The set by Kris Stone, ostensibly depicting the grandfather's estate garden, is rudimentary and charmless; the music is provided by a single pianist, and the theater's low ceilings and the stage's lack of depth restrict the staging of the children's antics so they don't seem very antic at all.
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On the second floor of the Italian Academy at Columbia University, a 1927 building in the style of a neo-Renaissance palazzo, is the Teatro, a commodious room with a carved-wood ceiling and a small stage.
There was a double height main room up to the corrugated iron ceiling with a raised booth and stage at the front which put the DJs right in the middle of the action.
The Strand was designed in Italian Renaissance style and features gold leaf on the domed ceiling and proscenium arch above the stage.
Leading a visitor through the 12,753-square-foot space, he waved his hand at the 24-foot-high ceiling, the stage, the balcony, and the 12-foot-tall Palladian windows that line the walls.
The ceiling is regulation black box: an inverted thicket of house lights and stage lights, protruding from black metal trusses.
As Ms. Keal spoke, crew members preparing the stage for the next performance offered their assessments of the theater, with its slightly-too-small stage, oddly sloping ceiling and unpredictable heat.
A stage crew hung black curtains, built a wood platform for a stage, removed the drop ceiling and brought in folding chairs.
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