Shakina Nayfack is a Musical Directing fellow through The Drama League’s Directors Project. He is assisting on Mormons, Mothers and Monsters and The Game. From Shakina: What a week! Mormons, Mothers and Monsters opened to a great review in the Boston Globe, but just when I thought I was off and running on The Game, [...]

Shakina Nayfack is a Musical Directing fellow through The Drama League’s Directors Project. He is assisting on Mormons, Mothers and Monsters and The Game. From Shakina: Mormons, Mothers and Monsters is officially a show. The set is brilliant, the costumes superb, and the book and music still evolving even as we round out our 5th [...]

Shakina Nayfack is a Musical Directing fellow through The Drama League's Directors Project. He is assisting on Mormons, Mothers and Monsters and The Game. From Shakina: We are finishing up the second week of rehearsals on Mormons, Mothers and Monsters, and this week has been all about Tracking. In the development of a new show [...]

Photos of Catherine Cox and Leslie Kritzer in The Memory Show. World Premiere Musical from the Musical Theatre Lab! Funny, charming and heartwarming,The Memory Show is a two-person comic tragedy about the complicated relationship between a woman who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her estranged daughter who moves back home to Brighton Beach [...]

Thoughts from Nick Potenzieri, the assistant director for this summer's Musical Theatre Lab productions at Barrington Stage. He also assistant directed Pool Boy and is currently working on The Memory Show. Nick is currently a 2010 Drama League Music Fellow. As a part of my Drama League Music Theater Fellowship, I have had the opportunity [...]

Costume renderings for Pool Boy by Holly Cain. Q: What was your inspiration and what kind of research went into your design, specifically the Sultan’s design? A: It is rare to design a show that requires not only contemporary fashion, but also takes place in the current season.  Since the setting for Pool Boy [...]

Above are research photos, sketches, and a model of the set for Pool Boy Q: What was your inspiration and what kind of research went into your design? A: When creating the look of any show there are a lot of aesthetic and practical concerns to consider. With this show, of course, we started [...]

All photos courtesy of Kevin Sprague