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This Play Should Look Like It Feels

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Monday, October 05, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon Oct 5, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

How to design an experimental comedy like Cloud Nine --- Sometimes a playwright gives designers specific instructions about how a show should look, filling the script with details about the quality of the light or the style of the clothes or the color of the furniture. And then sometimes a playwright is Caryl Churchill. Her classic 1979 comedy Cloud...

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What Does an Emotional Vortex Look Like?

By KENNETH JONES

Thursday, September 24, 2015 • Design • 3 comments Share This

Thu Sep 24, 2015 • Design • 3 comments Share This

How stars, ice, and lava influenced the set for Broadway's Old Times --- Set designer Christine Jones didn't take Harold Pinter's scripted stage directions literally when she was conjuring the visual world of the new Broadway production of his play Old Times. She digested them with a gut instinct. "The design was a direct result of a very strong...

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Embrace Your Inner Drag Queen

By DIEP TRAN

Monday, August 31, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon Aug 31, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

The Legend of Georgia McBride delivers a how-to of drag --- The most fabulous presence in The Legend of Georgia McBride isn't the straight man who becomes a drag queen, his pregnant wife, or his drag mother (though all three are pretty awe-inspiring). No, that honor goes to a clothing rack. Usually a tool that's kept backstage, this particular...

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Killer Sharks and Flying Trapezes

By KENNETH JONES

Tuesday, August 04, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Tue Aug 4, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Fight or Flight Theater puts an aerial twist on Jaws --- "You're gonna need a bigger boat" – that memorable line from Jaws – gets a fresh twist this summer under the captainship of off-Off-Broadway's Fight or Flight Theater Company. For starters, the phrase is spoken a few feet off the ground. That's because Fight or Flight is a troupe...

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Which Theatre Sets Absolutely Blew Your Mind?

By LINDA BUCHWALD

Thursday, July 23, 2015 • Design • 5 comments Share This

Thu Jul 23, 2015 • Design • 5 comments Share This

Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, TDF Stages contributor Linda Buchwald geeks out (via Gchat) with Liz Richards, a stage manager who runs fyeahgreatplays.com and is a frequent cohost of the podcast Maxamoo. Today's topic: jaw-dropping sets --- Linda Buchwald: Hi Liz. I'm so glad to...

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You'll Never Guess Where the Shipwreck Came From

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Monday, July 13, 2015 • Design • 3 comments Share This

Mon Jul 13, 2015 • Design • 3 comments Share This

The surprising inspiration for Amazing Grace's pivotal scene --- Of all the musicals currently on Broadway, Amazing Grace seems the least likely to be influenced by experimental German theatre. Yet the Berliner Ensemble, the company co-founded by Bertolt Brecht, is the direct inspiration for one of the show's most memorable moments. Here's...

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It Takes a Lot of Clothes to Dress a Court

By ERIC GRODE

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed Jun 17, 2015 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Inside Wolf Hall's Tony Award-winning design --- "Stuff that touches the skin deteriorates the fastest." Susan Checklick is calling from backstage at the Winter Garden Theatre. That evening's performance of Wolf Hall is under way, and she is staring at 12 laundry baskets full of fabric scraps. Before the week is over, possibly before the...

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