Photo Source: Mimi Lien
"The jutting copper-colored platforms that form Mimi Lien’s set for the Signature Theater Company revival of David Henry Hwang’s “Dance and the Railroad” provide a pleasingly serene vista for the eye. Cleverly echoing the Frank Gehry architecture of the Alice Griffin Theater, where the production opened on Monday night, the set’s soothing beauty is further enhanced by the shifting, multicolored lighting of Jiyoun Chang." Charles Isherwood, New York Times
Yuekun Wu, left, and Ruy Iskandar in "The Dance and the Railroad."
"Set designer Mimi Lien did a remarkable job creating their mountain dance studio. The angular crags of her set meld seamlessly into the wooden quadrilaterals that adorn the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, giving the impression that the audience is in a cave, looking out on the action of the play. Jiyoun Chang's dramatic lighting design exudes the old west. As the men play upon the stage, their shadows dance against the rock face. Lien's set is not only beautiful, but practical, offering multiple levels on which the actors can play." Zachary Stewart, Theater Mania
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Yuekun Wu as a Chinese opera performer turned worker on the transcontinental railroad in the Signature Theater Company's revival of "The Dance and the Railroad," by David Henry Hwang."The simple but gorgeous physical production is a stunner. Mimi Lien’s abstracted mountain echoes the blocks of wood that decorate the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, while Jiyoun Chang’s washes of color on the back-wall cyclorama frame Adrales’ adroit stage pictures evocatively. Jennifer Moeller’s period costumes sidestep stereotype, Broken Chord’s sound is happily unobtrusive, and Huang Ruo provides the plangent, haunting music." Erik Haagensen, Backstage
