TDF Stages Archive
An online theatre magazine
Read about NYC’s best theatre and dance productions and watch video interviews with innovative artists
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A Dance Dedicated to the Lives of Black Girls
Camille A. Brown’s new work celebrates the entire scope of a black woman’s life
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It’s Your Job to Figure It Out
Why Richard Maxwell refuses to give audiences all — or any — answers
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Spring Awakening’s Deaf Actors Dance to Music They Can’t Hear
Broadway Choreographers Dance It's a moment that would be complicated in any musical: In the current Broadway revival of Spring Awakening , at the start of a song in the second act, a group of actors faces upstage, backs to the audience. They represent a forest of trees, and eventually they begin to sway in […]
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It’s Set in 2040, But It’s Not About the Future
Playwrights Why Max Posner's play Judy is really about the present day — Let's forget for a moment that Judy is set in the year 2040. First and foremost, the show, which is now at the New Ohio in a production from Page 73, is about three adult siblings who are learning to break their […]
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Your Broadway Preview: Fall 2015 Edition
NEW MUSICALS
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Attack of the Palindrome Monster
TDF members are offered discounted tickets to many shows like this one. Click here to see all the member tickets that are currently available.
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The German Octopus Speaks a Universal Language
Do we really need to understand the language in a play?
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You Can Participate in Modern Irish Drama
New Irish plays rely on firing our minds and imaginations
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When You Love a Show Everyone Hates
A biting comedy about a pretentious poet with a particular disdain for theatre (played with palpable venom by Ron Rifkin) who enters and wins a playwriting contest on a bet, Wrong Mountain examined the never-ending struggle between art and entertainment. Without giving any easy answers (or heck, any answers at all), the play explored how the two are defined in the eye of the beholder, and how neit