In Praise of Gluttony in ‘Dirty Filthy Love Story’
How the team at Rogue Machine Theatre created a hoarder's paradise onstage.
View ArticleInto the Underworld with ‘410[GONE]’
In Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's '410[GONE]' at Crowded Fire Theater, the Land of the Dead is rendered with Beijing opera and Dance Dance Revolution.
View ArticleBalancing the Wild and Tame in ‘Sense & Sensibility the Musical’
In their treatment of Jane Austen's classic, the creative team at Denver Center Theatre Company used color and props to differentiate between the city and the country.
View ArticleThe Fantasy of Americana in ‘Fool for Love’
Using a neon sign and pervasive sound design, the creative team at the Jungle Theatre took a dreamscape approach to Sam Shepard's classic.
View ArticleThe Civil War, Seen Through a Crinoline, in ‘Mary T. and Lizzy K.’
Tazewell Thompson's play is not just about Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckly, it's also about the clothes that they wore.
View Article"Marie Antoinette" Gets a Double Design Treatment
How the design team for David Adjmi's "Marie Antoinette," tackled downsizing the play for a smaller black box space.
View ArticleInside the Non-Place Design of Swandive Theatre’s ‘Outopia for Pigeons’
Designers for a play told from a pigeon's point of view give details of the set development.
View ArticleDesigning ‘Yellow Face’ At Theater J
Natsu Onoda Power, Luciana Stecconi, and Jared Mezzocchi talk about designing David Henry Hwang's "Yellow Face" at Theater J in Washington D.C.
View ArticleDesigning "The Little Prince" at Lookingglass Theatre
How the production team at Lookingglass Theatre conjures a fairy tale using minimal props, aerial effects and window markers.
View ArticleRude Mechs Go Glitz and Glam for Design of ‘Stop Hitting Yourself’
Director Shawn Sides and set designer Mimi Lien talk about the design concept for their show at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City.
View Article‘Les Misérables’ Gets A New Design For The Dallas Theater Center
How director Liesl Tommy and costume designer Jacob A. Climber contemporized "Les Misérables" for its run at the Dallas Theater Center.
View Article'Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design' Celebrates the Designer's Work
A retrospective, with images, on the work of set designer Ming Cho Lee.
View ArticlePigPen Theatre Company’s ‘The Old Man and the Moon’ Creates Magic, Adventure...
PigPen Theatre Company creates a new folktale using shadow puppetry and a homegrown aesthetic.
View ArticleInside the Exploded Piano of Fiasco Theater's 'Into the Woods'
In a new reimagining of Lapine and Sondheim's fairy-tale musical, 11 actors play all the roles and all the instruments---and the set itself is an instrument.
View ArticleVox Lumiere Creates a Steampunk 'Phantom of the Opera'
For their version of "Phantom of the Opera," Vox Lumiere combined steampunk and silent film, and no white mask.
View Article3 Enchanting Versions of ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Artists at Arden Theatre, Synetic Theater and Theatre Britain talk putting an original, non-Disney spin on "Beauty and the Beast."
View Article101 Costume Changes at Imagination Stage’s ‘101 Dalmatians’
An eight-foot-tall puppet Cruella de Vil and mod hair anchor Children's Theatre of Charlotte and Imagination Stage's coproduction of '101 Dalmatians.'
View ArticleGetting Gorey with Alley Theatre’s ‘Dracula’
For their version of Bram Stoker's classic vampire tale, the design team at the Alley Theatre channeled the ghost of Edward Gorey.
View Article‘The Second Girl’ Shows the Other Side of O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey’
The design team of 'The Second Girl' at Huntington Theatre Company go hyper-realistic, creating a real working kitchen, where the cast members could clean, iron and cook a real chicken
View Article‘Airline Highway’ Shows a Slice of NOLA Life
The design team of 'Airline Highway' by Lisa D'Amour, currently on Broadway, took a real-life New Orleans motel and put it onstage.
View Article‘Washeteria’ Puts Children’s Theatre Through the Rinse Cycle
How set designer Louisa Thompson, and the creative team at Soho Rep, turned an empty storefront into a hyper-realistic yet fantastical laundromat.
View ArticleNo Loading Dock? For Jobsite Theater’s ‘Annapurna,’ No Problem
The design team explains how they constructed an Airstream trailer---and the Rocky Mountains---inside a low-ceilinged black box.
View ArticleBlanche DuBois in a Shipping Container Named Desire
Serenbe Playhouse set their timeless production of Tennessee Williams's classic in a confined and contemporary space.
View ArticleThe Two Pittsburghs of ‘Two Trains Running’
In the Goodman's production of August Wilson's classic, the creative team wrapped a coal-dusted city around a struggling diner.
View ArticleA Stripped-Down, More Intimate ‘Oklahoma!’
At the Fisher Center at Bard College, director Daniel Fish reimagines Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic in the round, with no set changes and a focus on community.
View ArticlePortraying Memory in ‘The House of the Spirits’
In the production at GALA Hispanic Theatre, the creative team used projection and portraits to tackle Isabel Allende's non-linear narrative.
View ArticleA Turntable of ‘Assassins’
In mounting Stephen Sondheim's 'Assassins,' Milwaukee Rep created a revolving carnival on two turntables.
View ArticleA Past and Present ‘Aida’
In Theater Latté Da and Hennepin Theatre Trust's production of Elton John's musical, the creative team placed the action in at once a modern museum and ancient Egypt.
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