What Shines Through
To tell the story of theatrical lighting design, we need to get beyond adjectives and surfaces.
Category Archives: Special Section
They Speak Lighting
How master designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer help us see what their directors want to show us.
Charge of the LED Brigade
Tomorrow’s lighting technology is already here, though the changeover is not yet complete.
Andrew Hungerford: Art + Science
The artistic director of Cincinnati’s Know Theatre wears many hats, but his main lens into theatre is lighting design.
The Tough Old Broad Who Lit the Way
Tharon Musser, whose career spanned four decades, spurred innovation in her field, but always in the service of a central concept.
Yes, Lighting Design Has a Diversity Problem
Their instruments can evoke every color of the rainbow, but the designers are still overwhelmingly white and male.
A Hazy Shade of Theatre: The Case for Clearer Design
Stage fog and haze are great tools for the right occasion. But must they be a default design element?
#TCG18 Closing Plenary: We End How We Began
Samples of St. Louis stage work and an award for the Kranzberg Foundation highlighted both the city’s triumphs and its challenges.
#TCG18 Plenary 2: Data Points and Lived Legacies
Awards for Black Rep’s Ron Himes and Ten Thousand Things’ Michelle Hensley, and Jer Thorp’s ‘data humanism.’
#TCG18 Plenary 1: Not Everything Is Lost
The opening event of the 2018 TCG National Conference, headlined by Naomi Shahib Nye, found poetry and persistence in storytelling.
