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"stagecraft" Definitions
  1. skill in presenting plays in a theatre

284 Sentences With "stagecraft"

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In fact, its stagecraft — including the retired Marine Gen.
The encounter reflects Trump's instinct for stagecraft and spontaneous diplomacy.
Klobuchar didn't appear to be a novice at political stagecraft.
So many of this season's players are masters of Survivor stagecraft.
It was a dazzler of high-octane music and whizbang stagecraft.
Reagan's taste — and stagecraft — was just as evident after she died.
Stagecraft mimics statecraft—which is itself a distorted form of entertainment.
It was a thrillingly disorienting, keenly conceptual feat of stagecraft engineering.
Cardboard Computer took heavy inspiration from stagecraft when designing the game.
Stagecraft was top notch Perhaps not surprising for someone who has lived his life in the spotlight and who built a life on image and brand, the stagecraft of Trump's first State of the Union was outstanding.
He's already added a sense of stagecraft to the Cabinet selection process.
That means a faster-paced show, V.I.P. upsells and some flashier stagecraft.
Here, he instead accomplished that through an innovation in arena-show stagecraft.
An astonishing piece of stagecraft, however, provides a positive kind of jolt.
Seems the prosecution isn't averse to a little stagecraft of its own.
The dialogue is as brain-numbing as the stagecraft is eye-popping.
Again, check out ILM's video to get the full look at StageCraft.
It's stagecraft, part of a larger production, the person would tell me.
The physical stagecraft of protests has always mattered; the action is the speech.
Purely on the level of stagecraft, the evening was a win for Pence.
Trump's political enemies and critics burble wishfully over Daniels' lawyer's tactics and stagecraft.
Most Americans have the luxury of experiencing war as something close to stagecraft.
No one was even feinting toward the usual Just Another Game stagecraft here.
But the sweeping stagecraft of the #ImWithHer convention now seems like a quaint memory.
In the stagecraft of Chinese politics, formulaic expressions like "core" are tokens of power.
That daring combination of simplicity and dexterity make this an extraordinary piece of stagecraft.
At other times, the beautifully lit tableaux highlight the performers' stagecraft and dance abilities.
All the old political stagecraft and prevaricating, the Rumsfeldian tautologies — we're way past that.
The two-part production, written by Jack Thorne, was universally praised for its stagecraft.
Many Mexicans are starting to see Mr. Trump's anti-trade rhetoric as mere stagecraft.
The Stagecraft volume is bigger than any of those — but more importantly, it's smarter.
This would dovetail with Mr. Trump's emphasis on showmanship, stagecraft and above all negotiation.
Why it matters: Stagecraft can help test prototypes that otherwise wouldn't be safe to test.
And you might start to ask what the excellent writing, acting and stagecraft are about.
Of course Stagecraft is probably also the most expensive and complex production environments ever used.
"Donald Trump is a master of stagecraft, and he's obsessed with ratings," Mr. White said.
Mr. Jan's quest is presented with dazzling stagecraft that includes neon and an eerily amplified typewriter.
But Arthur had an uncanny sense of stagecraft, more heightened in this crucial time and place.
The stagecraft of Mr. Trump's encounter with Mr. Kim did not appear to be as sophisticated.
This particular volume, called Stagecraft by ILM, the company that put it together, is not static.
Plenty. We recently discussed stagecraft and statecraft with the authors of past, current and coming plays.
You think he'd be there or would not walk in and perform another piece of stagecraft?
Depeche Mode's stagecraft is the only part of 280 that can rival their teen fans' charisma.
That's a practiced skill, like an actor's stagecraft, and there's a lot of folk don't know it.
He contemplated the stagecraft of Konstantin Stanislavsky, and gobbled up texts by Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer.
But campaign reporting is a beat concerned (excessively, in my view) with the effectiveness of political stagecraft.
I thought I would see a lot of political stagecraft, but I saw plenty of unscripted reality.
Older dancers are like magicians of stagecraft: What do they show, and what do they leave behind?
I had the SpongeBob response to it, greatly magnified: Awe at the stagecraft, apathy toward the content.
Lighting is another thing that is vastly simplified, in some ways at least, by something like Stagecraft.
As a work of high drama, Jesse Green writes, the Trump-Zelensky script lacks stagecraft and subtlety.
He knew how to read a script and had already learned to marry politics to smooth stagecraft.
Whether it was really whiskey or simply crowd-pleasing stagecraft remains unclear, but it was a good bit.
The lighting and use of a model reminded us of the sophisticated stagecraft of Robert LePage in 887.
His stagecraft helps me direct my own use of reinvention and carrying presence within circumstances I am directing.
She needed someone to act as the stagecraft and Harper volunteered, she told the Nationals broadcasters on MASN.
It is an established part of China's political stagecraft to parade disgraced officials on the state news media.
