Shedding Light on the Gearan Center
Frontier’s Foray into Theater Lighting Though lights, camera, action! is a saying reserved for the big screen, there is perhaps no art form that relies more heavily on the lights part of the idiom than theater. When actors are performing in front of an audience, lights can’t be tweaked in postproduction. Everything is immediate. Lighting is essential. The work that Frontier Glass did on Hobart College’s performing arts center, the Gearan Center, took into consideration the nuance of that element. “Windows, especially in a place like upstate NY, are a critical design element that brings in warmth and light,” says