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PROTOTYPE 2024 presents Terce: A Practical Breviary -- Photo by Maria Baranova

“Terce: A Practical Breviary” Reimagines Religious Texts as a Celebration of Divine Femininity

Tucked away in Brooklyn, hidden behind an unassuming church facade, a community choir filled The Spa...
Author
Lana Norris
Silvana Estrada in

PROTOTYPE 2023 Probes the Dark Corners of Humanity and Imagines a World Beyond Civilization

Content warning: suicide The future of Earth has a lot of people concerned. But what if nature can t...
Author
Lana Norris
Huang Ruo's Book of Mountains and Seas--Photo by Teddy Wolff

Huang Ruo’s Book of Mountains and Seas is Elegant, Sensual Storytelling

As with his opera An American Soldier or the quasi-improvisational test of boundaries in Resonant Th...
Author
Lana Norris
La Indita Cautiva at PROTOTYPE 2021--Photo by Raven Chacon

PROTOTYPE 2021: Diffusive and Exploratory Music-Theater

PROTOTYPE Festival has become known for nurturing intense, anguished music-theater pieces that go on...
Author
Lana Norris
Magdalene--Photo by Maria Baranova

Magdalene Wrests Control from the Male Gaze in a Complicated Production at PROTOTYPE

Mary Magdalene is famous for her intimate position in Jesus’ inner circle at a time women were not c...
Author
Lana Norris
String Orchestra of Brooklyn

This week: concerts in New York (January 13, 2020 – January 19, 2020)

Magdalene | PROTOTYPE This meditation on transformation and desire is scored by the collective voice...
Author
Sam Reising
Esa-Pekka Salonen

This week: concerts in New York (January 6, 2020 – January 12, 2020)

Parker Quartet & Anthony McGill | Music Mondays The Parker Quartet and clarinetist Anthony McGil...
Author
Sam Reising
Philip Venables' 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

“It’s absorbing, and even after two volumes I can’t figure out why.” The gentleman seated in front o...
Author
Lana Norris
Leah Coloff's ThisTree at PROTOTYPE 2019

Leah Coloff’s ThisTree: Storytelling and Song at PROTOTYPE

When the new year has just begun to settle in, the PROTOTYPE festival emerges to remind us of the ad...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
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PROTOTYPE 2018: The Echo Drift Explores Human Nature

Walker Loats’ day revolves around soup. The arrival of lunch is one of two ways she keeps track of t...
Author
Lana Norris
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This week: concerts in New York (January 8, 2018 – January 14, 2018)

Acquanetta | PROTOTYPE Michael Gordon and Deborah Artman’s Acquanetta observes the way the cinema ha...
Author
Sam Reising
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2017 PROTOTYPE Festival: Funeral Doom Spiritual Mystifies

On Saturday, January 14, National Sawdust opened its doors for the New York premiere of M. Lamar and...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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2017 PROTOTYPE Festival: Matt Marks’ Mata Hari

Mata Hari’s reputation as dancer spy has inspired plenty of retellings in film, literature, and a re...
Author
Lana Norris
Anna Thorvaldsdottir

This week: concerts in New York (January 9, 2017 – January 15, 2017)

Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert | Ecstatic Music Festival This year the Bang on a...
Author
Sam Reising
Matt Marks

This week: concerts in New York (January 2, 2017 – January 8, 2017)

Mata Hari | PROTOTYPE Mata Hari is an exploration of love and survival of the famous femme fatale wh...
Author
Sam Reising
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PROTOTYPE Presents David T. Little’s Dog Days

The PROTOTYPE festival in New York City has quickly emerged as a rite of the New Year. Founded in 20...
Author
Sam Reising
David T. Little - Photo by Merri Cyr

This week: concerts in New York (January 4 – January 10, 2016)

Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: concert:nova + The Mitchells Chamber ensemble concert:nova and Cincinnati...
Author
Sam Reising
Soldier Songs (L-R: Zac Ballard, Christopher Burchett) Photo credit Jill Steinberg

NYC premiere of David T. Little’s Soldier Songs at PROTOTYPE Festival

Classical music and warfare have always been covert bedfellows. Mozart’s forgeries of the Alla turca...
Author
Matt Mendez

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