Technical Theater
Kid City Set Piece
The performance installations and playscapes at the Kid City children’s museum in Middletown have always been impressive. The newest is a “Celebrated Bathing Fluid Dispensary” credited to the inventor Pulaski Nostrum (1854-1906). Through lit signs, machine helps participants soap, rub, rinse and dry their hands—all to the rhythm of a mechanical bicyclist. Kid City claims … Continue reading
Pop Culture: How They Got Those Balloons to Burst in Italian-American Reconciliation at the Long Wharf
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY’S ITALIAN-AMERICAN RECONCILIATION AT THE LONG WHARF, DIRECTED BY ERIC TING, IN THE AFTERMATH OF A BALLOON BLOODBATH WHICH POPPED SEVERAL OF THE VULNERABLE ORNAMENTS. THE ACTORS BLOCKING THE VIEW OF SOME BALLOONS ON THE FLOOR ARE MICHAEL CRANE AND UNREPENTANT BALLOON TERRORIST LISA BIRNBAUM. PHOTO BY T. CHARLES ERICKSON. The Long Wharf … Continue reading