Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth: By Two Brothers

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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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