Gertrude Stein

...opportunity of any note in 1933 when composer Virgil Thomson recruited him to direct Four Saints in Three Acts, Thomson's collaboration with Gertrude Stein. In 1934, Houseman looking to cast a play he was producing based upon a drama by...

In this article: John Houseman, Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane, Mercury Theatre, Julius Caesar, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein, and H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds

...acts and scenes. Stein compared plays to landscapes, and many of hers are just assemblages of words, dense or spare expanses of verbal terrain that are as daunting to navigate on the page as they surely are to put onstage. (They rarely are...

In this article: Deflation, The Mother of Us All, Four Saints in Three Acts, and Long Island City, Queens

Four Saints in Three Acts Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by American composer Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Written in 1927-8, it contains about twenty saints, and is in at least four acts. It was ground breaking...

In this article: Four Saints in Three Acts, Virgil Thomson, Ignatius of Loyola, Eva Jessye, Avila, Cellophane, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, and Florine Stettheimer

...strings . Wayne Koestenbaum has described the loose narrative of his libretto as a "collage" in the style of Gertrude Stein's libretto for Four Saints in Three Acts, an opera by 20th century American composer, Virgil Thomson. Koestenbaum...

In this article: Jackie O, Maria Callas, Aristotle Onassis, Wayne Koestenbaum, Houston Grand Opera, Banff Centre, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance, Skorpios, and The Marriage of Figaro

...use the text as a template to create remarkable and original stage visions. Stein offers directors words, while freeing them from the rigours of discursive meaning. New Yorkers recently had a chance to witness this, when the company Target...

In this article: Elaine Showalter, Robert Wilson, JavaScript, and Four Saints in Three Acts

...did with Rick Meyerowitz called New Yorkistan. She created the sets for the Mark Morris Dance Group production of Four Saints in Three Acts, an opera by Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein. Kalman is also known for her illustrations for...

In this article: New York City, Democracy, Dog, The New Yorker, High School of Music and Art, Four Saints in Three Acts, William Strunk, and E.B. White

...one-act operas. There will be the premiere of David Bruce's "Bird in Your Ear," paired with an abridged version of the landmark experimental opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" by Virgil Thomson, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. The fanciful...

In this article: Anthony Tommasini, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House, Tristan und Isolde, Carnegie Hall, New York City Opera, Tosca, and The Gambler

...on, Stein's writing remains-as opaque as ever. Some graduate playwriting programs give her works pride of place, emphasizing her luxuriations in language and her disdain for character and plot. And a couple of her pieces-Four Saints in Three...

In this article: Elaine Showalter and Everybody's Autobiography

...was shown at the Wadsworth in 1931, and the first major U.S. Picasso retrospective was held in 1934. Also in 1934, the world premiere of the opera Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson was held at the Atheneum.

In this article: Wadsworth Atheneum, George Balanchine, Smithsonian Institution, Nathan Hale, Daniel Wadsworth, Hudson River School, Connecticut, and Fiscal year