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27 Visual Theatre Cliches

By Eric Hart | Published: October 16, 2009

Though this is almost a month old, I’ve been wanting to get around to it. In Time Out London, Andrew Haydon has made a list of cliches of visual theatre that should be banned (The article has since disappeared from their website). He posits that these metaphorical objects and devices are so overused, that they’ve [...]

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Kathy Fabian

By Eric Hart | Published: September 14, 2009

Kathy Fabian has been a fixture in the Broadway props world for a few years now. In the past few years, she’s propped shows such as South Pacific, Spring Awakening, and You’re Welcome America. She is also the resident props master at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor. Last year, Tom Isler wrote a [...]

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Dispatches from Props Summit 2009

By Eric Hart | Published: September 8, 2009

The first New York City Props Summit was a rousing success. From left to right in the photograph are: Rebecca Aldridge, Mark Gill, Sarah Gill, Jessica Provenzale, Natalie Taylor Hart, Kate Dale, Meredith Ries, Scott Laule, Jeremy Lydic, me, and Jay Duckworth. Not pictured are Meghan Buchanan, Eric Reynolds, Sara Swanberg, and Arianna Zindler, as [...]

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First Ever NYC Props Summit

By Eric Hart | Published: August 28, 2009

Jay Duckworth, our props manager at the Public Theatre, is throwing a props summit next week, September 4th. His idea is to get together all the props people in New York City, whether it’s masters, artisans, or runners, working either freelance or full-time. It’s a chance for everyone in this great city to meet each [...]

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20th Century Props Closing

By Eric Hart | Published: June 26, 2009

2oth Century Props is one of the larger prop houses in Hollywood, serving much of the entertainment and event industry as the studios closed down their own in-house prop studios over the past two decades. Unfortunately, it is now closing. It’s a Wrap for 20th Century Props, by Brooks Barnes in the New York Times, [...]

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    I am Eric Hart, a freelance prop maker in North Carolina.

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