Tuesday, 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 11:03AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
A songwriter and a theater’s artistic director join hands to bring Gertrude Stein’s rhymes and repetitions to the stage in “The World is Round.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMMonday, March 17, 2014
The Pig and Potion fuse theatre and opera in startling ways — You walk into the theatre, expecting to see a play. You take your seat, and sitting next to you is a woman with a trumpe…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:53PMFriday, January 10, 2014
Take Me Home, part of the Other Forces Festival, is a play set in an actual taxi — Modesto “Flako” Jimenez is both an actor and a cab driver, but he never thought he’…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:13PMMonday, December 9, 2013
Master puppeteer Jessica Scott guides La Divina Caricatura — If performer Jessica Scott is doing a good job in her current show, then you won’t notice her onstage, even if she…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:20PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
[Photo: Billy Budd at Trinity Repertory Company.] “Tell me a story.” That was what we asked a handful of artistic director across the country. Why? Because the theatres they are in char…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:12PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Five valuable things you should know about the Broadway musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:35AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Tme Out New York gets up close and personal with all 15 emerald divas who played Elphaba on Broadway in Wicked.
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:47AMFriday, August 9, 2013
How the classic film became a hip-hop musical — What happens when you take the story of King Kong, subtract the gorilla, add an M.C., and turn everything into a musical comedy? You end…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:00AMWednesday, July 10, 2013
Inside the acrobatics of Monkey: Journey to the West Who knew how difficult it was to find performers who can spin plates? That’s what director Chen Shi-Zheng discovered when he travel…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:13AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Tina Packer navigates “Women of Will” Shakespeare’s had a grip on Tina Packer for her entire career. Decades ago, when she auditioned for England’s Royal Shakespeare …
SOURCE: TDF at 01:21PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
Last Saturday, I was at church. No, I did not just suddenly find God (unless that God is at the bottom of a banana pudding cup). I was at the theatre, the performing arts lover’s version o…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:30AMFriday, February 24, 2012
(Christine Toy Johnson, Pun Bandhu and Angel Desai at the roundtable. Photo: Bruce Alan Johnson) Where are all the Asians? That seemed to be the question at hand last Monday, Feb. 13, during…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:05AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
For a full ill-advised minute (actually, more like ten months), I had considered being a theatre critic. And then, I realize two things: I really disliked reading my own opinions and critici…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:41AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Is there nothing in life more rewarding and simultaneously frustrating than your family? If you’ve ever had your mother call at inconvenient moments and when she asks, “How is everything…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:24AMMonday, September 12, 2011
Why art? Or, more specifically, why theater? Especially in the face of great tragedy, what can art do to help heal the wounded or to bring everything back to normal? On the cusp of the 10th …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:30AM 
