Electric Spectacle: Designing Color and Light for the Stage

Description:

Electric Spectacle: Designing Color and Light for the Stage offers an intimate look into theatrical lighting design and collaboration through the eyes of four-time Tony Award winner, Kevin Adams. Adams shares valuable lessons on the theatrical life, making this work an educational resource for students and emerging professionals.

Review Quotes:

Kevin Adams brings remarkable generosity, warmth, and wit to every page, making this both a compelling read and an essential instructional guide. With a candid, unmistakably personal voice, he takes us behind the curtain to reveal his process on some of Broadway's most dynamic, innovative and visually striking productions.
--Anne Militello, Lighting designer; Professor Emeritus, California Institute of the Arts

Kevin Adams is one of our great storytellers who sees light in the world, and the world of light, in wholly original and inspiring ways. Here he brings his life-long conversation with the world around him to full, rich, luminous life. An essential guide to boldly living, lighting and making theater.
--David Zinn, Set and Costume designer

Kevin Adams is a true artist using light as his medium. This beautiful, accessible book charts his journey of making a life and making theater, revealing a profound creative process meant not just for designers, but for every theatrical collaborator: teachers, playwrights, producers and directors alike.
--Susan Hilferty, Costume and Set Designer, NYU/Tisch Graduate Design Chair of 25 years

Kevin Adams' wonderful book is not only a candid look at collaboration and show making -- it is a book about the act of making itself. About reaching for something before you know what it is. About creation, in all its uncertainty and grace.
--Michael Mayer, Director and Producer of Theatre, Opera and Film