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...polished and professional. Turning the Dunster House dining hall, grand as it is, into a useable venue for opera is no small feat and the set designed by Thalassa G. Raasch ’09 is a success because its functionality makes the most of a challenging space. A backlit screen offers the opportunity for stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 to display two locations to the audience at the same time. The one major set change is seamless as two large doors open to replace a living room with a garden landscape.The talented cast fills Raasch?...
...polished and professional. Turning the Dunster House dining hall, grand as it is, into a useable venue for opera is no small feat and the set designed by Thalassa G. Raasch ’09 is a success because its functionality makes the most of a challenging space. A backlit screen offers the opportunity for stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 to display two locations to the audience at the same time. The one major set change is seamless as two large doors open to replace a living room with a garden landscape.The talented cast fills Raasch?...
...Coco Banana, Cargo and Angel, each competing with its neighbors to be bigger, brighter and louder. But on the other side of the road, the offices and shops are shuttered and dark by late evening when revelers start pouring out of taxis. Only one discrete neon sign is visible, backlit white letters above a small stairway picking out the name, "Destination," Beijing's premier gay club...
...hours with Velázquez, Zurbarán and Goya got him thinking. Was it still possible, in the 20th century, to make representational art with anything like the same power? He happened to be traveling by bus at the time and at each terminal his attention was grabbed by those backlit light boxes that display ads. A light came on in his head...
...full steam ahead for Shanghai's drinking and dining scene these days-and should visitors be unaware of the fact, the name of the city's newest fashionable eatery, a FuturePerfect, blazes from its backlit signboard in a cheerful boast. The brainchild of Frank Steffen, who also owns Shanghai's trendy Arch bar, a FuturePerfect is located down an alley off Huashan Road, where old men in pajamas squat against shikumen walls. The restaurant comprises a tastefully understated dining room-staffed by servers in gray bloomers-or courtyard seating. Choose the latter and you'll be dining beneath centuries...