TDF Stages Archive
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How Theatre for Young Audiences Is Maturing
Two new immersive shows at the Park Avenue Armory appeal to grown-ups as much as children
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Something Happened in That Car… But What?
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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The 400 Year-Old Tour
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Behind the lyrical design of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
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 […]
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Sing That Song Again! Please!
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 […]
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Three Different Films in One Big Dance
Susan Reiter covers dance for TDF Stages.
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An Actor Channels a Journalist to Play a Marine
“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 […]
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The Secret to Surviving a Terrible Family
Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles The ghost of Konstantin, the tortured young playwright whose diva mother withholds her love in Chekhov’s The Seagull, seems to haunt Donald Margulies’ The Country House, now on Broadway from Manhattan Theatre Club. In the new play, the broken artist […]
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She Tore Up the Theatre to Build a New World
by Suzy Evans Rachel Hauck drew the line at live chickens. Director Lisa Peterson wanted “at least three” birds to create the authenticity of a poultry factory, where South American immigrant women work in Lisa Ramirez’s play To the Bone. However, Hauck knew she could create that environment without a real animal in sight. “What […]