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Examining the Human Toll of Income Inequality
By JANICE C. SIMPSON
Monday, June 04, 2018  •   Directing  •    1 comment Share This
Mon Jun 4, 2018  •   Directing  •    1 comment Share This
Tony-winning director Doug Hughes embraces the moral quandaries in Dan Cody's Yacht --- Director Doug Hughes vividly remembers the day he met playwright Anthony Giardina. A blizzard was swirling outside and Hughes, then a young associate artistic director for Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC), was at home reading scripts when he came across Giardina's...
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Drama Desk Winners for 2018
Sunday, June 03, 2018  •   Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
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Michael Urie hosted the Drama Desk Awards at Town Hall tonight and we've got the complete list of winners below. Unlike next week's Tony Awards, which only honor Broadway productions, the Drama Desk considers all New York City theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off. That said, many of the big winners were Broadway productions, including SpongeBob...
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Cultures and Generations Clash on the Court
By DIEP TRAN
Friday, June 01, 2018  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
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Basketball serves as a multifaceted metaphor in Lauren Yee's The Great Leap --- Growing up, Lauren Yee's father Larry loved to regale her with tales from his youth, especially how he used to play basketball all day and night on the asphalt courts of San Francisco's Chinatown. In 1981, Larry even traveled to China to play against the country's top...
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How Many Themes Can You Find in 'the hollower'?
By ELIZA BENT
Thursday, May 31, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    1 comment Share This
Thu May 31, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    1 comment Share This
How 17th-century Canadian history inspired this meditation on contemporary sexuality --- The performance of femininity; 17th-century Canadian history; a half-man, half-pig podcaster; Claymation and morbid doo-wop songs. All of these disparate elements figure in the hollower, an ambitious new play by Liza Birkenmeier. Produced by New Light Theater...
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How Do You Dress a Diva?
By MICHAEL MARTIN
Wednesday, May 30, 2018  •   Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
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Tony-winning designer Paul Tazewell talks Summer: The Donna Summer Musical --- What becomes a legend most? That's what Paul Tazewell needed to figure out not once, not twice but three times as the costume designer for Summer, the new Broadway musical inspired by the life and music of late disco icon Donna Summer. Tazewell had to dress a trio of performers...
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Autism and Other Disabilities Don't Stop These Actors
By JONATHAN MANDELL
Tuesday, May 29, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Tue May 29, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Meet EPIC Players, a "neuro-inclusive" theatre company mounting The Tempest --- "Oh brave new world that has such people in't," declares Miranda toward the end of The Tempest. For the EPIC Players, who are performing the Shakespeare classic at the Flea Theater, that line has a special resonance. Of the 20 cast members, 16 have developmental disabilities,...
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WATCH: Highlights from the TDF Irene Sharaff Awards
Tuesday, May 29, 2018  •   Design  •    0 comments Share This
Tue May 29, 2018  •   Design  •    0 comments Share This
Last month at our 24th annual TDF Irene Sharaff Awards, which honors costume designers, we did something we never had before: recognized four artists from the world of dance. On April 20 at the Edison Ballroom, legendary designers including Bob Mackie, Jane Greenwood and Susan Hilferty, and our TDF Costume Collection staff helped fete four fabulous...
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How Do You Make a Dance Play?
By ERIKA GOULD
Friday, May 25, 2018  •   Musicals  •    1 comment Share This
Fri May 25, 2018  •   Musicals  •    1 comment Share This
Writer David Thompson on how he helped build The Beast in the Jungle --- When Tony-winning director-choreographer Susan Stroman said that the protagonist of The Beast in the Jungle was "waltzing through life," everything clicked. Stroman, Tony-winning composer John Kander and Tony-nominated book writer David Thompson had been talking about adapting...
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