Category: Acting
Got Any Questions for Two 'Bronx Tale' Stars?
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Join Richard H. Blake and Adam Kaplan in a live online chat
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For our second Facebook Live artist chat, we're getting the behind-the-scenes scoop on the hit Broadway musical A Bronx Tale from two of its stars: Richard H. Blake and Adam Kaplan. The actors are longtime friends, so it's kismet that Blake is playing Kaplan's concerned father in this...
He's Playing Another Russian Jew But Not Singing This Time
By DAVID COTE
Danny Burstein portrays doomed Soviet author Isaac Babel in Describe the Night
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Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series on actors and how they create their roles
The opening scene of Rajiv Joseph's history-inspired drama Describe the Night takes place in 1920, as the young writer Isaac Babel travels through Soviet-occupied Poland...
This Show Launched Their Friendship and Their Careers
By SUZY EVANS
Two costars of The Wolves talk about the play's life-changing impact
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When Sarah Mezzanotte and Tedra Millan met performing in The Wolves at Vassar's Powerhouse Theater in summer 2016, they immediately connected. "We were each other's first friend in the cast," Millan remembers. "We bonded over quesadillas and being from the same area in Philly."
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Wait, Is the Same Guy Playing All Those Parts?
By HALEY CHOUINARD
How Mark Bedard approaches multiple roles in Pride and Prejudice
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Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series on actors and how they create their roles
When Mark Bedard was cast in Kate Hamill's stage adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved 19th-century novel Pride and Prejudice, he called his father to share the good news. "His response...
It's a Play, Not a History Lesson
By HOWARD SHERMAN
Tony-winning dramatist Richard Nelson reflects on the early days of Shakespeare in the Park
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A beloved summer tradition for theatregoers, the Public Theater's free, star-studded Shakespeare in the Park may seem as old as Central Park itself. But in the late 1950s, the New York Shakespeare Festival (as it was originally known) was still a nascent...
Why This 1992 Play Still Feels Fresh
By RAVEN SNOOK
How What We're Up Against examines office sexism
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The timing of Theresa Rebeck's What We're Up Against is uncanny. Although the dark comedy about a woman fighting for her due in an overwhelmingly male workplace was written in 1992, it's enjoying a belated New York premiere at a moment when stories about men abusing their power are breaking almost...
He Never Thought He'd Be on Broadway in a Musical
By RAVEN SNOOK
After 25 years in the biz, Andrew Polk makes his Main Stem debut in The Band's Visit
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Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series on actors and how they create their roles
Last season David Yazbek and Itamar Moses's chamber musical The Band's Visit was a breakout hit at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company. Now the production...
How This Show Helped Birth Off-Off Broadway
By RAVEN SNOOK
Everett Quinton celebrates the Ridiculous Theatrical Company's 50th birthday
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Charles Ludlam's Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide didn't always have two titles. When the playwright and performer penned the raucous comedy in 1967, he planned to do it with John Vaccaro and his Playhouse of the Ridiculous. But a rift between the two men...