Category: Broadway
How Do You Play a Sympathetic Bigot?
By LINDA BUCHWALD
Michael Oberholtzer talks about his Tony-nominated turn as a prejudiced baseball pitcher in Take Me Out
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"I think people are coming to see Take Me Out on Broadway for a number of reasons—the least of which probably is Michael Oberholtzer," says Michael Oberholtzer with a laugh. Admittedly, the encore run of the 2022 Tony Award winner for...
Gabriel Byrne in His Own Words on Broadway
By CAREY PURCELL
The two-time Tony nominee talks about bringing his memoir Walking with Ghosts to New York
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Gabriel Byrne isn't exactly sure how many characters he's currently playing on Broadway. In his one-man theatrical memoir Walking with Ghosts, running through November 20 at the Music Box Theatre, he channels dozens of people from his past, including his...
WATCH: Meet the Cast of 'Leopoldstadt' on Broadway
By ELYSE ORECCHIO
Set in Vienna's Jewish quarter during the first 55 years of the 20th century, Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt is his most personal play to date, an epic portrait of one extended family's heartbreaking fate. Critics aren't the only ones raving—TDF spoke with director Patrick Marber and the cast about what it means to tell this emotional story of love,...
Why Suzan-Lori Parks Always Goes to the 'Stinky Places'
By JUAN MICHAEL PORTER II
With three new projects including her first on-stage role, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright talks candidly about "the love I work"
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Suzan-Lori Parks is indefatigable. Even with three productions of her work opening this fall—a new play about the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Sally & Tom, at Minneapolis'...
An Off-Broadway Bigwig Finally Makes Her Broadway Debut
By JUAN MICHAEL PORTER II
Why April Matthis loves playing the outsider in the starry Broadway revival of The Piano Lesson
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Halfway through the new Broadway revival of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, a stranger named Grace arrives and changes the energy of this family drama. The part is played by April Matthis, and though she is a celebrated...
The Power of Putting New Faces on Our Founding Fathers in '1776'
By SARAH REBELL
Carolee Carmello and Allyson Kaye Daniel on starring in the reimagined Broadway revival
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In Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of 1776 at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre, a 246-year-old letter stops the show. In the middle of "Till Then," a duet between John Adams and his wife Abigail, she urges him to "remember the ladies," warning that...
WATCH: Meet the Cast of 'Cost of Living' on Broadway
By ELYSE ORECCHIO
Martyna Majok's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cost of Living just opened on Broadway to rave reviews. TDF spoke with the cast, Kara Young, Gregg Mozgala, David Zayas and Katy Sullivan, as well as the playwright and director about bringing this powerhouse play to Broadway and what its groundbreaking depiction of characters with disabilities means to audiences.
If...
How a Black British Director Is Reinventing an American Classic
By JANICE C. SIMPSON
Miranda Cromwell on the impact of centering a Black family in Death of a Salesman on Broadway
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Miranda Cromwell admits she didn't think much of Death of a Salesman when she first read Arthur Miller's iconic play in the early aughts. So it's remarkable that Cromwell, now 38, is the first person of color to direct a production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning...