Adjust Text Size:
Home > Category > Directing
TDF Stages Home About TDF Stages Contact TDF Stages Newsletter Signup Masters of the Stage TDF Theatre Dictionary
Category: Directing
There's a Reason Two Kurt Vonnegut Tales Are Onstage Right Now
By MICHAEL MARTIN
Tuesday, October 16, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Oct 16, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
How the master satirist's work speaks to today --- Kurt Vonnegut, best known for his acidic novels Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, only wrote a handful of works for the theatre, mostly playlets that are rarely done. So when two shows with his byline are running Off-Broadway simultaneously, it practically qualifies as a festival. San Francisco's...
Share This:
Why You Need to Hear Anna Politkovskaya's Story Right Now
By JONATHAN MANDELL
Monday, September 24, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Mon Sep 24, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
The legacy of the late Russian journalist speaks directly to the turmoil of today --- More than a thousand people attended the funeral of Anna Politkovskaya, a respected Russian journalist who was found murdered in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in 2006. She was well known for investigating atrocities committed during her homeland's...
Share This:
Why Are Two Casts Performing One Show Simultaneously?
By JONATHAN MANDELL
Friday, September 21, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Fri Sep 21, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
A new bilingual production at Playwrights Horizons is performed in English and American Sign Language --- Craig Lucas' new play I Was Most Alive with You at Playwrights Horizons is about a family coping with a series of calamities that recall the biblical story of Job. But ask Sabrina Dennison to describe the show and she declares it's "complicated."...
Share This:
Can 'Antigone' Help Communities Heal?
By JOSE SOLÍS
Monday, September 10, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Mon Sep 10, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Antigone in Ferguson is playing an encore run at Brooklyn's Church of St Ann and the Holy Trinity from May 8 to July 13, 2019. The production will feature a rotating cast of actors and choirs. Tickets are free but your must RSVP online. Why Sophocles' play speaks to the Black Lives Matter movement   --- When Antigone in Ferguson opens this...
Share This:
Seeing War Through a Teenager's Eyes
By DIANE SNYDER
Thursday, September 06, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Sep 6, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
How director Simon Reade translated Michael Morpurgo's novel Private Peaceful to the stage --- You know from the outset that the titular character of Private Peaceful dies at the end. But discovering how the 17-year-old World War I soldier came to be awaiting execution is a compelling journey. "Tonight, more than any other night of my life, I want...
Share This:
You've Never Seen 'Heartbreak House' Like This
By GERARD RAYMOND
Tuesday, September 04, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Sep 4, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
How the late Hermione Gingold inspired this new take on Shaw's antiwar comedy --- The spirit of Hermione Gingold permeates the new mounting of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House at Off-Broadway's Lion Theatre. Produced by Gingold Theatrical Group, which is named in honor of the late British character actress (the films Gigi and The Music Man;...
Share This:
Eleven Collaborators, Three Playlets, One Singular Experience
By JEN GUSHUE
Thursday, August 30, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Aug 30, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Theater Mitu's new show explores war and death from many angles --- How do you create a multimedia meditation on war, death and loss by artistic consensus? That's what Brooklyn-based company Theater Mitu set out to do with Remnant, the inaugural production in the troupe's new Gowanus home. Crafted out of extensive interviews and research conducted...
Share This:
Creating New Opportunities for Asian-American Actors in 'Henry VI'
By GERARD RAYMOND
Tuesday, August 21, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Aug 21, 2018  •   Directing  •    0 comments Share This
Why NAATCO is mounting Shakespeare's rarely done epic --- Mia Katigbak has wanted to stage Shakespeare's three-part history saga Henry VI ever since she saw a production at the Public Theater two decades ago. For years, the co-founder and artistic director of the National Asian American Theater Company (NAATCO) pitched the epic as a potential project...
Share This:
TDF STAGES PAGE: 7 of 26 < ... 7891011 ... >
TDF Stages Home About TDF Stages Newsletter Signup

Follow TDF Stages:

Translate TDF Stages:

On Stage:

Off Stage:

The Creators:

Recent Comments:

Julius Adams on Always More to Learn at 'Into the Woods'

Eileen Smith on Always More to Learn at 'Into the Woods'

Diana kerievsky on 10+ Stage Performances to Watch Online This Weekend July 1-4

Sonia Salas on Broadway COVID Rules: Masks Encouraged, No Vaccination Checks

elizabeth k. rogers on What 'Epiphany' Awaits at This New Lincoln Center Theater Play?