TDF Stages Archive

These are serious times we live in, and as if to reflect that, Broadway is bringing some serious talent to the boards this winter to star in more plays at once than we’ve seen on the Rialto for many a season. (A bonus: Only a few are from Great Britain!) Kicking off this auspicious play […]

Speaking in a hesitant voice tinged by a slight Oklahoma twang, Paul Sparks still sounds baffled that he’s making his Broadway debut in a classic. “I’m not sure exactly what’s happened,” says Sparks, best known for his work in downtown playwright Adam Rapp’s gritty contemporary comedy/dramas ( Finer Noble Gases , Essential Self-Defense , American […]

Broadway Hibernating is for bears, not theatregoers! As the winter chill descends over New York, great ticket deals for Broadway and Off-Broadway shows at New York City’s two TKTS Discount Booths are going quickly to the most warmly dressed. TDF operates two TKTS Discount Booths in New York City 1. The Times Square Booth sells […]

Choreographer David Parsons doesn’t have a problem with the word “populist”—and that not’s just because, as he explains, his father happens to be noted historian Stanley B. Parsons, who wrote a seminal book about American politics called The Populist Context . “I’m like the only guy doing this who doesn’t mind saying, ‘I want people […]

As a costume designer for the Broadway stage and the opera, Carrie Robbins is used to her job not being done on opening night. Sure, the lion’s share of her work is complete, but a play is a living thing—costumes wear and tear, and understudies and replacement come and go. But who knew that her […]

Actor/director Ciaran O’Reilly owes playwright Brian Friel a lot, it turns out. The producing director of New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre, O’Reilly is among the cast of a new revival of Friel’s 1979 drama Aristocrats (opening at Irish Rep on Jan. 25). And as he thinks back over the many Friel plays he’s either acted […]

Every winter we read about the crowds hopping from screening room to screening room at the Sundance Theatre Festival, and in spring we hear reports back from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. If we’re really attuned to the grapevine, we may hear about the Aspen Comedy Festival, the Avignon Theatre Festival, and so on. And while […]

On Dec. 28, at a performance of The Color Purple at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, audiences will be able to read along with the lyrics and the dialogue, thanks to open captioning provided by the New York-based company C2. That may not sound revolutionary, but it could prove to be part of the beginning of a […]

Michael Cerveris is a man of many talents, but his greatest one might be juggling-not literally, of course, but in the sense of keeping a lot of gigs in the air, almost always at the same time. Last year, he was starring in the Kurt Weill bio-musical LoveMusik on Broadway while rehearsing for the role […]