"We need a theater that can bring out onstage the full range of contemporary stagecraft," Mr. Bundy said.
But Washington has living legend George Wolfe, who turns every production he directs into a miracle of stagecraft.
Fiend uses a combination of DIY horror effects, stagecraft, and animation to create her creepy pop-surrealist loops.
The mud coming out of speakers at too many Broadway shows, supposedly the apex of stagecraft, is appalling.
It might not be a bad idea for Trump to spend more time on the stagecraft of the presidency.
His photos often manage to capture candid moments that offer a stark contrast to the regime's carefully managed stagecraft.
These mindless stabs at narrative make a bizarre basis for what is evidently meant to be cutting-edge stagecraft.
Ms. Breth, a prolific and influential Austrian director, uses stagecraft to explore the internal landscape of the play's characters.
Here, in the birthplace of Shakespeare, theater artists and technologists are trying to reimagine stagecraft for the digital age.
At times, the press conference appeared to show an administration still finding its feet in the stagecraft of foreign policy.
Yes, these aspects of the job are only the stagecraft, but they are the parts Trump is prepared to perform.
Stagecraft Even more than contentious policy issues, the visuals could be the most memorable part of the Trump-Putin summit.
I'm also happy to report that this was one of the last bits of stagecraft I saw at Don Angie.
But in it, so much of the cautious stagecraft that surrounds and inhibits Hillary Clinton appears to break away. Mrs.
But I kept waiting for something bigger than fine stagecraft — and even Ms. Gough's extreme, ingenious performance — to kick in.
There was plenty of red meat -- from his lock-her-up promises to the stagecraft of his attack on Bill Clinton.
It was a bit of stagecraft in what was, in fact, a live demo of VR code written expressly for F8.
A 1937 chemistry set manual offers guidance for staging an alchemical magic show, with instructions for stagecraft as well as experiments.
So, 90 percent of the practical photography for underwater relies on a really old-school stagecraft technique called dry-for-wet.
Though stagecraft has long been a part of politics, Americans aren't electing an entertainer in chief, but a commander in chief.
A dogged impresario of civil disobedience and political stagecraft, he championed the rights of women, inmates, gay people and conscientious objectors.
For John, these stories are handled with sensitivity and intelligence, and are marvelously brought to life by Lepage's stagecraft and showmanship.
A post-Madonna pop artist known for her elaborate stagecraft and costumes, she has been stripped down here, her mask removed.
The ease and economy with which director and designer transport cast and audience between far-flung places is a masterclass in stagecraft.
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (200:2530).
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (2374:25196).
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (2239:26200).
Today's explosive testimony by Michael Cohen (10 am, overshadowing the Hanoi statecraft and stagecraft for the day) makes the second less likely.
Which is not to say that Nicole and Charlie are confined to the shabby, somber stagecraft that so often passes for realism.
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (232015:233).
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (2:24200).
Count Kim Jong-un and his sister — director of the Korean Workers Party's Propaganda and Agitation Department — as masters of diplomatic stagecraft.
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (2:2800).
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Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (2888:2841).
Breaking news to the public is a form of theatre, and it takes a decent grasp of stagecraft to make it work.
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (212:211990).
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (24111:22).
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Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (2146:212).
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (2841:24111).
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (21:230).
Eric Tucker directs a wondrously mutable cast in a production replete with buoyant spirits and inventive do-it-yourself stagecraft (45:26200).
The mayor might fumble some of the easiest elements of political stagecraft, but he ultimately left little substantive opening for his detractors.
But in this case, stagecraft nearly always trumps script in translating a fabled movie from the past into a palpable, searing present.
Yet fully half of the scenes in "The Mandalorian" were shot within Stagecraft, and my guess is no one had any idea.
But the stagecraft and typecasting of their appointments are definitely what you might call tokenism, writ large and on full, public display.
"Letter" is less text-heavy than Mr. Jones's recent "Analogy" series, and yet the dancing still seems hemmed in by the stagecraft.
With a cheap-and-effective bit of Trek-ian stagecraft, the diversified officers driving the USS Discovery simulated punishing turbulence battering their starship.
After touring with such powerhouse performers as Paisley, Bryan and Florida Georgia Line, Lynch knows he's been tutored in stagecraft by the masters.
Without all this stagecraft, DeVries explained, the bugs simply won't bother to feed, even if there's blood placed right in front of them.
He has partnered with entrepreneurs specializing in things like magic and stagecraft to craft a VR experience that goes beyond the typical headset.
However, one of the highest points of that show came without any glitz, or fancy stagecraft, or even very much music at all.
A master of political stagecraft, Macron chose for his speech the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne, the great French university dating to 1257.
One pail is filled with highly charged policy battles where both sides have well-rehearsed, highly predictable scripts and well-trained political stagecraft.
We end the year still thinking about the searing performances, challenging stagecraft and oddball experiments that make theater anything but a safe space.
