TDF Stages Archive

Designers On May 1, TDF will host its annual Irene Sharaff Awards , which honor the best and brightest in theatrical costume design. This year's honorees include the renowned Jess Goldstein , who will receive the Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. Recently, Ellen Lampert-Greaux interviewed Goldstein for an extensive […]

Building Character Performers Broadway Songwriters Tom Hewitt plays a bad guy with a soft side in Doctor Zhivago — Welcome to Building Character , our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles When Tom Hewitt admonishes the adolescent daughter of his paramour to "Pull your stockings up, Lara; it's distracting," you learn […]

Meet NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company), which expands our understanding of the Asian-American story. This video features NAATCO founder Mia Katigbak, actors Cindy Cheung and Jennifer Ikeda, and playwrights Lloyd Suh and Jorge Ignacio Cortinas.

Behind the most unusual characters in Broadway’s The Visit

Designers Songwriters Notes from the costume designer and wardrobe supervisor — Any parent – and anyone who has been parented in their lives – knows that keeping kids' clothes off the floor and free from stains is a full-time job. Now picture more than a dozen children, each changing their (rather expensive) outfits every half […]

Designers Playwrights How writer-director Aya Ogawa brings video game technology to the theatre — At first glance, theatre and video games appear to represent polar opposite forms of entertainment. One is an irreproducible live event shared by many; the other a simulation of an experience directed entirely by its participants. Aya Ogawa's new play sets […]

Broadway Playwrights Lisa D'Amour on the torrent of words in her play Airline Highway — There are so many words tumbling around in Airline Highway , so many sly asides and sassy jokes delivered under the breath, that it might seem the conversation in the play is just happening , as though playwright Lisa D'Amour […]

Behind the Scene Performers Playwrights In Living Here , this boundary-pushing solo artist performs not in a theatre, but in someone's living room — It's not every day that you get to perform for a chicken. But that's just what happened to Gideon Irving during a recent performance of his one-man show Living Here: A […]

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