THEATRE: "Scenery"

THEATRICAL scenery; SET designers; PERFORMING arts; SUMMER & Smoke (Theatrical production); BIG Knife, The (Theatrical production); ART museums

Reviews the theater scene design and costume exhibition titled "Behind American Footlights," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Implications of scene design and costume at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Problems faced in stage settings during historical plays; Importance of such exhibitions; Criticism of stage settings for various theatrical plays like "Summer and Smoke" and "The Big Knife"; Opinion that a set design cannot be judged until its worth is proved in practice by the whole course of the play's development on the stage.