The Q Brothers give Lysistrata a feminist hip-hop makeover---Lots of theatre-makers update the classics but only the Chicago-based Q Brothers specialize in "add-rap-tations:" contemporary hi…
Ballet Hispánico presents two world premieres inspired by the Spanish writer---"I'm trying to branch out the awareness of what it is to be Latino in all its fabulousness -- not just f…
Performer and playwright Eliza Bent shares the backstory of her new solo show---Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative proce…
Sharon Washington's solo memoir examines her unusual New York City upbringing---Sharon Washington loves being an actor. That comes through in her autobiographical solo show Feeding the Drago…
How Simon Stone radically reinvented an 84-year-old play---Initially, playwright and director Simon Stone wasn't sure Federico García Lorca's Yerma would resonate with modern-day audi…
How Rocktopia brings rock, classical, and Broadway musicians together---Henry Aronson is a keyboardist and musical director with 30 years of Broadway credits. Tony Bruno is a guitarist and s…
Tony nominee Alison Pill on the prescience of Edward Albee's 27-year-old play ---Edward Albee's Three Tall Women was clearly not written in the digital era. A lawyer makes a house call that …
If you're a fan of live TV musicals, you were probably glued to the television for NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar, which starred John Legend, Waitress' Sara Bareilles, Alice Cooper, Hamilton a…
Playwright Abby Rosebrock tries to work that out in Dido of Idaho---Abby Rosebrock did sketch comedy and worked in academia before becoming a performer-playwright. She was most fulfilled whe…
Alex Lubischer makes his New York debut with Bobbie Clearly at Roundabout Underground---When Alex Lubischer started writing Bobbie Clearly four years ago, he was sure it could never be done …
Bedlam tackles Shaw's classic downtown while the musical plays on Broadway---Eric Tucker, the director and star of Bedlam's stripped-down take on Pygmalion, isn't concerned that Lincoln Cent…
Director Trip Cullman explains why this 2001 play resonates more than ever---Director Trip Cullman had been trying to mount a production of Lobby Hero for years before Second Stage Theater a…
Earlier this year, TDF hosted autism-friendly performances of two beloved Broadway musicals: Wicked and Aladdin. Not only did the audiences have an amazing time, the performers did, too. Dur…
Inside Lincoln Center's groundbreaking Big Umbrella Festival---The seed was planted back in 2012 when Peg Schuler-Armstrong attended a professional development session at the New Victory The…
How Locked Up Bitches unleashed playwright Catya McMullen's creativity---"We wanted to throw the best party in town," says Catya McMullen about Locked Up Bitches, the hip-hop musical parody …
Inside the complicated tone of A Letter to Harvey Milk---While the new musical A Letter to Harvey Milk explores themes of loss, regret, and denial, it leavens the heaviness with Borscht Belt…
A new solo show grapples with a bloody period in Africa's history---Back in 2011 while attending a theatre festival in Rwanda, performer and playwright Sean Christopher Lewis spotted a man i…
At first glance, the evidence isn't encouraging. Following a loss, fans are more likely than usual to eat unhealthy food, [1] be unproductive at work, [2] and"in the case of the …
The impact of cultural work is complex: it imparts insights, experience and attitudes that do not necessarily have to culminate in a 'work', but may create new networks, creative ideas, and …
After the Second World War, alienation came to betoken a near-universal spiritual and psychological malaise. Existentialist philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre used it to describe a fundam…
The goad for this stunningly resolute strike was deep cuts to retirement pensions, but as in all such vast, spontaneous outpourings from below, the issue is not the issue. The issue, rather,…
Behind the scenes, according to several sources close to the museum who were interviewed by artnet News, Molesworth's personal priorities, progressive politics, and constitutional aversion t…
And - perhaps ironically! - the book is titled after a viral blog post from 2014 by author Reni Eddo-Lodge: "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race." The prize is for, in Brita…
Yikes: "Anna Harding, the chief executive of Space studios, which provides premises for nearly 800 artists including three Turner prize winners, blamed rising property prices and shrinking s…
"While he was performing an aerial straps number, long-time aerialist Yann Arnaud fell onto the stage, a Cirque du Soleil representative said in a statement. He was taken to Tampa General Ho…