{Yes! This photo is of a scale model, taken by Scenic Designer Tony Cisek}
The first rehearsal for Sometimes a Great Notion was today, allowing cast and staff to get their first glimpse of the designs and ideas that will start to bring this great Oregon novel to life.
The rehearsal began with a Portland Center […]

»read more from "Beginning the Process of Bringing the Oregon Forest to Life"

The scene shop is stuffed full with Christmas Carol scenery. I counted at least four Christmas trees.

The costume shop gathered around to hear notes from Designer Jeff Cone about last evening’s rehearsal.

As the weary crew made last minute alterations.

And the sets received additional coats of paint from Geno.

And final touches were added to […]

»read more from "Final Preparations"

A first glance at the set design for A Christmas Carol. This is a front elevation, so doesn’t show the shape of the set yet, but does offer a sense of color and scale.
Cliff Fanin Baker, who directed Act A Lady and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for us returns to steer the project - […]

»read more from "A Christmas Carol Sets"

First sketches and set ideas arrived last week for 12th Night and Beard of Avon.  Bill Bloodgood (Misalliance, King Lear) is designing. 

The idea is to create an “Elizabethan backstage” with properties hanging from the sky.

The large  beams shown will mirror re-construction of the new Globe in London.

»read more from "Beard/12th night sketches"

 Welcome to the scene shop!  One of the questions we are asked most often is, “Where does this show go after its run in Portland?”  I explain that most of the time the show isn’t going anywhere (though Cabaret is an exception because it travels to Geva Theater in Rochester, NY in January).  In fact […]

»read more from "ON HAMMER AND SCREWS"

Notes from Skip re: Cabaret set design…
“Hope you’re swell. I rebuilt model incorporating thoughts from our discussion. It feels much better related to faded elegance and hopefully less Russian industrial. I changed the angle of side walls slightly.
The center platform is 32″ high (was 24″); two step units both portable - one circular (might be […]

»read more from "re: Cabaret set designs"

Just back from a week of vacation (largely spent here in PDX biking, hiking, piddling), to find early sketches of the set for Cabaret in my in box. Skip Mercier (designer for West Side Story) is designing and shared some very rough ideas about a direction we may head in. Thought you might be interested […]

»read more from "early Cabaret set sketches"