• What I’m reading: Robin Kelley’s new biography of Thelonious Monk
• What I’m listening to: Duke Ellington joue Billy Strayhorn, a two-CD anthology released in France in 2005
• What I’m seeing: Yvonne Jacquette: The Complete Woodcuts 1987-2009, up through November 28 at Mary Ryan Gallery
• This week’s shows: David Cromer’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, the new Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow, Lynn Redgrave’s Nightingale, Theresa Rebeck’s The Understudy, and Goodspeed Musicals’ revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
