By Dramaturg Jocelyn Prince Adding the technical elements to any show is a tricky process.  The lights, sound, and projections for Invisible Man are super complicated, challenging us as we move through our week of tech rehearsals.  There is also a revolve onstage that the actors themselves manipulate, moving set…Read more

By Dramaturg Jocelyn Prince Director Chris McElroen’s staging of the Invisible Man’s post-Liberty Paints electroshock therapy treatment, circa 1945, is inspired by German choreographer Pina Baush’s modern dance pieces. The idea is that the Invisible Man is being held by a harness and tether that he struggles against when he…Read more

Ralph Ellison (right) with friend and literary executor John F. Callahan, who has been advising playwright Oren Jacoby on the adaptation of Invisible Man We’re exactly two weeks out from the first preview of Invisible Man, and the cast and crew have been working long hours over the holidays to…Read more