At long last, after twenty-five years of creative retirement, author/director Brooking finds himself in New Orleans relaxing on Jackson Square in the French Quarter with neighborhood friend Carolyn Krack. You are holding in your hands his new theatre-memoir entitled THE THEATAH: An Academic's Love Affair with the Wicked Stage, In this magnum opus of the stage, Brooking leads the reader through the roller-coaster world of academic theatre with passion and humor, sharing with the reader the director's joys and despairs as he guides fifty plays, musicals and operas from the rehearsal room to opening night. Two galleries of dramatic photos illuminate these journeys. You will also adventure from the classroom into off-beat theatrical byways of Central America and post-WWII Europe. And, as a lagniappe (a small French Quarter gift) there are seven deeply-etched monologues for women and an avant-garde play called Crossroads for the theatre-buff's reading pleasure. \"On stage, everybody. Curtain going up!\"
This was a very experimental piece, and based on the fact Ocean seems to realize their fate first in the opening numbers!!
Fed up with female villains that aren't scary or evil? I can help. Today's post is all about creating awesome female villains.
Lighting Designer Bradley King explains why and how he chose the Rosco Braq Cube 4C as the footlights in his his Tony Award®-winning lighting design for the hit Broadway musical "Hadestown."
See video, photos and fan art Hadestown on Broadway.
I've been on the hunt for amazing steampunk light switches for ages now, and my search has yielded three very different styles I think you guys are gonna love. First, and most common, are the kinetic gear covers from Green Tree Jewelry: ($45 on Etsy) These are gorgeous and fun - and with lots of different styles - but I've always been bugged by the visible light switch. I wanted something more convincingly period-looking for our steampunk room. Then I found these: ( $65 from PuzzlePros) ... and absolutely flipped. (See what I did there?) That's plasma-cut steel, so it's hefty and really real looking, plus it completely covers the existing light switches. The only problem? I needed two double switches... and I'm too cheap to pay $136 for two light switch covers. 0.o Finally, about 3 weeks ago, I stumbled across these: ($12 from NicksPrints85 on Etsy) They're 3D printed, so they don't cost much, and the knife-switch operation (which most call the "Frankenstein" switch) is positively ingenious. Like the other two, it fits right over your existing wall switches! I waited so long to post the ones we bought because John and I have been busy trying to refinish ours. We tried something called vapor smoothing to smooth out the 3D printing grooves - twice! - but sadly it just didn't work. Maybe it's the wrong kind of plastic? So then I applied several coats of a heavy build-able primer, which smoothed them out a little. By that point it had been many days and I was getting extra impatient, so I called them "close enough" and slapped some paint on. Here's the finished product: I'll be honest: I'm not thrilled with the finish. You can still see some diagonal printing grooves, and the "metal" parts are far too rough to ever really look like metal. Happily our steampunk room is quite dark, though, and the switches look WAY COOL from a distance: Claptrap approved! I also can't tell you how fun it is it turn the lights on and off now. The switches make a really satisfying snap, and the levers feel pretty substantial. Since I didn't apply a clear coat, though, some of my top coat is starting to scratch off the switch mechanism, down to the red primer underneath: So I think I may take another crack at refinishing them - especially since I found this amazing version by Thingverse member sdrazga: Really digging the patina'd copper and aged black! I think aging the "metal" is key, so it doesn't need to be smooth. And here's a much better version of the color scheme I was trying for, from Thingverse member kyag: Just to show you guys that these switches can look better than mine. ;) And finally, if you have your own 3D printer you can actually download the single switch design - for free! - here on Thingverse. There are also alternate versions for rocker switches. Happy switching!
Handmade paper sculpture from recycled cardboard tubes
It's Christmas on Broadway and to celebrate we've decided to do some metaphorical gifting to all of our favorite Broadway characters.
Auditorium of the 1913 Wells Theatre, once part of a 40-theater group that stretched from Indiana to Florida. It was restored to its onetime grandeur in 1986.Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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These 80s hairstyles are back and better than ever, but don’t bust out your crimper and scrunchies just yet. Hairstylists explain exactly how to get modern-day iterations of the mullet, shag, and more.
Director Rachel Chavkin and composer and book writer Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown officially opens April 17 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
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