Costume History: How Silhouettes Changed Through the Decades
A swish of fabric cuts through the dim rehearsal light. A skirt does not just move; it carves the air into a shape. An actor turns, and you do not…
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August 30, 2025
Budget Set Design: Making Cardboard Look Like Steel
The panel stands under a single work light, tall and flat and utterly unremarkable. Raw cardboard. Soft edges. Those familiar corrugation lines glowing through the thin brown skin. Then the…
August 22, 2025
Event Tech: Using Apps for Ticketing and Programs
The house lights are still up, but phones are already glowing. Little rectangles of light hover above the seats like fireflies that refuse to wait for darkness. Someone scrolls through…
July 18, 2025
Marketing a Show on Zero Budget: Social Media Strategies
Light scratches across the black floor, a half-finished set leans in the corner, and somewhere a single work light hums overhead. Your cast is rehearsing their hearts out in secondhand…
June 9, 2025
Visiting Museums: How to Avoid ‘Museum Fatigue’
The marble floor is cold under your feet. Overhead, a high skylight spills a pale sheet of light across statues that have not moved for centuries. Around you: labels, dates,…
April 4, 2025
The History of Makeup in Performance
A face appears from the dark backstage, half-finished. One eye circled in chalky white, the cheek streaked with vermilion, the lips only outlined. Overhead, a naked bulb hums and flickers,…
March 18, 2025
Liability Insurance for Events: What You Need to Know
A single champagne glass tips in slow motion. Your set is glowing. Performers move through fog and projected light. Guests are barefoot on your carefully painted floor. Then someone trips…
March 7, 2025
Post-Mortem Meetings: Analyzing What Went Wrong After Closing Night
The house is empty now. The ghost light hums in the center of the stage, throwing a thin pool of yellow across tape marks and scuffed paint. The air still…
January 20, 2025
Murder Mystery Dinners: Hosting a Successful Event
The room hums before anyone speaks. Cutlery rests in perfect formation, a silver forest under candlelight. A blood-red runner slices the length of the table. In the corner, an empty…
January 4, 2025