The stage piece (reviewed in The New York Times in 2014) uses dance, song and spoken word, combined with various forms of stagecraft.
In part, the pile-on reflected the execution of traditional debate stagecraft: conflict generates coverage, and a candidate who isn't involved gets forgotten.
The song also featured one of the coolest bits of stagecraft of the night, with the bedroom scene transforming into a fantasy USO show.
Still, the melodramatic eye roll of a journalist at a staid news conference upset the stagecraft and flooded the Chinese internet with sly humor.
When it opened on Broadway in 1989, after a long and laborious gestation, "Grand Hotel" was acclaimed as a triumph of stagecraft over substance.
Read this dense but worthwhile piece by Reinhold Martin about the stagecraft — both symbolic and literal — of the president, white nationalism and executive power.
There's far more immersive potential in a dedicated VR facility—with its stagecraft and high-end components—than what's currently possible in your living room.
For while the Bard's version musters oratorical verve, the historian's offers a coup de théâtre, complete with the astute use of props, sightlines and stagecraft.
Or was it simply a clever bit of stagecraft that continued the mutually beneficial branding of having Drake's Thing be an endless thirst for Rihanna?
So very deliberately, we tried to make the opening and closing of the film look a little more impressionistic, a little more surreal, like stagecraft.
Mr. Trump is at least adhering to custom by giving his wife and children prominent speaking slots — and veterans of convention stagecraft called this vital.
There will also likely be less acrimony in Philadelphia, as the Democrats review the failed stagecraft of Cleveland and work hard not to replicate it.
That prologue — in which a huge bust of Coriolanus mysteriously starts speaking — is a pretty good example of the thrilling stagecraft Mr. Lepage delivers throughout.
Although students are treated to regular Facebook Live events with movie stars and solo performance workshops, the focus remains on traditional stagecraft and acting technique.
From Vladimir Putin on down, many are former generals and intelligence officers who have made K.G.B. stagecraft, including information warfare, a practice of the state.
It remains to be seen whether Jadis's quirky mannerisms were authentic or, as with leaders like King Ezekiel or even Negan, a form of stagecraft.
The rest of Nixon's vulgar legacy is well-known and its wretched example inspires a good deal of the current President's crude and effective stagecraft.
Matthew Rhys essentially monologues his scene partner into submission, which feels like a feat of spy- and stagecraft delivered with such raw precision that it's dazzling.
There are enough people with a tendency for violence that cannot distinguish between political stagecraft and practical exhortations to rescue the country by any available means.
Trump wants to show he can be a world leader The stagecraft Wednesday said almost as much as the words that came out of Trump's mouth.
And as thrilling as the writing and stagecraft are, once you finally get behind them I'm not sure you can approve of what's at its core.
And there is no certainly no disputing that, when it comes to stagecraft, hardly anyone in this town besides Ms. Prada is in Ms. Fendi's league.
They're in her head, these multiple Steves, but one of the most frolicsome moments of "Plano," and cleverest bits of stagecraft, involves a meeting between them.
Mr. Nédélec developed it and other essential pieces of off-site catering stagecraft when he was the banquet chef at the Plaza Hotel in the 1960s.
" Mr. Cillizza gives the president high marks for stagecraft, calling the stories of the families he brought to the State of the Union "haunting and memorable.
"The stagecraft is such a massive part of the story that you still don't know what will happen when you come into the theater," he said.
In a follow-up article I'll be sharing more detailed technical information directly from the production team and technologists who created Stagecraft and its attendant systems.
There's a risk that "the summit is just a TV stunt that is all stagecraft and no substance," says Aum, the US Institute of Peace expert.
He is the author of OFF SCRIPT: An Advance Man's Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Political Suicide, published by St. Martin's Press in 257.
There is no denying her skill in creating ambience and mood, her consummate craftsmanship and stagecraft, or her fascinatingly idiosyncratic re-envisioning of iconic images and events.
Yet while Yanukovych's grand return used many of the traditional tools of Western political stagecraft, as president, he would be accused of returning to his old tendencies.
There is immense pressure on his advance teams of young, inexperienced staffers who negotiate the stagecraft of Trump's encounters with foreign leaders and prepare agendas of meetings.
Clinton's emphasis on her experience in global stagecraft comes a week after Mr. Trump tried to bolster his foreign policy credentials with a trip to Mexico. Mrs.
In one interesting case, the dancer Chesty Love wrote off her breast implants, which the IRS agreed were deductible because they constituted a part of her stagecraft.
Still, even as the piece puts message before stagecraft, its best segments stir emotions, particularly when the script uses the words of those who knew the dead.
While he has also collaborated effectively with boldly experimental directors like Ivo van Hove (in "Song From Far Away"), Mr. Stephens mostly leans toward more self-effacing stagecraft.
