Luna Stage Premieres New Play Via Text Message: #RIFT by Gabriel Jason Dean
(WEST ORANGE, NJ)
Gabriel Jason Dean launches this Friday, April 9 at
Luna Stage. Part One of the play will be delivered to subscribers’ phones over text message over the next eight weeks. Sign-ups will be accepted through April 23, but capacity is limited. Reservations are required, and are available at
Through the lens of two real-life brothers one a convicted murderer, the other a playwright; one a member of the alt-right, the other an A.O.C.-type progressive
#RIFT explores whether it is possible to bridge fundamental political and ideological divides. Playwright Gabriel Jason Dean navigates a deeply personal landscape: his brother is currently incarcerated, and the two had barely spoken in 10 years. In creating this piece, Dean reconnected with his brother to explore the roots of their differences, to see if there is any way to find common ground, and to try to understand what love means
New national opera company launches with a song of love and loss
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When four singers get up on the Federation Square stage on Friday evening to perform a modern opera about love and loss, it marks the birth of a new national opera company, with ambitious plans to bring new audiences to opera, and take opera to new places.
The Australian Contemporary Opera Company (pronounce it “A-coco” for short) has not appeared from nowhere. It is a rebranding of Gertrude Opera, founded as The Opera School Melbourne in 2008.