Bard SummerScape returns this year with eight weeks of live music, opera, dance, and theater. Highlights include the 32nd Bard Music Festival “Rachmaninoff and His World;” a new production of Strauss’s The Silent Woman, directed by Christian Räth; a World Premiere commission from Pam Tanowitz and David Lang; a new adaptation of Molière’s Dom Juan, directed by Ashley Tata; and more. Gideon Lester is Artistic Director of the Fisher Center at Bard and Senior Curator at the Open Society University Network’s Center for the Arts and Human Rights. A festival director, creative producer, and dramaturg, he has collaborated with and commissioned a broad range of American and international artists across disciplines.
Theater critic for WhatsOnStage Sarah Crompton calls the UK premiere of the Bard SummerScape production of Oklahoma! “a masterpiece” and “absolutely revelatory.” Directed by Daniel Fish, the Tony Award–winning revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! originated at Bard 15 years ago.
Some 45 years after he left Lincoln for New York, actor Mitch Tebo will be back in the city where he began performing, playing the role he originated on Broadway