Review: Notes on the Classification of Spectral Lines ...

Aided by science, this theatrical essay covers vast distances

"...When traveling with Stephen Pruitt and Rebecca Whitehurst, prepare to cover vast distances...."

May 26, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

History of the World as the Center of the Universe

In his History of the World as the Center of the Universe, Stephen Pruitt proves that he is gifted not only as a lighting designer, but as a writer and performer who can tell an interesting anecdote or formulate a unique view of just how the various facets of the universe fit together.

"...the World as the Center of the Universe, performer Stephen Pruitt has a lot to cover in just over..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

'Encryption'

Stephen Pruitt wants you to tune in to the mystery of sounds in the dark

"...A solo work by Stephen Pruitt is a rare joy, like a total solar..."

July 15, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Invisible Moments: Sleepy, Dreamy, Pleasing Invisible Moments

With its sleepy, dreamy atmosphere, repetitious images, and low-key, self-referential presentation, Jason Phelps and Stephen Pruitt's installation-cum-performance piece Invisible Moments is one of those works that audiences are going to either love or hate.

"...observing this installation-cum-performance piece, created by Jason Phelps and Stephen Pruitt with the help of some of their artistic..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Talent Show 1989 and Catastrophe Theory

Though the shows Talent Show 1989 and Catastrophe Theory aren't related, the Getalong Gang's spoof of junior high talents and Stephen Pruitt's account of his career path both offer much in the way of entertainment

"...half of the bill, Catastrophe Theory, is produced by Stephen Pruitt, a local lighting designer who wrote and performs..."

June 2, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Company

In this short works program, the troupe explored the solace and thrills in the company you keep

"...Festival), and even a work by longtime lighting designer Stephen Pruitt. The concert's title, Company, seemed cheeky in its..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Glacier

As an elegy to the ice, this dance aestheticized doom but left us plenty of edge

"...even bow. "It's over," mouthed lighting and sound designer Stephen Pruitt from his spot at the back of the..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The Trees of Govalle

Forklift Danceworks' latest connected care for urban trees, a neighborhood's life, and all of us to nature

"...heritage pecan, which stood regally in the beams of Stephen Pruitt's lights as workers from the city's Urban Forestry..."

April 17, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Jungle

Trouble Puppet's expanded take on Sinclair's novel is as grisly and graceful as ever

"...with props beyond that first iteration, with lighting (by Stephen Pruitt) doing things to Hopkins' efficient ebony set that,..."

March 25, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

There Will Be Blood

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

"...bloody stew of the Bard's spookiest bits. Then there's Stephen Pruitt's TBA (of Late Night Radio), which taps an..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Three

An atypically reflective evening of experiments, explorations, and excerpts

"...In "TBA," an experiment by Stephen Pruitt, each audience member received a radio and headphones...."

Feb. 6, 2009 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

FronteraFest Short Fringe

With FronteraFest 2006 in full swing, the January 27 Short Fringe program offered an assortment of theatrical ingenuity, frivolity, and tenderness

"...Stephen Pruitt shyly admitted in his "Catastrophe Theory" that he..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Forklift Danceworks' Dove Springs Swims

The company's latest community production showed why Dove Springs' pool matters to that neighborhood and to all of us as well

"...shifted to indigo and the lights by production designer Stephen Pruitt shifted to a vibrant purple. We were witness..."

July 20, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre's Locked-In

A dance inspired by our rigid connection to our cell phones was more spontaneous and personal than its title implied

"...in practice, more complex. Bathed in magic-hour lighting by Stephen Pruitt, the band laid out a xylophonic lullaby that..."

June 29, 2018 Arts Review

Forklift Danceworks' My Parks, My Pools, My City

With Bartholomew Swims, Allison Orr's dance company plunges into Austin's pool problem

"...her and her A-team, Krissie Marty, Graham Reynolds, and Stephen Pruitt from The Trash Project, PowerUP, and The Trees..."

