TDF Stages Archive

Susan Reiter covers dance for TDF Stages.

Songwriters Playwrights The surprisingly deep themes of Something Rotten! — On first glance – or maybe even fifth – Something Rotten! doesn't seem anything like Breaking Bad . After all, the former is a raucous musical comedy about Elizabethan playwrights who actually invent musical theatre while trying to compete with Shakespeare, and the latter is an […]

Broadway Directors How the renowned director brings laughs to Living on Love — "All good screwball comedy depends on a level of danger." So says Kathleen Marshall, and she should know. She directed hellzapoppin Broadway shows like Nice Work If You Can Get It , Anything Goes , and Wonderful Town , which were all […]

Broadway Playwrights Seeing the revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play reminded me of how much it influenced my life — I'm always a bit anxious when I go to a Broadway revival of a show that I loved in its original incarnation. First off, it makes me feel old (or, more accurately, middle-aged—I suspect […]

Dance Off-Off Broadway In a new home, Triskelion Arts helps keep scrappy dance alive — In 2000, five young dancers rented a loft on a mostly-deserted street in a still-questionable Brooklyn neighborhood called Williamsburg. They toiled to make Triskelion Arts , the new space, a home not only for their own choreographic endeavors, but also […]

Broadway Designers Inside the new design of Broadway's Fun Home — When the floor starts collapsing, we barely notice. It's only afterward, when all the trap doors have silently slid open, that we realize this family's house has become a gaping maw. One foot wrong, and someone could disappear into darkness. In that moment, the […]

Broadway Choreographers Dance Songwriters Inside the killer choreography of An American in Paris — While the dance world at large continues to wage an uphill battle (see: the closing of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet), Broadway is enjoying a surge of dance-heavy shows. The charge is led by three musicals currently on the boards. Gigi and […]

The student matinees are, it turns out, the highlights of my life. I can’t begin to describe how it feels.

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