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Almanac: Rollo May on depression

June 26, 2020 by Terry Teachout

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”

Rollo May, Love and Will

Almanac: Edward Abbey on melancholia

June 25, 2020 by Terry Teachout

“As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.”

Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

Snapshot: Johnny Cash sings “Big River”

June 24, 2020 by Terry Teachout

Johnny Cash performs his “Big River” on an episode of Pet Milk Grand Ole Opry originally telecast on February 12, 1962:

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

Almanac: Edward Abbey on wit

June 24, 2020 by Terry Teachout

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

Lookback: on writing as work (and other matters)

June 23, 2020 by Terry Teachout

From 2005:

Very few people who don’t write for a living understand that writing is work, much less that a writer who is sitting in a chair, reading a book or staring absently into the distance, may be as “busy” as one who is clicking away at his computer….

Read the whole thing here.

Almanac: Patrick O’Brian on pleasure

June 23, 2020 by Terry Teachout

“Any innocent pleasure is a real good; there are not so many of them.”

Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain

Just because: Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor dance on TV in 1959

June 22, 2020 by Terry Teachout

Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor dance a medley of songs from their films. This clip is an excerpt from Pontiac Star Parade, a TV special that was originally telecast by NBC on November 21, 1959:

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

Almanac: Dorothy Sayers on tact

June 22, 2020 by Terry Teachout

“Few things are more irritating than to discover, after you have been at great pains to spare a person some painful intelligence, that he has known it all along and is not nearly so mch affected by it as he properly should be.”

Dorothy Sayers, Clouds of Witness (courtesy of Levi Stahl)

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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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