TDF Stages Archive

How many graduation ceremonies have you attended that consisted not of an endless parade of names and mortarboards but a series of original plays, penned by students and performed by professional actors? Or how about a series of insightful, inspiring speeches and discussions among hundreds of budding teenage theatre aficionados? Such were the elements of […]

"The landscape changes around every bend," says Anne Stone Crow of the lovely, unpredictable highlands of Scotland, where you're just as likely to find a well-preserved castle, a salmon preserve, a field full of contented sheep or a placid, sandy beach full of sunbathers. "That was beautiful, and a big surprise," she says of the […]

How does an accomplished actor-singer play a composer who wasn't a singer? Wait, there's more: The character in question is German, and he's singing English lyrics he didn't write, in a stitched-together anthology show that tells the intertwined story of him and his famous muse. With Kurt Weill, one half of the complicated couple at […]

When London's Old Vic imported Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten to Broadway in March, it brought with it more than great expectations and its star artistic director, Kevin Spacey, in the lead role. Packed in the steamer trunk alongside the acclaimed, recently Tony-nominated production were the Old Vic's fresh, exciting education and outreach […]

Teen suicide and violence. Talk radio language wars. A White House coverup amid an unpopular foreign war. The dark side of unwanted pregnancy. Front-line soldiers gritting their teeth through a war of attrition. The rise of a charismatic black politician. A debate over teaching evolution. The stages of grief. Are these today's headlines, or some […]

For anyone who's toiled in the trenches of musical theatre, the characters in A Chorus Line aren't just parts. The struggles of the show's 17 dancers to get through a trying group audition under the prying gaze of a slightly tyrannical director resonate all too closely with their everyday lives. Of no one is this […]

Cast in the dual roles of twin brothers in Christopher Shinn's anguished, riveting drama Dying City (at Lincoln Center's Newhouse Theatre through Apr. 29), Tony-nominated actor Pablo Schreiber did some very important primary research. "I watched Raising Cain ," says Schreiber from his dressing room before a performance, referring to the 1992 potboiler featuring an […]

Burning question of the day: How much does actor John Glover resemble Man in Chair, that human encyclopedia of musical theatre trivia and arcana, who leads audiences into the world of his favorite (fictional) musical, The Drowsy Chaperone ? Well, try this: Suggest to the Tony-winning Glover, who takes over the part of Man in […]

The TDF Costume Collection celebrates the giving spirit of the holidays each year by turning over colorful guises to a raft of youngsters from Positive Caring Services, along with their foster mothers, for the annual "Three Kings" party. Each year during the post-Christmas holiday of Epiphany, as many as 100 children with AIDS and other […]