The Studios of Key West launches their 2020/21 theatrical season with the Digital Premiere of Drew Larimore's powerful and timely new play SMITHTOWN, directed by Studios Artistic Associate and Board Chair, Stephen Kitsakos. Tickets are now on sale at https://tskw.org/smithtown/
By popular demand, The Studios of Key West has extended its innovative online summer conversation series, 'Between Two Palms,' into the fall. The program invites award-winning theater, television, film and literary personalities online for a lively, unscripted hour-long conversation produced by The Studios.
Community Conversation presented by Change the Perception has covered numerous issues each month. Gay Pride may have been in June, but at the July 23 meeting LGBT will be the topic with a reading of Gregory G. Allen's 'Hiding in Daylight': a dystopian play about life after a gay purge. Dallas actors will read the one act play and then open up the floor for a discussion. Please be advised the work is for mature audiences.
The opera A Thousand Splendid Suns is totally concerned with the political upheavals that have transformed Afghanistan over the past half-century. It is also the story of how the lives of women in that country have been transformed. And, yes, it features human drama. What else should one expect from an opera?
A newly created opera is worthy of some special attention. And, who better to focus a spotlight on such an endeavor than Northeast Public Radio's interviewer/host Joe Donahue? This coming Thursday at 11:10AM, the co-creators of A Thousand Splendid Suns will be interviewed on WAMC 90.3FM. Live streamed at www.WAMC.org.
On Thursday, September 28th at 6pm learn how an opera is created. The Hudson Area Library is presenting composer Sheila Silver and librettist Stephen Kitsakos in A Thousand Splendid Suns: Turning a Novel into an Opera Libretto.
Author Khaled Hosseini did not think that his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was opera material until composer Sheila Silver convinced him otherwise. I had written him several letters, the Spencertown resident said. But it wasn't until I sent him a very, very heartfelt letter, explaining why this is an opera, that he called me and said 'okay'.
OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion for American opera, is pleased to announce the latest recipients of Commissioning Grants from the Opera Grants for Female Composers program, made possible through the generosity of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.
OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion for American opera, announces the details for the New Opera Showcase, taking place on Monday, January 18 at 8:00 p.m. at historic Trinity Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. The Showcase offers artists, producers and audiences a unique opportunity to hear some of the most exciting operas being composed today.
OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce the first round of recipients of its new program: Opera Grants for Female Composers, made possible through the generosity of The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. From among the 112 eligible applicants, an independent adjudication panel selected eight composers. The recipients have each been awarded $12,500 to support the development of their compositions listed below.
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