The thrust stage extends into the audience, with the audience seated on three sides of the stage. This arrangement creates a more intimate and immersive experience, as the actors are closer to the ...

Some ways a play is affected by being made on a thrust stage are predictable: You’re more likely to see an object such as a chair, for instance, rise from a small trap door on the edge of the ...

After multiple New York runs, “Slave Play” is making its West Coast debut at the Mark Taper Forum, where it is, for the first time, presented on a thrust stage — that is, one that is ...

On last week's program, we broadcast a piece by Marianne Combs about the new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. The old Guthrie theater was designed by architect Ralph Rapson, and in discussing his ...

According to the email, the thrust brings the stage to “approximately 26 (feet) of stage deck.” SAO explained that without the thrust, space could be reclaimed by moving the stage’s cyc — a backdrop ...

Tanya Moiseiwitsch, a stage designer who influenced the shape of modern theater stages based on the “thrust”-style stage from Shakespeare’s era, has died. She was 88.

The Wurtele Thrust Stage seats 1,100 and closely resembles the original Guthrie stage, from its thrust configuration to its "Alpine slope" seating.