Recent content by Tom Howley

She and I were cast-mates in (now gone) Brave Spirits' sadly-cut-short Shakespeare's Histories Project. (Attached is a photo from Henry V-- which got one performance on the weekend that everything shut down for quarantine--) First-rate teammate, she is-!

Van's right, you'll be in for some JC/spackle filling and sanding here almost no matter what--- and there are a couple of geometry traps that would be easy to miss. The gap will be too wide for a clean-looking tape fix. It's also too wide for a 2x wedge to cover the whole distance--- and...

Thanks John. I'm going to hazard a guess--- would JQ be your daughter, by any chance?

Oh, far too pricey-- $2300 to $2500 for a mandatory full roll (+shipping?). The actual vertical scenery would be a higher priority than this, w/out question. (It also looks a little more "Event-ish", y'know?)

Ha! No, truly-- we are solidly 8-10 years past being the kind of company where any single Artistic Lead has the agency to pound on a table, shouting "I don't care what ANYONE says! I WANT [fill-in-the-blank]-! PERIOD!!!" Budgets tame even the mightiest of egos in these situations. . .

Oh believe me, that's a given. We'll do a glossy treatment every now & again, and never had an LD outright nix it. I think our grid/stage/house config isn't the worst for having that as an option. But yeah, it wouldn't happen w/out the LD's input first.

Hmm-- do I have a few minutes before running out for a grocery run before dinner? Sure-- sure I do. For a brief few words, at least. . .Tech Director at Theater J in Washington, DC., since 2004. Our scene shop is about 18 miles north of the theater (which is not an unusual circumstance in...

a) Thank you kindly-- This is clearly a forum I should've been making use of years ago, and- b) Your suggestion is very much along the lines of the "could we do this instead?" proposal I had in mind. It's also 'WAY more budget-friendly, which is not a minor consideration. My first assumption...

I imagine this has to be a thing in some form, yes? Very shiny, hard floor surface? And I see Stagelam discussed a lot-- but is using conventional (black) Lexan sheeting an option for a single-production floor treatment? I confess, I have misgivings-- how does it attach/stay down? What does...

Longtime TD for the smallest of the "Large" professional theaters in the DC theatrical firmament. Perpetually learning-as-I-go, it seems. . . !