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Professional Costumes, Shipped to Your Door

By MARTHA WADE STEKETEE

Thursday, December 04, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

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How TDF's Costume Collection works with out-of-state designers --- Earlier this year, designer Joe Kucharski had to costume a production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in a hurry. "I was to just show up for a week, do fittings, immediately go into tech, and leave," he recalls, and since the show was being produced at Maryland's Washington College,...

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Did You Notice the Tiny Fireflies?

By Mark Blankenship

Friday, November 14, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

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By MARK BLANKENSHIP There's no way to see the entire set of Lost Lake. A slightly surreal cabin in the woods, it's packed with so many objects that it would take hours to absorb them all. And besides, some elements are only visible to the actors---props and pictures tucked behind curtains or just past the edge of the stage. But even if some of...

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How Do You Make Two People Look Like One Person?

By LINDA BUCHWALD

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed Nov 12, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Emily Padgett and Erin Davie aren't identical, not even close. But when they take the stage in Side Show, it's easy to believe they're conjoined. That's largely thanks to Charles G. LaPointe and Paul Tazewell, whose wig and costume designs (respectively) for the entire ensemble of this Broadway musical employ sophisticated theatrical illusions to...

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Turning an Elevator into an Entire World

By Jack Smart

Monday, November 03, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon Nov 3, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Two days into rehearsals for Lift at 59E59, director John Marshall III got stuck in an elevator. Most people entombed in a metal box might feel alarmed, claustrophobic, or at the very least, concerned. Instead, Marshall was thrilled. "I think the people running the building probably thought I was crazy," he says. "I'm like, 'Don't hurry, it's ok! It's...

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This Caftan Tells a Hundred Stories

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Monday, October 27, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon Oct 27, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Cynthia Nixon's caftan is a fabulous fashion statement, yes, but it's also an emblem of how costumes enhance the storytelling in Roundabout's current Broadway revival of The Real Thing. The caftan---a glorious black-and-white number with a paint-splatter pattern and matching shirt underneath---operates on several layers at once. For one thing,...

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The 400 Year-Old Tour

By LINDA BUCHWALD

Wednesday, October 01, 2014 • Design • 0 comments Share This

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New York City is having a King Lear moment. The production of Shakespeare’s tragedy that runs through October 12 at NYU’s Skirball Center is one of several iterations to play the city this year, following stagings at Shakespeare in the Park, Theatre for a New Audience, and BAM. For a certain type of Shakespeare fan, however, this latest...

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Behind the lyrical design of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 • Design • 1 comment Share This

Tue Sep 30, 2014 • Design • 1 comment Share This

By Mark Blankenship There could, of course, be a very literal production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. As our teenage hero, Christopher Boone, investigates the death of a neighbor's dog, he could certainly inhabit a realistic world. As clues lead him on an improbable adventure from suburban England to the busy streets...

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