Boris Aronson was a Russian-born American scenic designer who made a significant contribution to the world of theatre. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1898 and studied at the Imperial Academy of ...

Boris Aronson was born in 1898, one of ten children of the chief rabbi of Kiev. Yiddish theatre was already thriving in New York, selling nostalgia for the old country in potboiler melodramas, ...

Arnold Aronson (no relation to Boris), who teaches theater history at Columbia University, told The Jewish Week that although the artist got “trapped in American realism and pure Broadway ...

You’ll Be Great! features work from Boris Aronson, Jo Mielziner, Al Hirschfeld, and more. By Margaret Hall April 19, 2022. Al Hirschfeld's ...

Bea Arthur played Yenta in the production, whose Boris Aronson-designed sets evoked Marc Chagall’s shtetl paintings. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 83°F.

”Follies” often has seemed like a lost, irretrievable part of Broadway history. Large-scale and lavish, with a cast of 50 and a huge Boris Aronson set, the $800,000 production closed after a ...

Since 1987, the set model for Company has been preserved, along with the rest of Aronson’s designs, in the Billy Rose Theatre Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Veteran director Jules Aaron brings a fresh sense of moral outrage to "Cabaret," the classic Kander and Ebb musical, at the International City Theatre in Long Beach.

Boris Aronson was a Russian-born American scenic designer who made a significant contribution to the world of theatre. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1898 and studied at the Imperial Academy of ...

Has there ever been a better-made musical than "Fiddler on the Roof"? The book is actor-proof, the score mere inches from perfection. Not only did the 1964 production run for eight years, but ...