The PROTOTYPE Festival alongside partners St. Ann’s Warehouse, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and Abrons Arts Center have postponed this year’s 10th-anniversary festival to January of 2023. The festival, which was scheduled to run Jan. 7-16, 20222, noted that due to the current surge in COVID cases and the resulting safety risks, as well as logistical challenges including artist and {…}
The PROTOTYPE Festival has announced programming updates and new COVID-19 safety protocols for the audiences. The festival is set to take place between Jan 7 – 16, 2022. All visitors will have to present a proof of full vaccination status and a picture ID. Additionally, the audiences must show a negative PCR test taken at least 72 hours before the {…}
The 10th annual PROTOTYPE: Opera / Theatre / Now Festival in New York City has been announced and is set to take place between Jan. 7-16, 2022. The showcase will include four world premieres produced by a total of 600 diverse artists. First up will be “The All Sing” composed by Daniel Bernard Roumain and written by Marc Bamuthi Joseph. {…}
The Prototype Festival has announced that it will present “Times3 (Times X Times X Times),” a site-specific work that takes you through Times Square from a unique perspective. The work, which was created by composer Pamela Z and theatre artist Geoff Sobelle, offers audiences an opportunity to experience the work live from Times Square in New York City or even {…}
The Prototype Festival has announced its streaming slate for the Spring of 2021. First up will be “Thumbprint,” which will also feature a virtual conversation between composer Kamala Sankaram, librettist Susan Yankowitz, and director Rachel Dickstein. Streaming Date: May 12, 2021 Next up is “Toxic Psalms.” Director Karmina šilec will be around for a virtual conversation after the stream. Streaming {…}
“Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists” was produced by VaVaVoom Theatre and Bedroom Community and was premiered in May 2014, at the 28th edition of Reykjavik Arts Festival. PROTOTYPE’s annual festival debuted the digital US premiere this year and has reopened conversations about this work and its contemporary significance in the opera world. “This is a song cycle, a collection of songs {…}
(Credit: Shawn Harris, San Francisco, CA) Composer Pamela Z and theatre artist Geoff Sobelle’s “Times3 (Times x Times x Times)” is PROTOTYPE’s fourth iteration of “Out of Bounds,” a platform for new vocal performance pieces taking place in unlikely locations throughout New York. This multidimensional sonic experience is a site-specific journey through Times Square that calls to mind the importance {…}
Innovation and extraordinary contemporary production which is vital to the continuation of opera-theatre and music-theatre works is at the core of this year’s annual PROTOTYPE Festival. Both international and local new works presented online at this time give audience members across the globe a chance to experience multimedia and interdisciplinary art that challenges perspectives and invites audience members to listen {…}
Now entering its ninth season, Beth Morrison Projects and HERE’s annual festival, “PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now,” is set to run from January 8- 16, 2021. Curated by festival directors Jecca Barry, Kristin Marting, and Beth Morrison, this run of events will see the world premieres of three vocal theater works. “The works our audiences are used to seeing {…}
Beth Morrison Projects and he Here Arts Center have confirmed that the PROTOTYPE : Opera / Theatre / Now Festival is set to take place between Jan. 8-16, 2021. While the organization has not announced the official schedule and the operas that it will be performing, it did confirm, via a press release, that it will be developing roughly six {…}
East met West during Wednesday evening’s performance of Garret Fisher and Ellen McLaughlin’s “Blood Moon,” a chamber opera for three voices staged at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York, one of six opera/musical theater productions featured in this year’s Prototype Festival. The show was the third in its world premiere run. Commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects, the creative {…}
