James Darrah News
SOUND BITES 6.0 Award Winners Announced
Last night, Theatre Now New York (TNNY) presented its Sixth Annual Festival of 10-Minute Musicals at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023.
Casting & Creative Teams Announced For SOUND BITES 6.0
Theatre Now New York (TNNY) is pleased to announce the official casting and full creative teams for SOUND BITES 6.
Alice Ripley & More Join Judging Panel For SOUND BITES 6.0
Theatre Now New York (TNNY) is pleased to announce the official judging panel for SOUND BITES 6.
Opera Philadelphia's 2019-2020 Season Launches In September With Third Annual Festival O
Launching its past two annual seasons with the groundbreaking Festival O has firmly established Opera Philadelphia not only as "one of North America's premiere generators of valid new operas" (Opera News), but as "one of American opera's success stories" (New York Times).
Opera Omaha Announces ONE Festival 2019
Opera Omaha's ONE Festival returns March 30 - April 14, 2019 with new explorations and exciting work that exemplify innovation and the power of opera.
BWW Review: A PRISM of PROTOTYPE's INFINITE PSYCHOSIS for 2019
Where are our Violettas, our Salomes, our Elektras--even our Lulus--for opera to move forward as an art form for the 21 century? They're all victims of stress and suffering of one sort or another, but still worth meeting up with--not only musically but dramatically--more than once.
BWW Preview: Ready or Not, Here Comes NY's PROTOTYPE 2019, January 5-13
New York's PROTOTYPE OperaTheatreNow Festival returns for its seventh season from January 5 to the 13th and the one thing that you can't ask about it is “What's new?” That's not because there's nothing to answer.
BWW Overview: A Look-Back at Opera's Many-Colored Dream Coat of Performance Highs in 2018
Well, it's that time of the year again--time for a look-back on what was worth making note of during the calendar year that's about to come to an end.
VIDEO: Isabel Leonard and Jessica Vosk Sing 'A Boy Like That/I Have A Love' on GREAT PERFORMANCES
Isabel Leonard and Jessica Vosk sing "A Boy Like That/I Have A Love" from "West Side Story" also performed by Tony Yazbeck and other Broadway artists on Great Performances: The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood.
LA Opera Off Grand Presents World Premiere Of P R I S M
LA Opera Off Grand presents the world premiere of a new work by composer Ellen Reid and librettist Roxie Perkins: 'p r i s m.
PROTOTYPE Festival Brings Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Piece To Times Square
PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now announces full programming for the seventh annual festival of fresh opera-theatre & music-theatre, running January 5-13, 2019 and featuring ten presentations that "shift the whole paradigm of what opera is and can be" (New York Observer).
BWW Review: PROVING Mazzoli's Place in the New Opera Scene at the Miller in New York
Missy Mazzoli had me with BREAKING THE WAVES, her 2016 opera written with librettist Royce Vavrek at Opera Philadelphia and PROTOTYPE 2017.
BWW Review: 'Losing Your Mind' Three Ways in a Weekend at Opera Philadelphia's Festival O18
Whether from disease, 19th century #MeToo-style abuse, or unrequited love, Opera Philadelphia's (OP) Festival O18 opening weekend showed us three ways that central female characters lost their grip on reality.
Prototype Festival Announces Three Additional Presentations
Opera/Theatre/Now announces full programming for the seventh annual festival of fresh opera-theatre & music-theatre, running January 5-13, 2019 and featuring ten presentations that "shift the whole paradigm of what opera is and can be" (New York Observer).
BWW Preview: Same Time, This Year - I'd Still Rather Be at Opera Philadelphia's Festival O18
You can't accuse Opera Philadelphia's O18 Festival--running September 20-30 at various city venues--of being predictable.
BWW Review: THE BERNSTEIN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION at Tanglewood Music Center
The BERNSTEIN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT TANGLEWOOD concert was one of the largest and most significant performances taking place worldwide in recognition of what would have been Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday.
International Contemporary Ensemble Announces Fall 2018 Concerts And Incoming Executive Director, Rebecca Sigel
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) announces their fall 2018 season and the appointment of Executive Director Rebecca Sigel.
Miller Theatre Opens its Season With the NY Premiere Of PROVING UP
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts opens its 30th Anniversary 2018-19 Season and launches its new Chamber Opera Commissioning Initiative with the New York Premiere of PROVING UP, adapted from the short story "Proving Up" by Karen Russell.
