The centerpiece of the PROTOTYPE 2026 festival will be the New York premiere of What to wear, a comedic, post-rock opera by composer Michael Gordon and the late downtown theater renegade icon Richard Foreman, who penned over 50 plays and nine operas across five decades.
This work-in-process production – the opera’s first re-mount in 20 years – will bring back to life Foreman’s original staging and production, with creative direction by Big Dance Theater co-founders Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar. The opera offers a commentary on the superficial pressures of society, at a moment when our contemporary world of Instagram, …
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