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Inside the complicated tone of A Letter to Harvey Milk --- While the new musical A Letter to Harvey Milk explores themes of loss, regret, and denial, it leavens the heaviness with Borscht Belt-style jokes. For the creators, this mix of tragedy and humor was integral to the storytelling and the artistic process. After all, it took more than two decades...

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Seeing the Rwandan Genocide Through an Outsider's Eyes

By JANICE C. SIMPSON

Tuesday, March 20, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Tue Mar 20, 2018 • Off-Broadway • 0 comments Share This

A new solo show grapples with a bloody period in Africa's history --- Back in 2011 while attending a theatre festival in Rwanda, performer and playwright Sean Christopher Lewis spotted a man in a pink jumpsuit walking through a village market. Intrigued, Lewis asked his local companions about the unusual sartorial choice and was shocked by their answer:...

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What If Euripides Had Been Female?

By REGINA ROBBINS

Monday, March 19, 2018 • Off-Off Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Mon Mar 19, 2018 • Off-Off Broadway • 0 comments Share This

The New Collectives offers a feminist slant on those women of Troy --- Before Giverny Petitmermet became the artistic director of The New Collectives -- a NYC-based arts company that both creates new work and reimagines classics -- she spent years performing for pennies Off-Off Broadway. Sometimes the shows were great; often they were not. But when...

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WATCH: TDF's Facebook Live with Wesley Taylor and Stephanie Hsu

Monday, March 19, 2018 • Broadway • 0 comments Share This

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Earlier this month we welcomed SpongeBob SquarePants stars Wesley Taylor and Stephanie Hsu for a live, 20-minute chat on the TDF Facebook page. They answered fans' questions and goofed on each other -- Hsu's impression of Taylor's character on Smash is hilarious. These two are clearly BFFs onstage and off: They do a dramatic recreation of the day they...

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Embodying the Empowering Message of 'Escape to Margaritaville'

By HALEY CHOUINARD

Thursday, March 15, 2018 • Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Thu Mar 15, 2018 • Broadway • 0 comments Share This

Lisa Howard finds romance and self-love in the new Jimmy Buffett musical --- At first, much of Escape to Margaritaville at Broadway's Marquis Theatre is what you would anticipate from a musical inspired by the laid-back, feel-good, country-Caribbean songs of Jimmy Buffett ("Cheeseburger in Paradise," "Come Monday," "Why Don't We Get Drunk"). There...

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How Did This Piece of Art Become a Play?

By RAVEN SNOOK

Thursday, March 15, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

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Inside the 25-year journey of Patrick Dunning's The Signature Project --- The Signature Project, currently running at the Sheen Center, was never meant to be onstage. The brainchild of Dublin-born, Oregon-based visual artist Patrick Dunning, it started back in 1990 as an ambitious 76 foot by 36 foot mural that would use the signatures of 1 million...

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Why All Student Activists Should See This Show

By SANDY MACDONALD

Wednesday, March 14, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Wed Mar 14, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

There's much to be learned from the South African protest docudrama The Fall --- "Nothing about us without us!" That slogan served as a rallying cry for the University of Cape Town (UCT) students who, in the spring of 2015, demanded a statue of 19th-century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes be removed from campus. Their story is recounted in The Fall,...

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What Is the Nature of Violence?

By ELIZA BENT

Tuesday, March 13, 2018 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Tue Mar 13, 2018 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

The Wholehearted attacks tough questions at Abrons Arts Center --- Ironically, there's something comforting about procedural crime dramas because we know how they will go. Female victim endures a violent, often sexual attack. If she survives, we see her crying and shaking in an interview with the cops. If she doesn't, we see her naked body brutalized....

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