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The Belle of Belfast Needs to Rock

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Monday, May 11, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon May 11, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

The Irish Rep's latest play creates the rough energy of 1980s Belfast --- If you know the folk song "I'll Tell Me Ma," which is also called "The Belle of Belfast City," then it might conjure images of a joyous Irish community. Or it might remind you of that one Chieftains album everyone had in junior high. Chances are, however, it won't make...

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Meet Renowned Costume Designer Jess Goldstein

By ELLEN LAMPERT-GREAUX

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed Apr 29, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

On May 1, TDF will host its annual Irene Sharaff Awards, which honor the best and brightest in theatrical costume design. This year's honorees include the renowned Jess Goldstein, who will receive the Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. Recently, Ellen Lampert-Greaux interviewed Goldstein for an extensive profile...

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Dressing the Kids in The King and I

By ERIC GRODE

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 • Design • 1 comment Share This

Wed Apr 22, 2015 • Design • 1 comment Share This

Notes from the costume designer and wardrobe supervisor --- Any parent – and anyone who has been parented in their lives – knows that keeping kids' clothes off the floor and free from stains is a full-time job. Now picture more than a dozen children, each changing their (rather expensive) outfits every half hour for three hours...

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The Future Is Now (Onstage)

By JACK SMART

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Tue Apr 21, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

How writer-director Aya Ogawa brings video game technology to the theatre --- At first glance, theatre and video games appear to represent polar opposite forms of entertainment. One is an irreproducible live event shared by many; the other a simulation of an experience directed entirely by its participants. Aya Ogawa's new play sets out...

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This Musical is More Moving in the Round

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Wednesday, April 08, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed Apr 8, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Inside the new design of Broadway's Fun Home --- When the floor starts collapsing, we barely notice. It's only afterward, when all the trap doors have silently slid open, that we realize this family's house has become a gaping maw. One foot wrong, and someone could disappear into darkness. In that moment, the set of Fun Home, the...

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That Evil Sock Puppet is Just So Cute!

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Friday, March 27, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Fri Mar 27, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Inside the puppetry design of Broadway's Hand to God --- Even when he's possessed by Satan, Tyrone the sock puppet is still pretty cute. And that's no accident. Just ask Marte Johanne Ekhougen, the puppetry designer for Hand to God. In Robert Askins's giddily dark comedy, now on Broadway at the Booth Theatre, we meet Jason, a shy teenager...

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Just Move the Car and Stage the Play

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Friday, February 13, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Fri Feb 13, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

By MARK BLANKENSHIP It's no accident that The Groundling takes place in a guy's garage. Marc Palmieri's new comedy, now at Axis Theatre, follows Bob Malone, a landscaper who's so moved by an outdoor performance of Love's Labour's Lost that he decides to write his own play about his marriage. He mostly casts his friends and family---though...

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