Pierson also noted that WNYC, a public-TV station that has used former "Dark Shadows" actors to solicit pledges, did not find a $12,500 donation from the "Dark Shadows" Festival undesirable.
In May, the "Dark Shadows" actor addressed rumors that he and Paradis were on the rocks.
Stark's Rastar Productions actually made a movie, titled "Casey's Shadow," which starred actors celebrated at the time, Alexis Smith and Walter Matthau.
Cordova himself — a dark riff on Kubrick, with a pinch of Friedkin and a sprig of Banksy thrown in for good measure — stays offstage, casting his long, creepy shadow across the actors throughout the course of the drama.
THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON PigPen Theater Company, a troupe of recent graduates from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, presents a theatrical fable — told with actors, shadow puppets, music and more — about a man on a search for his missing wife.
Careful lighting creates pockets of shadow in which actors can hide; a soundtrack can shock, distract, and contribute to over-all discomfort; and fog machines generate a reliably creepy atmosphere.
The world's longest continuously showing movie plays in theaters across the world every week with "shadow casts" of actors pantomiming the action and dialogue in front of the screen, with attendees dressed elaborately as characters from the film.
Rao used the "painting with light" technique, which captures the shadow of the actors to reflect their "mood and character".
Details that would drive most directors crazy — shadows thrown on actors' faces, for example — didn't appear to concern him, as long as he got the shot.
The movements of the remarkable musicians -- Philip Setzer, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton and David Finckel -- and their shadows, the four actors, have been choreographed with stately precision in ways that seem both surprising and inevitable.
