Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increasingly arbitrary distinction between high art and pop culture: Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures and Sweeney Todd, for example, have joined Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in the repertoires of English and American opera companies. It is a truth that the Viennese, who have always made room on their stage for both opera and operetta, have long understood: art is no respecter of venue...
SPECIAL mention should go to Set Designer Regan McClellan. Unlike the usually lavish Mainstage sets, the set for Lie has an spare understatement that is wholly appropriate. The stage's vast desolation, with dividing lines down the middle, is just the right setting for the isolated, detached characters...
...houses on the stage are especially effective, since, as my companion pointed out, they demonstrate the paranoid, skewed perspectives of their inhabitants, Jake and Beth. The houses are built on a superhuman scale, with the doorways, windows, walls, and even the floors at bizarre angles to each other. The houses are placed far enough from each other that they seem hundreds of miles apart--which, as the script suggests, they are--yet they are close enough for Jake, imagining he sees Beth, to actually look over to her house...
Which means that Bloom used a recent National Endowment for the Arts grant to create a satellite system of twirling microphones above a Symphony Space stage in New York and then pushed the sounds through speakers. It's not really surprising that Bloom is the first musical artist to have become involved in the NASA art program...
...Every band goes through that stage," Ben Hammond explains. "The key is to come out of it," adds Tom Hammond...