PAST PRODUCTIONS

Live At The Lortel is designed to give theater makers the opportunity to share insight into their creative process and inspiration with a larger audience. These conversations dig deep into the artists’ work and career, including past, present, and future projects.

Four Saints in Three Acts is a culmination of Greenspan’s more than decade long journey into creating a tour de force trilogy of solo interpretations of plays from the 1920’s. In Four Saints in Three Acts, Greenspan concludes this ambitious series with his interpretation of a radical libretto by famed modernist writer and art collector Gertrude Stein. Originally set to music by Virgil Thomson, Greenspan will perform the script only, allowing a lyrical interpretation to set the tone for an evening where sound and words delight the senses.

Tinsel: A Global Holiday Celebration is New York City’s holiday event of the season. Throughout the month of December, the event featured a variety of unique productions featuring artists with roots from Australia, Brazil, Mexico, India, and around the world. These phenomenal artists shared their holiday traditions and spotlighted the diverse ways people celebrate around the world.

Harlem9, Harlem Stage, and the Lucille Lortel Theatre are looking to commission pieces, the first of which will be written by York Walker, to be developed and presented online as part of a series in response to the 2020 presidential election.

Malinche addresses the origins, names, life, and real and symbolic functions. Malinche has performed throughout Mexican history, including her troubled relationships with her son Martín Cortés; her husbands Tabascoob, and Hernán Cortés; and her baptizer Father Olmedo. Malinche rebels against her roles through the ages; confronts the shadows of power; and assumes, with courage and pain, her fundamental role in shaping Mexican identity.

Solana explores the question in every adopted child’s heart: Why? For Chloe Ellsworth, an Asian-American girl growing up among the apple trees of her family’s Midwestern farm, it is a question she has almost stopped asking – until a mysterious royal procession appears to sweep her back to the land of her birth… Solana. What happens next is a journey of love and courage for Chloe and both families who claim her as their own. Solana is a musical that asks the brave questions: What’s more important, the family who brings you into this world, or the family that teaches you how to live in it?