TDF Stages Archive
An online theatre magazine
Read about NYC’s best theatre and dance productions and watch video interviews with innovative artists
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At This Broadway Play, Your Seats Are Supposed to Surprise You
Inside the startling design of Heisenberg
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Horton Foote’s Way With Women
Primary Stages highlights his knack for rich female characters
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Teaching Theatre With Video Games and Virtual Reality
How local drama teachers use technology in their classrooms
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Why Are Three Theatres Producing the Same Brecht Play This Month?
A Bertolt Brecht classic speaks to this election
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Let’s Geek Out Over Avant-Garde Director Romeo Castellucci
Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out , where theatre fans get enthusiastic about things
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WATCH: Meet TheaterWorksUSA
Get to know TheaterWorksUSA , which presents professional musicals for audiences of all ages. This video features the actors Rachel Dratch, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Andréa Burns; the director John Rando; the composing team of Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich; and TheaterWorksUSA’s leaders Barbara Pasternack and Ken Arthur.
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At Broadway’s ‘The Encounter,’ A Sound Is Worth a Thousand Pictures
How Gareth Fry’s special aural effects help conjure the Amazon rainforest in this new show
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It’s the First American Musical, Complete With Comedy and Criminals
The text, a melodrama of the type already becoming stuffy by the mid-1800s, was only part of the show, and it’s roughly half of the experience at Abrons. The rest of the current production, adapted and directed by Joshua William Gelb, features the story behind the creation of The Black Crook . The two tales are mingled to create an eclectic but unified production, with eight actors playing multipl
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Let’s Play the ‘Underground Railroad Game’
Using outrageous satire to root through America’s past