Why Rebecca Taichman Just Can't Get Enough of 'Sing Street'

Theatre Development Fund – TDF: Rebecca Taichman isn't just the director of Sing Street at New York Theatre Workshop, she's its instigator. After watching John Carney's undersung 2016 movie musical of the same name on Netflix, she knew immediately that she wanted to turn it into a piece of theatre. "I was ripped open by it," she says of the film, which centers on a 16-year-old aspiring rocker struggling with life and love in economically depressed early '80s Dublin. "By the end, I could just envision it on stage, and I wanted to see if I could find a way to make that happen."