Live theater summons energy no digital performance can match. Set designers for five of this season’s plays explain how they built eye-catching environments that crackle with it.

The series of four designs, titled Variations of Time, include Time Divided, which divides five-minutes-worth of sand between two cavities. Once two minutes-worth of the sand has accumulated in ...

In advance of the Tony Awards, AD looks at the scenic-design favorites—from the gritty ’60s tabloid offices of Ink to the whimsical Tim Burton–inspired world of Beetlejuice ...

Theater carpentry team in Massachusetts brings stories to life with their set designs 03:33. Inside a warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts , a group of talented carpenters are making theater magic.

With the 69th Annual Emmy Awards taking place this Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, AD decided to take a look back at some of the best set designs from 2017. Whether it be The ...

Set-designer Mimi Lien’s inspiration for Sweeney Todd’s Broadway revival came straight out of Sondheim’s “great black pit” lyric. Here, she shares how she made a stage fit for beheadings.