July 5th

November 17, 2022

Script By Ken Green

Music design by Eve Wolf

Directed by Donald T. Sanders

Frederick Douglass's fraught preparations for his famous, fiery 'What, to the American Slave is the Fourth of Julv?' speech, delivered on July 5th, 1852. Hip hop, rap, updated spirituals, and composers Joel Thompson (Seven Songs of the Unarmed), George Walker, and Julius Eastman.

Beethoven vs. Beethoven

December 15, 2022

Script and music design by Eve Wolf

Directed by Donald T. Sanders

Beethoven's over-the-top legal battle with his sister-in-law for custody of his dead brother's young son, Karl, leads to dramatic consequences for the increasinglv deaf composer. This new drama is set amid the splendors of some of Beethoven's most profound late works.

The Judgement of Josephine Baker

February 9, 2023

Script by Renée Silverman

Music design by Eve Wolf

Directed by Donald T. Sanders

The famed singer and war heroine, known as

The Black Venus, is tasked with determining the Eternal Fate of Gertrude Stein, queen of the Paris avant-garde, and her consort, Alice B. Toklas, for their association with Nazi collaborators, in a comic fantasy set to the music of Messiaen, Varèse, Honegger, Xenakis, Pierre Henry, and Guillaume de Machaut.

Gouldberg

March 23, 2023

Script and music design by Eve Wolf

Directed by Donald T. Sanders

In a new fantasy theater piece, Glenn Gould fakes his own death in 1982, and has, under a pseudonym, been making recordings ever since in the 'Far North' of Canada. The strange and intimate relationship between a future, fictional Gould and the real Gould intermingles with Bach's iconic "Goldberg" Variations.

Ode to Salvador Dalí

May 11, 2023

Script by James Melo

Music Design by Max Barros

Directed by Donald T. Sanders

Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali torment and seduce one another in a tangle of friendship and sexual manipulation during the Spanish Civil War. Exile and an unsolved murder ensue. Music of Albéniz, de Falla. and composers from the Generación del 27.