The composer and playwright talks about career-defining projects, how Beacon became home and the call that changed everything ...

Choreographers choose music for reasons that are personal as well as artistic. Sometimes they get lucky with timing. For ...

Heather Christian, the playwright and composer whose acclaimed, genre-defying 2022 musical Oratorio For Living Things is currently being staged in a revival Off Broadway, and Garrett Bradley, the ...

In this sweeping world premiere, composer Heather Christian infuses the classical oratorio with blues, gospel, jazz and soul. Oratorio for Living Things unfolds the complex layers of what it means to ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Inspired by ideas taken from three primary female mystics (Julian of Norwich, ...

Twenty-two people in a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences were awarded the fellowship, which comes with an $800,000 stipend. By Michaela Towfighi Despite a gorgeous score and some fine ...

Heather Christian in rehearsals for Oratorio for Living Things. Photo: HanJie Chow Heather Christian in rehearsals for Oratorio for Living Things. Photo: HanJie Chow On the first day of rehearsal for ...

The last time that the composer Heather Christian’s “Oratorio for Living Things” appeared on a New York stage, it was spring of 2022, and the act of gathering still felt a little brave. We had waited ...

At its best, the annual Prototype Festival, coproduced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, whose 11th iteration runs through Sunday, revels in original forms and challenging subjects. “Angel ...

At age 3, Heather Christian picked up a pencil and never put it down. She also began playing piano, and her bedroom in Natchez, Mississippi, featured a big photo of New York City, where she attended ...