Correction: November 26, 2000, Sunday Because of an editing error, an article on Nov. 12 about a series of Soviet films at the Walter Reade Theater rendered a word incorrectly in a quotation from the book "Real Images: Soviet Cinema and the Thaw" by Josephine Woll.
This dance-theater rendering — it's somehow Greek mythology told through Japanese Minimalism — isn't the happiest of fusions.
Who would ever have thought three months ago that the most emotionally stirring shows in Manhattan would be a sincerely kitschy musical set to the songs of Abba ("Mamma Mia!"), an earnest story-theater rendering of Greco-Roman myths ("Metamorphoses") and a dizzy, well-known romp like "Noises Off"?
Sunday's performance reminded me how it works well only on a small stage with the audience at close quarters; a big theater quickly renders its histrionics flamboyant and blurs its dance detail.
White and golden lights rain beams on the stage, rendering the theater pristine, oddly spacious and fit for a pair of jewels.
Theater of Lost Species rendering.
It is not ambitious film projects, though, but television that is providing most of the faithfully rendered theater for DVD's.
Dexter, who died in 1990, thought effective theater could be rendered through stark, modern production concepts, and this Poulenc opera from 1957, which tells the true story of a group of Carmelite nuns who were guillotined during the French Revolution, was ideally suited to the Dexter aesthetic.
My phone was deep in my bag, rendering the tiny theater a pitch-black oasis where time was simultaneously paused and extended, launching me into an experiential realm that lies far beyond my own limited lifetime.
But for the Sci Fi Channel's "Exposure: Future of Film Festival," tomorrow through Sunday, a Manhattan design firm called Big Room transformed space at 135 West 18th Street into four new temporary theaters, including Matrix, rendered below, which has 100 seats and a grid of luminescent wires.
Even a fire that destroyed much of the surrounding downtown in 1986, rendering the block on which the theater stands a ghost town, did not daunt its supporters.
