TDF Stages Archive

Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Stages editor Mark Blankenship geeks out (via Gchat) with Sarah D. Bunting, East Coast Editor at Previously.TV . Today’s Topic: Why do we want to see certain shows more than once? — Mark Blankenship: So Sarah… a few days ago, you made […]

This film features playwrights Michael Mitnick, Clare Barron, Cori Thomas, and Max Posner, as well as company leaders Liz Jones and Asher Richelli.

By KENNETH JONES There is nothing particularly warm, welcoming, or homey about the setting of Brett Neveu’s The Opponent, a two-character play about a young boxer sparring with an older trainer in backwater Louisiana’s Rock and Anvil Boxing Gym. The paint is peeling. The equipment is old. You can almost smell the mold and sweat. […]

BY ELIZA BENT Almost every play begins with a rush of inspiration, and ideally, that energy remains palpable for the rest of its life. Once it’s time to actually stage the show, however, creative impulses must contend with practical necessities. As counterintuitive as it might sound, playwrights often need to account for the smallest, concrete […]

But Atomic —a new rock musical by Danny Ginges, Gregory Bonsignore, and Philip Foxman that began performances yesterday at Theatre Row—wants to revive those frantic feelings. With a cracked sense of reality that includes gyrating lab technicians, rocking government officials, and even Robert Oppenheimer belting a vampy number to the commission putting him on trial, the show drops the creators

Now at Atlantic Stage 2, Romagnoli’s staging of Howard Barker’s play seethes with sexuality and menace. Cribbing wildly from Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, the script begins with Gertrude convincing Claudius to poison her husband (Hamlet’s father), and from there it follows her sexual and intellectual rampage through her kingdom. Will she continue sleeping with Claudius even after she beds Albert,

Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Stages contributor Jack Smart geeks out (via Google doc) with Nate Silver, Managing Director of Chicago’s Jackalope Theatre and assistant director of the upcoming Broadway production of Disgraced, which previously played at Lincoln Center. Today’s Topic: What are your favorite […]

Although the Peccadillo Theater Company’s new comedy Drop Dead Perfect sends up a wide range of American cultural touchstones—from The Glass Menagerie to I Love Lucy to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? —its greatest inspiration is arguably the high-camp, cross-dressing work of Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company. As with Ludlam classics like The Mystery of Irma Vep , Drop Dead Perfe

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