Hours of royal pomp and stagecraft played out in the halls of Parliament as the queen and her entourage made an elaborate guest appearance at Britain's government buildings.
Indeed, it's the obviousness of each man's agenda, and Mr. Trump's obliviousness to that obviousness, that makes the scene so banal as stagecraft — and so startling as statecraft.
Mr. Gantz's political stagecraft was put together quickly after the White House extended an invitation to both men last week, while Vice President Mike Pence was visiting Jerusalem.
He made especially good use of the medium on a number early in the show, "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now," mixing split-screen moments with traditional stagecraft.
I retract the "straight line," though; more aptly, it's a bent one, passing through other canonical plays, each contributing an element of style or stagecraft along the way.
A terrific piece of stagecraft, it is shaped so as to suggest Tell's crossbow and is used to dazzling effect when he pilots it to safety during a storm.
While Kanye West may not be as universally beloved as Swift, he has a way of crafting memorable performances that balance elaborate stagecraft, emotion and a rant or two.
Many in attendance at the show said it lived up to its billing in reviews as a thrilling theatrical spectacle, with deft stagecraft that drew audible gasps at times.
Clinton's private email server, like others recently released by WikiLeaks, revealed the kind of stagecraft and damage control that go on behind the scenes of a modern political campaign.
In 2008, dozens of monks at the temple staged a surprise protest in front of foreign journalists on a government-organized visit, upsetting the careful stagecraft of their visit.
A language of music and stagecraft pervades the whole book, which unfolds in a series of "Scenes"—pithy episodes from the life of the family, dense with metaphors of song.
" She later singles out Lady Gaga's performance as Ally: " A post-Madonna pop artist known for her elaborate stagecraft and costumes, she has been stripped down here, her mask removed.
Mr. Doyle, however, has a way of taking a stethoscope to overdressed shows, listening for the compelling heartbeat beneath stereotyped surfaces and translating what he hears into elegantly spartan stagecraft.
In doing so, Brecht sees his signature political form of epic theater transmogrified for the 21st century, where the stages are generally bare and hold only dissembled elements of stagecraft.
The basic problem is that even though they matter, they matter purely as media spectacles but are stuck with the stagecraft of the conference of politicians that they pretend to be.
Each volume, with its own editor, included a preface by Professor Barnet surveying Shakespeare's life, work and stagecraft, followed by an introduction to the work at hand by an eminent scholar.
After fading from public view for several weeks, Wang, Guo's nemesis, reappeared in recent state media reports that were meant — according to Communist Party stagecraft — to signal his undiminished political strength.
His own life turned peripatetic when he moved to Los Angeles and began working in lighting and stagecraft for Bonnie Raitt, Neil Diamond, Bon Jovi and the Jacksons (Michael and Janet).
The machinery of words and stagecraft that keep these stories in full spin is so meticulously assembled that I sometimes wonder if "The Ferryman" might succeed with even a mediocre cast.
There is bound to be plenty of royal pomp and stagecraft in London today when Queen Elizabeth II gives a speech laying out Prime Minister Boris Johnson's agenda for next year.
Altogether, the visit offers Trump a fairly unchallenging first assignment as a world leader, though his paucity of diplomatic and political experience means his demeanor and stagecraft will still be closely watched.
Duncan's rabbit expenditure was "political stagecraft" meant to "soften the blow of a potentially damaging report" from the House Ethics Committee report revealing over $60,000 in personal or improperly documented campaign expenses.
The dramatic stagecraft of this summit combined with the vagueness of the communique may indicate that Kim is attempting to cover-up a collapsing regime and/or setbacks in its nuclear program.
Throughout it all, Trump deployed the tactics, stagecraft and rhetorical flourish that have come to define his approach to politics and international diplomacy, alternating between insults, threats and praise to whiplash effect.
This is what Taryn Simon calls "the stagecraft of power," and it's the central focus in her arresting installation, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, currently on view in Chelsea's Gagosian gallery.
But, under the supervision of Mr. Mendes (whose command of stagecraft is also on view in the Broadway hit "The Ferryman"), each is also, always the original Lehman brother he first portrays.
France being France, this unusual couple is already stirring a lively and erudite debate about sexism, ageism, masculinity, contemporary marriage, political stagecraft and what a modern French first lady should actually be.
The nearly two-week celebration, by the theater company Radiotheatre, stages performances of the poet's work set to orchestral music, sound effects and other stagecraft to put you in a macabre mood.
The StageCraft platform works by allowing filmmakers to do a lot of their pre-visualization and shot blocking ahead of time in virtual reality, something Favreau had done with The Lion King.
But the risks of such a visit -- Trump's first official encounter with a foreign leader -- were underscored when the stagecraft began to unravel over the issue of the wall on the Mexican border.
Only a few people who work on the game get a chance to be part of the E3 stagecraft, but rest assured, back at home, there are countless employees cheering along with them.
