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Theatre Design & Technology

The journal for
design, production and technology professionals
in the performing arts and entertainment industry.

 

 

Winter 2011

Volume 47, Number 1

 

Class Notes with Brock
After long years of a great career, Dr. Brockett still loved to learn.
By Margaret Mitchell

Dancing Around Design, Part Two
Dance, being a temporal and flexible art form, is both a source of frustration and excitement for a sound designer.
By Brad Berridge

History of the Broadway Costume Business, The
The Broadway costume business today has a core of around ten commercial shops.
By Triffin Morris and Gregory DL Morris

Holy Cow: Staging Boucicault's The Shaughraun
Before it could take advantage of a rich archive of material about a nineteenth-century playwright, UCF's technical director first had to find a huge fiberglass cow.
By Patrick M. Finelli and Jason Winfield

Jean-Jaques Rousseau on the Paris Opera 1760
The state-of-the-art theatre in 1770 was satirized by Rousseau as home to "painfully disagreeable" performances.
By C. Thomas Ault

Lore and Legends: Oscar G. Brockett
He changed the way theatre history is taught.
By Richard D. Stephens

Monsters and Transformations: Baroque Performer-Operated Devices
Technologies used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to animate centaurs and dragons can still be found on Broadway in the twenty-first century.
By Frank Mohler

Theatre Minds in Immersive Design
A new approach to design for narrative performance, called "5D, the future of immersive design," has both students and seasoned professionals excited.
By Frank P. Ludwig

 

 

On the cover:

Baritone James Maddalena as Simon Powers in the new opera Death and the Powers by Tod Machover.
Photo by Jonathan Williams.

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