A Stripped-Down, More Intimate ‘Oklahoma!’
At the Fisher Center at Bard College, director Daniel Fish reimagines Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic in the round, with no set changes and a focus on community.
Category Archives: Design Notebook
Every month, American Theatre goes behind-the-scenes on the design process of one particular production, getting into the heads of the creative teams involved. Browse below for the latest Design Notebooks. From our December 2015 issue onwards, we’ve revamped this section to encompass the creation process from rehearsal to review in our revamped Production Notebook.
The Two Pittsburghs of ‘Two Trains Running’
In the Goodman’s production of August Wilson’s classic, the creative team wrapped a coal-dusted city around a struggling diner.
Blanche DuBois in a Shipping Container Named Desire
Serenbe Playhouse set their timeless production of Tennessee Williams’s classic in a confined and contemporary space.
No Loading Dock? For Jobsite Theater’s ‘Annapurna,’ No Problem
The design team explains how they constructed an Airstream trailer—and the Rocky Mountains—inside a low-ceilinged black box.
‘Washeteria’ Puts Children’s Theatre Through the Rinse Cycle
How set designer Louisa Thompson, and the creative team at Soho Rep, turned an empty storefront into a hyper-realistic yet fantastical laundromat.
‘Airline Highway’ Shows a Slice of NOLA Life
The design team of ‘Airline Highway’ by Lisa D’Amour, currently on Broadway, took a real-life New Orleans motel and put it onstage.
‘The Second Girl’ Shows the Other Side of O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey’
The design team of ‘The Second Girl’ at Huntington Theatre Company go hyper-realistic, creating a real working kitchen, where the cast members could clean, iron and cook a real chicken
Getting Gorey with Alley Theatre’s ‘Dracula’
For their version of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire tale, the design team at the Alley Theatre channeled the ghost of Edward Gorey.
101 Costume Changes at Imagination Stage’s ‘101 Dalmatians’
An eight-foot-tall puppet Cruella de Vil and mod hair anchor Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Imagination Stage’s coproduction of ‘101 Dalmatians.’
3 Enchanting Versions of ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Artists at Arden Theatre, Synetic Theater and Theatre Britain talk putting an original, non-Disney spin on “Beauty and the Beast.”
