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“Birthright” and “The Saviors”
Birthright by Jonathan Spector and Balusters by David Lindsay-Abaire feature almost identical sets. Scott Pask (Birthright) and Derek McLane (Balusters) both give us living rooms in which, as we view the stage left to right, there’s a door to the exterior, a foyer, a stairway leading from the foyer up to a second floor, a… Continue reading
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“The Seat of Our Pants”
Stephen Sondheim famously quipped that he had spent much of his career trying to fix the second act of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Allegro. Allegro didn’t work when it premiered in 1947 and it still didn’t quite work when CSC presented a 90-minute revisal in 2014 directed by John Doyle. But something in Allegro’s conception intrigued… Continue reading
Jeffrey Sweet--Making the Scene 