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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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What Do You Hear When You Think of Home?

By GAVIN WHITEHEAD

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Tue Oct 17, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

How veteran sound designer and composer Ryan Rumery approached 'The Home Place' --- What does home sound like? Late Irish dramatist Brian Friel raises that question in The Home Place, and for the play's New York premiere, Irish Repertory Theatre has enlisted Ryan Rumery to come up with an answer. This year's recipient of the Obie Award for Sustained...

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Scenic Design, Take Two

By JANICE C. SIMPSON

Wednesday, September 20, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed Sep 20, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mary Jane reunites an Obie-winning director with her favorite set designer --- Laura Jellinek was working as a model maker in set designer Mimi Lien's studio when she first met Anne Kauffman, a celebrated theatre director who had already staged productions for Lincoln Center Theater and New York Theatre Workshop. The artists connected and became fans...

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The Design Challenge of 'Prince of Broadway'

By RAVEN SNOOK

Tuesday, August 22, 2017 • Design • 3 comments Share This

Tue Aug 22, 2017 • Design • 3 comments Share This

How William Ivey Long created costumes for 17 shows simultaneously --- During his 40-year career as a theatrical costume designer, six-time Tony Award winner William Ivey Long has worked on dozens of shows, both on Broadway and Off. But for Manhattan Theatre Club's new musical Prince of Broadway, which celebrates the oeuvre of legendary theatre director...

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How Do You Design a Dystopian Future?

By DAVID COTE

Monday, June 19, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Mon Jun 19, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

In 1984, an Orwellian universe is reimagined for the stage --- George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is so iconic, it inevitably conjures vivid images -- even for those who have never read the 1949 classic. Gray coveralls, grayer faces, grim ministry buildings, lots of English weather, and Big Brother: a mustachioed man glaring from a monitor....

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A Tree (Sort Of) Grows Off-Broadway

By FRANK RIZZO

Thursday, May 11, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Thu May 11, 2017 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Inside the magical set design of The Whirligig --- The script calls for an actor to climb a tree and join another character on a large branch as they peer into a friend's bedroom. They remain up there for much of the play. That was the assignment Derek McLane faced when he began designing the set for The Whirligig, the new play by Hamish Linklater...

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