There is spectacle (a special-effects theater with falling "snow," vibrating seats and an introductory history of the war shown on a 120-foot-wide screen) and solemnity (a careful survey of the brutality of the battles in the Pacific and the casualties of the European theater).
The marquee attractions will include the Journey Into the Darkness trackless dark ride, the Flight Over Russia flying theater (similar to Disney's Soarin' rides), a pair of Sci-Fi simulators and a 5D special effects theater.
"It is the only time you see the effect of theater on people.
That disproportionate relationship between cause and effect among theater folk may be a cliché, but it's one we've been set up to expect here and we look forward to its delivery.
Rainer's spare approach to dance grew as much out of the political theory of another great Apollonian, the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, whose distancing effect in theater came to inform the reductionist dictates of Minimalist dance.
Shade, of Broadway Black, agrees, and says the sudden visibility of black actors on Broadway will have important effects on theater's future.
In a Disneyfied, digitalilized world, where Broadway depends on high-decibel amplification and showy special effects, the theater program at Vassar College means to be a life preserver for an imperiled art form that makes human sounds in two intimate theaters, each seating 140.
Even folks who were wowed by 3-D effects at theaters are hesitant.
This had a problematic effect on his theater music.
But the starkness also has the effect of reconfirming theater's essential priorities, and especially the centrality of the actor.
A dismal side effect of Ballet Theater's programming is that the audience is encouraged to pick favorites.
