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Why on Earth Is Blessed Unrest Staging 'A Christmas Carol'?
By MATT OPATRNY and JESSICA BURR
Thursday, December 15, 2016  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
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How experimental artists fell for Scrooge --- It might seem like my experimental physical theatre ensemble would never do A Christmas Carol. Blessed Unrest actors playing Scrooge, Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and funny ghosts? No way. We do devised theatre based on dark mythology, Russian plays where the protagonists kill themselves, and movement pieces where...
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Teaching Theatre With Video Games and Virtual Reality
By DAN STAHL
Wednesday, October 05, 2016  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
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How local drama teachers use technology in their classrooms --- As an arts journalist and K-12 curriculum writer, I constantly find myself wondering how the theatre can (and should) intersect with the rest of a student's schedule. That's why I'm drawn to STEAM. STEAM is an education initiative that integrates disciplines: science, technology, engineering,...
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This Musical is About the Past AND the Future
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
Thursday, May 05, 2016  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
Thu May 5, 2016  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
Machines and humans collide in Evening – 1910 --- As technology becomes more prominent, do we humans lose our place in the world? That's a familiar question in our digital age, though it's hardly new. At the turn of the 20th century, the arrival of industrialization and automation provoked a deep anxiety about the new power of machines. Our...
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Theatre by Teens for Audiences of All Ages
By RAVEN SNOOK
Monday, May 02, 2016  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
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How Firebird Youth Theater is really taking off this season --- At 13, most adolescents are busy starting social media accounts. Not Leo Lion: He was busy starting his own theatre company. Now 16-years old, the homeschooled Renaissance man (actor, filmmaker, playwright, and artist) founded the all-teen Firebird Youth Theater in 2013 so he could...
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What Does it Take to Be a Sketch Artist?
By OMAR L. GALLAGA
Thursday, December 31, 2015  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Dec 31, 2015  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
A sketch-comedy nerd shares some of his secrets --- Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process. For 10 years, until parenthood ruined me for comedy, I was a writer and performer in an award-winning sketch-comedy troupe in Texas: the Latino Comedy Project. We put on full-length...
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The Part of the Play I Didn't Write
By ELIZA BENT
Friday, October 30, 2015  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
Fri Oct 30, 2015  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
Why writer/performer Eliza Bent improvises a key moment in her new show Toilet Fire --- Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process. For me, the challenge of making a solo show was wanting to avoid the genre's clichés: the stories from real life, the self-reflection, the...
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Taking it from the Streets
By DOSS FREEL
Wednesday, October 21, 2015  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Oct 21, 2015  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
Why designer Doss Freel used trash to create his latest set --- Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process. The cliché of the NYC starving artist is almost as old as the city itself. But what's it really like these days for an aspiring artist in this ever-gentrifying town?...
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Theatre Is Happening All Around You
By EMILY TRAVIS
Friday, September 25, 2015  •   Behind the Scene  •    0 comments Share This
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Site-specific theatre pioneer Anne Hamburger's new outdoor festival aims to turn passersby into active viewers --- In the '80s and '90s, Anne Hamburger's theatre company, En Garde Arts, produced a string of shows with boundary-pushing artists such as Charles Mee, Anne Bogart, and Tina Landau that used NYC as their stage. During that time, En Garde...
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