How the ‘Hamilton’ stage designer is infusing Broadway magic into this year’s Oscars
After a strange year, the awards show is back on the big stage.
Viewers of this Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast will see their screens fill with a mesmerizing swirl of spiraling lights, like a wormhole into another dimension. But don’t worry, the Oscars aren’t trying to hypnotize you. The maximalist stage of this year’s ceremony—despite looking like the kind of vortex that’s meant to suck in part of your brain and take over—has a much softer intent.