Thursday, June 27, 2013
Cast members from stage shows about reality TV weigh in on the guilty pleasures that have filled their down time between jobs.
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A Kid Like Jake tackles the anxiety of New York parenting — Kids say and do the darnedest things. Which is fine unless those kids are being judged on an absurdly rigorous basis and in …
SOURCE: TDF at 07:29AMThursday, May 30, 2013
Jenny Schwartz writes and rewrites by making unusually heavy use of theater workshops, and “Somewhere Fun” is only her second play from the last decade.
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Good Television scours the ethics of reality TV — Call it a case of biting the hand that feeds his wife. “My wife works in reality television,” says the longtime actor and …
SOURCE: TDF at 11:26AMThursday, May 23, 2013
Hamish Linklater and Jesse Tyler Ferguson take on two roles each in “The Comedy of Errors” at the Delacorte Theater.
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A chat with Wrenn Schmidt, who will play the young muse Hilde in a production of Ibsen’s “Master Builder” at the Harvey Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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How Colm Tóibín wrote Broadway’s The Testament of Mary The Master, perhaps Colm Tóibín’s best-known novel, looked at a rare artistic misstep in the life of Henry James—…
SOURCE: TDF at 04:14PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
In a drag-heavy Broadway musical, Stark Sands brings the straight man (ahem) to life — Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create …
SOURCE: TDF at 04:22PMThursday, March 14, 2013
Trey Anastasio of the band Phish prepares for the opening of his Broadway musical, “Hands on a Hardbody.”
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Nellie McKay adds zip to Bill Irwin’s “Old Hats” Nellie McKay’s limbs might not be as nimble as those of Bill Irwin and David Shiner. (Whose are?) But her ukulele-str…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:10PMThursday, February 28, 2013
Seth Rudetsky, whom Audra McDonald calls “the mayor of Broadway,” will spend the next month putting on multiple shows a day.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
A writer takes Broadway and Off Broadway at the same time After more than 30 years of West Coast sun and valet parking, playwright Lyle Kessler would be forgiven for slowly re-enterin…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:27AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
James DeVita charts his career during “In Acting Shakespeare” at the Pearl Theater, a play adapted from Ian McKellen’s “Acting Shakespeare.”
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In “2 Dimensional Life of Her” the Australian performance artist Fleur Elise Noble has brought puppets (without visible handlers) to the Under the Radar Festival.
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“Hollow Roots,” Christina Anderson’s play starring April Matthis, attempts to stoke a postracial discussion.
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Laurie Metcalf is back on Broadway with a familiar show, “The Other Place” (she did it off Broadway); a familiar director (Joe Mantello); and a familiar co-star (her daughter, Zoe Perry).
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Inside this year’s festival of cutting-edge theatre How do you prefer your cutting-edge theatre? As a 30-minute Hamlet adaptation in Farsi? As an 11-hour exploration of an ordinary lif…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:24PMMonday, December 10, 2012
Bartlett Sher’s vision for his Broadway revival When Bartlett Sher first floated the idea of directing Golden Boy for Lincoln Center Theatre, he proposed doing it in repertory with Ham…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:23PMThursday, November 29, 2012
In “Trojan Women (After Euripides)” the pathos have been dialed back, with emotional clarity being emphasized more than cathartic tumult.
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The playwright on his new show “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike“ Baseball fans with extra-disposable incomes are familiar with the idea of fantasy camp. A big paycheck earns …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:07PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
How Cusi Cram created her nuclear play “Radiance” The pair of watering holes in Cusi Cram’s new play Radiance will look familiar to fans of Labyrinth Theater Company. These…
SOURCE: TDF at 03:42PMWednesday, October 31, 2012
Samuel Hunter tackles “The Whale” Samuel D. Hunter is well aware of how audiences will react to the first image in his new play The Whale: As soon as the show begins, we see a 60…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:15AMSunday, October 28, 2012
At the heart of “Dispatches From (A)mended America” are interviews with Southerners on the eve of the Obama era.
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Playwrights labor long and hard over the first words we hear; here they share how and why they begin the way they do.
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How Tolstoy’s novel became a kicky new musical Say you’re faced with a literary tome and an itch to put it on stage. Do you find a way to dramatize every word? After all, that…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:15PMThursday, October 11, 2012
A production featuring refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo is part of the Undesirable Elements series at LaMaMa in which nonactors from marginalized groups tell their stories.
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Theater notables who saw the 1962 production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” share their recollections, reservations and realizations.
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Director Dexter Bullard talks about bringing the heightened reality of “Grace” to Broadway Jesus and his followers have enjoyed a fair amount of time on Broadway of late. Still, …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:22PMWednesday, August 29, 2012
The inspirations for Lisa D’Amour’s comedy “Detroit” The phrase “There goes the neighborhood” could be said by (and applied to) all four of the main chara…
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