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fromVeranda
1 week ago

This Broadway Musical Built the New York City Skyline From Stacked Suitcases

Set designer Soutra Gilmour created a sculptural suitcase-built New York skyline for the Broadway musical Two Strangers, combining architectural elements with intimate staging that transforms throughout the production.
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fromArchitectural Digest
5 months ago

Meet the Experimental Collective Reimagining Set Design for the Contemporary Stage

It's hard to think of a more iconic exchange in the history of theater than the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet. Those legendary lines. That stolen kiss. It's been performed countless times the world over. And it was for that reason that Andrew Moerdyk, Kimie Nishikawa, and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, founders of the Brooklyn-based scenic design studio dots, hoped to reinvent it, when tapped by director Sam Gold for the Circle in the Square Theatre's recent Broadway adaptation. Together, the creative team conceived a bed of flowers-revealed by the opening of a circular panel-and, suspended above it, a mattress.
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