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As hip-hop culture has become increasingly mainstream, who’s left to keep it real—to represent the alternative voices and visions that once defined the hip-hop generation? Answers can be found in the eighth annual New York Hip-Hop Theater Festival, which opens this week with the local premiere of Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s the break/s at the Skirball […]

The Roundabout Underground’s debut production last year, the acclaimed, repeatedly extended hit Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate, gave this exciting new Off-Broadway program a tough act to follow. But against the odds, it looks like the Roundabout folks may have done it again: Steven Levenson’s The Language of Trees is another searching, intimate and blazingly […]

“Meet me at the red steps.” Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? It’s a phrase that’s likely to become a common refrain for visitors to Times Square, as well as everyday New Yorkers, as they make their way to the city’s newest signature landmark: a bigger, better Duffy Square, complete with 24 red […]

The fall may mark the end of summer leisure time, but it also marks the beginning of another fantastic theatre season—and an excellent time to take find great theatre ticket deals through TDF membership and at the TKTS Discount Booths. Indeed, several of the hot new fall shows, on Broadway and Off-, have turned up […]

On Broadway this fall, it’s the best of times and the worst of times—not just because a splashy new musical of Dickens’ classic A Tale of Two Cities opens soon at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, but because it really is the best of times for TDF members to snap up some sweet ticket deals—and the […]

Until he and his young cast took the show to Edinburgh a last month, Douglas C. Wager didn’t know how apt the title of the Iraq-themed In Conflict would be. “To promote the show, we had cast members in U.S. military uniforms, but wearing a T-shirt saying they were in the show, go out and […]

Hi, everyone! Seth Rudetsky here, talking about my obsession: Broadway! My lastest thrill came when when I heard that the Public Theater’s revival of Hair would extend through Sept. 14th. I’ve been obsessed with Hair ever since I first saw it–when I was four! That’s right! It was the first Broadway show my parents took […]

Fans of HBO’s gritty, novelistic series The Wire know Prysbylewski, the tall, overly sensitive young cop-turned-schoolteacher who struggled to do right from within, and often in spite of, Baltimore’s public institutions. Playing “Prez” for The Wire’s five tumultuous seasons was Jim True-Frost, the Steppenwolf-steeped actor who’s now appearing on Broadway in the role of a […]

Disney isn’t the only producer of theme park-like shows on Broadway. Consider the wild ride that is Mel Brooks’ Young Franksenstein, with its rollicking haycart, monster chorus lines and floating, flashing laboratory gadgets. One key to making all the moving parts come together in such a tech-intensive show, of course, is for the performers to […]