Cellini
A stage work about the process sculptor Benvenuto Cellini went through to create his mid-sixteenth-century bronze Perseus with the Head of Medusa.
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A stage work about the process sculptor Benvenuto Cellini went through to create his mid-sixteenth-century bronze Perseus with the Head of Medusa.
In a Bronx bar, Danny, a violent and self-loathing truck driver, meets Roberta, a divorced woman haunted by sexual abuse and worried about her son. Their conversation shifts toward the possibility of love.
At a military base, a colonel promotes a Black officer solely because of his race. When the officer learns that the colonel had an affair with a private's wife, he must choose between staying unnoticed and doing what he believes is right.
The political relationship between Israel and Palestine is allegorically staged as a turbulent sexual and sadomasochistic relationship between a man and a woman, refereed by an armed American cowboy and his British sidekick.
Douglas J. Cuomo’s two-act opera adapts John Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt: A Parable, which was also adapted as an Oscar-nominated film.
The play is set in the fictional St. Nicholas Church School, in the Bronx, during the fall of 1964. It opens with a sermon by Father Flynn, a beloved and progressive parish priest, addressing the importance of uncertainty: "Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty." The school's principal, Sister Aloysius, a rigidly conservative nun who is vowed to her order, the Sisters of Charity, insists upon constant vigilance. During a meeting with a younger nun, Sister James, Aloysius reveals a deep mistrust toward her students, her fellow teachers, and society in general. Naïve and impressionable, James is easily upset by Aloysius's severe manner and harsh criticism. Aloysius and Flynn are put into direct conflict when she learns from James that the priest had a one-to-one meeting with Donald Muller, St. Nicholas's first African-American student. Mysterious circumstances lead her to believe that sexual misconduct occurred. In a private meeting, purportedly regarding the Christmas pageant, Aloysius, in the presence of James, openly confronts Flynn with her suspicions. He angrily denies wrongdoing by insisting that he was disciplining Donald for drinking altar wine and claims to have been protecting the boy from harsher punishment. James is relieved by the explanation. Flynn's next sermon is on the evils of gossip. Aloysius, dissatisfied with Flynn's story, meets with Donald's mother, Mrs. Muller. Despite Aloysius's attempts to shock her, Mrs. Muller says she supports her son's relationship with Flynn. She ignores Aloysius's accusations. Before departing, she hints that Donald may be "that way", which may cause her husband to be beating him. Flynn eventually threatens to remove Aloysius from her position if she does not back down. Aloysius informs him that she phoned the last parish to which he was assigned and that she discovered a history of past infringements. After declaring his innocence, the priest begins to plead with her, but she blackmails him and demands that he resign immediately, or she will publicly disgrace him with his history. Disgusted, she leaves the office. Flynn calls the bishop to apply for a transfer, and is subsequently promoted to pastor of a nearby parochial school. After hearing the news, Aloysius reveals to Sister James that the decisive phone call to Flynn's previous parish was a fabrication and that she has no evidence of past wrongdoing. As a result, Aloysius is left with ambiguous doubt, and the audience is left to wonder if the doubt is in either herself or the Church. With no proof of Father Flynn's guilt or innocence, the audience is left with its own doubt.
A comic romance set in Italian American New York, blending tall tale with a slice of local life and exploring gender conflict, loneliness and the joys and strains of a close-knit community.
The two one-act plays examine intimacy and isolation: in Missing Marisa, Terry and Eli debate the disappearance of the woman both men love; in Kissing Christine, a separated married man and a woman recovering from a traumatic accident meet on a first date and form a tentative connection.
Outside Mullingar is a play by John Patrick Shanley, which ran on Broadway in 2014.
New York artist Arthur has a secret involving a pair of socks. His friend Howard tries to help by sending him to psychiatrist Dr. Block, who has taken the socks, until Arthur's fiancée confronts the psychiatrist.
Former parochial-school classmates gather in a shabby Bronx bar, where bartender Murk compulsively waters his dead plants and the group confronts its empty lives and hopes of change. Tony and Linda, unmarried parents of two, question their relationship as the friends face their stalled lives.
Atalanta Lagana, a habitually widowed Greek-American tightwad, visits second-rate lawyer Barry Dragonetti to settle her latest husband's affairs. Her forceful manner unsettles the self-aggrandizing attorney, whose Croatian mother, opportunistic young lovers and political distractions add to the comic turmoil.
A comedy about three women sharing social lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Rhonda has recently split with her boyfriend, Billie is married, and Judy repeatedly dates men who turn out to be gay. The play unfolds in four vignettes.
