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Performers Building Character By ROB WEINERT-KENDT — Welcome to Building Character , our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles It's clearly been a very bad day. Amir (Hari Dhillon) doesn't so much enter his dusk-lit apartment as storm it, quickly loosening his tight corporate-lawyer tie and pouring himself a stiff drink. […]

Dance Off-Off Broadway In dance reputation terms, Manhattan has made its mark with stalwart institutions like American Ballet Theatre and Lincoln Center, as well as 1960s-bred, avant-garde downtown companies. Brooklyn's dancescape is known for Mark Morris, BAM, and even more experimental flavors. But do audiences ever think of—or even recognize—what could be called "Queens-style" dance? […]

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 Gchat) with Mark Peikert, executive editor of Backstage Today's Topic: Which performances from the Tony Awards do you watch the most on YouTube? — Mark Blankenship: Hey there […]

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By Eric Grode “I really had to decide as a playwright what I believe happened in that car.” Catherine Filloux is describing an actual 1963 Oldsmobile that drove down an actual Alabama road 49 years ago. And many things that happened in that car is preserved in FBI records, which Filloux read while writing her […]

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Broadway Designers By Mark Blankenship There could, of course, be a very literal production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time . As our teenage hero, Christopher Boone, investigates the death of a neighbor's dog, he could certainly inhabit a realistic world. As clues lead him on an improbable adventure from suburban […]

Broadway Songwriters Why the reprises in Broadway's On the Town are so important — During the new Broadway revival of On the Town , pay attention to the songs that come back. There are several of them in this classic 1944 musical, with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and […]