Productions on ‘HOLD,’ a Web Home Designed to Look Back and Forward
A new site celebrates the designs for canceled productions and offers a peek behind the scenes.
All Stories About lighting design
Featured Contributors, July/August 2018
A part-time backstage hand explains a big lighting changeover, and a Cincy arts reporter turns an artist profile into a portrait of a whole scene.
Cutting Through the Haze: A Response to a Foggy Argument
What was missing from a recent op-ed? A sense of how lighting designers actually work to tell visual stories and create stage space.
What Shines Through
To tell the story of theatrical lighting design, we need to get beyond adjectives and surfaces.
They Speak Lighting
How master designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer help us see what their directors want to show us.
Charge of the LED Brigade
Tomorrow’s lighting technology is already here, though the changeover is not yet complete.
The Tough Old Broad Who Lit the Way
Tharon Musser, whose career spanned four decades, spurred innovation in her field, but always in the service of a central concept.
Disenchanted Isle: A Casebook on the Making of Jennifer Tipton’s ‘Tempest’
The practiced lighting designer makes an auspicious and instructive directorial debut at the Guthrie.
