TDF Stages Archive

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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Susan Reiter covers dance for TDF Stages.

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 […]

How the renowned director brings laughs to Living on Love — “All good screwball comedy depends on a level of danger.” So says Kathleen Marshall, and she should know. She directed hellzapoppin Broadway shows like Nice Work If You Can Get It, Anything Goes, and Wonderful Town, which were all distinguished by their zany charm. […]

Seeing the revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play reminded me of how much it influenced my life — I’m always a bit anxious when I go to a Broadway revival of a show that I loved in its original incarnation. First off, it makes me feel old (or, more accurately, middle-aged—I suspect I’ll be […]