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Which Performance Would You Go Back in Time to See?
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 Allison Taylor, TDF's very own Manager of Individual Giving and Events . Today’s Topic: Which performance would you go back in time to see? — Mark […]
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“If/Then” Star LaChanze As Theatre Gateway Drug
Broadway Welcome to Fanmail, our tributes to theatre artists we admire — As a small white boy from Honolulu, I always had difficulty explaining my obsession with The Color Purple . I suppose it started with Alice Walker’s graceful writing in the book, and intensified when I watched Whoopi Goldberg’s and Oprah Winfrey’s powerful performances in […]
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She’s Standing Next to Herself
by Raven Snook — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles Crafting a character is always a collaborative process, with the performer, playwright, director, and designers all informing how a person moves from the page to the stage. But in Naomi Wallace’s intimate drama And I and […]
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When Do You Stop Seeing the Barbed Wire?
Designers It’s always there, stretched across the stage. For the entire 70 minutes of The Good and the True, a play based on the recollections of Holocaust survivors Hana Pravda and Milos Dobry, barbed wire hangs between us and the actors. Even after the characters survive Auschwitz and death marches, the wire is there. Even […]
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Get Your Hands on a Broadway Legend’s Shirt
When TDF’s Costume Collection has a bag sale, customers can dress like Broadway stars. Literally. All year round, the Collection rents professional costumes at a reasonable price to non-profit theatres, colleges, high schools, and other arts programs across the country. However, even though its massive space at Kaufman Astoria Film Studios holds over 80,000 items, it still […]
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WATCH: Meet New Jersey Repertory Company
At New Jersey Rep, new plays are a calling.
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Which Movies Should Become the Next Broadway Musicals?
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 Greg Reiner, Executive Director of Classic Stage Company . Today’s Topic: Which movies should become the next Broadway musicals? — Mark Blankenship: Hi Greg! I'm so […]
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Beauty Queens (With a Sweet Little Secret)
Songwriters Performers Though the Off-Broadway musical comedy Pageant could be described as a beauty contest with drag queens, you should banish all images of RuPaul's Drag Race from your mind. While it's true that the show's six sparkly contestants, all vying for the coveted title of Miss Glamouresse, are played by men in women's clothing, […]
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These Tragic Puppets Are Hilarious
Performers Designers Drunk Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, the Accidental Shakespeare Company: the Bard's plays are constantly being reinterpreted in unusual ways. Even in this offbeat company, however, the Puppet Shakespeare Players stand out. In Puppet Titus Andronicus, now at the Beckett Theatre, one of Shakespeare's most notoriously bloody tragedies is reimagined by kooky […]