The art of theater poster design is inextricably linked to its commercial appeal:“I must distill a two-and-a-half hour stage production into an image that is memorable and eye-catching, but mos...
https://newyorktheater.me/2021/07/20/classic-theater-posters/
Some of the theater posters Frank Verlizzo designed hang on the famous flop wall of Joe Allan’s restaurant. Some hold a prominent place in the homes of grateful Broadway stars. But many are ima...
https://newyorktheater.me/2019/02/16/theater-posters-as-art-and-commerce-fraver-by-design/
My cousin Bobby, a tie-dyed Deadhead, invited me to Madison Square Garden to see the free Dead & Company concert, which I found enough of an eye opener to write a piece for Howlround on the five ...
https://newyorktheater.me/2015/11/15/grateful-dead-and-live-theater/
In the midst of this week of momentous change, the New-York Historical Society has opened an exhibition, Art As Activism, of graphic art from the 1930s to the 1970s that promoted various causes. ...
The film adaptation of “Into The Woods,” the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical will be released nationally on December 25th, 2014.
https://newyorktheater.me/2014/09/16/meryl-streep-on-new-poster-of-into-the-woods-film/
by Jonathan Mandell
https://newyorktheater.me/2014/08/15/deaths-in-shakespeares-plays-a-handy-chart/
The first poster for the Broadway revival of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, featuring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, both making their Broadway debuts. Also in the cast are Leighton Meeste...
https://newyorktheater.me/2014/01/07/of-mice-and-men-poster-with-james-franco-and-chris-odowd/