One thinks primarily of Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar's more evocative Big Dance Theater.
But as performed with a gorgeous sorrowful twang by Marie-France Arcilla in "Working: A Musical," at 59E59 Theaters, this evocative ballad belongs unequivocally to the woman standing before us, a mother of three who toils as an assembly-line steam-press operator in a luggage factory, reflecting on her "wasted" life.
And out in the suburb of Glencoe, north of Chicago, at the Writers' Theater, Mr. Cromer's evocative staging of William Inge's "Picnic" was earning rapturous notices.
In addition, there is no more beautiful or evocative music being played in a New York theater at the moment than Richard Peaslee's haunting, piquantly orchestrated score.
And it is Mr. Moretti's music, composed for just 21 musicians and featuring a fisarmonica (an Italian version of the accordion), that turns "Oltremare" into a theater piece both effective and evocative.
Transforming the black box theater of Luna Stage into an evocative replica of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, circa 1968, was challenge enough for Charlie Corcoran, who designed the sets for "The Man in Room 306".
It's less evocative of the real world than a community-theater production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
''String of Pearls," blessed with a deceptively simple set by Loy Arcenas and evocative costumes by David Zinn, continues at the 59E59 Theaters through Oct. 24.
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His graceful, inventive, evocative combination of light, painting and music add up to theater as meditation, and it couldn't be needed more.
