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Revolutionary Spirit
It was the best of times. Jill Santoriello, who set to work on a musical version of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities when she was 15 years old, saw...
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Seen And Heard
Seen on Broadway: It’s the Seventies all over again in New York, with two classics that date back to the Bicentennial era in revival...
Caution: Robotic Technology At Work
Problem Please turn on your cell phones, and set them to vibrate. Spectators have played a part in performance since theatre began, laughing, gasping,...
Atomic Power
Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, continues his commitment to contemporary work and cutting-edge theatrical design...
The Magic Of Creating Believable Special Effects
The job of the special effects designer is to create the perception of reality in the mind of the viewer — to trick the human brain with just a few simple inputs — drops of water, say, falling from a hidden pipe, a few carefully placed lights, an offstage fan...
Ancient Culture
In May 2000, the city of Tempe, Arizona (just to the east of Phoenix) passed Proposition 400, dedicating a one-tenth percent sales tax to the development,...
Amazing Grace
Faced with increased attendance as many as 6,000 churchgoers on a typical weekend and a need for larger worship facilities, Grace Community Church in...
Revolutionary Spirit
It was the best of times. Jill Santoriello, who set to work on a musical version of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities when she was 15 years old, saw...
Rotating Stages
Sometimes in rotating repertory, you just have to do more with more. From February 15 through November 2, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) stage...
Broadway Urges FCC To Reconsider Rules That Could Silence Live Theatre
Actors wear wireless microphones that transmit on frequencies soon to be compromised by consumer devices...
How Do You Teach Magic?
Since the last education issue in October 2007, a lot has happened within the field of projection design . We've been added to the designers' union, United...
When Direction Responds To Design
Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman unfolds in an interrogation room where a writer is investigated because the plots of his gruesome stories resemble...
Seen And Heard
Critics felt that the famous “touch” of Ernst Lubitsch, known for cinematic soufflés like Trouble in Paradise and The Shop Around the Corner, had gone flat with the cruder World War II farce To Be or Not To Be ...
Homeless In The American Theatre
Even as housing prices plummet, homes remain beyond reach for too many theatres. Under-funded and struggling to survive, young theatres, and a growing...
Martians Invade The Minack: War Of The Worlds in Cornwall
It was early September when the Martians came, creeping into the south of England via the Minack Theatre...
Seen And Heard
Seen on Broadway: Daniel Radcliffe is naked in Equus, but David Hersey’s strategic lighting ensures that he leaves the stage with his dignity intact ...
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