TDF Open Doors Alumni

The Fire This Time Festival presents Lords Resistance a play by Open Doors Alumni Camille Darby. Get your tickets here: http://bit.tdf.org/1gkqDKV

A musical can be worthwhile just because it’s entertaining, but what if it’s also saving human culture? What if pop song medleys and dance numbers are also repositories for everything we know about ourselves? What do we make of them then?

Those questions shape the third act of Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a new show by Anne Washburn that’s now in previews at Playwrights Horizons.

TDF Stages looks at Bart Simpson and the meaning of life.

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The National Asian American Theater Company's (NAATCO) production of Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing!, which officially opens on Wednesday at Walkerspace, hinges on the collisions of a family that's forced to be close-knit, whether they like it or not. The house is arranged in two rows of seats on either side of the dining room and living room set, so you feel dropped in the middle of the action.

For Stephen Fried, who's directing NAATCO's revival, placing the audience up close underlines why the Depression-era show still feels relevant. "I think there's a challenge in doing justice to the world that the work came out of and also making the audience viscerally aware of the immediacy of the themes that are being discussed," he says. "So for me to put the audience right in the middle of the dynamics of this family made it much easier for an audience member to just be a part of those dynamics. I never wanted it to be something that we were looking at. I wanted it to be something that we were in the midst of."

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Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerny want to create theatre that honestly evokes the lives of teenage girls, and they want real teenage girls to help them do it. Read More: http://bit.tdf.org/16SEmBF

Slut, Arts Effect All-Girl Theater Company's latest play, runs August 19-25 in FringeNYC. Co-written and co-directed by Cappiello and McInerny, it follows a fictional girl named Joey who gets drunk, gets in a cab with some boys, and then gets sexually assaulted. Soon enough, she's hounded by social media accounts of what supposedly happened and a growing assumption that everything was her fault.

The Mario Bros. jump out of the Nintendo and onto the stage at Joe's Pub this Saturday. Check out a video of the show at Boing Boing! http://bit.tdf.org/17piGep

What other video games would you like to see make the leap from console to stage?

TDF Stages Borough Play series walks us through Le BalcÒn (The Balcony), a play inspired by Shakespeare and a fake Canadian.

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Your first time is always nerve-racking. You’re nervous, you’re not exactly sure what you’re supposed to do or say, or how your partner will react. What if you make the wrong move? The whole thing could end up being a disaster of epic proportions. No this isn't a first date, it’s a stumble-through.

NJ Rep shows us what a stumble through is in this week's TDF Theatre Dictionary Video.

Watch now: http://dictionary.tdf.org/stumble-through/

We are happy to announce that TKTS South Street Seaport has found a temporary home. We will be open this weekend! Stop by and pick up a ticket to your favorite show.

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How has theatre made you a better person?

24 Ways Musical Theater Made You A Better Person But actually. Growing up as a drama kid gets you ready for anything.

Can you sing better than the Caped Crusader? Sign up for your chance to try in the Broadway Karaoke Celebration! Contest ends Friday at midnight. http://bit.tdf.org/14z85hM