winter volume 49 n 44 by Margaret Mitchell Boston BAllet designs A neW produCtion of The NuTcracker For its fiftieth anniversary, Boston Ballet and designer Robert Perdziola pulled out all the stops. 34 advertisers 88 58 AmeriCAn BroAdWAy Costume designers in the theAtre museum in viennA This large collection of costume sketches is some of the best documentation available for these early twentieth-century American artists. The provenance of these works, however, is somewhat mysterious. 58 by Iris Fanger inside usitt 84 by Delbert Unruh and Ione Unruh, with Alexandra Steiner-Strauss A revealing look at Ricketts's dedication to creating costumes for plays intended to bring hope and cheer to wounded soldiers in World War I. 24 book review 70 An introduCtion to KAthAKAli Costume by Wendy Meaden An ancient classical Indian dance requires elaborate and highly symbolic costumes. liBerACe extrAvAgAnzA! by Connie Furr Soloman and Jan Jewett A detailed look at some of Liberace's fabulous clothes designed by Michael Travis. on the cover Melancholia, a Charles Ricketts design for the frontispiece of The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde, 1894. technology A Costume CorrespondenCe: the theatrical War effort of Charles ricketts departments & 12 number 1 the subtext 10 12 44 n t h e a t re d e s i g n 2013