Category: scenic design
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What color is your liquor, part 2
Faux prop whiskey, round 2. The first batch of faux whiskey was looking rather green under the stage lights, so I’ve mixed up a new recipe using burnt sugar as the base. The actor drinking the concoction on stage is open to trying the sweet water, so I got to…
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What color is your liquor?
Whiskey on stage: No tea. No coffee. No powdered ice tea. No flat soda. No caramel-burnt sugar base. And no burnt toast (what?). This was the challenge: water and food coloring. Not a bad outcome I think.
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Mirado Black Warrior, back in hand
Following a holiday season of travel, family, friends, and love, I’m back in the proverbial studio with sketches, research and bash models compiling for An Illiad with RLTP. Mirado Black Warrior back in hand. Trusty scale rule at its side. Formal model and ground plan drafting commences tomorrow.
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1959:: today
Clybourne Park opens this week. My first scenic jaunt with Road Less Traveled Productions. The old Studio Arena has a new life as 710Main Theatre. RLTP invaded the space for this provocative story on race relations, social perspectives, and the continuing fight for equality on all fronts. Come join the…
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Venus revealing
It’s been a time these months. Opened and closing. Curtain Up! at the New Phoenix. Set design for Venus in Fur. Many thanks to the team I had on board for this little boxed set. Good karma comes around. Venus reborn. Venus revealed.
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Summer stock wrap up
As the end of July draws near, so to does my own little version of summer stock. Sound of Music has opened and closed. The props have been safely bubble wrapped and loaded into shipping containers for their journey to Jordon. New Phoenix design has been approved, set construction underway…
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Visions of sugar plums
It was the first real snow of the season, and it just perfectly set the mood for the first public performance of Neglia Ballet’s Nutcracker this past Saturday evening. In conjunction with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Shea’s Performing Arts Center, year four of this annual event was a sparkle…
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City of pubs and lowly desires
Final Dress tonight for A Couple of Blaguards . Theatre in the round at the Irish Classical has been a welcome challenge. Laying a laminate wood floor was a new and rewarding endeavor. Glowing lanterns and rustic furniture transport the audience to an Irish pub where these characters tell their…
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Tools of the [model box] trade
Where has a month gone? Mr & Mrs Nobody enjoyed a wonderful opening, I began another semester of teaching, I did the lighting design at the wedding of some dear friends, I stage managed a music festival in the woods, and today was the first production meeting for A Couple…
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Mr. & Mrs. Nobody
To kick off the regular theatre season I am designing the set (and some props) for a production of Mr. & Mrs. Nobody at The New Phoenix Theatre. Construction and painting are 90% complete. I hired a student of mine as a painter and we spent the day yesterday making…
Dyan Burlingame 