NEW VICTORY: "STEP LIVELY Dancee looks twice as intimate on the jewel-box stage of the New Victory.
(DJ Boo) and his equipment — two turntables, a laptop, etc. — occupy the lower-left corner of the black-box stage.
At the Doris Duke Studio Theater, Noche Flamenca will turn a black-box stage into a smoky Gypsy tavern filled with passionate music and dance.
A friskier crowd gathers a few doors down at Barrette (601 Vanderbilt Avenue; 718-230-5170), a burlesque-inspired bar with red booths and a black-box stage where go-go dancers twirl.
In the light mist that suffuses the black-box stage of the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, the Aquila Theater Company's production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" begins with an engaging series of directorial ideas.
In my view the theatre isn't illusionistic at all, so in using a picture-box stage we run no risk of convincing anybody of the literal truth of what they see.
In the intimate setting of the Flea with the black-box stage lighted in the fashion of a living room, the actors are still working with the scripts in front of them.
Now might television, struggling for viewers as mightily as any August black-box stage show ever did, be about to flood us with the adjectives of sin and scandal?
Set in the abstract space of a white-floor, black-box stage, the piece is notable for its outpouring of dance and its physical beauty: the longhaired women in jewel-colored evening dresses and the dark-suited men, the airy openness of the stage punctuated by a succession of calligraphic solos.
But the crucial ingredient is the theater itself, with its cozy lobby, interior galleries and nicely functional white-box stage, which all brim with a sense that the Construction Company is most of all a welcoming, low-key home where quietly imaginative art, of the upper- and lower-case varieties, can be made by longtime and new practitioners.
