Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF is Feleceia Wilson's directorial debut at WaterTower ...

Louis Armstrong’s crowd-pleasing public persona got him called an Uncle Tom and worse. In Satchmo at the Waldorf, playwright Terry Teachout mounts a modest if effective defense of the jazz trumpeter ...

In March of 1971, one of the greatest music legends the world would ever know was performing the final set of shows he would ever play at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. But the audiences who adored ...

It’s March 1971 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and LOUIS ARMSTRONG has just played one of the final performances of his extraordinary career. Unwinding backstage, he recounts events that transformed ...

WaterTower Theatre Invites Audiences Backstage for an Evening with Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout’s first play, SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF, shares details about Louis Armstrong after one of his final ...

On October 5, Le Petit Theatre’s 2018-2019 season kicks off with “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” launching the local company’s programming for its next year. According to Artistic Director Maxwell Williams, ...

Larry Murray: Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong was born in 1901 and played the trumpet just about all his life, right up until the day he died in 1971. For most of us, myself included, his playing was about ...

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No jazz artist takes Louis Armstrong seriously. He is both the most famous jazz musician in history and the one whose music is examined the least. Conservatory students begin their studies in the ...

In the New York première of a play by Terry Teachout, set backstage at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1971, John Douglas Thompson plays the great jazz musician Louis Armstrong, his manager Joe Glaser, ...