Saturday, March 7, 2015

SF Opera, Douglas W. Schmidt, SF Ballet, ACT, Apple at YBCA

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Jess Goldstein, Douglas W. Schmidt & More to Receive 2015 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards - DOUGLAS W. SCHMIDT (Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design) came to Broadway as a scenic designer in 1969. Since then, he has worked on more than 50 Broadway productions. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee for revivals of Into the Woods (2002) and 42nd Street (2001), and a three-time Drama Desk Award winner for Into the Woods (2002), Over Here! (1974) and Veronica's Room (1974). Doug's extensive Broadway credits also include Sight Unseen (2004), The Civil War (1999), Damn Yankees (1994), Smile (1986), Porgy and Bess (1983), Romantic Comedy (1979), The Most Happy Fella (1979), They're Playing Our Song (1979), Runaways (1978), The Robber Bridegroom (1975 and 1976), The Threepenny Opera (1976), The Three Sisters (1973), Veronica's Room (1973), A Streetcar Named Desire (1973), Twelfth Night (1972), Grease (1972) and more. Off Broadway and around the world, Doug's scenic designs for theatre and opera have been on the stages of The Public Theater, the Metropolitan Opera, Cherry Lane Theatre, Delacorte Theater, Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, the Theatre at St. Clement's Church, La Jolla Playhouse, San Francisco Opera, Forrest Theatre, Center Stage, the Tanglewood Festival, Theatre of the Living Arts, the Guthrie Theatre, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and The Old Globe Theatre. Doug's earliest scenic design works were seen at the Theater at Monmouth Theatre and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in the 1960s.

 
Samson and Delilah

Porgy and Bess at Radio City Music Hall
Arcadia


Samson and Delilah by Doug Schmidt

Doug Schmidt's designs for Arcadia at ACT

More designs by Doug Schmidt

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In other news the Opera Shop moved to Burlingame, The Ballet Shop moved to the Ballet Warehouse on Cesar Chavez, and the ACT shop will be closed.

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