This is a surprisingly elegant production, starting with James J. Fenton's theater-within-a-theater set.
It remains for two more Stage Too plays, the next to be designed for 252 seats and a thrust stage, to test intimate exchanges in a simulated theater-within-a-theater.
Mr. Wild had to ensure that the appliances operated safely within the context of a theater set.
The chief executive, Martin Boschet, vilified in the press for allowing a member of the Ramones rock group to perform in a theater within the opera house at an event sponsored by Converse sportswear, was also fired.
Friday night it was the turn of the Ruhr Triennale, one of the commissioners, with the first of five performances in a theater within the gargantuan Bochum Jahrhunderthalle (Centennial Hall), carved out of a former steel mill.
The director of "Anna Christie" is Rob Ashford, the Broadway regular ("How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying") who has found a second artistic home at the Donmar mining the American repertoire within the confines of a theater a fraction the size of even the smallest Broadway playhouse.
They surpass the technology that forms the foundation of their very being, transcending medium to exist somewhere else: as art, I suppose, expression every part as pertinent as what you'll find on a canvas, in a theater, within the structure of a sentence that turns your lungs inside out with delight.
White Plains has not had a movie theater within its geographic boundaries since a theater at the Galleria closed in the mid-1980's.
"Pagliacci" is by design a primitive theater production within a sophisticated theater production.
Installed in the courtyard between the building's two wings, the so-called Private Park has been conceived as a theater: the play within the play.