But even he got tripped up by the stagecraft at a GOP primary debate back in February, when he waited ... and waited ... and waited in the wings after not hearing his name announced.
Before personal self-invention devolved into dysmorphic disorder, Mr. Jackson showed himself to be an image innovator and yet always one whose presentation was based on a canny study of stagecraft and style.
For Candy, that means accelerated lessons in stagecraft from Genevieve Fury (Dagmara Dominczyk), an Eastern European director she idolizes, and a stronger case that Harvey should invest in more in her celluloid dreams.
All the same, Narcissister's background in stagecraft, movement and rhythm serves her well as a filmmaker: Far from a conventional autobiography, "Narcissister Organ Player" always offers something to catch your eye or ear.
And so we see the clear design that Trump will use to rule: He will give us showmanship and cheap drama, put-downs and promises — the stagecraft of the world's most powerful narcissist.
Mickelson turned to Paul Casey, the player he had vanquished to win his fifth Pebble Beach Pro-Am title after a lengthy weather delay, to thank him for helping produce the sublime stagecraft.
After Mr Modi's first victory in 2014, liberals hoped the pro-business tub-thumper would become a pro-market prime minister, encouraging investment by liberalising labour and land laws, relying on statecraft, not stagecraft.
Those skills will be on full display at the convention in Cleveland, where Mr. Trump is personally wooing celebrities and overseeing stagecraft for a blowout spectacle that will be less C-Span, more MTV.
It was familiar stagecraft, except for one thing: The woman basking in praise from the Christian Democratic Union was not Angela Merkel but the politician seen as her chosen heir apparent, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
But the show's revelation — and the reason it actually worked so well — was his ability to take the stagecraft he'd honed in rock clubs and arenas and transfer it so effortlessly to the theater.
"Cursed Child" was spared much of the criticism directed at other moneyed ventures because of widespread admiration for the extraordinarily high level of stagecraft — storytelling and scenic elements, movement and magic — in the show.
Doing more with less is also the house style of Classic Stage under John Doyle, who has revived musicals as different as "Sweeney Todd" and "The Color Purple" by depriving them of distracting stagecraft.
Now, say what you will about Trump, he may not have had a lot of substantive points to make or deep policy knowledge but he is an absolute master of the stagecraft of debates.
In doing so, it instigated a never-ending psychic tug-of-war over which domain was the more authentic, or real, and this tension played out through the surreal stagecraft of the modern city.
There was none of the stagecraft that such a moment would normally contain an embrace or both candidates raising their clasped hands to the ceiling in a show of political vitality and unity, for instance.
Dunninger served as a bridge that led away from live performance — dating to old-school vaudevillian stagecraft — and toward the small stage of television, where magic was more patter than prestidigitation, more pizazz than performance.
The Broadway musical, when pitched to a child's expansive point of view, seems to me a much-valued gateway drug, the artful inculcation of cleverly deployed stagecraft that can initiate a lifelong tradition of theatergoing.
At the Indra, and later at other Hamburg clubs — the Kaiserkeller, the Top Ten and the Star-Club — the Beatles played long hours that forced them to quickly expand their repertoire and hone their stagecraft.
I think Rowling, John Tiffany (the director) and Jack Thorne (the writer) did a fine job in adapting the appeal of the books (including their narrative drive and emotional button-pushing aspects) into vibrant stagecraft.
In most elections, the nomination is settled by late spring, giving party leaders time to focus on the messaging and stagecraft of the summer convention, which is typically centered on building excitement for the nominee.
Turner organized the mayhem with a touch of sinister stagecraft: he placed his best-armed men on horses at the head of the company, and sent them galloping raucously toward each house that they encountered.
First presented for a short run in repertory in 2014, this enchanting romp of a play has returned on its own, with a few adjustments, but with its buoyant spirits, cunning stagecraft and enlivening insights intact.
Companies can now test complex service and product prototypes by employing stagecraft, an approach that uses the "tricks of theater and film" to give the illusion of the real thing, according to the Harvard Business Review.
How it works: When the Department of Homeland Security used stagecraft to test equipment for first responders, it used projections, dummies and mockups, and had real EMTs simulate situations in which they would use the equipment.
The dungeons, abattoirs and rail yards where designers in Europe often choose to show may be inconvenient and occasionally dodgy, yet they reliably provide an element of the stagecraft and narrative alchemy on which fashion thrives.
Rather, he is best known for helping to generate new work that is unconventional in form and content; his shows often feel raw, improvisational, and energetic, even though this effect is achieved through highly controlled stagecraft.
But I had never seen a helicopter land on Broadway before, and I was mesmerized by the music and the stagecraft, and also the pride that I felt at seeing Lea nail that role on Broadway.
Exploitative as the stagecraft may have been, only the hardest of hearts could have helped but be moved by the wrenching image of Ryan's grief-stricken widow, Carryn, looking skyward as the chamber showered her with applause.
