• If you live in the Baltimore area, I’ll be speaking about Duke Ellington tonight at 6:30 in the Poe Room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, located on 400 Cathedral Street, in which I spent many happy hours doing research in the Mencken Room once upon a time.
For more information, go here.
• I recently taped an episode of Theater Talk with John Douglas Thompson, the star of Satchmo at the Waldorf. It’ll be airing on Channel 13, New York’s PBS affiliate, on Friday at one a.m. and on CUNY-TV, the station of the City of the University of New York, on Saturday at eight-thirty p.m, with four more replays on Sunday and Monday.
For a complete listing of air times for the episode, go here.