TDF Stages Archive

The actor Denis O'Hare, who typically appears in a few plays a year and who worked on six films last year, doesn't just memorize his characters' lines and blocking. Also in his permanent memory bank is the White House phone number. "It's a comment line, and they ask for comments," says O'Hare, who estimates that […]

It's a familiar showbiz story: A young boy smitten with the Technicolor magic of MGM musicals decides to stick around for the end credits, and realizes that behind every glittering silver-screen star is an army of designers. That was Bob Mackie's story in 1953, when he was blown away by the costumes in An American […]

The phrase "triple threat" sounds so–well, threatening. But Karen Ziemba, one of Broadway's supreme singer/dancer/actors, is anything but scary, unless you're intimidated by prodigious talent, a Tony Award, and a resume nearly as long as her killer legs. Indeed, when she talks about her role in the new Kander & Ebb musical Curtains , which […]

This winter, with all of TDF’s programs in full swing, we give you a snapshot of Wednesday, March 7. Even the wind and the snow couldn’t keep the students, tourists, TDF members and theatregoers of all stripes away from the stage door.

Geography may not be destiny, but can it be a coincidence that the theatre director Robert Falls hails from the City of Big Shoulders? For 20 years the imposing Falls, to whom the adjective "bearlike" is often applied, has served as artistic director of Chicago's Goodman Theatre, but in the past decade he's also become […]

Priscilla Lopez has crossed over, and now she's crossing back–in more ways than one. The Broadway star who originated the role of Diana Morales in A Chorus Line and won a Tony for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine has in the last decade appeared mostly in non-musical plays, and she's found herself […]

For grown-ups, the scariest thing about Halloween is the cost of renting costumes (not to mention the dry-cleaning fee). TDF members need not share this anxiety. For the third year in a row, the TDF Costume Collection will open its doors to TDF members and allow them almost entirely free rein of the Collection, offering […]

"I look at people when they don't know I'm watching," says Paul Taylor, sounding more like a documentarian or a private detective than like the nation's preeminent living choreographer. In fact, though, an observational stance has always been Taylor's trademark. "I like to see people's gestures," he elaborates. "A lot of those gestural things that […]

Everything Sarah Aziz does these days seems to revolve around interpretation: As a coordinator with Theatre Development Fund's Accessibility Solutions, she finds and contracts sign-language interpreters and caption writers for special performances tailored to deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences; reviews applications for TAP Plus Accessibility grants, which assist productions in mounting such special performances; and puts […]