July 28, 2017 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Rude Mechs' Requiem for Tesla

The Austin theatre collective's biography of inventor Nikola Tesla literally makes sparks fly

"...entering the Off Center, the audience is immersed in Stephen Pruitt's dynamic set – a charged combination of wires,..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's Disrupted

KDHDC and Dark Circles Contemporary Dance used classical music to launch into playful patterns and absurd rituals

"...the movement was inventive, and lighting and design by Stephen Pruitt created a glowing, saturated world onstage, this time..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

More or Less

Kathy Dunn Hamrick's dance, performed to Steve Reich's Drumming in its entirety, had rhythms moving the dancers and moving through them

"...geranium-red funnel-necked dresses and daffodil-colored crocheted tops – and Stephen Pruitt's unabashed lighting, shed in red, yellow, blue, and..."

May 27, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre’s Lumen

The site-specific dance inspired by Dan Flavin’s art evoked pure wonder and worked as a study of threes

"...In a distillation of the Flavin installation, lighting designer Stephen Pruitt fitted the space with a smattering of fluorescent..."

April 29, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's True Story

In Kathy Dunn Hamrick's new dance, communities, like truths, were fluid and the movement was incomparable

"...screen doors that lined the three walls (lighting designer Stephen Pruitt also devised the set). Sometimes people lingered outside..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Briefs: An Episodic Adventure

In seven dances, Kathy Dunn Hamrick and a strong ensemble show how the now is rooted in what came before

"...by Jacob Hamrick (Kathy's son) and penumbric lighting by Stephen Pruitt. The dancers, in stylish leggings and tops in..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The Undoing of Nonet

This unsettling dance by Kathy Dunn Hamrick seemed a companion piece to her shattering work, The Big Small

"...their limbs toward the ceiling. The lighting, designed by Stephen Pruitt, came from 65 or so halogen bulbs suspended..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Gold Show / Rose Show

This program of films and dances by choreographers Heloise Gold and Julie Nathanielsz invigorated the senses

"..."Yo, Genesis," a solo lit in rose (lighting by Stephen Pruitt), she was feminine, yet a being of anomalous..."

June 21, 2013 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The Importance of Being Earnest

At Mary Moody Northen Theatre, Oscar Wilde's comedy is not only wonderfully expressed but played with remarkable accuracy

"...serve as a visual analog of the production's freshness. Stephen Pruitt's lighting skillfully brings out the riches in T'Cie..."

April 19, 2013 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Solo Symphony

When maestro Peter Bay was truly conducting, electricity charged this dance he inspired

"...Reynolds' sound design, were memorable, especially as lit by Stephen Pruitt. Palms turned outward before him, Bay seemed to..."

July 20, 2012 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

April Fools

Acia Gray mines vaudeville for lost treasures of tap and makes them dazzle again

"...the Butter Bean Band, Allison Jaynes' period outfits, and Stephen Pruitt's footlights all splendidly set the mood, but bringing..."

April 6, 2012 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Materiality of Impermanence

Sharon Marroquín's dance about her cancer experience was a triumph of life and art

"...her unwavering support. Her designers – Ia Ensterä, set; Stephen Pruitt, lights; and Todd V. Wolfson, video – created..."

March 30, 2012 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Civilization (All You Can Eat)

Jason Grote's play comes off as fuzzy, especially in the half-light of SVT's staging

"...that is accentuated by the dark lighting (design by Stephen Pruitt), which is dark enough even to obscure some..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

'Trash,' Take Two

Allison Orr takes out the Trash a second – and final – time

"...Orr, composer Graham Reynolds and his musicians, lighting director Stephen Pruitt, and innumerable supporters and volunteers – did make..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Frankenstein

A puppet-driven hodgepodge romp through Mary Shelley's most famous work

"...Mrs. Frankenstein) who's Doing It for Herself, lighted by Stephen Pruitt and adorned by the original music of Justin..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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