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Bodhi Tree Concerts Stages Redler and Dye’s Opera ‘The Falling and the Rising’ in Point Loma
Bodhi Tree Concerts staged the local premiere of Redel and Dye’s opera ‘The Falling and the Rising’ at the Point Loma Assembly.
Read MoreNicolas Reveles’ Chamber Opera ‘Aftermath’ Premiered by Bodhi Tree Concerts
Based on his experience of the Covid pandemic lockdown, composer Nicolas Reveles’ chamber opera ‘Aftermath’ pits two characters struggling in a parallel situation following a tactical nuclear attack.
Read MoreInnerMission’s Great ‘Melancholy Play’ Unearths a Vital Emotional Truth
Melancholy isn’t an easily defined state, yet its aftereffects are a powerful marker in the affected person’s emotional mix. Playwright Sarah Ruhl thinks it’s also an important component in mental health — and with InnerMission Productions’ very nice ‘Melancholy Play,’ it looks like she has a point.
Read MorePlaywright Takes No Prisoners in Innermission’s Good ‘Revolt.’
The world seems determined to sabotage its best efforts — even as it clearly defines its problems, its myopic better angels can’t deliver the cure. Innermission Productions’ good ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ looks at the state of humanity and doesn’t hesitate for an instant to point the finger of blame.
Read MoreSingers Wanted for InnerMission’s ‘Ordinary Days’
‘Ordinary Days’ is written as a 90-minute, no intermission, sung-through musical. Note: “sung-through.” Almost no dialogue. And, at best these are actors who sing, rather than singers who act…
Read MorePlayers One-Up Playwright in an Intense ‘Gidion’s Knot’
Young Gidion’s death by hanging is a loss from which his mom will never recover — and in Innermission Productions’ good
‘Gidion’s Knot,’ educational protocol is as much the culprit as anything.