TDF Stages Archive
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Read about NYC’s best theatre and dance productions and watch video interviews with innovative artists
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Five Plays, One Cycle, and a Big Experiment
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Last Exit From Park Slope
Matthew Freeman wanted to create a satire of Park Slope, Brooklynites. Since these folks are his neighbors in real life, he knows them well and thought a roast would be fun to write. Esoteric experimental theater, artisanal cheese, how Barclay Center construction is affecting morning commutes—all topics were up for grabs, and all still appear in the final version of his play Why We Left Brooklyn .
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Bart Simpson and the Meaning of Life
A musical can be worthwhile just because it’s entertaining, but what if it’s also saving human culture? What if pop song medleys and dance numbers are also repositories for everything we know about ourselves? What do we make of them then?
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These Might Be Your Nightmares, Too
By RAVEN SNOOK
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The Ghosts Aren’t the Scariest Part
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
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You’re Stuck on a Boat? Sounds Like Drama?
What do H.M.S. Pinafore , Anything Goes , and Eugene O’Neill’s Thirst have in common? They are all set on boats. And now at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, The Boat in the Tiger Suit , written by Hank Willenbrink and directed by Jose Zayas, is joining the ranks of those nautical entertainments.
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How would Odets serve you dinner?
By LINDA BUCHWALD
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What Are Teenage Girls Really Facing?
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
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Shakespeare and the Fake Canadian
“I’m playing with the idea of translation in a really subjective way,” says Jessica Almasy. She’s discussing Le BalcÒn (The Balcony) , her new work that’s running at JACK in Clinton Hill through Aug 16. The show, which Almasy wrote and devised with JP Faienza, Teri Madonna and David Neal Levin, is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.