Raven Snook
Raven Snook is the Editor of TDF Stages. Follow her on Facebook at @Raven.Snook. Follow TDF on Facebook at @TDFNYC.
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She May Be Gone, But We Can Finally See Her Play
— Brooklyn-based playwright and performer Oni Faida Lampley always used her personal life for inspiration. So when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37 in 1996 (in the midst of nursing her infant child and on the cusp of her first significant movie role in Lone Star ), it was almost inevitable that she would write about it.
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Adapt Me Gently With a Chainsaw!
How Heathers the Musical tweaks the cult movie for a modern audience —
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LBJ With a Touch of Shakespeare
As real-life Congress for Racial Equality leader David Dennis, Eric Lenox Abrams delivers an impassioned speech at the memorial service for three young Civil Rights activists murdered in Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan (the same incendiary incident inspired the 1988 Oscar-nominated movie Mississippi Burning ). “Are you sick and tired of this stuff like I am?” he cries out from the stage left box o
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Andy Bragen’s Life Story Is True Enough
Deception leads to honest revelations in the play This Is My Office
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There’s Art for You in Astoria
Astoria, Queens has long been celebrated for its affordable rents and authentic Greek cuisine, but New Yorkers should really add “thriving cultural district” to its list of amenities. Within a few blocks, you’ll find Kaufman Astoria Studios, a bustling TV and movie complex that’s also home to the TDF Costume Collection; the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), which celebrates its 25th anniversary t
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Burning Crosses and Rotating Justice
By RAVEN SNOOK
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The Unknown Hero of the Comic Book Universe
By RAVEN SNOOK
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Your Private Trip Through Lewis Carroll’s Mind
Lots of shows promise a one-of-a-kind evening. But that description is literally true when applied to Then She Fell , Third Rail Projects’ immersive dance/theatre piece inspired by the life and works of Lewis Carroll. Performed in the former St. John parochial school in Williamsburg, which has been re-imagined as a Victorian-era psychiatric facility called Kingsland Ward, Then She Fell only accomm