Hi! We want to do Harvey next Spring and we have a really small stage. We can't split the two scenes on the sides of the stage due to our size (it would limit the room for each side)...so, what is a good idea for staging this show on a small stage?

Our set designer was MartyW on here.  Email him and he may have some better design ideas for you.

I will try to describe how I did it in our production. It may be more complicated than you want to tackle. Picture two permanent angled walls (say 16' long) each with a door and whose upstage tips are 16' apart (just needs to match the size of the walls). Each of these walls has a door. Now picture two dboule-sided 16' walls each of which pivots (on wheels and hinged at the upstage fixed point). Each has an arch that matches the location of the door that it swings against. Now when you're in the Dowd home, one wall covers the back opening and the other is against the stationary wall. One door is to the dining room, the other is the front door, and the back arch is to the upstairs/hallway. When you are at the reception area of the hospital, the moveable walls switch. One door is Dr. Chumley's office, one door is Dr. Sanderson's office, and the arch leads to the front door and the rest of the hospital. I made plexiglass name plates to put on the doors at the sanitarium. This involves 24 4' flats. For smaller stages you could do all the walls at 12' which would only be 18 flats. It was a lot of work to build but it maximized our playing space in each scene.