Oratorio For Living Things
Oratorio For Living Things - 2025 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
Signature Theatre
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In this “profoundly strange and overwhelmingly beautiful” (New York Times) music-theatre event, creator Heather Christian infuses a classical oratorio with a captivating blend of blues, gospel, jazz, and soul. Both otherworldly and achingly intimate, the piece surrounds and uplifts audiences, peeling back complex layers of what it means to be alive on both a human and a cosmic scale.
Oratorio For Living Things - 2025 - Off-Broadway Cast
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'Oratorio for Living Things' Off-Broadway review — an aural explosion of joy
8 / 10
Oratorio for Living Things completely reshapes what a theatre performance can be. Featuring 12 performers and six musicians, composer Heather Christian's immersive musical work is a sweeping aural experience that blends jazz, soul, blues, and gospel. It moves fluidly between the cosmic and the intimate, zooming out to the Big Bang and in to the small moments that make life worth living.
Oratorio for Living Things: Musically Captivating, Text Effect Not So
6 / 10
First, let’s hear it for the highly effective elements: Christian’s music is both sumptuous and austere. That’s to say, its presentation as a modern-day oratorio sounds exactly right, certainly as conducted by Jane Cardona and interpreted by the six-part orchestra playing unseen above the end of the room where audience members enter and exit. The resultant overarching spirituality catches listeners in the palm of its many, many pages of exacting measures.
by Stephi Wild - October 29, 2025
Signature Theatre's Oratorio For Living Things, written by Heather Christian and directed by Lee Sunday Evans, has extended its run. Performances were originally set to run through November 16, and will now continue through November 23.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 17, 2025
Signature Theatre is presenting Oratorio For Living Things, written by Heather Christian and directed by Lee Sunday Evans. See what the critics are saying about the production here.
by Stephi Wild - August 6, 2025
Signature Theatre will present Oratorio For Living Things, written by Heather Christian and directed by Lee Sunday Evans. Learn more about the cast for the production here!
Oratorio For Living Things History
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| 2020 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2025 | Off-Broadway |
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