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Songwriters When time and music work differently on stage, pay attention. That may be the key to understanding an entire show. At least, that's how it feels with Long Story Short , a musical that condenses 50 years of a couple's relationship into 90 minutes. In the opening scene, a young woman named Hope is […]

Directors By MARK BLANKENSHIP The first time he read Fashions For Men Davis McCallum wasn't quite sure what to make of it. "It's unlike any other play I've done, and I've been doing plays for 20 years," he says. "That's part of why I wanted to direct it." Written by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár in […]

What is it about the idea of a perfect community that's so alluring? And is the attempt to make art all that different from the quest to create a utopia? Members of the theatre ensemble Piehole found themselves wrestling with these questions as they developed Old Paper Houses , directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and running […]

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Playwrights Directors By DIEP TRAN Playwright Chiara Atik does not like watching sex. On stage at least. "I always get uncomfortable and immediately start thinking, 'Oh I wonder if the actor's mom is here,'" she says. "It takes me out of the moment." Knowing that, it's ironic that her play Five Times in One Night […]

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Welcome to Meet the Theatre, our film series about interesting theatre companies in New York City! Today we’re featuring Lesser America , which celebrates the USA’s cultural underbelly. This video features Lesser America’s co-founders — Laura Ramadei, Nate Miller, and Daniel Abeles.

Performers Actors are often told to make a character "their own." But what exactly does that mean? And how do actors put themselves into a role when they're playing someone who's almost twice their age? For the 40-year-old performer Elizabeth Dement, who stars as an 80-year-old retiree in Christina Masciotti's Social Security , at the […]

Building Character Performers Broadway Songwriters Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles When Mary Louise Wilson urges the audience to "Repent, repent, repent!" in Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of the screwball musical comedy On the Twentieth Century , everyone bursts out laughing. That's because her character, a […]