TDF Stages Archive
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She’s Standing Next to Herself
by Raven Snook — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles Crafting a character is always a collaborative process, with the performer, playwright, director, and designers all informing how a person moves from the page to the stage. But in Naomi Wallace’s intimate drama And I and […]
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When Do You Stop Seeing the Barbed Wire?
It’s always there, stretched across the stage. For the entire 70 minutes of The Good and the True, a play based on the recollections of Holocaust survivors Hana Pravda and Milos Dobry, barbed wire hangs between us and the actors. Even after the characters survive Auschwitz and death marches, the wire is there. Even when […]
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Get Your Hands on a Broadway Legend’s Shirt
When TDF’s Costume Collection has a bag sale, customers can dress like Broadway stars. Literally. All year round, the Collection rents professional costumes at a reasonable price to non-profit theatres, colleges, high schools, and other arts programs across the country. However, even though its massive space at Kaufman Astoria Film Studios holds over 80,000 items, it still […]
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WATCH: Meet New Jersey Repertory Company
At New Jersey Rep, new plays are a calling.
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Which Movies Should Become the Next Broadway Musicals?
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 Greg Reiner, Executive Director of Classic Stage Company. Today’s Topic: Which movies should become the next Broadway musicals? — Mark Blankenship: Hi Greg! I’m so glad you could join me for […]
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Beauty Queens (With a Sweet Little Secret)
Though the Off-Broadway musical comedy Pageant could be described as a beauty contest with drag queens, you should banish all images of RuPaul’s Drag Race from your mind. While it’s true that the show’s six sparkly contestants, all vying for the coveted title of Miss Glamouresse, are played by men in women’s clothing, they’re not […]
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These Tragic Puppets Are Hilarious
Drunk Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, the Accidental Shakespeare Company: the Bard’s plays are constantly being reinterpreted in unusual ways. Even in this offbeat company, however, the Puppet Shakespeare Players stand out. In Puppet Titus Andronicus, now at the Beckett Theatre, one of Shakespeare’s most notoriously bloody tragedies is reimagined by kooky felt creatures […]
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Who’s In Charge of the Giant Bubble?
For performance art junkies and thrill-seekers alike, Fuerza Bruta WAYRA offers a breathtaking array of multi-sensory spectacles not found in an ordinary theatre. From the high-flying performers to the epic, Argentinian-influenced music—not to mention the massive, two-sided climbing wall and the pool of water hovering above the audience’s heads—this operation begs the question: who on […]
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This Audience Laughs at the Strangest Things
Phoenixdoesn’t sound like the funniest play. The show, which is now at Cherry Lane Theatre, opens with a nurse named Sue (Julia Stiles) confronting a laid-back dude named James (James Wirt) just a few weeks after their one-night stand. Turns out she’s pregnant—whoops—and she’s not planning to keep the baby. And oh yeah, after this, […]