How Mark Bedard approaches multiple roles in Pride and Prejudice---Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series on actors and how they create their rolesWhen Mark Bedard was cas…
The Mad Ones finally makes it to Off-Broadway---If you search for the song "Run Away With Me" by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk on YouTube, you'll find viral versions by Broadway stars s…
A new solo shows offers a visceral, video-enhanced experience of the condition---Performer and playwright Gardiner Comfort has Tourette syndrome, a tic disorder that causes a range of involu…
A tribute to those "little" shows far too few see---I've always had a fascination with small things. As a child, I briefly collected foreign stamps, clear marbles, shiny pennies, tiny seashe…
With plays at Roundabout and Manhattan Theatre Club, Anna Ziegler's a writer to watch---For playwrights, having one show Off-Broadway is a thrill. But two plays running simultaneously at pre…
Tony-winning dramatist Richard Nelson reflects on the early days of Shakespeare in the Park---A beloved summer tradition for theatregoers, the Public Theater's free, star-studded Shakespeare…
How What We're Up Against examines office sexism---The timing of Theresa Rebeck's What We're Up Against is uncanny. Although the pitch-black comedy about a woman fighting for her due in an o…
Playwright Susan Soon He Stanton has two shows running this month---Susan Soon He Stanton doesn't sleep much these days. Her world-premiere play SOLSTICE PARTY! is running at A.R.T./New York…
Repertorio Español resurrects the work of Spanish Golden Age female playwrights---Leonor, the protagonist of Valor, agravio y mujer (Courage, Betrayal, and a Woman Scorned), has all t…
The Tony-winning choreographer of The Lion King debuts new work at the Joyce---Choreographer Garth Fagan is having quite a month. This past Sunday, he helped celebrate the 20th anniversary o…
After 25 years in the biz, Andrew Polk makes his Main Stem debut in The Band's Visit---Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series on actors and how they create their rolesLast…
Everett Quinton celebrates the Ridiculous Theatrical Company's 50th birthday---Charles Ludlam's Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide didn't always have two titles. When the playwr…
How People, Places & Things changed Denise Gough's life---Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series on actors and how they create their rolesDuring her first audition for…
Last Friday we welcomed School of Rock stars Jenn Gambatese and Becky Gulsvig for a live, 20-minute chat on the TDF Facebook page. They answered fans' questions and really let their hair dow…
In Ayad Akhtar's Junk, everyone has heroic moments---Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series on actors and how they create their rolesIf you think of Ayad Akhtar's new dram…
In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Duff draws on his real-life experiences---Of the many breakups, breakdowns, and breakthroughs featured in Uncommon Sense, Tectonic Theater Project's new play about …
Director Lila Neugebauer stages After the Blast at Lincoln Center---It's been a banner year for Lila Neugebauer and it's not even over yet. The rising director staged world-premiere plays by…
Matthew Bourne's latest dance-theatre piece reimagines a cinematic classicAre Matthew Bourne's productions dance or theatre? Considering the range of major stage awards the British director-…
Meet The Anthropologists, a troupe that collaboratively creates investigative theatre pieces meant to inspire action. This video was directed by Andrew Block, and shot and edited by Scott Fe…
Tony winner David Henry Hwang discusses the new resonance of his 30-year-old play---Playwright David Henry Hwang believes it's the perfect moment for M. Butterfly to return to Broadway. The …
A fan revisits Falsettos after 24 years---Although last season's Tony-nominated revival of Falsettos closed back in January, a recording of the production is airing on PBS this Friday, Octob…
Tony-nominated director Moisés Kaufman explains why Torch Song is forever relevant---Sometimes great theatre minds think alike. That's what happened when director Moisés Kaufma…
Join Jenn Gambatese and Becky Gulsvig in a live online chat---What's it like being in a hit Broadway musical? School of Rock stars Jenn Gambatese (who plays high-strung principal Rosalie Mul…
How Calvin Royal III came to be in Alexei Ratmansky's new ballet---Ballet competitions may be scorned in some quarters for their tiresome, circuslike exhibitions of technical tricks. But beh…
How veteran sound designer and composer Ryan Rumery approached 'The Home Place'---What does home sound like? Late Irish dramatist Brian Friel raises that question in The Home Place, and for …