TDF Stages Archive
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Spring Awakening’s Deaf Actors Dance to Music They Can’t Hear
It’s a moment that would be complicated in any musical: In the current Broadway revival of Spring Awakening, at the start of a song in the second act, a group of actors faces upstage, backs to the audience. They represent a forest of trees, and eventually they begin to sway in unison as the show […]
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It’s Set in 2040, But It’s Not About the Future
Why Max Posner’s play Judy is really about the present day — Let’s forget for a moment that Judy is set in the year 2040. First and foremost, the show, which is now at the New Ohio in a production from Page 73, is about three adult siblings who are learning to break their longtime […]
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Your Broadway Preview: Fall 2015 Edition
NEW MUSICALS
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Attack of the Palindrome Monster
TDF members are offered discounted tickets to many shows like this one. Click here to see all the member tickets that are currently available.
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The German Octopus Speaks a Universal Language
Do we really need to understand the language in a play?
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You Can Participate in Modern Irish Drama
New Irish plays rely on firing our minds and imaginations
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When You Love a Show Everyone Hates
A biting comedy about a pretentious poet with a particular disdain for theatre (played with palpable venom by Ron Rifkin) who enters and wins a playwriting contest on a bet, Wrong Mountain examined the never-ending struggle between art and entertainment. Without giving any easy answers (or heck, any answers at all), the play explored how the two are defined in the eye of the beholder, and how neit
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When You Talk to God, Plug the Microphone In
Why Lucas Hnath wants everyone in The Christians on a mic
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Want to Play Hamlet? Write Him For Yourself.
Michael Laurence’s new play features Shakespeare’s tortured prince —