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Category: Productions

Views of the Yang & Cizmar opera FIRECRACKERS in Boston

paulacizmar December 11, 2022 December 11, 2022Articles, Inspiration, News, Productions

Our new short opera, FIRECRACKERS, premiered at White Snake Opera in Boston as part of their Let’s Celebrate festival on December 10–and what a fun show it was! Here are some early views of the production.

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Firecrackers! Premieres December 2022 in Boston

paulacizmar November 5, 2022 November 5, 2022Articles, News, Productions

FIRECRACKERS!, a new opera by composer Guang Yang and librettist Paula Cizmar, premieres in December 2022 in the Let’s Celebrate series, produced by White Snake Opera. The Boston-based company specializes in world premieres of brand new operas. Under the artistic leadership of Cerise Lim Jacobs, White Snake is devoted to…

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Art, Beauty, Love, and the Planet

paulacizmar October 24, 2022 October 24, 2022News, Productions

How do we talk about what is beautiful and what we are in danger of losing? How do we look at places that are in crisis and people who are in danger of losing their homelands, their livelihoods, and all that they love? One way is through theatre. Monica Sanchez–director,…

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Antaeus’ Zip Code Plays nominated for an Ambie Award for Best Fiction Podcast

paulacizmar February 17, 2022 February 18, 2022Inspiration, News, Productions

There are some projects that are fun and satisfying from the very beginning, and getting selected to write THE VIG for season two of Antaeus’ series The Zip Code Plays – Los Angeles definitely fits that description. Now, as icing on the cake, we have been nominated for an Ambie…

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The Pageant – Cast & Crew

paulacizmar December 14, 2021 December 15, 2021Inspiration, News, Productions

Filming in the pandemic while keeping everyone safe and secure–that’s what director Diana Wyenn and 3Gems producers Christopher Sepulveda and Sandy Barnum decided to take on so that The Pageant could be part of the 2021 Climate Change Theatre Action. The intrepid cast and crew worked outdoors to pull it…

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The Pageant – an eco-justice comedy has a screening

paulacizmar December 14, 2021 December 14, 2021Articles, Inspiration, News, Productions

The global arts event, Climate Change Theatre Action, happens every two years to coincide with the UN climate change conference, and so the 2021 CCTA is underway. I’m delighted that my short comedy, The Pageant, is part of it. This year’s theme is A Green New Deal–so I couldn’t help but imagine…

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Invisible – A Bolt of Dramatic Lightning

paulacizmar August 12, 2021 August 12, 2021Articles, Inspiration, News, Productions

Our short opera INVISIBLE was part of Snapshot this summer–and the San Francisco Chronicle doled out some much-appreciated compliments, calling it a “compressed explosive bundle, just primed to erupt.” Produced by West Edge Opera at the outdoor Bruns Amphitheatre in the Bay Area, the live performance was a welcome change…

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Take the Tour

paulacizmar June 11, 2021 July 6, 2021Inspiration, News, Productions

Now available, the tour of the zip codes featured in the Zip Code Plays, season 2, produced by Antaeus Theatre. Now you can go on a little trip to Inglewood 90303, then time travel back to 2013–days before Hollywood Park closed its doors forever in THE VIG. Directed by Bernadette…

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Zip Code Plays Are Here – Now Listen at Leisure

paulacizmar May 20, 2021 May 20, 2021Inspiration, News, Productions

Season 2 of Antaeus Theatre’s Zip Code Plays has dropped! Antaeus’ popular series of audio plays has launched six new plays out into the universe, all available for listening–for free. Journey to the far under visited corners of Los Angeles, meet the real people in the diverse neighborhoods, take a…

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Getting It Done – Virtual Rehearsal, Live Performance

paulacizmar May 20, 2021 May 20, 2021Inspiration, News, Productions

As we get closer and closer to being able to be together–live, in person–for performances, adjustments get made! INVISIBLE (music by Guang Yang, libretto by Paula Cizmar) was rehearsed outdoors in a socially distanced responsible way–in a board member’s back patio. Then dress rehearsal happened in Bruns Amphitheatre–an outdoor venue–and…

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