Leafing through scenic design books lately, especially British theatre, I’ve found a recurrence of the zodiac form, either painted on the floor of a stage or louvered above:
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Wasn’t able to reproduce any of these pictures from online image searches, but you get the idea. I believe I also saw this sort of thing painted [...]
Since we run rehearsals for the next show concurrently with the performances of the current show, my home theatre has to rehearse somewhere offsite. We’re lucky enough to have a large church basement which we rent at a reasonable rate for this purpose. A local opera company also operates out of this space, though I’ve [...]
I found out about a week ago that I’ll be heading up to Cape Cod for my third summer with a summer stock theatre up there. Only this time, I’ve been given the scenic designer/technical director position, which means I will be responsible for the design and construction of 9 full-stage musical productions over the [...]
I’m publishing for sale, through Scribd.com, a unique piece on the history of theatrical stage managers from ancient Greek drama to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Vaudeville & Variety to the contemporary theatre. The article is 700 words, costs $5, and is a one-of-a-kind distillation of stage management history found nowhere else online. Preview available [...]
He was a large man, red of face, wearing a suit, but sweaty as the day was hot.
“I thought I was the only gangster here,” he said.
Don’t remember how I found this place. Some sort of train, coming back from somewhere else. I want to say family members were involved. I saw off [...]
Going to expand this into a few different full-length articles, but thought it would behoove me to get my references together into one place first…
Wikipedia’s entry on stage management explains: “There is a profound lack of information regarding the history and evolution of stage management. Most stage management books are reference or how-to manuals describing [...]