A stage work about the process sculptor Benvenuto Cellini went through to create his mid-sixteenth-century bronze Perseus with the Head of Medusa.
In a Bronx bar, Danny, a violent and self-loathing truck driver, meets Roberta, a divorced woman haunted by sexual abuse and worried about her son. Their conversation shifts toward the possibility of love.
At a military base, a colonel promotes a Black officer solely because of his race. When the officer learns that the colonel had an affair with a private's wife, he must choose between staying unnoticed and doing what he believes is right.
The political relationship between Israel and Palestine is allegorically staged as a turbulent sexual and sadomasochistic relationship between a man and a woman, refereed by an armed American cowboy and his British sidekick.
Douglas J. Cuomo’s two-act opera adapts John Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt: A Parable, which was also adapted as an Oscar-nominated film.
The play is set in the fictional St. Nicholas Church School, in the Bronx, during the fall of 1964. It opens with a sermon by Father Flynn, a beloved and progressive parish priest, addressing the importance of uncertainty: "Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty." The school's principal, Sister Aloysius, a rigidly conservative nun who is vowed to her order, the Sisters of Charity, insists upon constant vigilance. During a meeting with a younger nun, Sister James, Aloysius reveals a deep mistrust toward her students, her fellow teachers, and society in general. Naïve and impressionable, James is easily upset by Aloysius's severe manner and harsh criticism. Aloysius and Flynn are put into direct conflict when she learns from James that the priest had a one-to-one meeting with Donald Muller, St. Nicholas's first African-American student. Mysterious circumstances lead her to believe that sexual misconduct occurred. In a private meeting, purportedly regarding the Christmas pageant, Aloysius, in the presence of James, openly confronts Flynn with her suspicions. He angrily denies wrongdoing by insisting that he was disciplining Donald for drinking altar wine and claims to have been protecting the boy from harsher punishment. James is relieved by the explanation. Flynn's next sermon is on the evils of gossip. Aloysius, dissatisfied with Flynn's story, meets with Donald's mother, Mrs. Muller. Despite Aloysius's attempts to shock her, Mrs. Muller says she supports her son's relationship with Flynn. She ignores Aloysius's accusations. Before departing, she hints that Donald may be "that way", which may cause her husband to be beating him. Flynn eventually threatens to remove Aloysius from her position if she does not back down. Aloysius informs him that she phoned the last parish to which he was assigned and that she discovered a history of past infringements. After declaring his innocence, the priest begins to plead with her, but she blackmails him and demands that he resign immediately, or she will publicly disgrace him with his history. Disgusted, she leaves the office. Flynn calls the bishop to apply for a transfer, and is subsequently promoted to pastor of a nearby parochial school. After hearing the news, Aloysius reveals to Sister James that the decisive phone call to Flynn's previous parish was a fabrication and that she has no evidence of past wrongdoing. As a result, Aloysius is left with ambiguous doubt, and the audience is left to wonder if the doubt is in either herself or the Church. With no proof of Father Flynn's guilt or innocence, the audience is left with its own doubt.
A comic romance set in Italian American New York, blending tall tale with a slice of local life and exploring gender conflict, loneliness and the joys and strains of a close-knit community.
The two one-act plays examine intimacy and isolation: in Missing Marisa, Terry and Eli debate the disappearance of the woman both men love; in Kissing Christine, a separated married man and a woman recovering from a traumatic accident meet on a first date and form a tentative connection.
Outside Mullingar is a play by John Patrick Shanley, which ran on Broadway in 2014.
New York artist Arthur has a secret involving a pair of socks. His friend Howard tries to help by sending him to psychiatrist Dr. Block, who has taken the socks, until Arthur's fiancée confronts the psychiatrist.
Former parochial-school classmates gather in a shabby Bronx bar, where bartender Murk compulsively waters his dead plants and the group confronts its empty lives and hopes of change. Tony and Linda, unmarried parents of two, question their relationship as the friends face their stalled lives.
Atalanta Lagana, a habitually widowed Greek-American tightwad, visits second-rate lawyer Barry Dragonetti to settle her latest husband's affairs. Her forceful manner unsettles the self-aggrandizing attorney, whose Croatian mother, opportunistic young lovers and political distractions add to the comic turmoil.
A comedy about three women sharing social lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Rhonda has recently split with her boyfriend, Billie is married, and Judy repeatedly dates men who turn out to be gay. The play unfolds in four vignettes.