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Dressing a Greek Classic for Tomorrow

By ALLISON CONSIDINE

Friday, July 13, 2018 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Fri Jul 13, 2018 • Design • 0 comments Share This

How Lex Liang transports Antigone into the future through costumes --- Lex Liang had never seen a production of Antigone when director Carl Cofield invited him to design the costumes for the Classical Theatre of Harlem's take on Sophocles' tragedy. That was probably a good thing since this is far from a traditional mounting. The company's politically...

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How Do You Dress a Diva?

By MICHAEL MARTIN

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed May 30, 2018 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Tony-winning designer Paul Tazewell talks Summer: The Donna Summer Musical --- What becomes a legend most? That's what Paul Tazewell needed to figure out not once, not twice but three times as the costume designer for Summer, the new Broadway musical inspired by the life and music of late disco icon Donna Summer. Tazewell had to dress a trio of performers...

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WATCH: Highlights from the TDF Irene Sharaff Awards

Tuesday, May 29, 2018 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Tue May 29, 2018 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Last month at our 24th annual TDF Irene Sharaff Awards, which honors costume designers, we did something we never had before: recognized four artists from the world of dance. On April 20 at the Edison Ballroom, legendary designers including Bob Mackie, Jane Greenwood and Susan Hilferty, and our TDF Costume Collection staff helped fete four fabulous...

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Putting the Pageant Cart Before the Plague

By MARTHA WADE STEKETEE

Friday, February 23, 2018 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Fri Feb 23, 2018 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Tony-winning designer David Zinn creates a playful medieval world for The Amateurs --- David Zinn created an underwater extravaganza by designing the sets and costumes for the splashy Broadway musical SpongeBob SquarePants. But for his latest assignment, Jordan Harrison's The Amateurs at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, he's working on a decidedly...

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Theatre by Candlelight

By GERARD RAYMOND

Monday, December 18, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon Dec 18, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

How Farinelli and the King shines a very old-fashioned light on Broadway --- Three-time Tony winner Mark Rylance may be center stage in Farinelli and the King, but lighting designer Paul Russell is the one who puts him in the spotlight. Or, more accurately, candlelight. Written by Rylance's wife Claire van Kampen, the new London import about bipolar...

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How Do You Conjure a Cartoon Onstage?

By LINDA BUCHWALD

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed Nov 29, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

How David Zinn designed the costumes for SpongeBob SquarePants --- When Ethan Slater bounds onstage for the opening number of the new musical SpongeBob SquarePants at Broadway's Palace Theatre, he's clearly the title character even though he looks little like an animated rectangular sponge. Stylistic hints of his cartoon namesake -- a yellow shirt,...

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What's It Like to Have Tourette Syndrome?

By NED MOORE

Thursday, November 16, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Thu Nov 16, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

A new solo shows offers a visceral, video-enhanced experience of the condition --- Performer and playwright Gardiner Comfort has Tourette syndrome, a tic disorder that causes a range of involuntary, repetitive movements and vocalizations. When developing his autobiographical solo show about living with the condition, he knew he wanted to do more than...

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