106 stories by "Linda Buchwald"
Paul Downs Colaizzo invites arguments at MCC Theater In Really Really, a wild party leads to a damaging rumor that tests the loyalties and friendships of a group of college friends. The even…
Inside the world of a professional child guardian This season, Broadway is practically a kiddie convention. There are currently eight Rialto shows featuring child actors, including Annie, Th…
The 1970s docu-musical gets updated for the 21st century Can a musical about jobs in the 1970s seem relevant today? Ask director Gordon Greenberg, who’s staging a new version of Workin…
How composers Pasek and Paul set the classic film to music As they were becoming rising stars of the musical theatre, composing team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were told that to learn about …
How beatboxers, actors, dancers, choreographers, and composers are collaborating on an ambitious new hip hop play — How do seven people collaborate on a play and end up with a cohesive…
How actors find a story in the Sondheim revue “Marry Me a Little” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing look at actors and how they create their roles W…
Behind the parody costumes in Forbidden Broadway Jenny Lee Stern, in a beaded two-piece pantsuit and green scarf, channels Judy Garland while singing “You Made Me Love You.” Exce…
The World of Solo Shows at FringeNYC Solo shows are an excellent fit for the New York International Fringe Festival. They can be cheap and easy to produce—there’s only one cast m…
The seasoned theater actor spends his time as senior producer Jim Harper in HBO’s "The Newsroom."
Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena find love in a spiky new musical At a crucial point in the new musical Dogfight, now at Second Stage Theatre, shy waitress Rose Fenny and Marine Eddie Birdlace…
Pourfar plays Sylvia in "Tribes," and for the part, she needed to speak with a British accent, plus learn American Sign Language and the piano.
All 7 Harry Potter novels get staged in 70 minutes In paperback, the 7 Harry Potter novels have 4,167 pages, and those pages contain dozens of stories and hundreds of characters. But if you …
Gabriel Kahane creates musical languages for famous names in “February House” Composer Gabriel Kahane has spent most of his career in pop and opera, and he was never a fan of mus…
The actor becomes Perón in Broadway’s “Evita” Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles Michael Cerveris has…
The actor gets “Happy” in Broadway’s Death of a Salesman — Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages‘ ongoing series about actors and how they create their role…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
