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Why Bill Irwin Is Obsessed with Samuel Beckett
By NED MOORE
Thursday, October 04, 2018  •   Acting  •    0 comments Share This
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The Tony winner mounts a singular tribute to the legendary writer at Irish Rep --- Bill Irwin is not a scholar. He is not a biographer. He is a clown. Whether you know him as Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street, or for playing fools in Shakespeare, or from his neo-vaudeville romps Fool Moon and Old Hats, his Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown...
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Why This Tony Nominee Is Doing Shakespeare Badly on Purpose
By RAVEN SNOOK
Wednesday, October 03, 2018  •   Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Oct 3, 2018  •   Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Dylan Baker tackles three disparate characters in Bernhardt/Hamlet on Broadway --- 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...
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5 Theatres You Need to Know: Companies in Northwestern Queens
By JOSE SOLÍS
Tuesday, October 02, 2018  •   Borough Play  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Oct 2, 2018  •   Borough Play  •    0 comments Share This
Our series continues with a roundup of theatres in Long Island City, Astoria and Corona --- Last month, we spotlighted Asian-American theatres in NYC. For our second installment of 5 Theatres You Need to Know, we're looking at companies based in northwestern Queens. If you usually think of the borough for baseball and dim sum, let us expand your perspective....
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What's New at the Revamped Fringe
By JONATHAN MANDELL
Monday, October 01, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Mon Oct 1, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
After a year hiatus, the New York International Fringe Festival returns with lots of changes --- "New York City should have the best Fringe festival in the world -- and that's not what we had," says Elena K. Holy, the producing artistic director of the New York International Fringe Festival who helped found the event back in 1997. After its 20th edition...
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How to Fix the Dreaded Talkback
By NED MOORE
Thursday, September 27, 2018  •   Off-Broadway  •    3 comments Share This
Thu Sep 27, 2018  •   Off-Broadway  •    3 comments Share This
A dramaturg shares his ideas for making this post-show staple more engaging for audiences and artists --- I'm a dramaturg. That term means different things depending upon whom you ask. But in my case, it often means I'm the lucky theatre staffer tasked with moderating the post-show Q&A between the artists and the audience, commonly known as the...
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Theatre Lovers Share Their Neil Simon Memories
By TDF STAGES READERS
Thursday, September 27, 2018  •   Broadway  •    2 comments Share This
Thu Sep 27, 2018  •   Broadway  •    2 comments Share This
Twenty-three hilarious and heartfelt stories about the ways the comedy master impacted their lives --- 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...
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The Joyce Gets a Stunning Makeover for NY Quadrille
By SUSAN REITER
Wednesday, September 26, 2018  •   Dance  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Sep 26, 2018  •   Dance  •    0 comments Share This
Curated by Lar Lubovitch, the perspective-changing dance series returns for its second edition --- Even though John Jasperse and his dance company had performed at the Joyce in the past, he barely recognized the theatre when he walked into it two years ago for the inaugural NY Quadrille, conceived and curated by legendary choreographer Lar Lubovitch....
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He's Following in James Corden's Broadway Footsteps
By MICHAEL MARTIN
Tuesday, September 25, 2018  •   Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Sep 25, 2018  •   Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors won Corden a Tony. What will his new comedy do for Max Gordon Moore? --- Richard Bean's new Broadway romp The Nap at Manhattan Theatre Club is set in the world of British snooker -- it's like pool, but with more math. A major televised attraction in the U.K., the sport makes rock stars of its champions; it's also...
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