Review by John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards for Thinking Theatre NYC February 23, 2024 The title of Deb Margolin‘s new play, This is not a time of peace, is spoken twice in the course of the performance, each time in reference to a different era. This doubling not only draws attention to historical...
Review: How Will the World End? Fire, Ice or Water? In Flood at Shattered Globe, the Answer Is Water
By Nancy S Bishop for Third Coast Review Shattered Globe Theatre’s new play, Flood, is about family issues—parents who don’t understand their children, children who never call home, elderly parents who ignore the realities of today’s world. There may be nothing new about that, but the clever script by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen starts a smart, lightning-quick...
At WNO’s American Opera Initiative, three glimpses into the future
But the highlight of the evening was its centerpiece, “Forever” — quite easily the strangest opera I’ve ever seen. Rather than dig into humanity for material, composer Elizabeth Gartman and librettist Melisa Tien dispose of it altogether, opting instead for a world populated by humanistic petrochemicals and tenacious microorganisms. Thus, “Forever” stages a meet-cute...
Washington National Opera renews commitment to future of American opera
A three-character opera lasting 20 minutes is not a vast canvas, and it turns out that less can be more in a mini-opera. The most successful of the three new works, Forever by Elizabeth Gartman, was also the most frivolous, at least on the surface. Set to a libretto by Melisa Tien, it featured...
Discussion with award-winning Crime & Punishment adapters/playwrights Sue Campbell and Curt Columbus
See Curt Columbus here....