TDF Stages Archive
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When You Love a Show Everyone Hates
A biting comedy about a pretentious poet with a particular disdain for theatre (played with palpable venom by Ron Rifkin) who enters and wins a playwriting contest on a bet, Wrong Mountain examined the never-ending struggle between art and entertainment. Without giving any easy answers (or heck, any answers at all), the play explored how the two are defined in the eye of the beholder, and how neit
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When You Talk to God, Plug the Microphone In
Why Lucas Hnath wants everyone in The Christians on a mic
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Want to Play Hamlet? Write Him For Yourself.
Michael Laurence’s new play features Shakespeare’s tortured prince —
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Embrace Your Inner Drag Queen
The Legend of Georgia McBride delivers a how-to of drag — The most fabulous presence in The Legend of Georgia McBride isn’t the straight man who becomes a drag queen, his pregnant wife, or his drag mother (though all three are pretty awe-inspiring). No, that honor goes to a clothing rack.
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Is It a Woman’s Duty to Tell People Off?
Set on a houseboat that’s floating in the Thames in 1911, it uses wry epigrams, a feisty heroine, and a drunken dinner party scene to make a progressive argument about the social role of women. Though playwright Harold Chapin died in 1915, it’s easy to imagine his insights being used as rebuttals against certain political candidates who have recently made headlines for taking cheap shots at the la
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Hey Playwrights: Make American History as Diverse as America
A few thoughts on making plays more inclusive
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Finding Two Takes on Neverland
Welcome to On the Record, our brand-new series celebrating original cast albums.
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You’ll Never Forget This, So Don’t Even Try
Anna Ziegler’s new play stages inescapable memories
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A Part Close to His Heart
How Chris Myers’ latest gig merged his professional, political and personal life