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New Opera Libretto Adapted from Ray Bradbury's THE HALLOWEEN TREE Gets ALT Reading Today

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San Diego Union-Tribune

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When Karel Čapek wrote his play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” in 1920, the battle against machines replacing human labor had been fought for more than a century, with humans invariably losing. Now, more ...
The American Spectator

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Classic FM

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SFGate

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For a writer who has done everything from mining an operatic masterpiece ( his 1988 Tony Award-winning drama “M. Butterfly”) to refashioning a problematic Broadway musical (“Flower Drum Song”) to ...
BroadwayWorld

Cast Set for ALT Reading of New Opera Libretto Adapted from Ray Bradbury's THE HALLOWEEN TREE

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Written by librettist Tony Asaro and composer Theo Popov, THE HALLOWEEN TREE has ...