Photos: Inside the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Ceremony
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 15, 2024
The 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to UK playwright Ava Pickett for her play 1536. Awarded annually since 1978, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the largest and oldest international award recognizing women+ who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre. See photos from inside the ceremony here.
Daniela Candillari to Lead Arizona Opera's DON GIOVANNI
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 13, 2024
Daniela Candillari's 2023-2024 season will continue in April with a return to Arizona Opera, where she will lead four performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Phoenix. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!
Review: Orth-Moscovitch Stunning MADHOUSE Tells of Women Past the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at Opera Philadelphia Festival O23
by Richard Sasanow - Sep 27, 2023
When composer Rene Orth came across the story of investigative reporter Nellie Bly’s expose of the abuse of women at an asylum in New York at the end of the 19th century, she immediately knew that “this story needed to be told as an opera.” She was right.
The result of her efforts, with the first-rate creative team including librettist Hannah Moscovitch, is 10 DAYS IN A MADHOUSE, a 90-minute work that opened Opera Philadelphia’s festival (this year, called O23) with its world premiere at the Wilma Theatre.
10 DAYS IN A MADHOUSE Receives World Premiere at Opera Philadelphia in September
by Stephi Wild - Aug 8, 2023
Composer Rene Orth's newest opera, 10 Days in a Madhouse will have its world premiere at Opera Philadelphia on Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 7:00pm, with additional performances on Saturday, September 23 at 2:00pm, Tuesday, September 26 and Thursday, September 28 at 7:00pm, and Saturday, September 30 at 2:00pm.
EAST OF BERLIN Comes to Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre This Month
by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2023
Love, guilt, and recriminations mix in the regional premiere of this riveting theatrical gut-punch from the author of last season’s smash hit production of “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes”, coming to Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre from May 25 – June 4, 2023.