Saturday, June 24, 2017
It’s not just the puppetry—Disney’s longest-running musical searches for performers with abilities that no other Broadway show needs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
What it takes to find kid rock stars in a show that demands near-constant turnover.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
Ms. Udofia mined her family background for what she sees as a true portrait of immigrant experiences in her ongoing theater cycle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMSaturday, May 27, 2017
Handpicked by Kevin Kline, the mastermind behind the wardrobe of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival tells its own vibrant story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 30, 2017
The woman responsible for casting the current revival discloses what it takes to get invited to the Jellicle Ball.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 17, 2017
Why composers Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva and the actors of Paula Vogel’s Indecent play music throughout the new drama.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 13, 2017
It's not just that the hit musical doesn't tell my family's story. It's that it perpetuates a narrative in which the Vietnamese are victims, not fighters.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:29PMSaturday, March 18, 2017
As Joe’s Diner prepares for a big staff turnover, Waitress casting director Bernie Telsey talks about finding three new leads—including composer Bareilles—come April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 9, 2017
The blockbuster musical returns to Broadway—chopper intact.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
After years of trying, director Terry Kinney finally gets The Price to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 13, 2017
How the casting director of Kinky Boots keeps the iconic shoes filled.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHow the casting director of Kinky Boots keeps the iconic shoes filled.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 15, 2017
Chicago’s casting directors explain the art of finding big name celebrities to take on the long-running hit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 4, 2017
Director John Crowley finds the humor with Cate Blanchett in The Present.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Puppet designers and actors talk about the zany challenges of creating and manipulating an ever-more-maniacal puppet onstage in productions of “Hand to God.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Qui Nguyen’s new play, a romantic comedy about his Vietnamese parents, sprinkles in the pop culture obsessions that got him hired by Marvel Studios.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PMThursday, August 18, 2016
Christopher Chen’s “Caught” emerged from the controversy of Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PMThursday, June 23, 2016
Now 20 years old, the Off Off Broadway company has kept its focus on shoestring productions that are “funny, strange and provocative.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:44AMThursday, December 24, 2015
The team behind the immersive hit “Then She Fell” recreates the era in “The Grand Paradise,” a bigger production set at a hedonistic Florida resort.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Lynn Nottage, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her play "Ruined," has been named the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMTo succeed as an actor, you need to run your career as a business, and a new website, YourActorMBA.com, aims to teach actors how—through an 11-week Web series.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis two-person adaptation of Henry James' classic ghost story too often tells the audience to be scared rather than quietly allowing fear to take over.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM"Musical: The Online Musical" is far from your average musical. Now only is it online only, the plot is almost completely driven by audience suggestions.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMCharles Smith's romanticized retelling of the marriage between the daughter of civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois and poet Countee Cullen traffics in superficial comedy at the expense of complex characters.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
As part of his role as "Billy Elliot" on Broadway, Joseph Harrington swings across the stage suspended by cables in one of the dance numbers. The effect is thrilling for the performer.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMMonday, March 2, 2015
Chiara Atik’s Five Times in One Night is the latest atypical offering from EST/Youngblood — Playwright Chiara Atik does not like watching sex. On stage at least. “I always …
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
The everyday weirdness of Kate Benson’s new play — They’re just your typical American family, getting together for Thanksgiving dinner. Except there are no tables, chairs, …
SOURCE: TDF at 09:04AMThursday, October 30, 2014
In Play/Date, 21 plays unfold in a real bar on the Lower East Side — I’m sitting at the bar having a Manhattan. Across from me, the bartender is having an argument with a girl. I…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMMonday, September 22, 2014
Diep Tran on the new wave of Asian musical theatre divas — When I was a little kid, I wanted to be Lea Salonga. Of course, back in the ’90s, all little Asian girls who loved to s…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:08AMTuesday, September 16, 2014
The actors in 3 Christs find truth in insanity — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles It’s not every day you sit down wit…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:49AMMonday, May 19, 2014
In The Blueprint Project, writers riff on the same idea — Welcome to Borough Play, our exclusive series on theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond. Have you ever watched a play and tho…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:03AM 
