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A preview of this season’s holiday dance offerings in New York — As you start to deck the halls, remember that it’s also a bustling season for dance events, holiday-themed …
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 Keen Company, which …
Whether protesting climate change, racial injustice. or overconsumption, Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping do it in glorious song — It’s going to be a very busy Than…
A new musical is created entirely from audience suggestions — “When you look at YouTube and the culture of social media, you see how the rest of society is now a ‘creator.&…
Heidi Schreck on the moral questions in Grand Concourse — After I saw Heidi Schreck’s play Grand Concourse, I made a mistake. The show left me uncomfortable, so I thought that me…
Bradley Cooper wasn’t the only actor obsessed with bringing the Williamstown Theatre Festival revival to Broadway — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers …
How Trip Cullman evokes the teenage horror in Punk Rock — Forget a simple blackout. When MCC Theater’s production of Punk Rock transitions between scenes, we’re treated to …
How Naperville finds the beauty in the suburbs — It seems inevitable that at some point in a playwright’s career, the imagination will be tugged homeward toward the people, place…
The Theatre Dictionary is back in action. Woo! In case you’ve never visited, the Theatre Dictionary collects short, funny films that define theatre lingo. Wanna know what an 11 o’…
The set for Lost Lake explodes with details — There’s no way to see the entire set of Lost Lake. A slightly surreal cabin in the woods, it’s packed with so many objects tha…
No matter what you think about privilege, Young Jean Lee will challenge you — When you hear about a play called Straight White Men, what do you think it’s going to be? Which cult…
Costumes and wigs create circus illusions in the Broadway musical Side Show — Emily Padgett and Erin Davie aren’t identical, not even close. But when they take the stage in Side …
How writer/performer Peter Michael Marino’s biggest professional failure led to the founding of SOLOCOM. — When Peter Michael Marino‘s splashy West End musicalization of De…
The beloved theatre troupe returns to New York — For over 40 years, Mummenschanz has arguably been one of the most reliable sources of all-ages theatre in the world. With their unique …
Why the reincarnation in Sarah Ruhl’s new play is an absolute fact — Sarah Ruhl’s new play The Oldest Boy may be filled with a sense of cosmic mystery, but there’s on…
Inside the Pearl’s revival of Shaw’s classic play — George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara may spin your moral compass until you don’t know where you’re stan…
With puppetry and music, Powerhouse explores an unlikely legend — Chances are you’re familiar with Raymond Scott’s music… you just don’t know it. The 20th-centu…
In Walter Mosley’s play Lift, drama unfolds in the tiniest space — Two days into rehearsals for Lift at 59E59, director John Marshall III got stuck in an elevator. Most people en…
Welcome to Fanmail, our tributes to theatre artists we admire — I discovered Jay Armstrong Johnson in 2009 at a concert of Ryan Scott Oliver songs at Joe’s Pub. I went on a whim …
In Play/Date, 21 plays unfold in a real bar on the Lower East Side — I’m sitting at the bar having a Manhattan. Across from me, the bartender is having an argument with a girl. I…
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 Mint Theater Company, whic…
Playwright Kimber Lee asks audiences to mourn for a murdered up-and-comer in brownsville song — Though not a tuner, brownsville song (b-side for tray) has a musical sensibility. Hip-ho…
Costumes impact our understanding of Broadway’s The Real Thing — Cynthia Nixon’s caftan is a fabulous fashion statement, yes, but it’s also an emblem of how costumes …
Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Stages editor Mark Blankenship geeks out (via Gchat) with Jason Schlafstein, producing artis…
Jimmy Nail draws on personal experience for Broadway’s The Last Ship — The first voice heard in the new Broadway musical The Last Ship is Jimmy Nail’s. “I’m ver…
