TDF Stages Archive

For grown-ups, the scariest thing about Halloween is the cost of renting costumes (not to mention the dry-cleaning fee). TDF members need not share this anxiety. For the third year in a row, the TDF Costume Collection will open its doors to TDF members and allow them almost entirely free rein of the Collection, offering […]

“I look at people when they don’t know I’m watching,” says Paul Taylor, sounding more like a documentarian or a private detective than like the nation’s preeminent living choreographer. In fact, though, an observational stance has always been Taylor’s trademark. “I like to see people’s gestures,” he elaborates. “A lot of those gestural things that […]

Everything Sarah Aziz does these days seems to revolve around interpretation: As a coordinator with Theatre Development Fund’s Accessibility Solutions, she finds and contracts sign-language interpreters and caption writers for special performances tailored to deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences; reviews applications for TAP Plus Accessibility grants, which assist productions in mounting such special performances; and puts […]

After a series of thankless roles, the big black lady wanted to stop the show. “I had just had a conversation with my agent, telling him, ‘I’m a little disillusioned with theatre, and I’m not interested in the black mama roles,’ ” says Capathia Jenkins. “You know, where they would say, ‘We need someone to […]

Ticket buyers who’ve stood in line at the TKTS Discount Booth may do a double take when they sit down to watch Law and Order: Special Victims Unit on Feb. 13. They may recognize the actor playing Lucio, a mobster’s son under investigation by detectives played by Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay, because it’s John […]

It’s the great idea that won’t die—or won’t quit, at least. Don’t Quit Your Night Job, the late-night musical sketch show that’s like a live-theatre version of Saturday Night Live with Broadway talent, returns for a special show at the Zipper Theatre  March 17 11:30PM (ticket info here). The popular ongoing series of late-night shows […]

For many comedians, laughter is a drug so grafitying and addictive that they’ll do almost anything to keep feeling it. But for standup comic Judy Gold–whose one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother is in a long run at the Theatre at St. Luke’s–a sense of connection with an intent audience can be just […]

“People are a bit desperate in my plays–maybe more desperate than we’re used to seeing people be in plays,” admits Theresa Rebeck, whose current play at the Second Stage, The Scene, traces the steep descent of Charlie, a self-destructive, chronically unemployed actor. “I go to other plays and think, Where’s the desperation?” Rebeck is only […]

Allegedly during the 1970s in France there was a movie critic who never actually saw the films he reviewed. He waited until all his colleagues had written their reviews. Knowing their personalities, their tastes, and-this being France in the ’70s-their theories, he wrote a review based on what those who had seen it had said […]