Category: Directing
How Do You Conjure 90 Years in 90 Minutes?
By RAVEN SNOOK
Playwright Noah Haidle and director Vivienne Benesch on Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing
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The last time Roundabout Theatre Company produced one of Noah Haidle's plays, it was a formative experience. "Mr. Marmalade went so badly with critics and audiences, they created the Roundabout Underground series so shit like that wouldn't happen to...
The Power of Black Joy on Broadway
By JUAN MICHAEL PORTER II
Playwright Douglas Lyons and director Zhailon Levingston discuss their new comedy Chicken & Biscuits
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According to Chicken & Biscuits playwright Douglas Lyons, from the moment he and director Zhailon Levingston met, they had "an unspoken bond and understanding as Black queer men." The two connected by chance at Britton & The Sting's...
WATCH: TDF's Conversation on Staging Sex Scenes in Theatre
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Two intimacy directors on the delicate but necessary nature of their position
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Let's talk about sex, baby—sex on stage that is! TDF partnered with NYC-based theatre Company of Fools to present a conversation about intimacy direction, a relatively new profession that ensures performers in intimate scenes—including but not limited to...
Join TDF for a Conversation About Staging Sex Scenes in Theatre
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Two intimacy directors on the delicate but necessary nature of their position
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Let's talk about sex, baby—sex on stage that is! TDF is partnering with NYC-based theatre Company of Fools to present a conversation about intimacy direction, a relatively new profession that ensures performers in intimate scenes—including but not limited...
A Flop Play by a Pulitzer Prize Winner Gets a Second Life
By JOSE SOLÍS
Why the Spanish-language production of Robert Schenkkan's Building the Wall is scarily relevant
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A week before the 2016 presidential election, Pulitzer- and Tony-winning dramatist Robert Schenkkan (All the Way) angrily banged out the dystopian two-hander Building the Wall, a future history play about what might happen to immigrants under a Donald...
A Play about Family, History, Genocide and Rock 'n' Roll
By CAROLINE CAO
Obie winner Chay Yew on directing Cambodian Rock Band at Signature Theatre
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A few years ago, when Lauren Yee approached Chay Yew about directing the world premiere of her play Cambodian Rock Band at South Coast Repertory, he couldn't envision how it would work on stage. The puzzle of figuring it out is exactly why he signed on. "I always look at...
Think You Know Frankenstein? You've Never Seen Him Like This
By REGINA ROBBINS
African American actress Stephanie Berry plays the creature and his creator in this new production at Classic Stage Company
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The original mad scientist story, Frankenstein, is alive on stage once more, but this stripped-down interpretation is a bold new experiment. Tristan Bernays' two-actor adaptation of Mary Shelley's iconic 1818 tale—which...
Why 'A Soldier's Play' Belongs on Broadway
By REGINA ROBBINS
Tony-winning director Kenny Leon on his new production of the Pulitzer-winning drama
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Director Kenny Leon didn't see Negro Ensemble Company's original mounting of A Soldier's Play in 1981, but he's "pretty sure it was worthy of being on a Broadway stage." After all, it was a landmark production for the groundbreaking black theatre, a critical and...