16 Facts About Terry Teachout

Terrance Alan Teachout was an American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist.

Terry Teachout was the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, the critic-at-large of Commentary, and the author of "Sightings", a column about the arts in the US that was published biweekly in The Wall Street Journal.

Terry Teachout was a co-host on Three on the Aisle, a monthly podcast about theater in the United States, hosted by American Theatre magazine, which ran from September 2017 to December 2021.

Terrance Alan Teachout was born on February 6,1956, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the oldest son of Herbert H Teachout, a hardware salesman, and Evelyn Teachout, a secretary.

Terry Teachout attended St John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, but left after one semester.

Terry Teachout received a BA in journalism and music from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, in 1979 and attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1983 to 1985, in a graduate psychology program, but left to pursue his journalism career.

From 1979 to 1983, Terry Teachout lived in Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked as a bank teller and jazz bassist; during this period, he wrote about music for The Kansas City Star.

In 1985, Terry Teachout relocated to New York City, where he worked as an editor at Harper's Magazine from 1985 to 1987 and an editorial writer for the New York Daily News from 1987 to 1993.

From 1993 to 2000 Terry Teachout was the classical music and dance critic at the Daily News.

In 2003, Terry Teachout became the drama critic for The Wall Street Journal.

In 2009, Terry Teachout published Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.

On February 24,2018, Satchmo opened at the Alley Theatre of Houston in a production directed by Terry Teachout that ran through March 18,2018; it was performed by Jerome Preston Bates.

Terry Teachout appears in Alex Gibney's Sinatra: All or Nothing at All and two film documentaries about dance, Mirra Bank's Last Dance and Deborah Novak's Steven Caras: See Them Dance.

Terry Teachout further described Teachout as a "Never Trump conservative" whose beliefs were both traditionalist and cosmopolitan.

Terry Teachout was married twice, first to Liz Cullers, until their divorce, and then to the former Hilary Dyson from 2007 until her death in 2020.

Terry Teachout died on January 13,2022, at the age of 65, while staying at a friend's home in Smithtown, New York.