Category — Costume Design

Jess Goldstein designs costumes for A.R. Gurney’s new play

When you think of costume designing, you might think of someone sketching clothes or sitting at a sewing machine, not shopping at Brooks Brothers. But that’s just where designer Jess Goldstein stopped when he was gathering pieces for A.R. Gurney’s Black Tie.

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Designing costumes for Broadway’s The Pee-wee Herman Show

One night back in 1977, Paul Reubens, a wiry sketch comic at the Los Angeles improv company the Groundlings, came up with the character of a hapless, unfunny standup comic called Pee-wee Herman. To complete Pee-wee’s awkward look, he borrowed an ill-fitting glen plaid suit from Groundlings founder Gary Austin.

Thirty-three years later, a row of identical glen plaid suits hangs backstage at the Stephen Sondheim Theater, where Reubens’ now-iconic creation is having a triumphant Broadway moment in The Pee-wee Herman Show.

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How Jennifer von Mayrhauser’s costumes evoke the spirit of Edward Albee’s new play

In the Playwrights Horizons production of Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I, twin brothers wear matching outfits. Their loopy mother, who can’t tell them apart after twenty-eight years, wears a blowsy nightgown, and the doctor who shares her bed wears a suit, even when he’s under the covers.

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“The costumes in The Miracle Worker deliver a subtle message”

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