He later sat at a desk and signed a list of "principles" on air traffic control — basically his support for the proposal in written form — in a bit of stagecraft designed to look like a bill-signing.
Beyond a call for access to a one-of-a-kind archive, Magid's work with Barragán is literary stagecraft that implicates a cast of characters involved in mysterious multinational negotiations, as well as legal and narrative ambiguity.
Later, Trump, wearing a USA cap and presidential wind-breaker, climbed aboard a fire truck and waving a Texas flag -- falling easily into the stagecraft of a campaign rally in a way that seemed a little jarring.
Beyond Prince's own powers as a live performer (his flair, stagecraft and stamina) and a studio artist (his curiosity, productivity and virtuosic command over nearly every instrument), few artists have championed and mentored other musicians so consistently.
The stagecraft was in place: she would wear white—"the color of the suffragettes," the fulfillment of Seneca Falls—and stand on a platform cut into the shape of the United States, under a vast glass ceiling.
This insatiable need for oratory and stagecraft was on full display in May of 220006 when Cuomo launched his bid for governor on the steps of the courthouse named for the corrupt Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall.
"The Obama Administration made history and made American families more secure by extending health care to millions of people," Daniel Di Tolla, IATSE international vice president and the union's director of stagecraft, said in a statement Thursday.
Beyond the stagecraft -- the meetings and photo-ops in the Oval office, the signing ceremonies for executive orders and the announcements about commissions -- Trump's image will ultimately rest on results, competence and how Americans feel about him.
Some examples of the stagecraft that will be on display at the next summit talks, beginning Thursday: Ms. Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, projects a managerial efficiency at summit meetings with a style that borders on flavorless.
Starter episode: "Misadventure by Donald Margulies" One of the Broadway Podcast Network's many offerings, "Variety's Stagecraft" is a deep gold mine of searching interviews with actors and other theater professionals about their Broadway and off-Broadway endeavors.
Every now and then he would reach outside the room to address "the American people" -- looking directly at a camera fixed in the Senate gallery -- a piece of stagecraft that speakers in the chamber's well rarely perform.
For a candidate who's a master of stagecraft and whose selling point is his competency, it was a troubling signal that his campaign was struggling to pull off a pre-planned event over which it exerted total control.
WASHINGTON – Ahead of a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump&aposs focus has been on stagecraft, the will-they-or-won&apost-they drama and visions of a legacy-defining nuclear deal.
Mr. Cuomo's son Andrew, then 26, had wanted the lights dimmed for a six-minute biographical video before the speech, a bit of stagecraft that would signal to the fidgeting crowd that it was time to listen up.
The show isn't for everyone — a number of voters, complaining that the storytelling is underwhelming, said they don't understand what the fuss is about — but its enthusiasts, citing a moving score and mesmerizing stagecraft, are passionate and numerous.
The stagecraft of the summit and the gravity of the issues could offer Trump an opening to create a dramatic, historic gesture toward Kim that would be partly aimed at distracting attention from the spectacle back in Washington.
The Reagan presidency took the art of stagecraft to a whole new level, ensuring every event was perfectly planned and impeccably implemented to keep President Reagan's image in strict alignment, and to consistently reinforce the president's messages and priorities.
And unlike the four establishment techies who were afforded early access to the device for review, my opinion of the iPhone was primarily informed by Steve Jobs' stagecraft during the initial reveal of the device months before its release.
And in the two decades since I surrendered my West Wing pass, I've made an ongoing study of how the president performs the stagecraft element of his job: a marriage of politics and optics that I mashup as polioptics.
Its bare-bones scenic design and use of lighted transitions set a new standard for minimalist stagecraft, while its modern dress and blocking, complete with Nazi salutes, opened the door for every staging that has since claimed contemporary resonance.
The start of the push on Tal Afar, which is being supported by American air power, began with the familiar stagecraft of a prime minister determined to capitalize on the military operations to present himself as an effective leader.
Read an excerpt below: Mr. Macgowan has attempted to combine in one volume a résumé of the so-called "new stagecraft," a survey of that theatre of our time and a forecast of its probable development in the future.
The tech, now called StageCraft and available to filmmakers everywhere, allowed the directors on each of The Mandalorian's eight episodes to film in every part of the galaxy without ever having to leave Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles.
For all its resourceful stagecraft — which includes the fluent use of period and original pastiche song (overseen by Ms. Gutkin and Mr. Halva) and dance (by David Dorfman) — "Indecent" can be deflatingly earnest in its dialogue and timeline exposition.
Withdrawing from Thursday's debate demonstrates—in an antic, contrived way that perfectly aligns his Apprentice-era stagecraft, his real-estate-king persona, and the GOP's parody-defying depiction of Obama's presidency—that he's willing to walk away from a bad deal.
