Word: stagecrafter
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...billing). But so popular was Jones with Connoisseur King Charles that Jonson was forced to retire from court. Jones continued to rule as the arbiter of taste-until, with the Puritan revolution, he probably landed in prison and eventually an obscure grave. Plentiful evidence of his flamboyant wit and stagecraft can be seen in an exhibit of 119 drawings of stage sets, props and costumes from the Duke of Devon shire's collection at Chatsworth, currently on display at Washington's National Gallery...
...Webern, some Stravinsky, some Britten. As a result, the operatic version of Mourning emerges as a compelling drama with polished incidental music. Last week, after two Mourning performances, Levy was busy cutting the three-hour opera by about 20 minutes. It will take more than emergency surgery and fine stagecraft to save a score that was dead to begin with...
...unflaggingly funny drawing-room farce based on a single droll conceit: what might people do and say and discover about each other if they were suddenly left in a total blackout on the evening of a vitally important party? To begin with, this poses a little problem of stagecraft: How do you present actors in the dark and still allow the audience to see them? Simple: by reversing things. When the lights are supposed to be on, the stage is dark; when they are suddenly supposed to go out, the stage blazes with light...
School Dropout. It is that conviction, as well as his presence and artful stagecraft, that has made Scofield's performances near legendary. Helen Hayes, who saw him in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons, led the applause by rising and bellowing "Bravo! Bravo!" Playing Hamlet in Moscow in 1955, Scofield drew 16 curtain calls, the last three with the whole audience chanting his name in unison. When he played the whisky priest in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, the London Sunday Express called his performance "one of the finest pieces of character...
...always wishes that Thornton Wilder were as intelligent as he is theatrically gifted. After his stagecraft enchants and grips you, you're left with the truisms and slightly awry profundity of his philosophy. He converts the theatre into a sympathetic, subtle medium and then ignores its potential to sermonize. But his humor is so warm, and his juggling of conventions so hypnotic, that you're a hundred steps out of the theatre before you realize you've been hoodwinked into sentimentality...