Friday, August 30, 2013
Mr. Burns drops the Simpsons into a post-apocalyptic musical — A musical can be worthwhile just because it’s entertaining, but what if it’s also saving human culture? What …
SOURCE: TDF at 11:00AMFriday, August 23, 2013
With The Cheaters Club, The Amoralists probe America’s dark side — If you think a “scary play” should include ghosts, possession, and a skeleton sitting next to you i…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:48AMFriday, August 16, 2013
The drama Slut lets young women speak for themselves — Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerny want to create theatre that honestly evokes the lives of teenage girls, and they want real teen…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:30AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
From time to time, TDF Stages will highlight exciting Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre companies with exclusive “getting to know you” videos. Today, we’re featuring The Shelter, a comp…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:00AMMonday, August 5, 2013
Inside his multiple roles in Murder for Two — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles It’s been a great year for ac…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:30PMFriday, August 2, 2013
Developing her play with a TDF education program — Playwright Regina Taylor is currently in rehearsals with her new play stop. reset., which opens in August at Signature Theatre, but f…
SOURCE: TDF at 08:46AMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales on making their hit musical — If RuPaul’s Drag Race made you a fan of Jinkx Monsoon, the drag queen who won the most recent season, then you might …
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMFriday, July 19, 2013
The Between the Seas Festival stages the Mediterranean experience — If we watch the news, then we know that southern Europe is in the throes of a financial and political crisis, but wh…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:00AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
The city honors 40 years at the Booth These days, there are always people wandering through Times Square in costumes, but last Wednesday, you could see more than dubious panhandlers in knock…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:40AMMonday, July 1, 2013
The multiple meanings of music in Choir Boy — When you hear a spiritual in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy, it never means just one thing. In one sense, yes, it’s perfect…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:45PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Why the creators of Unlock’d live in two worlds at once — Unlock’d is a brand new musical about a very old story, and the creators want to honor both time periods at once. …
SOURCE: TDF at 11:01AMFriday, June 21, 2013
From time to time, TDF Stages will highlight exciting Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre companies with exclusive “getting to know you” videos. Today, we’re featuring, Horse Trade Theate…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:00AMSaturday, June 15, 2013
Irish Rep’s revival of “The Weir” fuses the old world and the new – Conor McPherson’s drama The Weir is defined by stories, so it’s only fitting that Ciar…
SOURCE: TDF at 08:03AMMonday, June 10, 2013
From time to time, TDF Stages will highlight exciting Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre companies with exclusive “getting to know you” videos. Today, we’re featuring Wild Project, an ec…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:40AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Why Venice takes place in an unreal world — Venice is set in Venice, but not the Venice you’d expect. The hip-hop musical, now in previews at the Public Theater, unfolds sometime…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:21PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Composer Scott Frankel and Lyricist Michael Korie on How They Created Their New Musical — It seems so innocuous. Just a song about plants. But it prepares us for the most resonant them…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:13PMFriday, May 24, 2013
As much as any show currently playing in New York, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 takes place in a separate universe. That’s partly because writer-composer Dave Malloy h…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:14AMMonday, May 20, 2013
From time to time, TDF Stages will highlight exciting Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre companies with exclusive “getting to know you” videos. Today, we’re featuring the York Theatre Co…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:09PMFriday, May 17, 2013
Caissie Levy hurtles into the revival of Murder Ballad – Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles It’s almost necess…
SOURCE: TDF at 03:43PMThursday, May 16, 2013
Lucas Hnath’s experimental new drama explores chaos and control via the Magic Kingdom — It seems so easy to get a handle on A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:48AMFriday, May 10, 2013
From time to time, TDF Stages will highlight exciting Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre companies with exclusive “getting to know you” videos. Today, we’re featuring Transpo…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:11PMThursday, May 9, 2013
600 Highwaymen Find Actors in Unconventional Places Welcome to Borough Play, our exclusive series on theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond — When they’re looking for actors, Ab…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:20AMMonday, May 6, 2013
How Jeff Calhoun stays connected to his hit show On a hit Broadway show, a director’s job is never quite done. Working with a team of associate directors and stage managers, directors …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:33PMFriday, May 3, 2013
Robert Cuccioli finds the human side of a comic book monster — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing look at how actors create their roles To understand the challenge of p…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:28AMMonday, April 29, 2013
Inside the subtle choreography of Broadway’s “The Nance” It’s an incredibly sensual wedding. In a shimmering white gown, a bride drapes across her husband, who’…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:20PMThursday, April 25, 2013
Sheldon Harnick and Margery Gray Harnick create a book about the city Margery Gray Harnick’s photographs offer three visions of New York at the same time. There’s the city as a l…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:51PMMonday, April 22, 2013
“Southern Discomfort” stages the diversity of the South The Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s closed yesterday, but you can still see a play it made possible. T…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:22PMFriday, April 19, 2013
From time to time, TDF Stages will highlight exciting Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre companies with exclusive “getting to know you” videos. Today, we’re featuring Pan Asi…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:27PMFriday, April 12, 2013
In Bullet Catch, magic tricks raise unsettling questions – How nicely would a stranger have to ask to make you shoot him in the face? Assuming you aren’t a violent person, what a…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:28PMMonday, April 1, 2013
How the wild new musical “Mr. Irresistible” came to the stage In April, New York’s theatre scene can be dominated by talk of Broadway, since shows have to open by the end o…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:36PMThursday, March 28, 2013
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