TDF Stages Archive

After a series of thankless roles, the big black lady wanted to stop the show. "I had just had a conversation with my agent, telling him, 'I'm a little disillusioned with theatre, and I'm not interested in the black mama roles,' " says Capathia Jenkins. "You know, where they would say, 'We need someone to […]

Ticket buyers who've stood in line at the TKTS Discount Booth may do a double take when they sit down to watch Law and Order: Special Victims Unit on Feb. 13. They may recognize the actor playing Lucio, a mobster's son under investigation by detectives played by Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay, because it's John […]

It's the great idea that won't die—or won't quit, at least. Don't Quit Your Night Job , the late-night musical sketch show that's like a live-theatre version of Saturday Night Live with Broadway talent, returns for a special show at the Zipper Theatre  March 17 11:30PM (ticket info here ). The popular ongoing series of […]

For many comedians, laughter is a drug so grafitying and addictive that they'll do almost anything to keep feeling it. But for standup comic Judy Gold–whose one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother is in a long run at the Theatre at St. Luke's–a sense of connection with an intent audience can be just […]

"People are a bit desperate in my plays–maybe more desperate than we're used to seeing people be in plays," admits Theresa Rebeck, whose current play at the Second Stage, The Scene , traces the steep descent of Charlie, a self-destructive, chronically unemployed actor. "I go to other plays and think, Where's the desperation?" Rebeck is […]

Allegedly during the 1970s in France there was a movie critic who never actually saw the films he reviewed. He waited until all his colleagues had written their reviews. Knowing their personalities, their tastes, and-this being France in the '70s-their theories, he wrote a review based on what those who had seen it had said […]

"In every way with this show, we're in some kind of hybrid territory," Tom Hulce said, sitting in a balcony of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre a few weeks before the opening of Spring Awakening . "We're definitely not Broadway as usual—we're in some kind of exciting middle ground." Hulce might as well be speaking about […]

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It seems that Nilaja Sun's work is never done. After spending many of her days as a teaching artist, bringing theatre arts to under-served public schools in the New York area, at night she goes to perform her self-penned solo show, No Child… And though the well-reviewed show keeps drawing enthusiastic audiences to the Barrow […]