Broadway

The TKTS Discount Booths stayed up and running during the stagehands’ strike, of course, but on Thursday the Times Square booth on 46th Street was buzzing with a new excitement again, as New Yorkers and tourists alike clamored for tickets to musicals and plays they hadn’t been able to see for 19 days. “We’ve been […]

“I probably have been to every one of your schools doing theatre,” Danny Hoch said this fall to a group of 50 or so New York high school teachers in a midtown union hall as part of a professional development seminar run by the Theatre Development Fund’s education department. Today it was the teachers’ turn […]

Shuler Hensley has learned many things from playing Frankenstein’s monster in the new Mel Brooks’ musical Young Frankenstein. He’s honed his tap-dancing, for one thing: “I’m a real hoofer in this show–I’m channeling Savion Glover during ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz,’ ” says Shuler, the genetically blessed son of a football player and a ballet dancer. […]

One week back in 2005, Jonathan Hadary had a pair of auditions for roles that couldn’t have been more different: Myron, a submissive Jewish husband in Clifford Odets’ 1935 drama Awake and Sing, and King Arthur, the clueless straight man in the Monty Python confection Spamalot. “I couldn’t imagine two more completely opposite parts, in […]

Debra Monk has become such a reliable New York theatre fixture, from Pump Boys and Dinettes to Redwood Curtain, Company to Steel Pier, that it’s striking to be reminded that the currently running Curtains may be her first long run in a hit musical. “My career mostly has been about shows that close in six […]

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 […]

Producing for the theatre is no cakewalk, but there is knowledge and guidance to be had about how to do it better and avoid common pitfalls. One place that information is gathered is at the Commercial Theatre Institute (CTI), a joint project of the League of American Theatres and the Theatre Development Fund. This coming […]

Those who look at Broadway and wonder where all the new American plays are need only glance a bit Off-Broadway to find a vibrant crop of fresh stage works. The coming season at major Off-Broadway theatres is especially ripe with world premieres by new and emerging playwrights. Two of the season’s most promising offerings are […]