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Artists discuss their responsibility to historyBy JONATHAN MANDELLWelcome to Part 2 of our two-part look at how Broadway is currently staging history. Today, we talk to Broadway artists abou…
Designing costumes for Broadway’s The Pee-wee Herman ShowOne night back in 1977, Paul Reubens, a wiry sketch comic at the Los Angeles improv company the Groundlings, came up with the c…
Last night, as part of the New York Times‘ ongoing Times Talk series, Frank Rich interviewed Stephen Sondheim about his life and career. Rich, who is a mentor in TDF’s Open Doors…
Audiences react to fact and fiction in “The Scottsboro Boys” and “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”Welcome to Part 1 of our two-part look at how Broadway is currently sta…
Why “The Language Archive” needs an abstract, metaphorical setFor a show that’s so much about the power of words, the Roundabout’s production of The Language Archive …
Plays, musicals, and dance to put you in the holiday spiritWhen it comes to the holidays, are you more “traditional tree” or “sassy Santa?” Either way, New York has g…
How the Oscar nominee surfs the chaos of Mistakes Were MadeWelcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about how actors and how they create their rolesThe bipolar truth-teller …
The Tony Award winner plays an offbeat poet in EllingWelcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles.When we first meet Elling, the tit…
How do you translate the language and culture of a Danish play for American audiences?When they discovered Andreas Garfield’s play Home Sweet Home, about a Danish soldier returning fro…
The musical's ultimate themes are the same as the movie's, namely getting everyone in the Christmas spirit and finding a place where you belong. This show definitely belongs on Broadway but …
Two designers create dozens of locations for Broadway’s “Women on the Verge…”As a designer, how do you adapt a Spanish-language movie into a Broadway musical, especia…
In a rehearsal room near Times Square, one of Broadway's freshest talents is preoccupied by puppets.
It's not as silly as it sounds.
How Judith Light transformed into Marie LombardiWelcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles.–“It was like coming home.&…
Peter Nichols’ new comedy invites all sorts of debatesIt’s easy to argue with Lingua Franca, but that’s a good thing.Written by Peter Nichols (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg…
The old-time New York theatrical talent agent became a veteran voice of experience for the upstart Creative Artists Agency in the late 1970s.
From Hugh Jackman to matinee matrons, these ushers have seen it allIn this video, TDF Stages takes you inside the world of professional theatre ushering.Fast Tube by CasperWatch a closed cap…
Broadway Musical Resurrects Grim Racial Event‘The Scottsboro Boys’ recounts trial of black teens accused of raping two white womenThe Theatre Development Fund, which sponsors the…
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Time Stands Still might be getting all the attention for returning to Broadway just months after it premiered last season, but Donald Margulies' play isn't the o...
How playing a stroke victim in “Wings” is like a dirty knife fightWelcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their rolesR…
James Earl Jones had two questions he needed answered before agreeing to join the Broadway production of "Driving Miss Daisy."
What Happens When Artists Keep Collaborating?By MARK BLANKENSHIPIn some ways, Lisa Kron’s political comedy In the Wake, now playing at the Public Theater, is a major departure. After a…
