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Teen suicide and violence. Talk radio language wars. A White House coverup amid an unpopular foreign war. The dark side of unwanted pregnancy. Front-line soldiers gritting their teeth through a war of attrition. The rise of a charismatic black politician. A debate over teaching evolution. The stages of grief. Are these today’s headlines, or some […]

For anyone who’s toiled in the trenches of musical theatre, the characters in A Chorus Line aren’t just parts. The struggles of the show’s 17 dancers to get through a trying group audition under the prying gaze of a slightly tyrannical director resonate all too closely with their everyday lives. Of no one is this […]

Cast in the dual roles of twin brothers in Christopher Shinn’s anguished, riveting drama Dying City (at Lincoln Center’s Newhouse Theatre through Apr. 29), Tony-nominated actor Pablo Schreiber did some very important primary research. “I watched Raising Cain,” says Schreiber from his dressing room before a performance, referring to the 1992 potboiler featuring an over-the-top […]

Burning question of the day: How much does actor John Glover resemble Man in Chair, that human encyclopedia of musical theatre trivia and arcana, who leads audiences into the world of his favorite (fictional) musical, The Drowsy Chaperone? Well, try this: Suggest to the Tony-winning Glover, who takes over the part of Man in Chair […]

The TDF Costume Collection celebrates the giving spirit of the holidays each year by turning over colorful guises to a raft of youngsters from Positive Caring Services, along with their foster mothers, for the annual “Three Kings” party. Each year during the post-Christmas holiday of Epiphany, as many as 100 children with AIDS and other […]

The actor Denis O’Hare, who typically appears in a few plays a year and who worked on six films last year, doesn’t just memorize his characters’ lines and blocking. Also in his permanent memory bank is the White House phone number. “It’s a comment line, and they ask for comments,” says O’Hare, who estimates that […]

It’s a familiar showbiz story: A young boy smitten with the Technicolor magic of MGM musicals decides to stick around for the end credits, and realizes that behind every glittering silver-screen star is an army of designers. That was Bob Mackie’s story in 1953, when he was blown away by the costumes in An American […]

The phrase “triple threat” sounds so–well, threatening. But Karen Ziemba, one of Broadway’s supreme singer/dancer/actors, is anything but scary, unless you’re intimidated by prodigious talent, a Tony Award, and a resume nearly as long as her killer legs. Indeed, when she talks about her role in the new Kander & Ebb musical Curtains, which opens […]

This winter, with all of TDF’s programs in full swing, we give you a snapshot of Wednesday, March 7. Even the wind and the snow couldn’t keep the students, tourists, TDF members and theatregoers of all stripes away from the stage door.