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Trashy Outfits Need Love Too

By MARK PEIKERT

Tuesday, July 01, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Tue Jul 1, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Meet the wardrobe wizard at Broadway’s Rock of Ages --- “I like to refer to Rock of Ages as the big little show,” says wardrobe supervisor Wendall Goings. As he puts it, the costumes for the ’80s-set jukebox musical—stuffed with hair metal hits like “Sister Christian” and “Wanted Dead...

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This Musical Won't Work if We Can't Hear It

By LINDA BUCHWALD

Monday, June 16, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon Jun 16, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Inside the sound design of Broadway's Holler if Ya Hear Me --- As the title suggests, it's crucial that we hear Holler If Ya Hear Me. The new Broadway musical, in previews now at the Palace Theatre, is built around the late rapper Tupac Shakur's lyrics and poetry, and it's often up to John Shivers and David Patridge, the show's sound designers,...

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He's Underwater, and We Know What He's Thinking

By RAVEN SNOOK

Monday, June 02, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon Jun 2, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

In Deepest Man, cutting-edge technology tells a heartbreaking story --- No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. But you may find that hard to believe while watching Deepest Man, playwright James Scruggs' avant-garde meditation on loss, healing, and above all, water. Now at 3-Legged Dog's 3LD Art & Technology Center, the trippy hour-long...

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You Can See Poe's Madness for Yourself

By SAMANTHA LAZAR

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed May 14, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

The innovative design of "Red-Eye to Havre de Grace" --- The man in the park ranger's uniform delivers something of an anti-curtain speech: "There is no nudity, strobe lights, smoking, or gunshots," he announces. Then, offhandedly, "But they do have this cool table that turns into a door and a bed that kinda flies around." That's a basic (if oversimplified)...

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You're Melodramatic. Just Accept It.

By RACHEL CARPMAN

Wednesday, May 07, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed May 7, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

In An Octoroon, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins explodes theatrical history --- What do we do with melodrama today? Can a world of excessive emotion, mustache-twirling villains, tragic heroines, and exaggerated racial stereotypes have any resonance with our own? Or are we already inundated with melodramatic techniques---and the social norms they imply---without...

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I'm Lost on the Set, and It's Good for the Show

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Monday, April 21, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon Apr 21, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Inside Beowulf Boritt's design for Broadway's Act One --- People have actually gotten lost on the set of Act One. Now on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont, the show adapts Moss Hart's landmark memoir about his childhood in the Bronx, his early love of theatre, and his first collaboration with George S. Kaufman, which launched...

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A Little Taylor Swift, a Little Bertolt Brecht

By DIEP TRAN

Thursday, April 10, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Thu Apr 10, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

In Less Than Rent's new show, wild comedy masks a dark American secret --- The script for John Presson and Sean Patrick Monahan's Little Mac, Little Mac, You're the Very Man! boasts the following subtitle: "Based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, and also not really based on either of them at all." Considering...

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