TDF Stages Archive
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Working Girls
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Laugh Like a Queen
By MARK BLANKENSHIP It's hard to imagine it now, especially given the kind of acclaim they've received, but early in Mary Stuart 's Broadway run, stars Harriet Walter and Janet McTeer thought the audience was against them. The actresses first tackled Friedrich Schiller's classic 19th-century drama—which stages the rivalry between royal cousins Elizabeth I (Walter) […]
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Lucky Breaks
By Eric Grode "They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." – Pozzo, "Waiting for Godot" The wall of John Glover's dressing room at Studio 54, where he is currently playing the haggard but oddly endearing Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot , features two […]
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Blithe Balancing Act
By MARK BLANKENSHIP Noel Coward insisted that Blithe Spirit , currently playing at Broadway's Shubert Theater, had no soul. The classic 1941 farce, written in a mere six days, revels in its own mechanics, calling as much attention to the plot as to the characters who keep the plot moving. That may be for the […]
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The Write Stuff
By Andy Buck Since 1996, the Theatre Development Fund has sponsored an intensive, yearlong playwriting program called the Residency Arts Project (RAP) , which matches professional playwrights with teachers and students from New York City high schools. The students learn how to write original scenes and plays, some of which are selected for public staged […]
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Harvesting a Fertile Playground
By Isaac Butler It was random happenstance that paired David Adjmi-now making his New York debut at LCT3-with acclaimed director Anne Kauffman. "David and I met in the late nineties," the director writes via e-mail, "He found my resume on some website and contacted me. And then we didn't see each other again until Thugs […]
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Questioning Faith
by Mark Blankenship
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Opening Doors & Minds
by Mark Blankenship On May 27, the crowd gathered at Manhattan's Professional Performing Arts School was both incredibly diverse and entirely the same. It was easy to spot a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright toasting sodas with a high school senior, or a Tony Award-winning director running to hug a drama teacher in the school's auditorium. Though […]
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T Time for Orin Wolf
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