TDF Stages Archive

Playwrights Sound changes everything in 10 Out of 12 — "I think of theatre ultimately as a sonic event, rather than a visual one." So says playwright Anne Washburn, who's certainly honoring that credo with her new show. Playing through July 18 at Soho Rep, 10 Out of 12 is about what we hear as […]

The secret structure of The Flick

Behind the Scene Performers If you're planning to be in the Theatre District next Tuesday evening, June 9, don't be surprised if you see Katharine Cornell, Mary Pickford, or Dorothy Parker sashay by. Those creative heroines and many more historic ladies will be portrayed by current artists and members of the League of Professional Theatre […]

Sixteen performers, all over the age of 55, share the songs and stories of their generation

Playwrights Two new Clubbed Thumb plays take their writers back home — Both Jaclyn Backhaus and Kate E. Ryan have written plays set in far-flung locales, from ancient Greece (Ryan's Women of Trachis ) to the inside of a whale (Backhaus's Bull's Hollow ). Coincidentally, though, both of their new plays, premiering this month as […]

Designers Directors Playwrights The emotional logic of Rady & Bloom's latest play — Given what we've learned about the characters in The Upper Room , it's incredibly moving when one of them wears a walrus mask. It's equally powerful when two of them stand on ladders and toss tiny pieces of tissue paper in the […]

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How Robert Creighton brings the film legend to the stage

The past, present, and future of Antonio and Kirven Douthit-Boyd