Trump's claims about immigrants, unemployment, and the freed prisoners were all false and these distortions combined with his kitschy stagecraft -- riding down to the crowd on a golden escalator, hiring extras to cheer -- to make him seem like a cartoon figure.
He appears to engage in little substantive pre-negotiation planning beyond the stagecraft and has repeatedly squandered his "final say" leverage by trying to solve longstanding crises without the necessary preparation, details or experts on hand to help seal the deal.
Anger and Butler's act employs guitars, a theremin, and a 60,000 watt sound system—the type of stuff normally associated with such trivialities as mere music—in combination with visuals and stagecraft, to plunge audiences into a kind of ecstatic nightmare.
What keeps us watching all this stagecraft is the possibility of something veering sharply from script -- the chance of a gaffe or a break in protocol, the unplanned moment that reveals the person beneath or that perfectly captures a conflict.
I can see now that my bloodletting stage antics that helped us gain a reputation for being a "crazy" live band in the early days were more born out of a self-harming panic reaction than any great sense of stagecraft.
There is meaning, here, about the haves and have-nots, but there is also spectacle — watching a menacingly mild Gabriel Ebert extract the impossible bounty from a dainty basket was unexpected stagecraft that had to be seen to be believed.
Stagecraft is not the first application of LED walls — they've been used for years at smaller scales — but it is certainly by far the most high-profile, and "The Mandalorian" is the first real demonstration of what's possible using this technology.
But the soundscape and the candy-colored costumes and set (a series of paper banners that suggest baroque stagecraft) work as elegantly as they do only thanks to the dynamic and accomplished performances that Fritsch coaxes from the Schaubühne actors.
He hosted "Polioptics: The Theater of Politics," on SiriusXM Satellite Radio from 2011 to 2014, and is the author of OFF SCRIPT: An Advance Man's Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Political Suicide, published by St. Martin's Press in 2016.
If you happened to be the knuckle-dragging sort of heathen without an extensive knowledge of mid-16th-century stagecraft, you might think that animal blood was used onstage in early performances of plays like Titus Andronicus, the bloodiest of Shakespeare's works.
Penned in by the formal stagecraft of his first Oval Office address, the President did little to pry open the partially shuttered government or bring the ultimate monument to his political movement -- a wall along the southern border -- any closer to construction.
But this basic necessity of stagecraft takes on such emotional weight in "Emma and Max," written and directed by the filmmaker Todd Solondz in his theatrical debut, that it becomes the production's most moving element, in far more than a literal sense.
Friday's semi-staged performance (of select instrumental numbers from the Turkish, Persian and Peruvian parts, as well as the complete "Sauvages") showed how threadbare the music can feel in the absence of stagecraft and with only a sprinkling of basic dance steps.
Leading a small touring band along with more than 50 local musicians and choral singers, he was a soft-spoken but congenial host, with a knack for stagecraft, conducting the orchestra and occasionally slipping off to play a hammered dulcimer, or an organ.
Just nailing down logistics and planning requires a whole staff, one separate from the party and campaign officials who coordinate message and stagecraft—vetting speeches (say, for plagiarism), identifying themes that resonate with the public, and booking speakers who can address those themes coherently.
The historically resonant stagecraft represents an attempt to convince the country -- with scant hard evidence -- that a real threat is unfolding on the frontier of the US and Mexico border, including drug trafficking, rising sickness among migrants, increasing border crossings and a busted asylum system.
The three-person cast deftly shifts between time periods in a mesmerizing single act that combines minimal stagecraft, improvised music and finely chiseled performances to create an anguished cry of moral outrage about neoliberal economic policies, gentrification and the erosion of the social security system.
Rather, more than half of the season was shot using Industrial Light & Magic's new StageCraft technology, which uses giant 20-foot-tall LED video screens to create fully digital environments as in-camera sets and backdrops, as a new behind-the-scenes video shows off.
The company announced today that it'll be making StageCraft available for use by filmmakers and showrunners worldwide as an end-to-end solution, meaning that the digital set technology could be showing up in a lot more TV shows and movies in the future.
Reporting from inside the convention hall corrected the solidifying narrative of a party in shambles; and the basic competence, and occasional brilliance, of the stagecraft left no room for anyone other than the most partisan operatives to pretend the two conventions and parties are equally broken.
The cameras are there because Big Brother is everywhere, but they also give Sturridge and Wilde, actors I've admired on film, a chance to do what they do best, which is to relate to each other in intimate circumstances defined by the screen, not by stagecraft.
It was a decision in keeping with the way Macron has quickly consolidated his power in France, shouldering the stagecraft of the presidency as he seeks to dominate parliamentary elections this month that are crucial to his hopes of pulling off sweeping labor and economic reforms.
