542 stories by "Mark Blankenship"
How the Big Fish ensemble makes us remember small roles — Everyone in the Big Fish ensemble plays a million characters, give or take. Based on Daniel Wallace’s novel and Tim Burt…
Judy Kuhn finds subtle details in a rich new musical — Of all the scenes in Fun Home that articulate the consequences of living in a collapsing family, the one with Helen’s piano…
I Came to Look for You On Tuesday leads a massive project on reunions — When you see the play, you only get part of the story, and that’s one reason it’s so moving. To be c…
Joshua Harmon’s in graduate school, and he already has a hit play — The fourth time was the charm for Joshua Harmon when it came to Juilliard’s prestigious playwriting prog…
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 Irish Repertory Theatre, …
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 …
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…
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 te…
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 company wh…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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 Theater Grou…
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…
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 eco-frie…
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…
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…
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…
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 Company,…
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…
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…
