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Why I Love 'Small' Theatre

By DREW PISARRA

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Wed Nov 15, 2017 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

A tribute to those "little" shows far too few see --- I've always had a fascination with small things. As a child, I briefly collected foreign stamps, clear marbles, shiny pennies, tiny seashells, smooth stones, refrigerators magnets, and even miniature figurines like Laura did in The Glass Menagerie. I'm sure Freud would have a field day with this...

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Why She's Addicted to This Role

By SUZY EVANS

Thursday, November 02, 2017 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Thu Nov 2, 2017 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

How People, Places & Things changed Denise Gough's life --- Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series on actors and how they create their roles During her first audition for Duncan Macmillan's People, Places & Things, Denise Gough started crying. She was reading for the role of Emma, an addict and actress, and delivering a...

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You Know the Story But Not the Musical

By RAVEN SNOOK

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 • Borough Play • 1 comment Share This

Wed May 10, 2017 • Borough Play • 1 comment Share This

A Queens theatre company puts Raisin in the spotlight --- Welcome to Borough Play, our look at theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond Over the past 13 years, Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun, about the struggles of an African-American family in segregated Chicago, has enjoyed two starry Broadway revivals: in 2004...

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Why Are They Smiling in a Garbage Heap?

By ELIZA BENT

Thursday, March 09, 2017 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Thu Mar 9, 2017 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

A new play skewers the selfishly charitable --- Welcome to Borough Play, our look at theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond. In Phillip Howze's hilarious, heart-wrenching, and sometimes scabrous Frontiéres Sans Frontières, playing through Mar 25 at the Bushwick Starr, three stateless kids take center stage. They speak a creatively...

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The Funny-Sad World of the 1980s Telethon

By ELIZA BENT

Thursday, October 13, 2016 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Thu Oct 13, 2016 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

After a sold-out 2016 run at The Bushwick Starr, Miles for Mary has transferred Off-Broadway to Playwrights Horizons from January 11 to February 25, 2018. This article refers to the original Brooklyn mounting. The Mad Ones riff on high school teachers with passion to spare --- Welcome to Borough Play, our look at theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and...

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How Do You Play 240 Years' Worth of Music?

By ELIZA BENT

Thursday, September 22, 2016 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Thu Sep 22, 2016 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Meet the music director of Taylor Mac's wildly ambitious new show --- Welcome to Borough Play, our look at theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and Beyond The title of Taylor Mac's latest work is quite literal. A 24-Decade History of Popular Music does indeed cover 240 years of beloved tunes, featuring over 246 songs dating all the...

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What Makes 'Nunsense' So Popular?

By ELIZA BENT

Tuesday, August 02, 2016 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Tue Aug 2, 2016 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

The evergreen musical returns to New York --- Welcome to Borough Play, our look at theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond Nunsense is one of the most reliable comedies in the American theatre. Consider this: When Dan Goggin's musical opened in 1985, it ran for 3,672 performances, making it the second- longest running show in Off-Broadway history....

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