Designing for Broadway

In celebration of the V&A’s permanent acquisition of four original Rockwell-designed stage set models, join one of Broadway’s most celebrated scenic designers as he discusses his work on productions like Hairspray, She Loves Me, Kinky Boots, Into the Woods, On the Twentieth Century, and many more. Rockwell will share memories of his early love for the theatre and explore how his theatrical designs both inform and are informed by the other work of his world-renowned multidisciplinary architecture and design firm, Rockwell Group.

In conversation with V&A Senior Curator of Theatre & Performance, Simon Sladen, Rockwell will explore how performers and audiences interact with set design, and how design is integral to storytelling.

David Rockwell’s Broadway set for Hairspray will be on view in the newly renovated Performance Gallery, which will be open that evening for ticketholders.