Category: Musicals
WATCH: TDF's 'Come From Away' Conversation
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Broadway costars Caesar Samayoa and Kenita R. Miller chat about their beloved show
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Earlier this month we welcomed Come From Away cast members Caesar Samayoa and Kenita R. Miller for a 30-minute discussion on TDF's Facebook page. Since the musical is all about strangers coming together during a crisis, their reunion during this challenging time...
Join TDF for a Must-See Conversation Between Two 'Come From Away' Stars
By RAVEN SNOOK
Caesar Samayoa and Kenita R. Miller reunite to talk about their beloved show
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When the musical Come From Away opened on Broadway in March 2017, it became an instant critical and commercial hit. Based on real-life stories, the musical is set in Gander, Newfoundland on September 11, 2001, when 38 planes carrying nearly 7,000 passengers from every...
Touring in 'Phantom' as a Black Man During COVID-19 and George Floyd
By JUAN MICHAEL PORTER II
As one of the only African-American performers currently working in professional theatre, Marcus Williams has a unique perspective on the twin pandemics of coronavirus and racism
Since the pandemic hit the US, Marcus Williams has been in exile, performing as a member of The Phantom of the Opera's international tour. The show just wrapped up a six-month...
'Hamilton' on Disney+: Everything You Need to Know (and We Want to Say)
By ELYSE ORECCHIO & TYLER RILEY
All about the live stage capture of the Lin-Manuel Miranda juggernaut, which premieres this Friday
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Ever since theatre's biggest cheerleader, Lin-Manuel Miranda, announced we would be able to watch the original Broadway production of Hamilton from home this summer, we've been counting down the days until its release. This Friday, July 3 beginning...
A Year Ago, She Was Leaving the Business. Now She's Starring in 'Six' on Broadway
By CAREY PURCELL
How the role of Anne Boleyn changed Andrea Macasaet's life
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An impromptu trip to an open call landed Andrea Macasaet in the cast of Six, a feminist pop musical about King Henry VIII's ill-fated wives. But even after snagging the role of Anne Boleyn for the 2019 Chicago production, Macasaet had no idea she would end up traveling with the show to...
Why Mare Winningham Breaks Your Heart in 'Girl From the North Country'
By SANDY MACDONALD
The Tony nominee croons Bob Dylan tunes in her first Broadway musical
Although Mare Winnigham made her name in movies (a virgin crushing on a bad boy in St. Elmo's Fire, her Oscar-nominated performance as a folk singer in Georgia) and TV (recent credits include recurring roles on The Outsider, The Affair and American Horror Story), over the past decade...
This 'Urinetown' Tony Winner's New Musical Comedy Is About the End of the World
By GREG KOTIS & AYUN HALLIDAY
Writer-composer Greg Kotis and his wife Ayun Halliday gab about their latest irreverent theatrical collaboration
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Greg Kotis (who won a pair of Tony Awards for writing the book and lyrics of Urinetown) and Ayun Halliday (experimental dramatist and performer, indie comic icon and best-selling memoirist) have collaborated on a lot of projects over...
You've Never Seen Beth Malone—or Molly Brown—Like This
By JEN GUSHUE
The Tony nominee talks about starring in the revisal of The Unsinkable Molly Brown
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Having been raised in the Rocky Mountain State, Beth Malone grew up on the legend of Molly Brown: the "unsinkable" Titanic survivor who used her Colorado gold-rush fortune to help the poor, spearhead the juvenile court system and run for office before women even...