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With a lively orientation session, TDF kicks off the second year of the NANY programYou know you’re at a theatre event when people introduce themselves by touching elbows, knees, and h…
The Pulitzer-winner’s new play comes to Broadway without a tryoutIt may be hogging all the attention, but Spider-Man isn’t the only show getting its world premiere on Broadway th…
In “The Importance of Being Earnest,” the actor relies on everything from his costars to 70s sitcoms. Welcome to Building Character, TDF STAGES´ ongoing series about actors an…
Go backstage at Broadway's “Jersey Boy's” to learn how an unseen army keeps the show up and running every night. Featuring production stage manager Michelle Bosch.Fast Tube by Ca…
Your guide to theatre in the Mini-AppleSure, winter is rough in Minneapolis, but that's no excuse to hide out in the Mall of America. The city offers an extensive selection of theatre that g…
Director Michael Wilson balances symbolism and reality in a Tennessee Williams playNotice how the mobile affects the light on stage, its small pieces of colored glass throwing red on a table…
Culturemart stocks its shelves with ambitious new workMultimedia chamber operas about murder and reality television don’t just write themselves, and neither do video-driven solo shows …
An actress and playwright create a woman deprived of almost everythingHow do you create a woman who can’t see, smell, taste, or hear? That may sound like a Zen riddle, but it’s b…
Gordon Clapp and Ann Dowd get angry in The New Group’s latest playBlood From a Stone almost forces you to think about the psychology of its working-class characters. They’re not …
How Spider-Man’s mishaps reflect the long history of stage safety Even before Christopher Tierney plummeted some 30 feet off a platform to become the fourth cast member with serious in…
How the fest celebrates everything from Beckett to Van DammeEvery January, just as a sizable number of Broadway theatres find themselves without inhabitants, off-Off Broadway basks in an exp…
Exciting things are happening at TKTS!Watch this video, and you'll be an expert on our new TKTS Patron Services Program and the official TKTS app.Fast Tube by CasperFor a closed caption vers…
With wine and song, three performers push the genre envelopeIt would be wrong to call Three Pianos a jukebox musical, even though it is a stage show created around a series of old songs. Aft…
Plenty of Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres are open for business on December 25th.On Christmas Day, why not treat yourself to a show? Plenty of Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres are open …
American Ballet Theatre puts a vivid twist on a holiday classicAs the holidays approach, the dance world offers its annual flurry of The Nutcracker, that classic holiday tale about a little …
How light and projections bring the Signature’s revival to lifeFor designers seeking challenges, Angels in America pulses like the North Star. The two halves of Tony Kushner’s se…
How Broadway pros adapted Green Day's music for the stage.If you think of American Idiot as “the Green Day musical,” then you’re not exactly wrong. The score is made up of …
The stars of the Broadway musical “Memphis,” Montego Glover and Chad Kimball, tell TDF Stages the secret to playing a role for over seven years.Fast Tube by CasperWatch a closed …
How a massive team creates the composer’s raucous holiday showSince it was written in just three weeks and had only two weeks of rehearsal with a cast of around 30 people, you could ar…
In “Haunted,” the Oscar nominee finds the poetry in a failing marriageWelcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles–…
The Official TKTS iPhone app, is the only way to get fast, accurate, real-time listings of all Broadway and Off Broadway shows available at the world famous TKTS Discount Booths in New York …
The Pearl revives an obscure masterpieceQuestion: How is Ibsen’s play Rosmersholm like Halley’s Comet?Answer: It may be seventy-six years before you get another chance to see it.…
With A Free Man of Color, the composer opts for a playThere is a scene in John Guare's epic play A Free Man of Color, now playing on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumon…
Theatre Development Fund’s Open Doors Program featured on WNBC’s NY Nonstop on “giving back for the holiday season.” Featured is TDF Open Doors mentor, Michael Mayer.
