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Best Plays and Musicals Beyond Broadway in May 2025

1 month ago | tdf.org | Sara Holdren

Catch plays starring John Krasinski, Liev Schreiber, Maya Hawke, Reed Birney and more ---A new solo show featuring John Krasinski as a charming but angry man. Liev Schreiber in a rarely revived Strindberg play. Maya Hawke in Sarah Ruhl's radical reimagining of Eurydice and Reed Birney in a new play by a Pulitzer Prize winner. These are just some of the promising productions opening Off Broadway in May.
Why Four New Musicals Are Pairing Fresh Sounds with Traditional Storytelling

1 month ago | tdf.org | Joey Sims

How four eclectic shows Off Broadway are expanding the possibilities of musical theatre---On four small Manhattan stages divorced from the spotlight of Broadway, a quartet of new musicals are bucking the form's conventions with fresh sounds. Yet ask the shows' creators about their storytelling influences and they all name-check the old masters. When it comes to building a musical narrative, the classic ways still work.
This Diva's Doing Her Leavel Best in 'Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends'

1 month ago | tdf.org | Jen Gushue

The Prom Tony winner Beth Leavel returns to Broadway in a new Sondheim revue---Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga may be the names above the title of the new revue Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, previously seen and loved in London and Los Angeles and now on Broadway courtesy of Manhattan Theatre Club. But there's another Tony Award-winning diva in this cast of 19 powerhouse performers: Beth Leavel, the scene-stealing star of The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein and The Prom.
LaChanze Interview Broadway and Alice Childress

2 months ago | tdf.org | Douglas Corzine

Four decades ago she started her career as an actor, singer and dancer. A few years back, she started producing. Now she's adding director to her résumé. ---The mononymous LaChanze may have come to fame as a Broadway star, earning accolades and awards for her performances in Once on This Island, Summer and her Tony-winning turn in The Color Purple.
The Jonathan Larson Project Interview Jennifer Ashley Tepper Interview

Mar 6, 2025 | tdf.org | Jen Gushue

The conceiver and two stars of the new musical The Jonathan Larson Project on why his unknown songs are so relevant today---For three decades, Rent has been the gateway show for many musical theatre lovers. The fact that its creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly of an aortic dissection at age 35 the day before its first preview only added to its mythos.
Why Veteran Playwrights Are Clamoring to Work with Rising Director Jack Serio

Feb 21, 2025 | tdf.org | Douglas Corzine

As his first major Off-Broadway show opens, the freshly minted Obie winner is staying true to his indie theatre roots---In-demand director Jack Serio usually starts a project by asking, "Just how little do we need to tell this play? What's the most essential version?" He has taken this approach with a series of acclaimed hyper-intimate productions in NYC, including On Set with Theda Bara, The Animal Kingdom and a haunting Uncle Vanya staged in a Manhattan loft for just 40 people a night.
Tina Landau and Kate Diaz Interview for Redwood on Broadway

Feb 13, 2025 | tdf.org | Carey Purcell

The co-creators discuss collaborating with Idina Menzel on her first Broadway show in a decade---Life-altering trauma, drug addiction and a climactic California wildfire—the new musical Redwood at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre explores some eerily timely themes. Yet the show, which stars Wicked Tony winner Idina Menzel as an anguished middle-aged woman seeking solace in a forest, has been gestating for two decades.
Meet the Man Behind the FX in Broadway's 'Death Becomes Her'

Nov 21, 2024 | tdf.org | Carey Purcell

Tim Clothier is behind the eye-popping illusions in the campy new musical---Tim Clothier knows how to keep secrets. The illusionist's magic is on eye-popping display in the new Broadway musical Death Becomes Her at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, but he won't let anyone peek inside his bag of tricks. That doesn't make them any less impressive. A fan of the 1992 dark comedy that inspired the show, Clothier knew translating the film's special effects to the stage would be quite the challenge.
Exciting & Inexpensive Theatre: 15 Shows to See Off-Off Broadway in November

Nov 15, 2024 | tdf.org | Andrew Block

Catch inventive riffs on Shakespeare and Greek tragedies, a drag queen comedy, a puppet rock opera and more---Adventurous audiences know that some of the biggest theatrical thrills are found on NYC's smallest stages. These shows are also great for theatregoers on a budget. In fact, TDF members can see dozens of Off-Off Broadway productions for as little as $11! Not a TDF member?
James Monroe Iglehart, Christopher Renshaw and Christina Sajous Interview for A Wonderful World - The Louis Armstrong Musicals

Nov 14, 2024 | tdf.org | Carey Purcell

Tony winner James Monroe Iglehart, Christopher Renshaw and Christina Sajous talk about their rich collaboration on A Wonderful World---During Louis Armstrong's five-decade career, the celebrated trumpeter and gravelly vocalist composed more than 50 songs, appeared in more than two dozen movies and recorded more than 80 albums. He was also married four times. Given those stats, it's fitting that more than one director was needed to bring his life story to Broadway.