TDF Stages Archive
An online theatre magazine
Read about NYC’s best theatre and dance productions and watch video interviews with innovative artists
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Dancing the Bard
Welcome to Building Character , our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles
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The Unkown Hero of the Comic Book Universe
King Kirby celebrates a forgotten legend — Why do some artists become household names while others toil away in obscurity? That question’s at the heart of King Kirby, a bio-play by husband-and-wife writers Fred Van Lente and Crystal Skillman that dramatizes the life and career of prolific comic book illustrator Jack Kirby. If you’re furrowing […]
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Who’s Running This Crazy Circus?
The high-flying life of Pippin ‘s stage manager — Stage managers have been described as the air-traffic controllers of the stage. That’s especially true when the traffic is actually up in the air. Such is the case with the circus-infused revival of Pippin , which continues to pack audiences into the Music Box Theatre. Calling the shots backstage is Michael J. Passaro, who as production stage man
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Sing Like America (With Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein’s groundbreaking opera gets mixed with hip-hop, country, and jazz —
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This Musical Won’t Work if We Can’t Hear It
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Which Recent Musicals Do We Need to See Again?
Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out , where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things.
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WATCH: Meet Clubbed Thumb
This video features Stess, as well as Pam MacKinnon (a Tony Award-winning director and Clubbed Thumb board chair) and Maria Striar (Clubbed Thumb’s co-founder and producing artistic director.)
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Muslims, Shakespeare, and Marriage
— Ayad Akhtar got the idea for his new play in the back of a taxi cab. An advertisement for Kiss Me Kate , Cole Porter’s musical adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, flashed on the backseat TV screen, and it got him thinking.
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Three Writers, One Voice
How the Fly By Night team created their unusual new musical —-