TDF

If you’ve seen a familiar-looking man with dark, curly hair strolling around Hell’s Kitchen and blabbing into his cell phone headset, you could have witnessed some free street theatre: It just might have been Eddie Mekka running his lines for My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m in Therapy, Steve Solomon’s hit solo show, […]

Eugene Rodriguez goes back a long way with the Theatre Development Fund–to the very beginning, in fact. The first theatre production he ever saw was the James Earl Jones boxing drama The Great White Hope, which also happens to have been the first production ever subsidized by TDF, in the form of discounted tickets for […]

Now here’s how you can tell you’re talking to a real actress: Anita Gillette says she wanted to put on the grey wig so she’d look older in the part. “I don’t want to sound egotistical, but I feel I have a more youthful look than is required for Angelina,” says Gillette about one of […]

Theatre can happen anywhere, even on a Greyhound bus. Playwright Rajiv Joseph was travelling at night between his hometown of Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and while most of the bus was dark, one woman had a worklight on over her tray table and was “folding these little boxes and fish,” Joseph recalls. “It was this weirdly […]

Are you ready? The 12-year-old New York International Fringe Festival, a.k.a. FringeNYC, is roaring back to town with performances by 202 of the world’s best emerging theatres and troupes, Aug. 8-24. And, even though the Fringe’s official $15 ticket price is a steal, the best deal on the Fringe is to see it with TDF […]

In Britain, the term “tosser” is roughly synonymous with a mild American pejorative like “idiot” or “jerk.” On Broadway, “tosser” is now the more-or-less official name for a rabid fan of [title of show] (that’s tos for short, hence “tosser”), the new meta-musical by, about and starring virtual unknowns Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen, which […]

Lenelle Moïse looks forward to visiting Paris one day. In the meantime, the multitalented performer/poet/playwright can travel to the City of Lights virtually in her new play Expatriate, which opens this week at the Culture Project. Moïse plays Claudie, an African-American singer/musician who, with her soul mate Alphine, rises to pop stardom in Europe. It’s […]

New York City’s most populous borough now has a TKTS booth to call its own. On Thursday, July 10 at 11 a.m., Theatre Development Fund opened a new TKTS Discount Booth in downtown Brooklyn, at 1 MetroTech Center, at the intersection of Jay Street and Myrtle Avenue. A gala ribbon-cutting was led by Michael Weiss, […]

“Way beyond comedy” is where actor Christopher Evan Welch places Christopher Durang’s 1985 play The Marriage of Bette and Boo, which opens in a Roundabout Theatre revival in early July, with Welch in the co-title role of Boo. Audiences who’ve come to see previews of the revival, directed by Walter Bobbie, are likely to agree […]