Each character has a vocal “thumbprint.” ... “Life Is a Dream,” now with a Pulitzer star attached, went back on the shelf for another 10 years. In February of 2009, ...

In 1978, Lewis Spratlan wrote an opera but couldn’t get it staged. In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize for the second act of that opera in concert version but still couldn’t get it staged. This ...

In “Life is a Dream,” the newest production by the theater department, ... However, while the names of the characters remain unchanged, there are multiple instances where the audience is thrown back ...

There’s no question that Life Is a Dream is “an important opera, the rare philosophical work that holds the stage and gives singing actors real characters to grapple with,” said Anthony ...

The rarely-performed second version of “Life is a Dream” was written 42 years later in 1677. Father Drance is artistic director of Magis and teaches theater at Fordham University.

Justin and Crystal O’Brien met at a going away party for Justin when they were both in college. Although the two had seen each other several times in their school’s theater department, they ...

LIFE IS A DREAM Deep Dish Theater Through May 31 At least nine translations and adaptations of Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s most famous work, the pensive, philosophical LIFE ...

Calderón’s revered 17th century philosophical play Life is Dream is adapted here with contemporary resonance by legendary master of absurdity and subconscious María Irene Fornés.

His play, Life is a Dream, is enjoying a fine production by Upstream Theater. This play, from 1635, is one of the brightest gems of the Golden Age of Spanish Drama.

The first show in Upstream Theater's celebratory 20th Season, LIFE IS A DREAM is the professional premiere of a new translation by G.J. Racz of this Spanish classic by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.