TDF Stages Archive

Geek Out Freak Out Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out , where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Stages editor Mark Blankenship geeks out (via Google Doc) with Catherine Sheehy, chair of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama and Resident Dramaturg at Yale Repertory Theatre. Mark Blankenship: Hi Catherine! As […]

By MARK BLANKENSHIP You're closer than you realize to co-starring in an Off-Broadway play. Just buy a ticket to Every Brilliant Thing , now at the Barrow Street Theatre, and you could easily land a significant role. That's because the show relies on audience participation, and in a meatier, more dramatic way than you'll find […]

Building Character Welcome to Building Character , our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles Nick Bright, the American investment banker who's kidnapped and held for ransom in Ayad Akhtar's The Invisible Hand , certainly evokes some sympathy. In the play, which is now at New York Theatre Workshop, he has to […]

Songwriters By ELIZA BENT In the case of the new musical War Lesbian , the title came first. Once that evocative name was in place, playwright and performer Kristine Haruna Lee, who wrote the show with composer Kathryn Hathaway, began researching female driven, queer-centered myths. "Myths are always a really big part of my creative […]

Inside Joseph Silovsky’s gadget theatre

Building Character Performers Broadway Welcome to Building Character , our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles Make no mistake: the new Broadway musical Honeymoon in Vegas is supposed to be a lark. Based on the 1992 film, it’s a fizzy romance about Jack Singer, a guy who won’t propose to his […]

Designers How TDF's Costume Collection works with out-of-state designers — Earlier this year, designer Joe Kucharski had to costume a production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in a hurry. "I was to just show up for a week, do fittings, immediately go into tech, and leave," he recalls, and since the show was being produced at […]

Songwriters The Rockettes may be synonymous with the holiday season, but the high-kicking dancers stay busy throughout the year. "I start training for Christmas probably about two or three weeks after we close the [previous year's Christmas] show," says seventh-year Rockette Mary Cavett. "You get yourself back in dance class; you maintain and take care […]

At Keen Company, sincerity is a rebellious stance.