TDF Stages Archive

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 […]

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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How Robert Creighton brings the film legend to the stage

The past, present, and future of Antonio and Kirven Douthit-Boyd

Shakespearean actor Simon Callow steps into high heels for the latest Brits Off Broadway fest

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 […]

Wendy Whelan pushes her own boundaries — The dance world knows Wendy Whelan as a dazzling principal for New York City Ballet. For three decades, she has been celebrated for her classical performances, which showcase her expert lines and committed control. She’s also been lauded for her consistent ability to reinvent herself, so when she […]

The Other Thing is never the play you expect — It seems so innocent at first. Just three folks outside a barn in rural Virginia. Over in the folding chairs, Kim, a reporter, interviews Carl about his work as a professional ghost hunter, and in the background, Carl’s son Brady sets up equipment to test […]