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Let's Geek Out Over Live TV Musicals

By RAVEN SNOOK

Monday, October 28, 2019 • Geek Out Freak Out • 3 comments Share This

Mon Oct 28, 2019 • Geek Out Freak Out • 3 comments Share This

Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get enthusiastic about things --- This week, TDF Stages Editor Raven Snook geeks out (via Facebook Messenger) with Christina Trivigno, TDF's Director of Digital Strategy and a bona fide theatre nerd. Today's topic: Live TV musicals -- which ones floundered, which ones went swimmingly and our hopes...

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Does It Work When Broadway Shows Transfer Off-Broadway?

By RAVEN SNOOK

Friday, August 09, 2019 • Geek Out Freak Out • 2 comments Share This

Fri Aug 9, 2019 • Geek Out Freak Out • 2 comments Share This

Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get enthusiastic about things --- This week, TDF Stages Editor Raven Snook geeks out (via Facebook Messenger) with Christina Trivigno, TDF's Director of Digital Strategy and a bona fide theatre nerd. Today's topic: Do Broadway shows lose anything when they transfer Off-Broadway? And which closed Broadway...

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What Changes Did Your School Make to Shows So They'd Be Less Controversial?

By RAVEN SNOOK

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 • Geek Out Freak Out • 10 comments Share This

Tue Jun 18, 2019 • Geek Out Freak Out • 10 comments Share This

Whether staff cut swearwords or swastikas, or asked for script rewrites, we want to hear your stories --- Last fall, when I read that the principal of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts demanded that swastikas be scrapped from a student production of The Sound of Music, I was reminded of my own experience...

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Why It's Awesome When Characters in Straight Plays Dance

By LINDA BUCHWALD

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 • Geek Out Freak Out • 1 comment Share This

Wed Dec 12, 2018 • Geek Out Freak Out • 1 comment Share This

Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get enthusiastic about things --- This week, TDF Stages contributor Linda Buchwald geeks out with fellow Drama Desk nominator and journalist, Doug Strassler. Today's topic: dance sequences in straight plays Linda Buchwald: I came up with the idea for this GOFO when I saw Teenage Dick, Mike Lew's...

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5 Ways to Celebrate Women's History Month Through Theatre

By RAVEN SNOOK

Friday, March 09, 2018 • Geek Out Freak Out • 1 comment Share This

Fri Mar 9, 2018 • Geek Out Freak Out • 1 comment Share This

How to support female and trans artists this month -- and beyond --- Theatre has long loved its divas. But when it comes to women performing other artistic roles -- playwright, director, designer -- the industry has an inequality problem. While there's certainly been some notable progress in recent years, theatre is still far from achieving gender...

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How Has Theatre Made You Smarter?

By RAVEN SNOOK

Wednesday, December 27, 2017 • Geek Out Freak Out • 2 comments Share This

Wed Dec 27, 2017 • Geek Out Freak Out • 2 comments Share This

Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get enthusiastic about things --- This week, TDF Stages Editor Raven Snook geeks out (via Facebook Messenger) with Christina Trivigno, TDF's Associate Director of Digital Strategy and a bona fide theatre nerd. Today's topic: A celebration of the wide variety of facts seeing shows has taught us Raven...

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Eight Plays a Week

By SANDY MACDONALD

Thursday, October 12, 2017 • Geek Out Freak Out • 0 comments Share This

Thu Oct 12, 2017 • Geek Out Freak Out • 0 comments Share This

Why a longtime critic hates to let any show pass her by --- I have a habit of reviewing in bulk. I started out, back in the pre-digital era, as a restaurant critic. I'm happy to report that covering theatre is a lot less caloric. But I've retained a disconcerting tendency to go whole hog. Call it completism, if you will. I suffer from a certain perverse...

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