Category: Broadway
He Doesn't Design Sets, He Creates Environments
By JONATHAN MANDELL
Why Tony nominee Dane Laffrey completely reconfigured the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater for Lewiston/Clarkston
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"You said you needed space; I gave you space," a drug-addicted mother tells her estranged gay son in Lewiston/Clarkston, two plays by Samuel D. Hunter presented as one evening at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. The mother's comment...
WATCH: Our Favorite Clips from 'A Very Wicked Halloween'
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No one mourns for Wicked! That's because, after 15 years on Broadway, Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's musical about the friendship between the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good is still going strong. In honor of this thrillifying anniversary, NBC aired the hour-long concert special A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway...
Why a Tony-Winning Director Decided to Return to Acting
By JEN GUSHUE
David Cromer on costarring in The Waverly Gallery on Broadway
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How do you follow up winning the 2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical? For David Cromer, who snagged that statuette for his work on The Band's Visit, the answer was to book an acting gig. The prolific director -- who launched his career in Chicago before making his name Off-Broadway...
He Doesn't Mind That Some of His Costars Are Animals
By RAVEN SNOOK
Justin Edwards on the necessary realism of The Ferryman on Broadway
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W.C. Fields famously quipped that actors should "never work with children or animals." Yet Justin Edwards is doing both in his Broadway debut in The Ferryman. Jez Butterworth's breathtaking, three-hour-plus epic focuses on an incredibly eventful day for the Carneys, an Irish farming...
Why Does the Audience Exit This Play Arguing?
By GERARD RAYMOND
Director Leigh Silverman helps explore heady questions in Broadway's The Lifespan of a Fact
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In this era of #AlternativeFacts and #FakeNews, a show called The Lifespan of a Fact sounds like it was written about where we are right now. However, this new Broadway play was inspired by real-life events that predate Twitter. The editor of a glossy magazine...
WATCH: Stars and Spectators on How Theatre Has Changed Their Lives
By RAVEN SNOOK
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the TKTS "red steps," audiences and artists share the shows (and ticket deals) they'll never forget
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It's been a year of celebrations at TDF: Our not-for-profit organization turned 50, our Times Square TKTS Booth turned 45 and October 16 is the 10th anniversary of our iconic "red steps." (They don't look a day...
Why This Tony Nominee Is Doing Shakespeare Badly on Purpose
By RAVEN SNOOK
Dylan Baker tackles three disparate characters in Bernhardt/Hamlet on Broadway
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Character actors often end up with scene-stealing roles on stage. But three plum parts in one Broadway play? That's the hat trick Dylan Baker pulls off in Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet, in which he portrays celebrated 19th-century theatre actor Benoît-Constant...
Theatre Lovers Share Their Neil Simon Memories
By TDF STAGES READERS
Twenty-three hilarious and heartfelt stories about the ways the comedy master impacted their lives
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Two weeks ago, we asked our readers to send in remembrances of the late Neil Simon and we were thrilled by the response. We received more than 60 emails (a few with photos!) about how the Pulitzer Prize- and four-time Tony Award-winning playwright...