Fort Worth Oprea Announces Line Up Of Unpublished Operas, 5/3-5/4
by Molly Tracy - Feb 7, 2017
Fort Worth Opera (FWOpera) announced today the names of the eight composer and librettist teams whose unpublished works have been selected for the company's fifth annual, critically acclaimed new works series, Frontiers - funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Award-Winning Loading Dock Theatre Presents THE DUDLEYS
by Nora Dominick - Aug 15, 2016
Brooklyn based award-winning Loading Dock Theatre presents THE DUDLEYS! A FAMILY GAME by Leegrid Stevens. Directed by Jacob Titus, the NYC premiere this fall at HERE features original chiptune music, projection design by Reid Farrington, and life size 8-bit video animation.
New Brew Presents SEX! COMEDY! ECONOMICS! AN EVENING WITH TRAV S.D. (AND FRIENDS) Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Apr 3, 2015
New Brew Performs Select Scenes From: The Curse of the Rat King: Trav S.D. (libretto) and David Mallamud (music) have been collaborating on this campy comic opera since 2010. It is a post-modern mash-up of Universal horror films, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, the writings of Sigmund Freud, and numerous other elements. On the bill with him will be selections from Three Way, by David Cote (libretto) and Robert Paterson (music), which has been described as “a kind of NC-17 Il trittico”, and two works with lyrics by UTC#61's Edward Einhorn: The Velvet Oratorio (music by Henry Akona) and Money Lab (music by Avner Finberg).
New Brew Presents SEX! COMEDY! ECONOMICS! AN EVENING WITH TRAV S.D. (AND FRIENDS), 4/3
by BWW News Desk - Mar 29, 2015
New Brew Performs Select Scenes From: The Curse of the Rat King: Trav S.D. (libretto) and David Mallamud (music) have been collaborating on this campy comic opera since 2010. It is a post-modern mash-up of Universal horror films, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, the writings of Sigmund Freud, and numerous other elements. On the bill with him will be selections from Three Way, by David Cote (libretto) and Robert Paterson (music), which has been described as “a kind of NC-17 Il trittico”, and two works with lyrics by UTC#61's Edward Einhorn: The Velvet Oratorio (music by Henry Akona) and Money Lab (music by Avner Finberg).
WAKE UP with BWW 2/19/2015 - ONE DAY, THE NOMAD and More!
by Jessica Showers - Feb 19, 2015
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: ONE DAY opens tonight, Tony winner Elizabeth Swados' THE NOMAD begins at the Flea and more!
Tony Torn to Join Cast of Untitled Theater Company #61's THE VELVET ORATORIO
by Tyler Peterson - Dec 1, 2014
Tony Torn (Karen Coonrad's The Tempest, Jay Scheib's The Disinherited, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway) joins the cast of The Velvet Oratorio, an original opera/theater piece commemorating the 25th anniversary of The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. The show will be presented in the grand ballroom at the current home of the Czech Center and the Czech Consulate: The Bohemian National Hall. The Velvet Oratorio is an evocative retelling of the Velvet Revolution through found text, choral music, and scenes inspired by Vaclav Havel's Van?k plays. Torn will be playing a secret service officer who interrogates Van?k but later disclaims his Communist past.
Untitled Theater Company #61 Stages THE VELVET ORATORIO, Now thru 1/14
by BWW News Desk - Nov 8, 2014
The Velvet Oratorio, an original opera/theater piece commemorating the 25th anniversary of The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, will be presented in the grand ballroom at the current home of the Czech Center and the Czech Consulate: The Bohemian National Hall. The Velvet Oratorio is an evocative retelling of the Velvet Revolution through found text, choral music, and scenes inspired by Vaclav Havel's Van?k plays.
Untitled Theater Company #61 to Stage THE VELVET ORATORIO, 11/8-1/14
by BWW News Desk - Oct 1, 2014
The Velvet Oratorio, an original opera/theater piece commemorating the 25th anniversary of The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, will be presented in the grand ballroom at the current home of the Czech Center and the Czech Consulate: The Bohemian National Hall. The Velvet Oratorio is an evocative retelling of the Velvet Revolution through found text, choral music, and scenes inspired by Vaclav Havel's Van?k plays.
UTC61 Presents THE LATHE OF HEAVEN, Opening Tonight, 6/10
by BWW News Desk - Jun 10, 2012
Untitled Theater Company #61 (UTC61) presents The Lathe of Heaven, an original, authorized stage adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi classic about a man whose dreams change reality, adapted and directed by Edward Einhorn with music by Henry Akona.
Untitled Theater Company #61 Presents THE LATHE OF HEAVEN, Now thru 6/30
by BWW News Desk - Jun 6, 2012
Untitled Theater Company #61 presents The Lathe of Heaven, adapted and directed by Edward Einhorn, from the book by Ursula K. Le Guin, with original music by Henry Akona at 3LD Art + Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St., from tonight, June 6 through June 30.
Untitled Theater Company #61 Presents THE LATHE OF HEAVEN, 6/6
by Max Schwager - May 2, 2012
Untitled Theater Company #61 will present The Lathe of Heaven, adapted and directed by Edward Einhorn, from the book by Ursula K. Le Guin, with original music by Henry Akona at 3LD Art + Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St., from June 6 - 30.
UTC61 Presents THE LATHE OF HEAVEN, Opening 6/10
by Kelsey Denette - Apr 23, 2012
Untitled Theater Company #61 (UTC61) presents The Lathe of Heaven, an original, authorized stage adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi classic about a man whose dreams change reality, adapted and directed by Edward Einhorn with music by Henry Akona.