TDF Stages Archive
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Why Does “Into the Woods” Keep Coming Back?
Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Rachel Carpman, a writer and dramaturg, geeks out (over the phone) with Ethan Heard, freelance director and Co-Artistic Director of Heartbeat Opera. Today’s Topic: INTO THE WOODS! __ Rachel Carpman:Let’s freak out about the Into the Woods movie for a […]
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She’s Destroying My Career, But We’re Still Friends
By MARK BLANKENSHIP Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles You might assume that Tonya Pinkins focuses on the conflict in Rasheeda Speaking. After all, Joel Drake Johnson’s play, now in a New Group production at the Signature Center complex, basically turns a Chicago doctor’s office into […]
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A Simple Game With Terrible Consequences:
What starts as a simple game of dice explodes into rage, torture, and revenge in Shesh Yak, now at Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre. And it’s not because someone lost a bet. In Syrian-born writer/performer Laith Nakli’s new drama, Jameel (Zarif Kabier) invites Syrian expatriate Haytham (Nakli) to stay with him during a visit. The two are […]
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Can a Song Heal America’s Wounds?
By MARK BLANKENSHIP When Osceola Mays sings “Oh Freedom,” we can feel what it means to her. One of two characters in Texas in Paris, a play with music at the York Theatre Company, she’s a black woman in her 80s, the daughter of a Texas sharecropper, who suddenly finds herself singing for the French […]
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What’s Your Favorite Play Within a Film?
Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Kelly Kerwin, an MFA Dramaturgy student at the Yale School of Drama, geeks out (via Google Doc) with Emily Zemba, a playwriting MFA student at Yale. Today’s Topic : What is your favorite play within a film? — Kelly Kerwin: […]
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Of Course His Arm Fell Off. He’s Sad.
By MARK BLANKENSHIP Of course Dash’s arm falls off. When you lose someone, it can feel like losing a limb, and in City Of, now at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in a Playwrights Realm production, feelings like grief (and love and hope) become physical facts. Dash, a man traveling to Paris in the wake […]
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WATCH: Meet Flux Theatre Ensemble
At Flux, everyone, including the audience, is part of the team.
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Brand New Song and Dance Man
By LAUREN KAY The most famous song and dance men—the Fred Astaires and Gene Kellys—are synonymous with debonair style, majestic movement, and a surplus of charm. And while the ranks of these elegant performers may have dwindled as tastes have changed, those nostalgic for swift-footed dancing and perfectly harmonized Gershwin tunes can enjoy the Encores! […]
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A Chinese Mystery, Film-Noir Style
By ERIC GRODE Move over, August Wilson. Damon Chua is halfway toward replicating your century-spanning theatre project. True, Chua doesn’t focus on one specific geographic area, à la Wilson’s beloved Hill District of Pittsburgh. And the definition of “century” got a little fuzzy when he set one of his plays in the 2000s. “Also, I […]