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TDF VIDEO: Backstage at Imaginocean

John Tartaglia reveals the secrets of blacklight puppetry
John Tartaglia’s family musical Imaginocean has become an Off Broadway hit by using an unusual form of puppetry to tell a sweet story about underwater friends. In this exclusive video, Tartaglia and his puppeteers reveal the secrets of how they make their show come to life.

September 2, 2010   No Comments

Dressing Albee’s Twins

How Jennifer von Mayrhauser’s costumes evoke the spirit of Edward Albee’s new play


In the Playwrights Horizons production of Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I, twin brothers wear matching outfits. Their loopy mother, who can’t tell them apart after twenty-eight years, wears a blowsy nightgown, and the doctor who shares her bed wears a suit, even when he’s under the covers.

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August 31, 2010   No Comments

“It Must Be Him’s” Identity Crisis

A playwright uses comedy to make himself grow up

Most of us have had an identity crisis, but it probably hasn’t resulted in an edgy musical about naughty gay sex. But that’s exactly the outcome in It Must Be Him, Kenny Solms’ new comedy about a once-beloved television writer who is desperately trying to recapture his professional mojo while he navigates his love life.

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August 26, 2010   No Comments

TDF Passport: Buenos Aires

Your guide to theatre in B.A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple

In this installment of TDF Passport, we journey south to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Buenos Aires is a city rich with live performance, and because of the dollar-to-peso exchange rate, tickets are very affordable. Here are five things to keep in mind before you go.

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August 24, 2010   No Comments

Freud, Fiction, and God

A new play uses history and fiction to argue about faith

Mark St. Germain could have created a fictional psychoanalyst and a fictional Oxford professor. He could have put those characters in a fictional British estate on the eve of World War II and had them debate life, death, and religion.

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August 19, 2010   No Comments