“Hello, Dolly is a piece of shit.” This is the voice of Louis Armstrong, after the final concert of his life, as depicted in Terry Teachout's first play, "Satchmo at the Waldorf," a dramatic imagining of the private Pops, starring the extraordinary actor John Douglas Thompson. It is four months before his death in 1971, […]
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13AM on March 5, 2014