Cinnabar covered with bright red powder made from cinnabar. The most popularly known use of cinnabar is in Chinese carved lacquerware, a technique that apparently originated in the Song dynasty. The danger of mercury poisoning may be reduced in ancient lacquerware by entraining the powdered pigment in lacquer, but could still pose an environmental hazard if the pieces were accidentally destroyed. In the modern jewelry industry, the toxic pigment is replaced by a resin-based polymer that approximates the appearance of pigmented lacquer. Two female mummies dated A.D. 1399 to 1475 found in Cerro Esmeralda in Chile in 1976 had clothes colored
Cinnabar Theater of Figaro" (2014), and others. Notable among the many dramatic works produced at Cinnabar was a 2004 production of Tony Kushner's "The Illusion" (1988) adapted from "L’Illusion Comique" by 17th-century French playwright Pierre Corneille. The Cinnabar production featured actor Jeffrey Weissman. In 2013, Broadway veteran and film/television actor Charles Siebert played the role of Gregory Solomon in the Cinnabar production of Arthur Miller's "The Price." Cinnabar Theater The Cinnabar Theater, located in Petaluma, California, is a professional non-profit theater producing opera and musical theatre, drama and a chamber music series in a 120-seat venue, under the auspices of the Cinnabar