TDF Stages Archive
An online theatre magazine
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The “Boy” Is Back After 65 Years
By MARK PEIKERT
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Assassinated Kings Aren’t Always Funny
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
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Teddy Roosevelt and Elvis Fight Over America’s Soul
Sometimes the unused scraps of one show become the starting point of another. For the award winning, Brooklyn-based ensemble the TEAM, that’s exactly what happened with RoosevElvis , now playing at The Bushwick Starr through Nov. 3. RoosevElvis (pronounced “Rose-of-Elvis”) takes on two titans of American history, Teddy Roosevelt and Elvis Presley, and emerged from the research and rehearsal proces
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Making a Character in Two Seconds or Less
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
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Chase Brock Makes a River Dance
By LINDA BUCHWALD
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Judy Kuhn Moves Into “Fun Home”
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
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Stable Girl
Broadway One of the first things actors do when they get a script, after taking note of all the dialogue and stage directions meant for their character, is to find all the things that other characters say about them. For Anna Camp, who plays English stable girl Jill Mason in the current Broadway revival of […]
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Commedia Dell’Arte: TDF Theatre Dictionary
Ever see a show with lunatic clowning, intrigue and deception, mistaken identity, cartoon-like characters, and a dollop of acrobatics? Was the style coarse, full of slapstick, with lots of improvisation and audience interaction?
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Reunited (And It Doesn’t Always Feel So Good)
By MARK BLANKENSHIP