Louis Armstrong Lives Again, in San Francisco, in "Satchmo at the Waldorf"

When a solo artist performs as another artist--from Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain and Julie Harris as Emily Dickinson to Robert Morse as Truman Capote to, much more recently, John Douglas Thompson as Louis Armstrong in Satchmo at the Waldorf--it's such a delight when we lose sight of the actor onstage. Directed by Gordon Edelstein, Thompson embodies the iconic trumpet player and singer in an engrossing, even thought-provoking performance in the intermission-free play, by theater critic and jazz wri...