As a theater veteran with three Tony Awards and decades of experience, Tim Hatley isn’t easily fazed. But one recent assignment threw the scenic designer for a loop all the same. “I just ...

stage-used props, merchandise from long-closed productions, and, perhaps most notably, jewelry made from the Phantom of the Opera chandelier: The Flea Market, director Tom Viola shared in an ...

In music, a sloth canon refers to a melody that is played in half-time alongside the original. This creates a sort of warped dissonance—like a memory—while reality charges ahead. In Sloth Canon, ...

Just like the Phantom himself, the chandelier that is the key prop in The Phantom of the Opera has a few tricks up its sleeve. In Cameron Mackintosh’s remake of The Phantom, which opened at the ...

I remember sitting on the third floor with my eyes glued to a giant prop covered in ... to see the beautiful chandelier lit up and falling all the way down to the stage. Later on, I saw the ...