TDF Stages Archive
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Is Everyone Capable of Evil?
Axis Company’s The Vast Machine examines the merchants behind the slave trade — A few months ago, actor Julian Rozzell was browsing a casting website when he noticed a call for a new play at Axis Company called The Vast Machine set aboard a 19th-century slave ship. Of the five characters, one was black — but he was a doctor, not a slave. Intrigued, Rozzell contracted the theatre, a first for hi
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Taking it from the Streets
Why designer Doss Freel used trash to create his latest set
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They’re Haunting a Theatre, With Help from Basil Twist
In his new show, Basil Twist revives the Lewisohn sisters —
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In Broadway’s ‘On Your Feet,’ She’s Much More Than a Mom
Andréa Burns plays a multifaceted woman who just happens to be Gloria Estefan’s mother
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Why Is Prince Harry Speaking in Verse?
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A Major Dancer-Choreographer That New Yorkers Barely Know
Gotham finally gets a full performance from Aakash Odedra
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Bond on Broadway? I’m Stirred, Not Shaken
Why 007 would make an amazing musical
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An Alcoholism Musical, With Darkness and Hope
Cynthia Hopkins looks at the many sides of addiction —
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Cinderella: Erotic and Universal
What if you took everything in our culture that was indebted to Cinderella and put it on a single stage? Just think of all the songs, ballets, fancy shoes, and enchanted mice you’d have to account for. In one sense, you’d be confronted with aesthetic chaos, but in another, you’d experience a carnival of genres that cohered into a familiar story.