
Ricky Ian Gordon, composer Mark Campbell, librettist Kevin Newbury, director Rob Fisher, music director
Tuesday, April 12, 8:00 PM, no discounts on Opening Night
Saturday, April 16, 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 17, 2:30 PM
This moving new music theater work was co-commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Its creators, renowned composer Ricky Ian Gordon (creator of the Obie Award-winning Orpheus & Euridice and the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath) and Broadway librettist Mark Campbell were inspired by real diaries, letters, and personal accounts from the period. Enter the lives of Virginians at war-black and white, rich and poor, soldiers, nurses, widows, survivors-through Gordon and Campbell's haunting songs on a stage transformed by projections of Civil War photography, illustrations, and documents. Be among the first to experience this unforgettable new production!