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Chapters & Essays in Books

 

 “Design for the Yiddish Stage,” in New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, ed. Edna Nahshon (Columbia University Press/Museum of the City of New York, 2016)


“Ideal Theatres: One Roof or Two?” in Setting the Scene: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Theatre Architecture (Ashgate Publishing, 2015)

 

“Desire and Décor,” in Space and Desire, ed. T. Brejzek et al. (Zurich University of the Arts, 2011)

 

“The American Context,” in Late & Great American Designers 1960-2010,

eds. B. Owen and D. Rodger (United States Institute for Theatre Technology, 2010).

 

“The Power of Space in a Virtual World,” in Performance Design,

eds. D. Hannah and O. Harslof (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008).

 

“Defining Space and Power,” in Space and Power, ed. T. Brejzek et al.

(Zurich University of the Arts, 2008).

 

Interview in Absolute Wilson: The Biography (Prestel, 2006).

 

 “Avant-Garde Scenography and the Frames of the Theater” in Against Theater,

eds. A. Ackerman and M. Puchner (Palgrave, 2006)

 

 “The Symbolist Scenography of Arthur Miller” in Arthur Miller’s America: Theater & Culture in a Time of Change, ed. M. Brater (University of Michigan Press, 2005).

 

“The Art of Transition: Rockwell Group and Theatre” in Pleasure: The Architecture and Design of Rockwell Group (Universe Publishing 2002).

 

“American Theatre in Context: 1945—Present" in The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Vol. 3 (2000).

 

“The Scenography of Chekhov’s Plays,” in Cambridge Companion to Chekhov (2000).

 

“Design for Angels in America” in Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, eds. D. Geis and S. Kruger (University of Michigan Press, 1997).

 

"Design for Chekhov," in Chekhov on the British Stage, ed. Patrick Miles (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

 

Selected Journal Articles

 

“Finding the Heart of PQ,” Theatre Design & Technology (Fall 2015)

 

"'Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design' Celebrates the Designer's Work," American Theatre, (October 2014)


“The Simulacrum of Reality,” Passages (Pro Helvetia) 63.2 (2014)

 

"Time and Space on the Stage," Performance Research, 18.3 (2013)

 

“The Future of Scenography," Theatre Design & Technology (Winter 2010).


“What Does Your Country Look Like?” The Scenographer (November 2007).


“German Theater and American Scenography,” Bühnentechnische Rundschau  

Sonderheft 2007.


“Their Exits and Their Entrances: Getting a Handle on Doors,” New Theatre Quarterly

20:4 (November 2004).

 

“Who’s Who? Hard to Tell at the PQ,” American Theatre (September 2003).

 

“Technology and Dramaturgical Development: Five Observations,” Theatre Research International (Summer 1999).

 

“Richard Foreman as Scenographer,” Theatre Forum (Winter/Spring 1997).

 

“The 1991 Prague Quadrennial,” The Drama Review (Spring, 1993).

 

"Postmodern Design," Theatre Journal (March 1991).

 

"Design and the Next Wave," Theatre Design & Technology (Winter 1986).

 

" The Wooster Group's ‘L. S. D. (... Just the High Points...)’ " The Drama Review

(Summer 1985).

 

"American Scenography," The Drama Review (Summer, 1984).