The ultimate guide to making it as a set, lighting, costume, or scenic designer, now in its second edition.
Broadway's greatest theatrical designers take you behind the scenes to show you how to start and advance a career in this exciting field.
The information contained in this handbook is essential for those working in Broadway, regional, stock, or university theater; concert halls; opera houses; and more.
This is an essential guide for students and teachers of theatre design.
More traditional touring productions that use standard batten layouts (such as dance companies) can also make use of several time-saving measures to help the crews become more efficient as they move a show between facilities.
Drafting for the Theatre, second edition assembles in one book all the principal types of drawings, techniques, and conventional wisdom necessary for the production of scenic drafting, design, and shop drawings.
The book is accompanied by additional web content found at stagephoto.org, including tutorials, author blog, a photo gallery, and more resources.
James Moody, The Business of Theatrical Design Second Edition ( New York : Allworth Press , 2013 ). Lynn Pecktal, Designing and Painting for the Theatre Third Edition ( New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston , 1975 ).
The follow-up to the 2000 Golden Pen Award-winning Structural Design for the Stage, this second edition provides the theater technician with a foundation in structural design, allowing an intuitive understanding of "why sets stand up.
A veteran of entertainment in its many forms, Drew has written a similar book for film and television.
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