She has designed the sets for many
Broadway productions, starting with ''
'night, Mother in 1983, and including Big River
(1985), The Secret Garden (1991), and Good Vibrations
in 2005. Of her sets for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
, the CurtainUp'' reviewer wrote: "The best starting point for what's right and wrong with 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', the new musical based on Mark Twain's novel, are Heidi Ettinger's sets. Ettinger, who also worked on 'Big River', ... has given the town of St. Petersburg, Mo. the look of a colorful three-dimensional folk art painting or quilt." She designed the sets for
Triumph of Love in 1997, and
The Sound of Music revival also in 1997. In an article in
The New York Times, the writer observed, "If there is an Ettinger trademark linking all her designs, it's that there is no trademark. 'I never do the same thing twice,' she [Ettinger] said." She has designed for many
Off-Broadway productions, starting with
The Vienna Notes by Richard Nelson at
Playwrights Horizons in 1979 and more recently
Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein at
Second Stage Theatre in 1994. She designed the scenery for the production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream
at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in August 1982, with Mel Gussow in his review in The New York Times'' noting: "...the Delacorte Theater in Central Park has been turned into a sylvan glade, complete with rolling greensward, trees, blossoming flowers and a babbling pond. The scene is natural - not artificial -and, for that, credit should go to the scenic designer, Heidi Landesman..." She designed the set for the Second Stage Theatre production of
Painting Churches in February 1983. The reviewer for
The Christian Science Monitor wrote : "The production staged by Carole Rothman has been beautifully and observantly designed by Heidi Landesman (scenery)..." She won the
Obie Award for her work on ''A Midsummer Night's Dream
and Painting Churches
. She designed the sets for King Lear
in 2007 at the Public Theater, starring Kevin Kline. Ben Brantley, The New York Times'' reviewer wrote: "Ms. Ettinger’s tiered high-concept set combines industrial chic with a feeling of elemental magic." She also worked in Berlin, designing a production of
Hunchback of Notre Dame (1999). In regional theater, she designed the sets for the musical
Zhivago (later retitled
Doctor Zhivago) which ran at the
La Jolla Playhouse in 2006. She designed the sets for the stage musical
A Room with a View, which ran at the
Old Globe Theatre in 2012. ==Personal==