The towering sets for Broadway’s ‘The Lost Boys’ have audiences gasping. Here’s how the designer pulled it off

When you’re building sets for a musical that’s populated by flying vampires, you have to challenge yourself to think three-dimensionally.

But Dane Laffrey is used to challenging himself.

Over the course of his decades-long career in theater, the Tony-winning scenic designer has been tasked with bringing to life some of the most memorable sets in recent Broadway history—from a sandy, 360-degree Caribbean archipelago for the 2017 revival of Once on This Island to the futuristic...