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At This Broadway Play, Your Seats Are Supposed to Surprise You

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Thursday, October 06, 2016 • Design • 3 comments Share This

Thu Oct 6, 2016 • Design • 3 comments Share This

Inside the startling design of Heisenberg --- Heisenberg doesn't start like a typical show, with the lights going down (or the curtain coming up) to indicate the performance has begun. Instead, Simon Stephens' play, which is now on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, slides quietly into the room. While a stage manager...

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At Broadway's 'The Encounter,' A Sound Is Worth a Thousand Pictures

By RAVEN SNOOK

Thursday, September 29, 2016 • Design • 2 comments Share This

Thu Sep 29, 2016 • Design • 2 comments Share This

How Gareth Fry's special aural effects help conjure the Amazon rainforest in this new show --- There are very few shows where sound is in the spotlight. In fact, veteran British sound designer Gareth Fry says that usually, if he's doing his job well, theatregoers might not note his contribution. "Sound is used emotionally, and frequently I'm sort...

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You See Their Apartment, But What Are You Missing?

By LYNDA PAUL

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Wed May 25, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

A new play digs into apartment envy --- A Better Place takes audiences into the world of NYC apartment living, where fantasy and reality collide in a clash of socially coded cabinets, artfully decorated living rooms, and the watchful, curious, and potentially critical eyes of neighbors and realtors. In this new play by Wendy Beckett, now at the...

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This Is Not the 'Streetcar' You Think You Know

By ELIZA BENT

Thursday, May 19, 2016 • Design • 2 comments Share This

Thu May 19, 2016 • Design • 2 comments Share This

A production in Brooklyn blows our expectations apart --- Even if you've never seen it, A Streetcar Named Desire manages to seep into your brain. Without even trying, you end up knowing quotes and stage pictures simply because pop culture references them all the time. As you probably know on some level, the show follows a southern belle named Blanche...

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Reading the Light in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night'

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Tue May 10, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Inside Natasha Katz's Tony-nominated design --- We know James Tyrone is happy because the light around him changes. Telling his son Edmund about the time Edwin Booth -- the great actor! -- praised his talents, he gets so lost in the story that he rises from his chair in his dilapidated summer home. He moves to the front of the stage and basks in the...

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Does Making Art Help Us Grieve?

By JACK SMART

Thursday, April 14, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Thu Apr 14, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

The quest for legacy in the Assembly's new play --- In the Assembly's I Will Look Forward To This Later, now at the New Ohio Theatre, visual art and live performance are inextricably bound. A sculptor mixes clay and water in a bucket onstage. A widow and her late husband's lover taxidermize birds for an installation. Characters talk as one creates...

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It's a Levis Commercial, But It Might Tell the Truth

By ELIZA BENT

Thursday, March 31, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Thu Mar 31, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

In William Burke's new play, commercials and poetry collide --- Welcome to Borough Play, our look at theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond The playwright William Burke gives off an averse-to-advertising air. His unruly beard existed long before face fuzz was trendy, and he has been known to sport Tevas unironically. (His wife, the actress Julia...

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