Nancy Maes

Prop: Crazy Quilt Appearing in: "Intimate Apparel," Steppenwolf Theatre Company In "Intimate Apparel," Esther, an African-American seamstress in 1905, sews her savings into a quilt--but for the play, not just...

Prop: World War I army-issue condom in pouch. Appearing in: "To the Green Fields Beyond," Writers' Theatre. When Writers' Theatre prop designer Sara Walsh read the script for "To the...

Prop: Parisian taxi-cab horns Appearing in: "George Gershwin Alone" Paris can be an exhilarating place. Because George Gershwin wanted to capture that exuberance in his 1928 tone poem "An American...

At times John Cardone leads Evanston Athletic Club members, Northwestern University's golf teams and a senior citizens group in sun salutations. And at others, he undresses on stage in "Naked...

Some people think of attic as dark, dingy places, but Terry Ledford had a different vision when he chose White Attic as the name for his shop of home furnishings...

Prop: Horse Appearing in: "Windmilled: Tilting at Don Quixote," Neo-Futurists Sharon Greene knew when she started creating a play inspired by "Don Quixote" that she couldn't do it without a...

Prop: Car that flips over Appearing in: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus For many years, Mark Freddes has built Volkswagen Beetles--the kind that hold more than a dozen...

Prop: Barber chair Appearing in: "Sweeney Todd," Porchlight Music Theatre When Porchlight Music Theatre decided to stage "Sweeney Todd," the Stephen Sondheim musical about a 19th Century London barber who...

Prop: A table Appearing in: "500 Clown Frankenstein" When Dan Reilly was asked to make a table for the 500 Clown production of "Frankenstein," he thought he knew what was...

Prop: Giant Jack-o-lantern Appearing in: "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Chicago Shakespeare Theater In "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Sir John Falstaff, who has plans to seduce two married women,...