Like everything else in theater, there’s much more to lighting and sound design than their obvious purpose of making on-stage action visible and audible. Through means bold and subtle, they enhance our experience and understanding.
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The set and costume choices used in theater can seem more obvious than other aspects of a production, if only because they are things we evaluate all the time. What people are wearing; their rooms. We may bite our tongues, but we notice.
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For our deep dive into staging and choreography (generally, movement), my “how to watch a play” class viewed Roundabout Theatre’s 2016 production of the musical She Loves Me.
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My “How To Watch A Play” class recently watched a London production of Into the Woods, the Stephen Sondheim fairy tales mashup. It was an excellent lead-in to that week’s discussion on creating a character, because the show is stuffed with them.
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This fall I’m taking a five-week ZOOM course on “How to Watch a Play.” The class is led by Adam Immerwahr, artistic director of Washington, D.C.’s Theater J.
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