TDF Stages Archive

"I probably have been to every one of your schools doing theatre," Danny Hoch said this fall to a group of 50 or so New York high school teachers in a midtown union hall as part of a professional development seminar run by the Theatre Development Fund's education department . Today it was the teachers' […]

Apparently no one ever told playwright Chuck Mee about the classical unities, least of all the one about "unity of place." The canvas of the genre-splicing writer of such contemporary classics as The Berlin Circle (also called Full Circle ), Big Love and bobrauschenbergamerica sometimes seems to sprawl as wide as the whole world, and […]

"We're all East Coast kids, so we're tough," said Chazz Palminteri, writer and star of A Bronx Tale , to a crowd of 750 exuberant New York high schoolers assembled at Town Hall. "We don't give up." He was addressing a specific question from a teen about overcoming obstacles in life, but Palminteri-who may be […]

Looking for a show to see? While 23 Broadway shows are currently dark during the stagehands strike–which of course makes the remaining 8 shows still open on Broadway that much harder to find tickets for–the world of Off-Broadway, music and dance offer New York audiences a smorgasbord of live performance options. If it's musicals you […]

Shuler Hensley has learned many things from playing Frankenstein's monster in the new Mel Brooks' musical Young Frankenstein . He's honed his tap-dancing, for one thing: "I'm a real hoofer in this show–I'm channeling Savion Glover during 'Puttin' on the Ritz,' " says Shuler, the genetically blessed son of a football player and a ballet […]

One week back in 2005, Jonathan Hadary had a pair of auditions for roles that couldn't have been more different: Myron, a submissive Jewish husband in Clifford Odets' 1935 drama Awake and Sing , and King Arthur, the clueless straight man in the Monty Python confection Spamalot . "I couldn't imagine two more completely opposite […]

Kathleen Chalfant has played big parts before, both in terms of substance and sheer word count: The leads in Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit , in Frederick Wiseman's Holocaust-themed The Last Letter and in the Marguerite Duras-penned two-hander Savannah Bay had her onstage throughout, often without any break. And while her Tony-nominated turn in Angels […]

Anita Gomez-Palacio is excited to see the new Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac with Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner–but she's hoping that this time she doesn't break any bones en route. "I was in such a rush to get to the theatre that I stood up on a swivel chair to get my coat […]

For serious playgoers, the number to remember is 12. That's the magic number over the beloved "Play Only" window at the TKTS Discount Booth in Times Sqaure. And now that one of the most exciting and play-heavy non-musical seasons in many years is really getting going, both on Broadway and Off-Broadway, the "Play Only" window […]