TDF Stages Archive
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Who’s In Charge of the Giant Bubble?
Off-Broadway For performance art junkies and thrill-seekers alike, Fuerza Bruta WAYRA offers a breathtaking array of multi-sensory spectacles not found in an ordinary theatre. From the high-flying performers to the epic, Argentinian-influenced music—not to mention the massive, two-sided climbing wall and the pool of water hovering above the audience's heads—this operation begs the question: who […]
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This Audience Laughs at the Strangest Things
Performers Phoenix doesn't sound like the funniest play. The show, which is now at Cherry Lane Theatre, opens with a nurse named Sue (Julia Stiles) confronting a laid-back dude named James (James Wirt) just a few weeks after their one-night stand. Turns out she's pregnant—whoops—and she's not planning to keep the baby. And oh yeah, […]
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Which Shows Will You See More Than Once?
Geek Out Freak Out Geek Out/Freak Out , where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Stages editor Mark Blankenship geeks out (via Gchat) with Sarah D. Bunting , East Coast Editor at Previously.TV . Today’s Topic: Why do we want to see certain shows more than once? — Mark Blankenship: So Sarah… […]
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WATCH: Meet Page 73 Productions
This film features playwrights Michael Mitnick, Clare Barron, Cori Thomas, and Max Posner, as well as company leaders Liz Jones and Asher Richelli.
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It’s Moldy and Sweaty, and It’s Just Like Home
Playwrights By KENNETH JONES There is nothing particularly warm, welcoming, or homey about the setting of Brett Neveu's The Opponent , a two-character play about a young boxer sparring with an older trainer in backwater Louisiana's Rock and Anvil Boxing Gym. The paint is peeling. The equipment is old. You can almost smell the mold […]
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The Tiniest Details Changed the “Sex”
Playwrights BY ELIZA BENT Almost every play begins with a rush of inspiration, and ideally, that energy remains palpable for the rest of its life. Once it's time to actually stage the show, however, creative impulses must contend with practical necessities. As counterintuitive as it might sound, playwrights often need to account for the smallest, […]
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Nuclear Bombs Totally Rock
But Atomic —a new rock musical by Danny Ginges, Gregory Bonsignore, and Philip Foxman that began performances yesterday at Theatre Row—wants to revive those frantic feelings. With a cracked sense of reality that includes gyrating lab technicians, rocking government officials, and even Robert Oppenheimer belting a vampy number to the commission putting him on trial, the show drops the creators
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Hamlet’s Mother Is a Sexy Beast
Now at Atlantic Stage 2, Romagnoli’s staging of Howard Barker’s play seethes with sexuality and menace. Cribbing wildly from Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, the script begins with Gertrude convincing Claudius to poison her husband (Hamlet’s father), and from there it follows her sexual and intellectual rampage through her kingdom. Will she continue sleeping with Claudius even after she beds Albert,
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What Are Your Favorite Guilty Pleasure Shows?
Geek Out Freak Out Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out , where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Stages contributor Jack Smart geeks out (via Google doc) with Nate Silver , Managing Director of Chicago's Jackalope Theatre and assistant director of the upcoming Broadway production of Disgraced , which previously played at Lincoln […]