I soon consulted a friend of mine, Koji "the gadget master," who had once demonstrated for me a "Directional Speaker" that can convey sound tens of meters with a very sharp direction sensitivity.
Under Dominic Cooke's sharp direction this terrific trio make each moment clear.
Some of it has to do with the subtle, super-sharp direction by Mad Ones member Lila Neugebauer.
There is theatrical flair in the writing of Chloe Moss's desperately sad Fatal Light and Tessa Walker's sharp direction of Dancing Bears.
At it best "Paradise Park," under Daniel Fish's sharp direction, seems like a bleak counterpart to "Queens Boulevard (the musical)," Mr. Mee's buoyant mishmash of a play about a multicultural wedding celebration.
A series of skits and sketches, some more tedious than others in spite of sharp direction by Emily Mann and a fine cast of actors, produces musings on such diverse subjects as the Crucifixion, Camus and Sartre, Rex Harrison's previous incarnations and the United States' bombing of Iraq.
Joel Zwick, whose Hollywood credits include My Big Fat Greek Wedding contributed the sharp direction.
It also helps when you've got talented actors, high quality writing, razor-sharp direction, and high-end production values.
Under Paul Nicolai Stein's sharp direction, Samson is a discovery, blessed with rich vocal resources, a wrestler's physical stamina and an expressive face capable of going from hilarious to harrowing on a ruble.
The "old friends" who populate Horton Foote's play of that name have a long and spiteful history, and the lively, gripping, and often funny production that arrived at the Signature Theater Thursday night under Michael Wilson's sharp direction only confirms the old cynicism that with friends like these who needs enemies.
Under the briskly sharp direction of Jeff Calhoun, who also choreographed, "9 to 5" brings Patricia Resnick's adaptation and Parton's music and lyrics beautifully to life, even though the show remains necessarily mired in the late Seventies with typewriters and rotary-dial phones, not to mention the lack of women in high positions.
