234 stories by "Raven Snook"
How Oni Faida Lampley’s Tough Titty got its New York premiere — Brooklyn-based playwright and performer Oni Faida Lampley always used her personal life for inspiration. So when s…
How Heathers the Musical tweaks the cult movie for a modern audience — First-time collaborators Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe are no strangers to musicalizing movies, having …
Raul Castillo (Looking) stars in a 2004 drama by magical-realist playwright José Rivera (References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot), which mixes together questions of love, death and Puerto R…
In Tarell Alvin McCraney’s take on Antony and Cleopatra, Chivas Michael plays an odd, rich role — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at actors and how they cr…
In Broadway’s All the Way, director Bill Rauch finds thundering drama in LBJ’s presidency — Robert Schenkkan’s politically-charged saga All the Way chronicles the fir…
A lifelong dancer who debuted on Broadway in Cats as a teen, Hall made her name as a hard-rock chanteuse in Off Broadway shows like Empire and The Toxic Avenger, as well as with her band, th…
Inside the show-stopping nude scene in The Clearing — In an age of rampant thongs, plunging necklines, and burlesque everywhere you turn, onstage nudity is rarely shocking anymore. But…
Why Paul Huntley’s wigs are vital for Broadway stars — Clothes may make the man but hair makes the character. So believes Paul Huntley, the veteran hair and wig designer with mor…
The comic collapse of a puppet in The Pigeoning Read more on this month’s mini-boom in puppetry for adults — Puppet shows aren’t just child’s play. From the Tony Awar…
Deception leads to honest revelations in the play This Is My Office — Inviting someone into your office can be a very intimate experience. In fact, it may unearth personal secrets that…
Inside a thriving cultural district in Queens — Welcome to Borough Play, our exclusive series on theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond. Astoria, Queens has long been celebrated for i…
In their new musical, Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick blend spoof and soul — Most musicals incubate for a long time, but 20 years? That’s how long it took Seth Rudetsky to finall…
Inside the striking set design of Broadway’s A Time To Kill — A compelling legal drama usually invites viewers to consider a case from multiple perspectives, and in A Time to Kil…
Bike America‘s heroine is a charming, frustrating mess — For any actor, no matter how experienced, it’s both exciting and daunting to carry an entire play—especially …
Brian J. Smith connects to a misunderstood character in The Glass Menagerie — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series on actors and how they create their roles In ear…
In The Awake, Ken Urban turns bad dreams into drama — The three unwittingly connected strangers in Ken Urban’s haunting drama The Awake seem to exist in a funhouse mirror reflect…
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Krysta Rodriguez’s unlikely journey to her latest Broadway role — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles Though mu…
The actress stars in the furiously political play The Castle — The dramas of Howard Barker, a prolific, politically-charged British playwright who calls his work the Theatre of Catastr…
Playwright Steven Levenson pushes moral buttons at the Roundabout — Key moments in Steven Levenson’s new play The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin-–now at the Rounda…
 Weeping So Hard People Stare: Fred Weller breaks down in “Reasons to Be Happy” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they creat…
Ayub Khan Din’s strange journey with his new musical at The New Group It sounds like something out of an old Hollywood screwball comedy: A madcap new musical is about to bow on the boa…
Then She Fell immerses you in Carroll’s life and work — Welcome to Borough Play, our exclusive series on theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond Lots of shows promise a one-of-a-…
Director John Rando returns to David Ives’ popular comedy They say that so much of comedy is in the timing, but really, it’s in the relationships, too. Take David Ives’ All…
The celebrated actor becomes a playwright – An impoverished middle-aged widow, a flirty chatterbox teen, and a convenience store owner quietly drowning in grief. These are the desperat…
