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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.

Geography may not be destiny, but can it be a coincidence that the theatre director Robert Falls hails from the City of Big Shoulders? For 20 years the imposing Falls, to whom the adjective “bearlike” is often applied, has served as artistic director of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, but in the past decade he’s also become […]

Priscilla Lopez has crossed over, and now she’s crossing back–in more ways than one. The Broadway star who originated the role of Diana Morales in A Chorus Line and won a Tony for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine has in the last decade appeared mostly in non-musical plays, and she’s found herself […]

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 […]

“I look at people when they don’t know I’m watching,” says Paul Taylor, sounding more like a documentarian or a private detective than like the nation’s preeminent living choreographer. In fact, though, an observational stance has always been Taylor’s trademark. “I like to see people’s gestures,” he elaborates. “A lot of those gestural things that […]

Everything Sarah Aziz does these days seems to revolve around interpretation: As a coordinator with Theatre Development Fund’s Accessibility Solutions, she finds and contracts sign-language interpreters and caption writers for special performances tailored to deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences; reviews applications for TAP Plus Accessibility grants, which assist productions in mounting such special performances; and puts […]

After a series of thankless roles, the big black lady wanted to stop the show. “I had just had a conversation with my agent, telling him, ‘I’m a little disillusioned with theatre, and I’m not interested in the black mama roles,’ ” says Capathia Jenkins. “You know, where they would say, ‘We need someone to […]

Ticket buyers who’ve stood in line at the TKTS Discount Booth may do a double take when they sit down to watch Law and Order: Special Victims Unit on Feb. 13. They may recognize the actor playing Lucio, a mobster’s son under investigation by detectives played by Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay, because it’s John […]

It’s the great idea that won’t die—or won’t quit, at least. Don’t Quit Your Night Job, the late-night musical sketch show that’s like a live-theatre version of Saturday Night Live with Broadway talent, returns for a special show at the Zipper Theatre  March 17 11:30PM (ticket info here). The popular ongoing series of late-night shows […]