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Selected Press from past productions

From Review for "Twelfth Night", Berkeley Shakespeare Festival:
"Under Kurt Landisman's luscious jewel lighting, the screens glow green and violet for some scenes, glimmer like moonstones and tourmalines in others."
-Judith Green, San Jose Mercury News
September 26, 1990
 
From Review for "Samson and Dalila", Los Angeles Opera
"Kurt Landisman's lighting design lends a suitably pre-Raphaelite prettiness to Douglas Schmidt's monumental Hollywood-Babylon dream of a set that also is echoed in Lawrence Foster's lithe yet forceful conducting."
-Reed Johnson, LA Daily News
September 10, 1999
 
From Review for "The Hairy Ape", Marin Theatre Company
"John B. Wilson (sets) and Kurt Landisman (lighting) respond with a nest of sharp angles and contrasts. Spears of white light shoot across a grid of steel girders, struts and bridges."
-Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
March 22, 2002
 
From Review for "Tosca", Sacramento Opera Company
"They applauded lighting designer Kurt Landisman and stage director Zoe Pappas, who was faithful to Puccini's paces and pauses in the action and handled well the liturgical mob in the great Te Deum scene that ends Act I."
-William Glackin, Sacramento Bee
June 12, 2000
 
From Review for "Ghost Sonata", San Francisco Opera
"The production, done in black and white, is riveting, propelled by
Kurt Landisman's eye-popping lighting and projections onto the raked stage of Theatre Artaud"
-Paul Hertelendy, San Jose Mercury News
July 27, 1990
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

From Review for "Guistino", San Francisco Opera:
"Both the simple scenery, mostly thin cut-outs,
and Kurt Landisman's absolutely gorgeous lighting- peach, fuchsia, turquosie, gold - add an air of unreality appropriate to the artifice of the musical expression of the period."
-Roger Yim, Oakland Tribune
June 29, 1989
 
From Review for "Triptych", Magic Theatre:
"Director Paul Whitworth is presenting a very sharp production with an excellent set by Kate Edmunds. The set includes three separate areas, with two on the floor of the stage and a third built up to represent the daughter's bedroom. The two ground floor sets represent Henry and Pauline's living room stage left and Clarissa's theater dressing room stage right. Lighting by Kurt Landisman is top drawer."
-Richard Connema, TalkinBroadway.com
December 26, 2003 

Click here for the TBA Landisman Fellowship

Click here for Sacramento Magazine article

Click here for "Lighting Dimensions" Article

AWARDS
Partial Listing
Bay Area Critics Circle 
"The Unseen Hand" Eureka Theatre   1981
Drama-Logue Award   
"The Unseen Hand" Eureka Theatre   1981
Bay Area Critic Circle  
"Europa" Magic Theatre    1981
Bay Area Critics Circle 
"Fire at Luna Park" Magic Theatre     1983
Bay Area Critics Circle 
"Fool For Love" Magic Theatre    1984
Bay Area Critics Circle
"Three Penny Opera" Eureka Theatre 1986
Bay Area Critics Circle 
 "Rocky Horror Show" Theatre on the Sq.1987
Bay Area Critics Circle
"Breaking the Code" Magic Theatre    1988
Drama-Logue Award   
"Breaking the Code" Magic Theatre   1988
Bay Area Critics Circle 
"Frankie & Johnnie" Magic Theatre    1989
Bay Area Critics Circle 
"The Weekend" Cowell Theatre  1992
Bay Area Critics Circle  
"The Heidi Chronicles" Theatreworks  1993
Bay Area Critics Circle  
"Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" Marin Theatre Co.1994
Drama-Logue Award  
"Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" Marin Theatre Co. 1994
Bay Area Critics Circle
"Oh Kay" San Francisco Shakes Festival  1995
Bay Area Critics Circle  
"All in the Timing" Marin Theatre Co.1996
Dean Goodman Choice 
"The Joy Luck Club" Theatreworks   1999
Dean Goodman Choice  
"The Hairy Ape" Marin Theatre Co.   2002
Bay Area Critics Circle
"Triptych"  Magic Theatre  2003
Bay Area Critics Circle   
    "Ragtime"  Foothill Music Theatre 2004
Bay Area Critics Circle
"Musical of Musicals" CenterRep 2008