Beginning with an empty stage, the New Orleans-based artists Shawn Hall and PearlDamour (Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl) and their team will use fabric, wire, light and sound to transform the theater into a lush environment, rich in the details of an old-growth forest, only to take it down again each night and rebuild it the next day.
The director, Rachel Chavkin, has returned to transform the theater into a remote retreat in Bess Wohl's sharply observed yet minimalistly worded, Small Mouth Sounds.
Reverend Ike, as he is known, still preaches there occasionally, but recently he has transformed the theater into a cultural destination.
Its director, Gerard Mortier, an acclaimed impresario and erudite provocateur, has transformed the theater into an internationally sought-after space for experimentalism.
The production, which was receiving its United States premiere, transformed the theater into a nondescript dance hall with dangling chandelier, parquet floor and drab mirrored walls.
"Tango Fire" transformed the theater from a nightclub atmosphere in "The Milonga" to a more traditional display of stage dancing in "The Show".
To make all the legerdemain possible, David M. Barber has transformed the theater's thrust stage into an elegant gold-arched proscenium, complete with side boxes and a plush, red curtain trimmed with gold tassels.
More than any other writer, she has transformed the theater into what it needs to be: a gymnasium that exercises the imagination, shakes up the moral sense, stretches the spirit.
The only surreal aspect of the show was evident in the crowd of boldface names, seemingly because of Ms. Brouk's work as a choreographer on John Turturro's film "Romance and Cigarettes," which transformed the theater on Thursday into a reunion of "The Sopranos".
All the while, the light from a massive disco ball transformed the theater into the city's saddest, spaciest prom.
Murky blue lighting and a giant tangled tree, built of seemingly endless ropes, transform the Abingdon Theater Company's black box theater into another world — perhaps one where plays meet their full potential.
