Encompass New Opera Theatre
138 S. Oxford Street, Suite 1A
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718.398.4675 tel.
718.398.4684 fax
encompassopera@yahoo.com
Nancy Rhodes
Artistic Director
Mara Waldman
Music Director
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Touring available for a Gertrude Stein musical trilogy. Click here for more information
"The most distinctive music heard all season."
—USA Today (for Only Heaven)
"An inventive and most pleasing triple bill."
—The New York Times (for Miss Havisham's Wedding Night, Ocean Dream, and I Will Wait)
"[Nancy] Rhodes is one of the most inventive directors of the theatre."
—The (Bergen) Record (for Elizabeth and Essex)
Sunday, March 14, 2:30 PM
Manhattan School of Music -- Greenfield Hall
120 Claremont Avenue @122nd Street - New York, NY 10027
Tickets: $20 / $15 advance / $10 students & seniors
(212) 721-9828 to order tickets.
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Rachel, a documentary filmmaker……………………………………..Heather Michele Meyer
Cassy, Rachel’s 10-year old daughter………………………………………..Hannah Fuerst
Tomás, a theoretical physicist, Rachel’s husband, Cassy’s father……………Dominic Inferrera
Bertie, Rachel’s best friend, owner of a souvenir shop………………..Gloria Yong Kyung Park
Anton, Bertie’s 14-year old assistant in the shop………………Christopher Preston Thompson
Encompass New Opera Theatre’s production of THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING is made possible with public funds from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Access to Artistic Excellence in 2006 & in 2009; & The New York State Council on the Arts (a state agency).
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Fund, launched by the NEA, is funded by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Canada Council for the Arts, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James S. and John L. Knight Foundation, and The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation.
Encompass is grateful for commissioning funds from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust’s Program for Contemporary Music Projects.
Encompass programs are supported by the Cornelius N. Bliss Memorial Fund; The Dramatists Guild Fund; The Edith Meiser Foundation: the Virgil Thomson Foundation; The Word Works; The New York Times Co. Fdn. and our Generous Patrons.