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Why Imperfect Artists Make Great Characters

By BRIAN SCOTT LIPTON

Tuesday, January 30, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

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Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally explores the bigwigs of the Ballets Russes --- Over a six-decade career as one of America's most prominent playwrights, Terrence McNally has been consistently fascinated with the performing arts and its larger-than-life characters. In his plays, the four-time Tony winner has examined iconic figures (opera diva...

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Can a Paint Job Save a Town?

By JONATHAN MANDELL

Monday, January 29, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

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Playwright Greg Pierce explores the plight of a dying factory city in Cardinal --- Greg Pierce may be best known as Tony-winning Cabaret composer John Kander's new collaborator since lyricist Fred Ebb died. Together, they've penned a pair of challenging chamber musicals, The Landing and Kid Victory. But even though Pierce worked solo on Cardinal --...

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Are You Ready to Think About Death?

By RAVEN SNOOK

Friday, January 26, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

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The Civilians' latest play looks at the end of life --- Although the inevitability of death is something we all have in common, few of us enjoy contemplating it. But Steve Cosson, the artistic director of the Obie-winning investigative theatre company The Civilians, has spent a great deal of time thinking about it over the past few years, both professionally...

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How a Tennis Match Changed the Conversation

By MARTHA WADE STEKETEE

Thursday, January 25, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

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Balls uses a legendary game to examine gender inequality --- It's fitting that a coed creative team decided to theatricalize the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match between 29-year-old women's champion Billie Jean King and misogynistic 55-year-old huckster Bobby Riggs. Cowritten and codirected by two male-female pairings, Balls is a circus sideshow...

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Dispelling African Stereotypes Through Theatre

By JANICE C. SIMPSON

Monday, January 22, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Mon Jan 22, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Playwright Ngozi Anyanwu makes her Off-Broadway debut at Atlantic Theater Company --- Ngozi Anyanwu was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and had what she describes as a typical American childhood in the suburbs of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her parents, in contrast, grew up in small villages in southeastern Nigeria. Every time Anyanwu, now 35, traveled...

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Reexamining the Life of a Civil Rights Icon

By RAVEN SNOOK

Friday, January 19, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Fri Jan 19, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Obie winner Roslyn Ruff resurrects Malcolm X's wife --- Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series on actors and how they create their roles Roslyn Ruff is so regal and commanding that she's been cast as the wives of two civil rights icons over the course of her extensive stage career. In 2014, she portrayed Coretta Scott King in the...

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Channeling Diverse Reactions to a Tragedy

By REGINA ROBBINS

Wednesday, January 17, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Wed Jan 17, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Dael Orlandersmith's new solo show offers a multiperspective response to Ferguson --- Michael Brown. Ferguson, Missouri. Hands up, don't shoot! Black Lives Matter. Regardless of your political leanings, these words invariably stir up powerful emotions more than three years after Brown's death at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson. In the immediate...

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