TDF Stages Archive

Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Stages editor Mark Blankenship geeks out (via Gchat) with Mark Peikert, executive editor of Backstage Today’s Topic: Which performances from the Tony Awards do you watch the most on YouTube? — Mark Blankenship: Hey there Mark! I’m glad you could […]

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By Eric Grode “I really had to decide as a playwright what I believe happened in that car.” Catherine Filloux is describing an actual 1963 Oldsmobile that drove down an actual Alabama road 49 years ago. And many things that happened in that car is preserved in FBI records, which Filloux read while writing her […]

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By Mark Blankenship There could, of course, be a very literal production of  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. As our teenage hero, Christopher Boone, investigates the death of a neighbor’s dog, he could certainly inhabit a realistic world. As clues lead him on an improbable adventure from suburban England to the […]

Why the reprises in Broadway’s On the Town are so important — During the new Broadway revival of On the Town, pay attention to the songs that come back. There are several of them in this classic 1944 musical, with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. As […]

Susan Reiter covers dance for TDF Stages.

“I wanted to become a journalist before I became an actor,” says Jonny Orsini. “I think I approach roles the way a journalist approaches stories.” That means he does a serious amount of research for every part he plays. Take his work in Almost Home, a new drama by Walter Anderson that’s now at Theatre […]