Building Character

One of America’s Most Popular Playwrights Finally Gets a NYC Premiere

Lauren Gunderson’s Natural Shocks debuts at the WP Theater

Reexamining the Life of a Civil Rights Icon

Obie winner Roslyn Ruff resurrects Malcolm X’s wife

He’s Playing Another Russian Jew But Not Singing This Time

Danny Burstein portrays doomed Soviet author Isaac Babel in Describe the Night

Wait, Is the Same Guy Playing All Those Parts?

How Mark Bedard approaches multiple roles in Pride and Prejudice

He Never Thought He’d Be on Broadway in a Musical

After 25 years in the biz, Andrew Polk makes his Main Stem debut in The Band’s Visit

Can You Root for a Corporate Raider?

In Ayad Akhtar’s Junk , everyone has heroic moments

What’s the Scariest Part of Growing Old?

Tony winner Deanna Dunagan plays a struggling widow in The Treasurer

Back-to-Back Blair Brown

The Tony winner returns to the stage in a pair of consecutive plays

Sex and the Single Widow

Why Tony nominee Nancy Opel is so excited about portraying a Curvy Widow — Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series on actors and how they create their roles Before preview performances of Curvy Widow, which recently opened at the Westside Theater Off-Broadway, the musical’s book writer and real-life inspiration, Bobby Goldman, frequently chatted […]