TDF Stages Archive
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The Play’s Moving Fast — Hold on Tight
How Marin Ireland keeps the pace in Kill Floor
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When Is Ballet Like a Photograph?
Integrating a wide variety of art forms in a collaborative process, the troupe is helping erase notions of ballet as old-fashioned or uptight. Take its latest premieres: Invisible Divide , a full company piece set to songs by music director Ellis Ludwig-Leone and inspired by the photographs of Paul Maffi, and an as-yet-unnamed second ballet, which echoes the photographs of Dafy Hagai with music by
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Scarred Inside and Out
How amazing prosthetics reflect a soldier’s internal anguish
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Is Everyone Capable of Evil?
Axis Company’s The Vast Machine examines the merchants behind the slave trade — A few months ago, actor Julian Rozzell was browsing a casting website when he noticed a call for a new play at Axis Company called The Vast Machine set aboard a 19th-century slave ship. Of the five characters, one was black — but he was a doctor, not a slave. Intrigued, Rozzell contracted the theatre, a first for hi
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Taking it from the Streets
Why designer Doss Freel used trash to create his latest set
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They’re Haunting a Theatre, With Help from Basil Twist
In his new show, Basil Twist revives the Lewisohn sisters —
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In Broadway’s ‘On Your Feet,’ She’s Much More Than a Mom
Andréa Burns plays a multifaceted woman who just happens to be Gloria Estefan’s mother
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Why Is Prince Harry Speaking in Verse?
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A Major Dancer-Choreographer That New Yorkers Barely Know
Gotham finally gets a full performance from Aakash Odedra