TDF Stages Archive
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WATCH: Meet NAATCO
Meet NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company), which expands our understanding of the Asian-American story. This video features NAATCO founder Mia Katigbak, actors Cindy Cheung and Jennifer Ikeda, and playwrights Lloyd Suh and Jorge Ignacio Cortinas.
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Meet the Symbolically Powerful Eunuchs
Behind the most unusual characters in Broadway’s The Visit
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Dressing the Kids in The King and I
Notes from the costume designer and wardrobe supervisor — Any parent – and anyone who has been parented in their lives – knows that keeping kids’ clothes off the floor and free from stains is a full-time job. Now picture more than a dozen children, each changing their (rather expensive) outfits every half hour for […]
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The Future Is Now (Onstage)
How writer-director Aya Ogawa brings video game technology to the theatre — At first glance, theatre and video games appear to represent polar opposite forms of entertainment. One is an irreproducible live event shared by many; the other a simulation of an experience directed entirely by its participants. Aya Ogawa’s new play sets out not […]
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Everyone’s Talking, So We Might as Well Listen
Lisa D’Amour on the torrent of words in her play Airline Highway — There are so many words tumbling around in Airline Highway, so many sly asides and sassy jokes delivered under the breath, that it might seem the conversation in the play is just happening, as though playwright Lisa D’Amour told her actors to […]
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Gideon Irving Will Perform In Your Living Room
In Living Here, this boundary-pushing solo artist performs not in a theatre, but in someone’s living room — It’s not every day that you get to perform for a chicken. But that’s just what happened to Gideon Irving during a recent performance of his one-man show Living Here: A Map of Songs. The venue was […]
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WATCH: What Is Blocking? A Claque? A Stage Door?
We’ve got three new videos in our Theatre Dictionary ! (You can browse all our videos right here. )
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What Does It Take to Dance for Mark Morris?
Susan Reiter covers dance for TDF Stages.
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How Is This Musical Comedy Like Breaking Bad?
The surprisingly deep themes of Something Rotten! — On first glance – or maybe even fifth – Something Rotten! doesn’t seem anything like Breaking Bad. After all, the former is a raucous musical comedy about Elizabethan playwrights who actually invent musical theatre while trying to compete with Shakespeare, and the latter is an era-defining television series […]