It was put together by Christopher Rüping, the Kammerspiele's exciting and unpredictable in-house director, who in his past productions here — including a chamber reduction of "Hamlet" for three actors, an electric captioning system and gallons of stage blood — has combined provocative stagecraft with striking emotional engagement.
The innovation in Stagecraft and other, smaller LED walls (the more general term for these backgrounds) is not only that the image shown is generated live in photorealistic 3D by powerful GPUs, but that 3D scene is directly affected by the movements and settings of the camera.
But just as with the first summit, the stagecraft framing the summit in historic terms will also serve to elevate Kim to a position of prominence on the world stage, setting him on level footing with the American President and reducing his isolation among other world leaders.
Although Lamar has ditched the backup bands that used to accompany him for renditions of his jazz-inflected 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly, he remains a "master of stagecraft," as EW's Eric Renner Brown wrote about Lamar's July concert in Brooklyn as part of his DAMN. tour.
César Valderrama, the director of Datexco, who had predicted a double-digit win for the agreement, said the "no" vote had risen in reaction to the celebratory signing ceremony that took place before Colombians went to the polls, an act of political stagecraft that apparently backfired on the government.
Yet for all the fiery language and stagecraft, it was far from clear if Mr. Trump's most ardent supporters would stick by him as he moves away from his original deportation-focused policy on immigration, or if he would win over many undecided voters with his new approach.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 887, a virtuosic piece of stagecraft created and performed by Robert Lepage, the celebrated theater artist integrates video into scale models of the apartment building where he grew up in order to weave a story that combines the personal and political.
After a while, one gets the impression that Benjamin resents Martin's ascendancy for reasons to do not at all with stagecraft but with straightforward envy: cue the libidinous Benjamin putting the make on Martin's wife, Gina (Naomi Frederick), and sending shock waves through the young couple's faltering marriage.
And what surprised and delighted me was to find that that world was captured just as well in the theater, and in a way that was at the highest level of theater experience — the stagecraft, for example — while no one would call these books the highest level of literary experience.
Though there is stagecraft to his approach -- O'Rourke's events have all been packed because he only booked smaller venues, for example -- the former bass player in a punk rock band says he wants voters to see him as a politician stripped down, ready to go anywhere and talk about anything.
But supporters of the former President will likely chafe at Trump's stagecraft, given that Obama was also a war leader, who presided over a ruthless drone war against al Qaeda, and ordered the high-risk raid that killed Osama bin Laden and deployed the US military in an air war in Libya.
It mimics the weak branding of the original A Better Deal agenda the opposition laid out last summer, but while that earlier bit of stagecraft—a somewhat promising antitrust plank notwithstanding—failed to make much of an impression, actually talking about the thing voters are angriest about could really make a difference this fall.
An alumnus of Fox News, where he was known as a protector of the network's chairman, Roger E. Ailes, Mr. Shine has confined his White House role mainly to stagecraft, people who have worked with him say, and Mr. Trump, who chafes against being managed, has openly expressed skepticism about what he has done.
But on Wednesday, the suggestion from the White House that Mr. Trump was finalizing an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the United States from Nafta revealed a different, more experienced Mexico: one learning to live with what it considers Mr. Trump's bluster and stagecraft, and not inclined to react publicly too quickly.
There has always been a lot of activity outside the hall, and there's a lot of stagecraft outside the hall, and there's a lot of gimcrackery outside the hall, but the idea that there's meaningful political statements to be made outside the hall, that's a kind of failed endeavor when you could still play a role inside the hall.
So Cursed Child is not only tasked with living up to the nostalgic memories and fondest wizarding dreams of a generation who grew up immersed in all things Harry — in the US, it also has to do so outside of its native medium, without the benefits of actors and sets and what is by all accounts some truly remarkable stagecraft.
The agreements came at the end of a day of extraordinary diplomatic stagecraft emphasizing hopes for reconciliation and disarmament that was broadcast live around the world, beginning with a smile and handshake that Mr. Kim and Mr. Moon shared at the border and extending to a quiet, 30-minute talk they had near the end of the day in a wooded area of the village.
" More recently, in her new study of Noh and European Modernism, Learning to Kneel (Columbia University Press, 2016), Claire Preston further theorizes that Yeats' was seduced by the supernatural qualities delivered in Noh stagecraft, such that "By translating the masks, chorus, music and dance of noh for his Cuchulain cycle, Yeats hoped to turn the actor's body […] into a container that can be filled by spirits, ghosts and gods.
After all, the Yeezy 4 show — underwritten by Adidas, which manufactures his phenomenally successful sneaker line — was far from the only thing that Mr. West had to concern himself with during a week when on two consecutive nights at a sold-out Madison Square Garden, he deployed deeply imaginative stagecraft to refashion that tired hulk of an arena into a space module, himself performing afloat on a stage that hovered above a mosh pit filled with fans for whom he is as much prophet as rapper, designer and celebrity booty call.

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