TDF Stages Archive

By MARK BLANKENSHIP This fall on Broadway, you can enjoy Doug Hughes’ production of The Royal Anna. No… that’s not right. He’s directing Oleanna’s Family. Wait. That’s wrong, too. Confusion is understandable, because Doug Hughes is the rare director with two Broadway plays opening at the same time. On October 8, Manhattan Theatre Club officially […]

By MARK BLANKENSHIP Quick: When you hear the phrase “Asian-American theatre,” what do you think?  If no single image comes to mind, that’s okay. The Asian-American theatre community has become so diverse, especially in New York, that it’s almost impossible to pin it down. That diversity will be on display in the second National Asian-American […]

BY MARK BLANKENSHIP There’s an avalanche of Korean-language musicals hitting Manhattan.  Well, relatively speaking. America’s been sending tuners to Korea for years—everything from Altar Boyz to The Lion King—but Korea rarely gets to return the favor. This week, however, New Yorkers can see not one but two musicals featuring Korean artists and songs. Playing October […]

By ISAAC BUTLER (NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: A funny thing happened on the way to writing this story. Shortly after I spoke with Lucy Thurber, I was hired to fill in as the sound designer on her production. Our interview was completed prior to any discussion about my work on the show) Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre […]

By Linda Buchwald What makes a good musical? For some, it’s a catchy score. For others, it’s a strong book. For Lily Hung, program director of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), it’s good bones.  “There are a lot of factors involved in what makes good bones,” says Hung. “Where are the characters right […]

By Isaac Butler Keith Huff proves the old saying that it takes years to become an overnight success. A longtime veteran of Chicago’s Off Loop theatre scene (with the accent to match), he has suddenly found his play A Steady Rainon Broadway. Opening on September 29, the two-man show stars Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, […]

By Melissa F. Moschitto This is not a Big Apple bus tour.  Of that, Melanie Joseph, Co-Artistic Producer of The Foundry Theatre, is emphatically sure.  The Provenance of Beauty is a play, on a bus, that departs from East Harlem and rides through the South Bronx.  The set is created by where the audience happens […]

By MARK BLANKENSHIP Colman Domingo can rest easy. No matter what New Yorkers think of his solo show A Boy and His Soul, now in previews at the Vineyard Theatre, he’s already faced his most important critics: His family. Their reaction was key, since Domingo, best known for his performance in Passing Strange, portrays over […]

By Linda Buchwald This fall is all about dance, with dance-driven television (Dancing With The Stars), movies (Fame), and Broadway shows (Fela! and Burn the Floor) to choose from. If that whets your appetite, then mark your calendars for these ten dance shows, listed in chronological order. 1) In-I(BAM Harvey Theatre) September 15-26 Academy Award-winning […]