TDF Stages Archive

What is it about the idea of a perfect community that’s so alluring? And is the attempt to make art all that different from the quest to create a utopia? Members of the theatre ensemble Piehole found themselves wrestling with these questions as they developed Old Paper Houses, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and running through […]

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By DIEP TRAN Playwright Chiara Atik does not like watching sex. On stage at least. “I always get uncomfortable and immediately start thinking, ‘Oh I wonder if the actor’s mom is here,’” she says. “It takes me out of the moment.” Knowing that, it’s ironic that her play Five Times in One Night  is entirely about the beast […]

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Welcome to Meet the Theatre, our film series about interesting theatre companies in New York City! Today we’re featuring Lesser America , which celebrates the USA’s cultural underbelly. This video features Lesser America’s co-founders — Laura Ramadei, Nate Miller, and Daniel Abeles.

Actors are often told to make a character “their own.” But what exactly does that mean? And how do actors put themselves into a role when they’re playing someone who’s almost twice their age? For the 40-year-old performer Elizabeth Dement, who stars as an 80-year-old retiree in Christina Masciotti’s Social Security, at the Bushwick Starr […]

Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles When Mary Louise Wilson urges the audience to “Repent, repent, repent!” in Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of the screwball musical comedy On the Twentieth Century, everyone bursts out laughing. That’s because her character, a seemingly sweet little old heiress, Letitia […]

By LAUREN KAY Modern dance icon Merce Cunningham was an innovator not only in angular shapes etched in otherwise flowing movement, but also in choreographic structure: Among other variables, he used chance to determine which sections of choreography were to be performed—and in what order— creating what was called an Event. As Cunningham’s right-hand man […]

Some demons are imaginary and some of them are real, and during a climactic moment in Little Children Dream of God, they all engulf the stage. Jeff Augustin’s play, now in Roundabout’s Underground series, follows a Haitian immigrant named Sula, who has floated to Miami on a car tire in search of a better life. […]