The volunteer ushers, wearing maroon vests, filtered into the theater for the "Swingtime" matinee as Marianne Dominy, the costume coordinator, ironed a white gown.
The child whose sense of Aeschylus is filtered through Yiddish theater, whose Longfellow was learned in Yiddish and performed for Italian bullies, and whose knack for Shakespeare made him a good bet to become an electrician — whose idea of literature is polyglot, hybrid, mongrel — is not going to grow up to be Robert Frost.
After a quick chat with Paul Koval, the head carpenter, Mr. Lansky joined Brad Fields, the company's head lighting designer, to discuss how to refocus and change the color filters for the theater's 600-odd lights, which were arranged for "Onegin" and now had to be adjusted for "Sleeping Beauty".
There's limited interest in watching the enterprising theater troupe, Filter, attempt a partial deconstruction of the play: That's the sort of thing Manhattan's Wooster Group does more fully and with far more ease.
By then, the green room had emptied, and much of the excitement, what there was of it, had filtered out of the theater.
The thing to understand about the ruckus of a midnight screening is that, unlike the usual noise you have to filter out at a movie theater, it never feels disruptive, because it's never disrespectful.
The air is full of murmuring and laughter as people filter out of the Pacific Theaters multiplex and into the night.
You'll start by seeing all types of opportunities for fun in your city, but you can filter to just see music, sports, theater or community events.
First you'll get a grid of images representing films currently in theaters that you can filter by category.
And the architects made sure sound would neither filter out nor filter in to the theater.
