TDF Stages Archive
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Dressing “Rebecca,” Part 1
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
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Learning to Act in Horton Foote’s Plays
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
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On The Fringe, All Alone
By LINDA BUCHWALD
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Is “The Flower Thief” a “Black Play?”
By MARK PEIKERT
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A Kitten Takes the Stage
What does it take to turn a kitten into a swashbuckling hero? Just ask the team behind Skippyjon Jones , the latest family musical from TheaterWorksUSA. A free show presented at the Lucille Lortel through August 17, it’s another example of how TheaterWorks transforms children’s books into song and dance spectaculars.
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What Does a Prisoner Think of “Richard III?”
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
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Dance Is Not Forever, and He’ll Prove it
By EMERI FETZER
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Cutting Fosse from the Prostitute Musical
Like the show, Anna (Margaret Loesser Robinson) is a mass of contradictions: angelic and earthbound, sullied and innocent. Those qualities especially shine in “On the Farm,” during which she recounts her upbringing with abusive relatives in the country. “Anna tries her best to reassure her dad—whom she’s just met for the first time in 15 years—that he did the right thing by sending her away,”
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Personal Hardships Become Political Drama
By SUZANNE SATALINE Who owns a politician? The voters? The donors? What about friends from the past or the image-conscious handlers who massage away problems? Those questions fester in Kenneth Lin’s Warrior Class , pressing the audience to decide if we’re complicit in corrupting our politicians. Running through August 11 in Second Stage’s Uptown series, the play follows the blossoming political ca