New show highlights avant-garde work of influential ‘Fiddler’ set designer. After a preliminary meeting with director-choreographer Jerome Robbins to discuss his concept for the original 1964 ...

Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art announced the exhibition, Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Yiddish Theatre, c. 1917 ̶ 1929. Developed from ...

In an interview for The New York Public Library’s Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in 1975, scenic designer Boris Aronson cites the then recently completed Lincoln Center Plaza as a primary ...

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 ...

Designer Boris Aronson based his set and the musical's logo on Chagall's style. At first the logo featured the daughters, but at Zero Mostel's insistence, the focus was changed to Tevye.

The devastating rise of Fascism would be an inescapable dramatic presence: designer Boris Aronson created a huge mirror that faced the audience and, in its reflection, incorporated these passive ...