Costume Design, Theatre Production, and Stage Management
The stage manager is responsible for an endless array of interrelated tasks for putting on a play. From pyrotechnics to communicating and corralling actors, from coordinating between backstage production and the A/V booth to organizing every single prop and costume garment. And then during the production, everything must be like clockwork in a choregraphed list of precisely timed actions that frequently feel like chaos but which somehow comes off as meticulous on stage. When things are working like they should. As part of our series on New Orleans Theatre, we wanted to create a space to discuss the intersection between costume design, production costs, casting,Read More →