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A group of young people gathers in a circle to do acting exercises and try on some costumes. A rehearsal for the high school play? Not exactly—it’s more like a rehearsal for going to the theatre, as teaching artist Andrea Day prepares students with low vision or blindness for a visit to Broadway’s The Lion […]

Folks at the Manhattan Theatre Club might consider posting a notice outside the theatre door at performances of Itamar Moses’ Back Back Back, something along the lines of: “Prior knowledge of baseball not required to enjoy this show.” For proof, they need look no further than the play’s director, Daniel Aukin, a former Brit who […]

By now, Shrek star Christopher Sieber is used to having people express more interest in certain body parts than in his general well-being. “It’s never like, ‘How are you?,’ it’s always, ‘How are your knees?’ ” says Sieber, a tall, strapping musical theatre leading man who’s playing the comically diminutive Lord Farquaad in the new […]

The official opening of Roundabout Theatre’s new revival of the Rodgers & Hart classic Pal Joey has been pushed back to Dec. 18 due to an injury by the lead, Christian Hoff, who’s been replaced by Matthew Risch. But the costume designer, multiple Tony winner William Ivey Long, already had his own “opening night.” At […]

For some theatregoers, it’s not just the good and great shows that are memorable. Sometimes it’s the bad shows we love to laughingly recall more than ever. That’s certainly the case with practiced theatregoer, longtime playwright and inveterate TDF member Anne Phelan, who regularly takes advantage of TDF ticket deals to catch the latest great—and […]

As a standup comic with a new Off-Broadway hit, Mike Birbiglia may be “living his dreams,” but it’s likely that he’d choose a different metaphor for acheiving success. That’s because, as Birbiglia details in his moving and funny solo show, Sleepwalk With Me, he’s got a sleep disorder that has caused him to be a […]

Many of us take the pleasures of theatregoing for granted—indeed, we might even find ourselves occasionally griping about the experience of seeing a subpar show or having to wait in the line for the bathroom. But most of us are able-bodied, have easy access to transportation and don’t get by on a fixed income. And […]

If playwright John Patrick Shanley is now better known for such serious later works as the Pulitzer Prize-winning morality play Doubt (now a major motion picture, too), Romantic Poetry, his whimsical new musical with Dreamgirls‘ Henry Krieger, now playing at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage II, serves as a welcome reminder that Shanley is still also […]

Sometimes when she’s rehearsing a play, Donna Lynne Champlin says, she can tell if it’s going to be something special. “It happens every once in a while when you’re working on something and it starts to take on a life of its own,” says Champlin, who stars in the Transport Group’s new revival of Irwin […]