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For grown-ups, the scariest thing about Halloween is the cost of renting costumes (not to mention the dry-cleaning fee). TDF members need not share this anxiety. For the third year in a row, the TDF Costume Collection will open its doors to TDF members and allow them almost entirely free rein of the Collection, offering […]

If Michael Badalucco is to be believed, his mother’s cooking had a lot to do with his acting career taking off. “I was at SUNY New Paltz, and I was majoring in theatre arts,” recalls Badalucco, now appearing in the The Rise of Dorothy Hale at the St. Luke’s Theatre. “I was a freshman, and […]

Gerald McRaney started his TV career playing bad guys: He was the last gunfighter downed by Marshal Matt Dillon in the final season of Gunsmoke, he played a demented police chief on The Incredible Hulk and he otherwise robbed and terrorized victims on such 1970s procedurals as Barnaby Jones, Baretta, Cannon and Police Woman. Then, […]

Cheryl Freeman insists that she’s only set foot in a Wal-Mart once. “I went to the one in Secaucus, New Jersey, in April to get rain boots,” recalls Freeman, who stars in the Off-Broadway musical satire Walmartopia. Freeman offers this fact as if it were a guilty confession. That’s understandable, since Walmartopia, written by the […]

Producing for the theatre is no cakewalk, but there is knowledge and guidance to be had about how to do it better and avoid common pitfalls. One place that information is gathered is at the Commercial Theatre Institute (CTI), a joint project of the League of American Theatres and the Theatre Development Fund. This coming […]

Danny Hoch hasn’t graced New York stages for a while; his last big splash was with 1997’s solo show Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop at PS 122. Now he’s making a big comeback with Till the Break of Dawn, which opens this week at the Abrons Arts Center–only you still won’t see him on the stage. […]

Sometimes great minds think alike–and far too much for their own good. “We actually tried to do the T-Birds’ first entrance with non-leather jackets,” confesses Grease costume designer Martin Pakledinaz, of his and director Kathleen Marshall’s approach in fashioning the hit Broadway revival. “We even tried to do ‘Greased Lightning’ without leather jackets.” Say what? […]

It may sound like a rock musical with peace on its mind, but in fact Rock Doves, whose title is a common name for pigeons, is another lively, gritty play about life in Northern Ireland from Belfast’s Marie Jones (Stones in His Pockets, A Night in November), which opens at Irish Arts Center on Sept. […]

Over the summer, many of us did some cross-country traveling. But how many of us, in the course of our travels, helped raise money toward reviving a historic American theatre building? The TDF Costume Collection spent its summer “vacation” doing both: traveling to clothe actors in farflung productions from California to North Carolina, Florida to […]