TDF Stages Archive

It’s not every day that a playwright starts her own theatre company and then wins a prestigious, game-changing grant. But such was the case for Sibyl Kempson, whose 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co. was founded before she was selected as a USA Rockefeller Fellow last year. “The company came before the grant,” says Kempson. “But it seemed cosmically connected.”

In our brand-new series, Behind the Scene, playwright Qui Nguyen shares the challenges of mounting his latest show, Six Rounds of Vengeance

Contemporary audiences sometimes expect classic dramas to be updated for modern times, but that’s not Red Bull Theater‘s approach. The 12-year-old company — whose primary mission is to stage Jacobean-era plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries  — is currently mounting a lively and faithful production of John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore at the Duke […]

In a new family musical, director Colman Domingo doesn’t sugarcoat slavery or racism — Although A Band of Angels is based on Deborah Hopkinson’s picture book of the same name and mounted by the New York City Children’s Theatre, the musical is far from child’s play. A tribute to the historic Fisk Jubilee Singers — […]

Inside the satire of Clinton the Musical — If you ask ten people their opinion of Bill Clinton, then you’re likely to get ten different answers. But that’s not a problem for Clinton The Musical, currently playing at New World Stages. In the musical comedy he wrote with his brother Michael, writer/composer Paul Hodge seeks […]

Why I was almost as excited about Josh Grisetti’s Broadway debut as he was — For any performer, making it to Broadway is usually a dream come true. But for Josh Grisetti, currently costarring in the campy musical comedy It Shoulda Been You, it was the end of a very long nightmare. Okay, fine, I’m […]

Blessed Unrest partners with a theatre from Kosovo — Theatre artists who want to be treated like rock stars should just head to Albania. At least that’s what Blessed Unrest artistic director Jessica Burr discovered when she toured her company’s show Doruntine through the Balkans in 2009. “People would stop us in the streets,” she […]

On May 1, TDF will host its annual Irene Sharaff Awards, which honor the best and brightest in theatrical costume design. This year’s honorees include the renowned Jess Goldstein, who will receive the Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. Recently, Ellen Lampert-Greaux interviewed Goldstein for an extensive profile in Live […]

Tom Hewitt plays a bad guy with a soft side in Doctor Zhivago — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles When Tom Hewitt admonishes the adolescent daughter of his paramour to “Pull your stockings up, Lara; it’s distracting,” you learn everything you need to know about […]