Monday, May 5, 2014
Inside the development of the ambitious new musical — It all starts so simply. In the first scene of If/Then, recently-divorced Elizabeth (Idina Menzel) meets her friends Kate (LaChanz…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Teaching Neil Patrick Harris to move like a punk goddess — You won’t see Neil Patrick Harris (pictured above) doing kick ball changes in the current Broadway production of Hedwig and…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMFriday, March 21, 2014
Two shows at Culture Project prod our definitions of “journalism” and “theatre” — When you first hear about them, the one-man shows The Junket and The Real Amer…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMTuesday, February 18, 2014
To revisit Irish history, Larry Kirwan fuses Celtic and Broadway sounds — Larry Kirwan has become a fusion artist. For one thing, he’s not only the lead singer of the political r…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:53PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Inside the magic of the Bronx Bombers set — When you see Bronx Bombers, the new play about the Yankees that’s currently on Broadway at Circle in the Square, pay attention to the …
SOURCE: TDF at 03:11PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
John Ellison Conlee plays multiple Watsons, including a machine Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series on actors and how they create their roles — This season, sever…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00PMWednesday, November 20, 2013
Inside the creation of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder — Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak like a challenge. That’s why they wanted to musicalize Israel Rank: The…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:28AMMonday, October 7, 2013
For Tamar of the River, the choreographer imagines how water should move — In the new musical Tamar of the River, now at Baruch Performing Arts Center in a production from Prospect T…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:52AMFriday, September 13, 2013
How Christian Camargo creates his role in Broadway’s Romeo and Juliet — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles Christi…
SOURCE: TDF at 03:15PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
NAATCO’s Awake and Sing! brings the audience close to the play — When you take your seat at the National Asian American Theater Company‘s (NAATCO) production of Clifford Od…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:30AMThursday, July 25, 2013
How Eric Anderson Becomes Shlomo Carlebach in “Soul Doctor” — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles To play…
SOURCE: TDF at 03:32PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Inside Sheik’s score for “Caucasian Chalk Circle” When he composes for the theatre, Duncan Sheik almost always works with a lyricist. Typically, though, the lyricist is sti…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:35PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Why Alan Cumming’s Co-Stars are Crucial to the Broadway Revival — The current Broadway revival of Macbeth is often called a one-man show, but that’s not entirely accurate. …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:08PMThursday, April 11, 2013
On Broadway, designer Tobin Ost isn’t a perfect Victorian — Tobin Ost is not interested in being Victorian. Or at least not slavishly so. He might be designing sets and costumes …
SOURCE: TDF at 08:00AMMonday, March 18, 2013
Now on Broadway, Cory Michael Smith stars in his third play of the season Many actors would be lucky to book one high-profile play in a season, but Cory Michael Smith is on his third. He is …
SOURCE: TDF at 02:02PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Paul Downs Colaizzo invites arguments at MCC Theater In Really Really, a wild party leads to a damaging rumor that tests the loyalties and friendships of a group of college friends. The even…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:23PMThursday, January 17, 2013
Inside the world of a professional child guardian This season, Broadway is practically a kiddie convention. There are currently eight Rialto shows featuring child actors, including Annie, Th…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:59AMFriday, December 21, 2012
The 1970s docu-musical gets updated for the 21st century Can a musical about jobs in the 1970s seem relevant today? Ask director Gordon Greenberg, who’s staging a new version of Workin…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:09PMMonday, November 19, 2012
How composers Pasek and Paul set the classic film to music As they were becoming rising stars of the musical theatre, composing team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were told that to learn about …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:48PMFriday, October 26, 2012
How beatboxers, actors, dancers, choreographers, and composers are collaborating on an ambitious new hip hop play — How do seven people collaborate on a play and end up with a cohesive…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:11AMMonday, September 24, 2012
How actors find a story in the Sondheim revue “Marry Me a Little” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing look at actors and how they create their roles W…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:26PMWednesday, August 22, 2012
Behind the parody costumes in Forbidden Broadway Jenny Lee Stern, in a beaded two-piece pantsuit and green scarf, channels Judy Garland while singing “You Made Me Love You.” Exce…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:43PMMonday, August 13, 2012
The World of Solo Shows at FringeNYC Solo shows are an excellent fit for the New York International Fringe Festival. They can be cheap and easy to produce—there’s only one cast m…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:36AMMonday, July 23, 2012
The seasoned theater actor spends his time as senior producer Jim Harper in HBO’s "The Newsroom."
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:11AMFriday, July 6, 2012
Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena find love in a spiky new musical At a crucial point in the new musical Dogfight, now at Second Stage Theatre, shy waitress Rose Fenny and Marine Eddie Birdlace…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:01AMFriday, June 29, 2012
Pourfar plays Sylvia in "Tribes," and for the part, she needed to speak with a British accent, plus learn American Sign Language and the piano.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:00AMTuesday, June 12, 2012
All 7 Harry Potter novels get staged in 70 minutes In paperback, the 7 Harry Potter novels have 4,167 pages, and those pages contain dozens of stories and hundreds of characters. But if you …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:15PMMonday, May 21, 2012
Gabriel Kahane creates musical languages for famous names in “February House” Composer Gabriel Kahane has spent most of his career in pop and opera, and he was never a fan of mus…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:31PMWednesday, April 4, 2012
The actor becomes Perón in Broadway’s “Evita” Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles Michael Cerveris has r…
SOURCE: TDF at 04:07PMMonday, February 27, 2012
The actor gets “Happy” in Broadway’s Death of a Salesman — Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages‘ ongoing series about actors and how they create their role…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:25AMMonday, January 9, 2012
Once again, Phillip Boykin stars in “Porgy and Bess” At the curtain call of a recent preview of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, actor Phillip Boykin gave a dainty curtsy. Th…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:36PM 
