The joy of making theatre exists long before a company takes its bow at the end of the first performance. From day one of a new project to staging, sitzprobe, and more, the process of creating a new productions means turning an idea into a concrete reality on the stage through creativity, craft, and collaboration, all coalescing into a live story.
With Hadestown and Waitress set to return on September 2 and a host of other productions returning shortly thereafter, we are looking back at the the process of creating theatre and the joy it can bring. As Jonathan Larson wrote in Rent: "To days of inspiration, playing hooky, making something out of nothing, the need to express to communicate."
Gwen Verdon, Bob Fosse, and cast in rehearsal for New Girl in Town
Betsy Wolfe, Tracie Thoms, Andrew Rannells and Christian Borle in rehearsal for Falsettos
Monica Simoes
Carmen Cusack in rehearsal for Flying Over Sunset
Marc J. Franklin
Jelani Alladin and Krysta Rodriguez in rehearsal for Public Works’ Hercules
Joan Marcus
Caissie Levy and Patti Murin in rehearsal for Frozen
Jenny Anderson
Cast in rehearsal for Purlie
Alice Readie and Cast in rehearsal for The Prince of Egypt
Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn in rehearsal for True West
Marc Brenner
Boris Aronson and Harold Prince in rehearsal for A Little Night Music
Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Sarah Charles Lewis, and cast in rehearsal for Tuck Everlasting
Harold Prince and Patti LuPone in rehearsal for Evita
Ann Reinking in rehearsal for Dancin'
Chita Rivera and cast in rehearsal for West Side Story
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Di Botcher and Geraldine Fitzgerald in rehearsal for Follies
Kelli O'Hara and Will Chase in rehearsal for Kiss Me, Kate
Jenny Anderson
Gerard Canonico, Stephanie Hsu, and Britton Smith in rehearsal for Be More Chill
Danny Skinner, Gavin Lee, and Ethan Slater in rehearsal for SpongeBob SquarePants
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Tiger Haynes, Stephanie Mills, Stu Gilliam, and Ted Ross in rehearsal for The Wiz
Nick Cordero, Bobby Conte Thornton and Richard H. Blake in A Bronx Tale
Monica Simoes
Corey Cott and cast in rehearsal for Bandstand
Cast in rehearsal for Alice By Heart
Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera in rehearsal for The Rink
Cast in rehearsal for For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf
Larry Kert, Bernadette Peters, Alan Schneider and Alvin Ailey in rehearsal for La Strada
Damon Daunno and cast in rehearsal for Oklahoma!
Toni Collette and cast in rehearsal for The Wild Party
Blair Underwood and Kenny Leon in rehearsal for A Soldier's Play
Jeremy Daniel
Cast in rehearsal for Dreamgirls
Bryce Pinkham, Corbin Bleu and Gordon Greenberg in rehearsal for Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical
Celia Rose Gooding and cast in rehearsal for Jagged Little Pill
Michael Bennett and cast in rehearsal for A Chorus Line
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André De Shields and Rachel Chavkin
Robert Preston, Barbara Cook and Meredith Willson in rehearsal for The Music Man
Jeremy Pope and Taylor Frey in rehearsal for The View Upstairs
George Abud in rehearsal for August Rush
Tyrone Huntley and cast in rehearsal for Jesus Christ Superstar
Alex Jennings and Renée Fleming (front), Solea Pfeiffer and Suzanne Kantorski in rehearsal for Light in the Piazza
Olly Dobson in rehearsal for Back to the Future
Sean Ebsworth Barnes
Andrew Lloyd Webber in rehearsal for Cats
Alex Gibson Giorgio in rehearsal for Zorro
Bobby Cannavale in rehearsal for Hairy Ape
Lorin Latarro, Noah Brody, and cast in rehearsal for Merrily We Roll Along
Laura Michelle Kelly and cast in rehearsal for The King and I
Cast in rehearsal for The Seagull
Tristram Kenton
Zach Adkins in rehearsal for Diana
Rufus Norris in rehearsal for Macbeth
Brinkhoff-Moegenburg
Andrew Garfield in rehearsal for Angels in America
Janet McTeer in rehearsal for Bernhardt/Hamlet
Jenny Anderson
Lileana Blain-Cruz in rehearsal for Marys Seacole
Chasi Annexy
Michael C. Hall and Sophia Anne Caruso in rehearsal for Lazarus
Jan Verswevyeld
Matt Smith and Claire Foy in rehearsal for Lungs
Manuel Harlan
