TDF Stages Archive
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You Can March With Theatre History’s Greatest Women
If you’re planning to be in the Theatre District next Tuesday evening, June 9, don’t be surprised if you see Katharine Cornell, Mary Pickford, or Dorothy Parker sashay by. Those creative heroines and many more historic ladies will be portrayed by current artists and members of the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) in the […]
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Over 55 and Finally in the Spotlight
Sixteen performers, all over the age of 55, share the songs and stories of their generation
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New Hampshire Women and Arizona Wild Men
Two new Clubbed Thumb plays take their writers back home — Both Jaclyn Backhaus and Kate E. Ryan have written plays set in far-flung locales, from ancient Greece (Ryan’s Women of Trachis) to the inside of a whale (Backhaus’s Bull’s Hollow). Coincidentally, though, both of their new plays, premiering this month as part of Clubbed […]
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How Do You Feel About the Woman in the Walrus Mask?
The emotional logic of Rady & Bloom’s latest play — Given what we’ve learned about the characters in The Upper Room, it’s incredibly moving when one of them wears a walrus mask. It’s equally powerful when two of them stand on ladders and toss tiny pieces of tissue paper in the air, which flutter to […]
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WATCH: What Is a God Mic? What Is Subtext?
We’ve got two new videos in our Theatre Dictionary ! (You can browse all our videos right here. )
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Being James Cagney (Without Imitating Him)
How Robert Creighton brings the film legend to the stage
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Two Ailey Legends Say Goodbye
The past, present, and future of Antonio and Kirven Douthit-Boyd
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She’s Always a Woman in Me
Shakespearean actor Simon Callow steps into high heels for the latest Brits Off Broadway fest
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Female Pirates on an Actual Boat
Blood Red Roses revives swashbuckling legends — What’s the best way to spell “arrrgh?” When you’re producing a pirate show, that’s not an idle question. Just ask Drama of Works, the Brooklyn-based company behind Blood Red Roses: The Female Pirate Project. “Is there a ‘u’? An ‘e’?” asks performer Emily Hartford, sitting with her fellow […]