PAST SHOWS

EAT THE DOCUMENT
EAT THE DOCUMENT, a new opera based on the novel by Dana Spiotta, is a story of activism, sacrifice and the cost of living a secret. In the heyday of the seventies underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker—passionate, idealistic, and in love—design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes […]
January 9-10, 13, 15-17 at 7pm | January 11 & 12* at 4pm | 90 Min

BARDO + BLACK LODGE (Opening Night)
You’re invited to step into the timeless world of BARDO, a liminal space between life and death where lost souls linger, awaiting passage to the next realm. In this immersive pre-show experience for Black Lodge, you will confront your deepest secrets as you wander through a historic theater amidst hungry ghosts, tormented souls, and mystifying […]
January 11 at 7pm

BLACK LODGE: Live Multimedia Experience
A live multimedia experience. Acclaimed genre-bending tenor Timur (Anatomy Theater, Aquanetta) performs on stage with his band The Dime Museum and the Isaura String Quartet in front of a cinema-quality screening for a one-of-a-kind fusion of live performance and film. Drawing on the complicated mythologies of the surrealist writer William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Black […]
January 11 at 7pm | January 13-15 at 8:30 | January 12 at 5pm | 70 Min

IN A GROVE
Inspired by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s classic story, In A Grove is a haunting meditation on the impossibility of truth and the subjectivity of memory and perception. Set in a ghost forest in the aftermath of a wildfire in the Pacific Northwest, this searing adaptation plunges the listener progressively deeper into the ever more fallible regions of […]
January 16-18 at 7pm | January 18 & 19 at 2pm | 55 Min

POSITIVE VIBRATION NATION
Journey from the year 3050 back to the present with the ambassadors of the New Miami Sound, and explore the origins of their Miami-licious swagger and unified superpowers in the Positive Vibration Nation. Positive Vibration Nation Is a rock guaguanco opera created by Sol Ruiz. Blending live performance with integrated technology, the new work fuses […]
January 11 at 6pm | January 12 at 2pm | January 13 at 9pm | January 12 & 14 at 7pm | 60 Min

AROOJ AFTAB: NIGHT REIGN
Transformative may not be an urgent enough word to describe the multi-hyphenate creative Arooj Aftab. Rooted to a constellation of unmappable margins and elegant refusals, she lithely moves against the weight of time and convention, honoring multiple traditions while being owned by none. She eludes categorical capture through an expansive repertoire of study, including the […]
January 15-17th at 9pm | 60 min

ART BATH
Art Bath transforms the salon experience into a festival-in-an-evening that takes audiences on an immersive ride through many disciplines and textures of art. With an established history of fostering new collaborations and work by world-class creatives, Art Bath draws from an eclectic lineup of opera, music, dance, puppetry, and fine artists to create unique evenings in […]
January 18 at 8pm

TELEKINETIK: A Catapult Opera Production
A would-be vigilante, tortured by a telepathic shaman, learns a difficult lesson about justice versus bloodlust, as told through the “hip-hopera” stylings of the daring composer, Khary Laurent. TELEKINETIK is a Catapult Opera production made possible in large part due to the generosity of the Jarvis & Constance Doctorow Family Foundation with additional support by […]
January 9-19

DIGITAL OFFERINGS
We have two Digital, On-Demand Options this PROTOTYPE Festival. Black Lodge and TELEKINETIK. BLACK LODGE Drawing on the complicated mythologies of the surrealist writer William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Black Lodge uses dance, industrial rock, classical string quartet, and opera to take viewers through a Lynchian psychological escape room. Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between […]
January 9-19