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Stage Screen Cloth Compared: Which Fabric Works Where
Muslin, velour and specialty fabrics each solve a different problem on set and on stage. Here is how to match the material to the job.

Muslin, velour and specialty fabrics each solve a different problem on set and on stage. Here is how to match the material to the job.

Behind the counter at a used-instrument store, every guitar gets a grade, a margin and a story.

From a designer's sketch to a canvas that flies in on cue, the backdrop is engineering wearing a costume.

Dynastic fantasy works on screen because it runs the oldest storytelling machinery we have: movement, succession, and a family that cannot stop fighting.

Screens, backdrops and staging gear cost what they cost for reasons most quotes never spell out. Here is what moves the number.