Last year, scenic designer David Rockwell tackled the late ‘80s look of the upbeat musical Pretty Woman. And while this year he has also tackled… Read More »The Taming of the Set: ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Returns to Broadway
Reviving (and Transforming) Merrily We Roll Along, Off Broadway Despite becoming a box office bomb for its first and only Broadway run in 1981, Stephen… Read More »A Catalog of Dreams
Broadway has increasingly gone more Hollywood over the past decade, implementing a greater and greater use of technology at all levels to imbue a more… Read More »“Network” on Broadway: Life Inside the Big Screen
Razzle, Dazzle, Feathers and Glitter As befits the glamour of its subject, The Cher Show features 683 costumes, 3,500 costume pieces and 6.5 million feathers,… Read More »“The Cher Show” on Broadway
Video Adds Dimension and Animation to the Set Bringing King Kong to Broadway has been no easy feat. The 20-foot-tall, 1.2-ton animatronic ape is maneuvered… Read More »Keeping ‘Kong’ King
Witnessing a three-hour dramatic spectacle on Broadway can be a dicey proposition. A play has to be damn good to keep your butt parked in… Read More »‘The Ferryman’ – Keeping it Real
Broadway’s latest box office beast took many people by surprise when it immediately began amassing more than $1 million per week in ticket sales. Pretty… Read More »The Endless Sky of ‘Pretty Woman’
Wing space on Broadway is at a premium. As more and more shows up the ante on production value, scenic designers and production crew are… Read More »Filling the Wings
Upon first hearing the term “Go-Go’s jukebox musical,” one might immediately conjure up a show about the life story of the legendary pop-rock quintet set… Read More »Musical A Go-Go’s: “Head over Heels” on Broadway
The anthropomorphic and metamorphic performance troupe that is Mummenschanz defies easy categorization, and that is one of the reasons this enchanting Swiss group has maintained… Read More »Rhythm & Mime with Mummenschanz
Set, Props and Lighting Support the Classic Lerner and Loewe Musical Lincoln Center Theater’s new production of Lerner and Loewe’s classic makeover musical My Fair… Read More »As Their World Turns: ‘My Fair Lady’
The recent Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan starred Condola Rashad as Joan of Arc, the teenager who ascended from seemingly loony French… Read More »Totally Tubular: ‘Saint Joan’ on Broadway