TDF Stages Archive

If playwright John Patrick Shanley is now better known for such serious later works as the Pulitzer Prize-winning morality play Doubt (now a major motion picture, too), Romantic Poetry , his whimsical new musical with Dreamgirls ' Henry Krieger, now playing at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage II, serves as a welcome reminder that Shanley is […]

Sometimes when she's rehearsing a play, Donna Lynne Champlin says, she can tell if it's going to be something special. "It happens every once in a while when you're working on something and it starts to take on a life of its own," says Champlin, who stars in the Transport Group's new revival of Irwin […]

"Simon Cowell can kiss my butt if he wants to use that 'Broadway' insult again," quips Clay Aiken, the former American Idol star now enjoying a stint as Sir Robin on the Great White Way in Monty Python's Spamalot (now in its final months at the Shubert Theatre). "So often the judges on Idol will […]

Josh Jonas knows what many people think when they hear his new play, Capture Now (which just opened at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker), is a solo effort. "People probably think, 'Oh, Jesus, not another one-person show! why doesn't the guy just get therapy already?' " Jonas jokes. But seriously, he says, "I worked hard […]

The superstition about the "curse of Macbeth " still lingers more than four centuries after the play's premiere. There are stories of backstage injuries, illnesses, accidents and worse. The most famous aspect of the "curse," though, is that it is bad luck to speak the name of the play inside a theatre building, or to […]

Playwrights take their inspiration from any number of sources, but for Robert Stanton and Daniel Jenkins, the genesis for Love Child , their new two-man show at Primary Stages, came directly from two women they'll call "Ethel" and "Kay." "Robert and I first worked together at Playwrights Horizons in 1993, doing a play, Carter Bay's […]

Broadway Storm clouds may have threatened, but they couldn’t dampen a long-awaited landmark event for the theatre district this Thursday, Oct. 16: The opening of the new Duffy Square and the TKTS Discount Booth. Unveiling an array of glistening red steps and a reinstated statue of Father Francis P. Duffy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg […]

If you woke up one fine morning and had no idea who you were, you would obviously have some serious problems making your way in the world. Now imagine you woke up next to another person in exactly the same predicament—what would you two say to each other, and what would you do to figure […]

"Don't panic—the performers do not even know what is being said onstage," goes a warning accompanying The Society , a new dance/theatre piece from Norway's Jo Strømgren Kompani, which makes its New York debut next week at the Abrons Arts Center, in a co-presentation with PS 122 (in a limited run, Oct. 15-19). In fact, […]