The Folger’s “Metamorphoses” charts a fantastic voyage through myth and time, and in brilliantly engaging company. By André Hereford for Metro Weekly on May 21, 2024 Life begins with a noise in the dark, a quiet rattle and hum that bursts into a joyful communal dance ended abruptly by violent separation. From this first...
The Body’s Midnight: New Spring Play by Tira Palmquist Opens at Boston Court this April
By Hayden Dobb, Pasadena Weekly Staff Writer Apr 4, 2024 A new play is coming to Boston Court this spring. “The Body’s Midnight,” written by playwright Tira Palmquist, is a co-production with IAMA Theatre Company. Directed by Jessica Kubzansky, “The Body’s Midnight” explores the idea of what it means to get lost in America...
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...
THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH by Mark St. Germain Wins a Berkie
The seventh annual Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Awards, known as the Berkies took place this week, where a total of 27 awards in 22 categories were presented for shows that were produced between Oct. 1, 2022 and Sept. 30, 2023 at theaters in and around the Berkshires. The Sally and Robert Sugarman Award for...