Archives for July 3, 2006

Like many of you, the proprietors of “About Last Night” are taking Monday and Tuesday off (except for the daily almanac quote, without which life as we know it would grind to a halt). We’ll be back on Wednesday.

If you’re hungry for art-related content, take a look at the right-hand column, where you’ll find a number of new items in “The TT-OGIC Top Five,” “Out of the Past,” and “Teachout in Commentary,” plus several additions to “Sites to See” and a fresh link in “Teachout Elsewhere.”

Enjoy. And be careful with those fireworks! See you at mid-week.

“It had rained during the night and the sky hung overcast and dark as dusk; in the trolley the lights had been turned on. All the faces appeared grim and preoccupied. Everyone seemed to be taking account, wondering at the start of another day, what’s the sense of all this effort, and where does it lead to? I imagined that by some common sensitivity they all realized the same mistake and were asking,

If you didn’t get a chance to see the original Broadway production of The Light in the Piazza, which closed yesterday afternoon, fear not: Adam Guettel’s exquisite musical version of Elizabeth Spencer’s novella goes on tour starting August 1 at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre.

For a complete list of cities, theaters, and dates, go here.