Monday, January 9, 2012
Once again, Phillip Boykin stars in “Porgy and Bess” At the curtain call of a recent preview of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, actor Phillip Boykin gave a dainty curtsy. Th…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2011
Inside the new musical’s daring projection design The Blue Flower is not just a musical—it’s a collage. “The music and the words and the images and the stage movement…
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Provocative playwright Thomas Bradshaw makes his Off-Broadway debut Thomas Bradshaw’s plays always get a reaction. He doesn’t shy away from taboo subjects like incest, rape, raci…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2011
A new production honors the late Lanford Wilson When Carl Forsman, artistic director of Keen Company, was about 11 years old, his parents took him to see his first Broadway show— Lanfo…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2011
How director Lisa Peterson molds the pieces of “Motherhood Out Loud” Motherhood Out Loud sounds simple enough: It’s a series of vignettes about the highs and lows of being …
SOURCE: TDF at 10:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2011
How Off Broadway shows are thriving with limited performances Ed Gaynes manages the St. Luke’s Theatre, currently shared by five shows, and the Actors Temple Theatre, currently shared …
SOURCE: TDF at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Director Michael Grief revisits the musical for its New York revival When Rent opened in 1996, AIDS was very much in the public eye. Time magazine’s “Person of the Year…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2011
After 14 years, “Death Takes a Holiday” hits the stage Shortly after the musical Titanic opened on Broadway in 1997, its composer-lyricist Maury Yeston and bookwriter Pete…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2011
Michael Friedman writes music for Tony Kushner's latest epic.
Michael Friedman has composed several major musicals, including Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Saved, but that’s only ha…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:52AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
Lisa Gajda and the hard-working ensemble of Catch Me If You Can
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Lisa Gajda is constantly changing costumes. In the new Broadway musical Catch Me if You Can, she plays everything from…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:08PM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2011
Steven Hoggett creates evocative movement at New York Theatre Workshop
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What’s the most surprising thing about the mermaids in Peter and the Starcatcher? It could be their bras,…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 3, 2011
Jess Goldstein designs costumes for A.R. Gurney's new play
When you think of costume designing, you might think of someone sketching clothes or sitting at a sewing machine, not shopping at B…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 26, 2011
In “The Importance of Being Earnest,” the actor relies on everything from his costars to 70s sitcoms.
Welcome to Building Character, TDF STAGES´ ongoing series about actors a…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 15, 2010
How Broadway pros adapted Green Day's music for the stage.
If you think of American Idiot as “the Green Day musical,” then you’re not exactly wrong. The score is made up of…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, December 3, 2010
With A Free Man of Color, the composer opts for a play
There is a scene in John Guare's epic play A Free Man of Color, now playing on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumo…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 10, 2010
How Judith Light transformed into Marie Lombardi
Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles.
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“It was like coming h…
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