Absolutely Chekhov
Short plays by Anton Chekhov and a new theatrical introduction are brought together in an anthology. Comic portraits of performance, courtship, and disappointment reveal the frustrations and unexpected turns of ordinary lives.
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Incidental music by George Frideric Handel, including an overture and songs for Acts 1 and 4, was composed for a planned production of Tobias Smollett’s now-lost play based on Euripides. The production was rehearsed at Covent Garden but never staged.
All But Gone: A Beckett Rhapsody
Short plays by Samuel Beckett are interwoven with contemporary vocal music. The combined performance explores isolation, memory, the body, and the unstable boundary between speech and silence.
American Dance Machine
The American Dance Machine was a theatrical dance company created by Lee Theodore, which played on Broadway at the Century Theatre, opening Jun 14, 1978 and in total running 199 performances. It was duplicated with a second cast for the American Dance Festival at Duke University in 1978.
Aquarius stage cantata
A stage cantata for eight sopranos and 15 instrumentalists, composed within Goeyvaerts’s broader Aquarius project.
Arianna in Nasso
This one-act scenic cantata by Simon Mayr, with a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, was composed for Isabella Colbran to perform as Ariadne. Bacchus is also listed among its roles.
Beckett: Feck It!
Short plays by Samuel Beckett share the stage with contemporary Irish vocal music. The juxtaposition explores absurdity, loneliness, memory, and the expressive possibilities of language and sound.
Blast!
Blast! is a Broadway production created by James Mason for Cook Group Incorporated, the director and organization formerly operating the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps.
Blue Man Group: A New Holiday Surprise
The Blue Men encounter seasonal rituals, decorations and the unpredictable business of celebrating the holidays. Physical comedy, visual experiments and holiday music played on custom-built instruments turn familiar traditions into an interactive theatrical spectacle.
Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom
Two plays revisit familiar cultural stories: Botticelli navigates desire and political danger while painting The Birth of Venus, and Lot’s wife recounts the visitors and violence that led to the destruction of her home.
Bugs Bunny on Broadway
Bugs Bunny on Broadway (also titled Bugs Bunny at the Symphony and Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II) is a concert musical featuring Looney Tunes characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd. The production was conceived by George Daugherty, incorporating scores by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn. The musical, and its 2010 sequel Bugs Bunny at the Symphony, combines classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes projected on a large screen accompanied by a live orchestra performing the original score. This production team has been touring the world continuously since 1990 and has played to a total international audience of almost 2 million people.
Chandelier
Wearing a chandelier transformed into a costume, Steven Cohen enters spaces marked by social exclusion. Live performance and documentary images confront the visibility, vulnerability, and displacement of people living in a Johannesburg settlement.
Cirque Alice
Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice stories, this circus show combines acrobatics, aerial performance, puppetry, dance and music.
Comedy in Music
Comedy in Music is an original Broadway comedy by Victor Borge, with no additional cast involved, performed as a one-man show.
De Materie
A four-part vocal and orchestral theatrical work. Its sections set the 1581 Act of Abjuration alongside texts on shipbuilding and matter; Hadewijch’s Seventh Vision; writings connected with De Stijl, Piet Mondrian, and Schoenmaekers; and sonnets by Willem Kloos with extracts from Marie Curie’s diary and Nobel speech.
Der Jahreslauf
Lucifer challenges Michael to a race of the years, trying to stop time while Michael repeatedly finds ways to restart it. Four dancers represent years, decades, centuries and millennia; four musical groups play corresponding temporal layers.
Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse
A sung-through comic ballet based on an episode of Don Quixote in which a Duke and Duchess devise an elaborate ruse to fool the knight.
Eddie Izzard: The Remix — 1988–2018
Eddie Izzard revisits and reworks material from three decades of stand-up. Familiar routines take new turns through improvisation, surreal observations, and the shifting connections of a retrospective comedy performance.
Enea in Caonia
A serenata by J. A. Hasse, titled Aeneas in Chaonia in English, to a libretto by Luigi Maria Stampiglia.
Faust et Hélène
Faust bargains with Méphistophélès for a single encounter with Helen of Troy. He demands that the demon summon Hélène, who rejects him to avoid causing more deaths in her name. Faust persists and falls in love, but Méphistophélès warns that she must return to the grave or Faust will be damned. When Paris’s ghost claims her, Faust fights him and is struck down.
Finn Varra Maa
A Christmas pageant and four-act Irish fairy pantomime described as a political satire that was mildly subversive after the Easter Rising. The score appears lost and only the libretto survives.
Frankenstein Revived
A movement-based adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein explores the relationship between a creator and his creature.
God Is a Scottish Drag Queen: The Second Coming
God returns in a floral power suit to answer questions and scrutinize human behaviour. Mike Delamont’s Scottish deity turns subjects ranging from religion to popular culture into an irreverent solo comedy about the world people have made.
Hercules
Hercules returns from war with Princess Iole, provoking his wife Dejanira’s jealousy. Believing a blood-soaked cloak will restore his fidelity, she sends it to him; the poison kills Hercules, and Dejanira descends into madness. Iole pities her, while Hercules is taken to Olympus and his son Hyllus is promised to Iole.
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