Category Archives: By Design

‘Peerless’ Turns a Library Into a Theatre

Lighting designer Emmett H. Buhmann explains how he lit a lecture hall so that it looks like a theatre for Company One’s new production.

For the Seattle Rep run, the design team turned the immersive show into one that can play in a proscenium.

The set and projection design for Aditi Brennan Kapil’s play is meant to evoke the inner life of a girl on the autism spectrum.

Puppet designer Blair Thomas explains how he created talking puppets for the Lookingglass Theatre production.

Paloma Young discusses blending Imperial Russia with modern punk in her costumes for the genre-spanning musical.

The designer is revisiting—and revising—her original Broadway costumes from 1987 at Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars.

In costuming Matthew Lopez’s play at Arden Theatre, it was important to show the process of getting into drag.

Take a peek at Mike Horner’s design process of Tyrone in Unicorn Theatre’s ‘Hand to God,’ this year’s most-produced play.