Friday, February 26, 2021
New Jersey's George Street Playhouse presents a new digital production of Theresa Rebeck's one-woman comedy BAD DATES, about a single mom recounting all the duds she's endured on her quest f…
SOURCE: www.tdf.org at 12:55PMSaturday, February 20, 2021
On Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET, the Congress for Jewish Culture celebrates Purim with a dramatization of Itzik Manger's MEGILLAH CYCLE, a collection of Yiddish poems updating the Biblical story o…
SOURCE: www.tdf.org at 06:31PMMonday, December 14, 2020
On Monday at 7 p.m. ET, the Congress for Jewish Culture celebrates the centennial of S. Ansky's famous Yiddish play THE DYBBUK with a virtual reading. Allen Lewis Rickman directs Mike Bursty…
SOURCE: www.tdf.org at 03:09PMSaturday, November 14, 2020
CONSCIENCE: Written by MEMPHIS Tony winner Joe DiPietro, this play was running at George Street Playhouse when the shutdown hit. Director David Saint reunites castmates Mark Junek, Lee Sella…
SOURCE: www.tdf.org at 01:14PMWednesday, November 11, 2020
New Jersey's George Street Playhouse presents an encore streaming of CONSCIENCE about US Senator Margaret Chase, who heroically denounced McCarthyism in her 1950 "Declaration of Conscience" …
SOURCE: www.tdf.org at 01:33PMWednesday, October 28, 2020
New Jersey's George Street Playhouse presents CONSCIENCE about US Senator Margaret Chase, who heroically denounced McCarthyism in her 1950 "Declaration of Conscience" speech. Written by MEMP…
SOURCE: www.tdf.org at 11:06AMSunday, April 7, 2019
Do You Feel Anger? provokes many emotions: amusement, sadness, terror, frustration. An absurdist comedy that cracks open to reveal oozing wounds, Mara Nelson-Greenberg's audacious Off Broadw…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:40PMThursday, March 21, 2019
MARYANN PLUNKETT as "Juno" is marvelous as is the entire production under the meticulously calibrated direction of NEIL PEPE (Atlantic Theatre Company's artistic director moonlighting here a…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:58PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
Anyone who saw Florian Zeller's The Father on Broadway three years ago will recognize these theatrical tricks. A companion piece to that play, The Mother offers another disorienting dissecti…
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:59AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
When New Yiddish Rep artistic director David Mandelbaum decided to produce Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT and Eugène Ionesco's RHINOCEROS, he had to commission special Yiddish versions.…
SOURCE: www.tdf.org at 02:03PMMonday, May 25, 2015
The author of La Bête shares his thoughts on highbrow, lowbrow and his tiny writing output.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Broadway veteran Mary Louise Wilson breaks the fourth wall and brings down the house in On the Twentieth Century — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 03:18PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
In The Insurgents, Lucy Thurber fuses personal and political history for an examination of what ails us — On the surface, Lucy Thurber’s new drama The Insurgents, now at the La…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 09:00AMSaturday, January 31, 2015
Here's Johnny! John Cameron Mitchell returns to the stage to star in his rockin', madcap musical opus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:56AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
All the creative elements in Constellations, even the set, suggest infinite possibilities Director Michael Longhurst isn’t big on naturalism—at least not for the shows he helms. …
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 09:00AMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Playwright Jenny Rachel Weiner uses broad comedy to explore the drama of preprepubescent girls — While most dark comedies about adolescent angst take place in high school (see Heathers…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 11:13AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Whether protesting climate change, racial injustice. or overconsumption, Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping do it in glorious song — It’s going to be a very busy Than…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 10:53AMThursday, November 20, 2014
Bradley Cooper wasn’t the only actor obsessed with bringing the Williamstown Theatre Festival revival to Broadway — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers …
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 11:11AMMonday, November 10, 2014
How writer/performer Peter Michael Marino’s biggest professional failure led to the founding of SOLOCOM. — When Peter Michael Marino‘s splashy West End musicalization of De…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 04:00PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Playwright Kimber Lee asks audiences to mourn for a murdered up-and-comer in brownsville song — Though not a tuner, brownsville song (b-side for tray) has a musical sensibility. Hip-ho…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 09:00AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Solo artist Ben Rimalower uses his lifelong financial problems for laughs and insight in Bad with Money — In the age of oversharing in life and online, it’s not surprising that m…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 09:00AMFriday, October 10, 2014
Two new immersive shows at the Park Avenue Armory appeal to grown-ups as much as children — I’ve been taking my nine-year-old to stage shows since before she could talk. (Access …
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 11:08PMFriday, October 3, 2014
Inspired by our recent Geek Out/Freak Out, TDF Stages readers sound off about the iconic stage performances they wish they could go back in time to see — While hardcore theatre fans of…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 03:57PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Sylvester’s incredible life story becomes an Off-Broadway musical — Sylvester is one of history’s most fabulous pop stars. Back in the ’70s, the flamboyant diva score…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 09:00AMThursday, September 18, 2014
Kathleen Chalfant puts a feminine stamp on a traditionally male role in A Walk in the Woods — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their ro…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 09:00AMFriday, September 5, 2014
Circus Amok’s latest show marks 25 years of public fun (with a message) — When my then-three-year-old first saw Jennifer Miller, she blurted out, “You’re a girl with …
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 09:00AMTuesday, August 19, 2014
Samantha Soule is one of two people playing her character in And I and Silence — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles Crafting a …
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 10:44AMMonday, August 11, 2014
Why the men in Pageant are sincerely playing women — Though the Off-Broadway musical comedy Pageant could be described as a beauty contest with drag queens, you should banish all image…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 02:49PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
Puppet Shakespeare Players turn Titus Andronicus into Comedy Drunk Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, the Accidental Shakespeare Company: the Bard’s plays are constantly be…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 09:00AMSunday, August 3, 2014
Raven Snook on Kinky Boots, Taylor Mac, and drag for kids — Last year, after also seeing Matilda, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella and the revival of Annie, my then-seven-yea…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 09:00AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Everett Quinton finally plays another shady lady — Although the Peccadillo Theater Company’s new comedy Drop Dead Perfect sends up a wide range of American cultural touchstones&#…
SOURCE: Theatre Development Fund at 12:37PM 
