Here are the stories behind putting together some of the outfits worn in our recent Romeo and Juliet.  The story of the overall design proce...

Last weekend, our high school students performed Romeo and Juliet.   They did a spectacular job with the deep emotions, the stage comba...

Remember reading recently about my adventures making the dead body for the recent production of Arsenic and Old Lace ? Well, I made hi...

Last Tuesday, we, that is the Thin Ice Theater costume crew, held a big Costume Put-Away Day.  Our costume (and props) collection is stored...

Our living room rug has now appeared in its fifth show with Thin Ice Theater .  So, I figure it's time that the rug has its own resumé: ...

My main contribution to this weekend's  Thin Ice Theater production of the classic "Arsenic and Old Lace" is the creation of ...

So.  What do you do when you have 26 young actors wearing 56 costumes and different sets of parents helping out on different days?  You...

We've got just one month left to get ready for Thin Ice Theater's production of  The Phantom Tollbooth .  Costumes have been designe...

Step # Next in the costume process for The Phantom Tollbooth .  It's a real treat to do this show .  For several years now, when we...

My next big costuming project for Thin Ice Theater is The Phantom Tollbooth . We're producing the play by Susan Nanus, based on th...

So, the wonderful performances of "The Importance of Being Earnest" are over, the costume pieces are soon to be sorted and pu...

Coming up this weekend at Thin Ice Theater is Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest."  I am serving this time as co...

We (Thin Ice Theater) have just completed our second annual Dr. Seuss class. Last fall we presented The Cat In The Hat.  This year - Hor...

Thin Ice Theater's spring production for our youngest actors was Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Eileen, our direc...

Last weekend, Thin Ice Theater presented the Moss Hart - George S. Kaufman classic "You Can't Take It With You".  Comedy ensue...

Success!  All those rebuilt dresses, altered suit jackets, added sashes, replaced buttons, and redesigned hats later, the show was a great ...

Welcome to my first guest posting!  This is Annie Guter, Thin Ice Theater's great costume re-builder.  You saw lots of her work on the ...

A Plaid Dress for Beth For this dress, like Amy's , I also needed to make undersleeves.  Also, the skirt was too short, so I length...

A Sweet Dress for Amy This dress had the odd set-up of a (worn-out) velcro closure on the front, and a (broken) zipper on the back.  Le...

Here's Aunt March wearing the vintage black lace blouse discussed in a previous post . (And yes, the actress is really just ...