Signature Theatre presents theworld premiere production of Midwestern Gothic. Directed and choreographed by Signature Theatre Associate Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner Jelly's Last Jam, West Side Story, this new musical thriller features music, lyrics and orchestrations by Josh Schmidt Off-Broadway's Adding Machine and book and lyrics by Royce Vavrek Dog Days, 27. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 3/28/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lars von Trier’s fantastically wrenching 1996 film Breaking the Waves has been adapted into a new opera by composer Missy Mazzoli, librettist Royce Vavrek and director James Darrah. Excerpts from the opera will be performed this coming Monday, September 12, at the Guggenheim Museum and then the opera itself will officially premiere in an Opera Philadelphia production in Philadelphia from Thursday, September 22 through Saturday, October 1. At I Care if You Listen, Mazzoli and Vavrek discussed their adaptation. From Vavrek: I have loved von Trier’s film since I first saw it at the age of fourteen. I can remember […]...
- 9/6/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The opera Dog Days opens with a family, “not unlike your own, sit[ting] in a house, watching a TV that isn’t on.” Now, I don’t know your family — mine does not include two perpetually stoned, semi-verbal, shirtless teenage brothers sprawled on a broken couch in the basement; a younger sister who talks to a man dressed as a dog; a raging, defeated father who’s quick to grab his rifle; or a mother who dishes out a steady diet of pickled carrots and dandelions from the yard. I suppose it could, though, which is precisely the point: We’re all just one tiny apocalypse from a state of savage survival. With a blunt, merciless libretto by Royce Vavrek and wheeling, nimble music by David T. Little, Dog Days portrays an American family brutalized by war, and the result is by turns intolerable and superb.It’s a deeply claustrophobic drama.
- 1/11/2016
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
Continuing its ongoing efforts of supporting new musical theatre, Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va held invitation only readings of two world premiere musicals, Midwestern Gothic by composer Josh Schmidt Adding Machine, A Minister's Wife and librettist Royce Vavrek Dog Days, Twenty-Seven and Silver Belles by composerlyricist Matt Conner Nevermore, Crossing and book writer Ally Currin Caesar and Dada, Benched, on November 6 and November 8, 2014.
- 11/10/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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