Needing a place to live in May, I contacted a promising Airbnb host in Inwood, NY. Who would have suspected that I would end up living in the apartment of former Lighting Designer and active...

Oceans of words have been written about Tharon Musser, her beginnings at Yale, her first success with José Quintero’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, her work with the Michael Bennett-lead “dream...

The 2016 Opera Festival at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing opened with a “made in Italy” production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser. Designed and directed by Pier’Alli, the unit...

If you google the late lighting designer Patrick Latronica, you will find more than one entry that looks like a Rosco marketing piece. Patrick’s brilliant lighting designs were seen in major...

Damiano Michieletto's production of The Abduction from the Serraglio for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Italy was set in a modern, floating harem called the “Palace.” The boat could rotate 360...

Teaching children (and even adults) the basics of the physics of light and color is a formidable task. However, Italian lighting designer Liliana Ladeluca and composer Andrea Basevi created a...

Italy is not especially renowned for its productions of modern musicals. Its fame lies in having invented the form of musical theatre called “opera.” When Saverio Marconi, the acclaimed director of...

from Margie Heymann From June 8 until July 1 Europe will be alight with the colors of the team shirts and national flags of the 16 countries competing for the title of UEFA 2012 European Football...

In June 2009 Paule Constable, a lighting designer at the absolute top of her profession, a three-time Olivier Award winner and in demand all over the world, organized a conference with Rachel...