This truth fand honest Tam o’ Shanter,
As he frae Ayr ae night did canter,
(Auld Ayr, wham ne’er a town surpasses
For honest men and bonie lasses.)
Author: Stephanie Vlahos
Story teller, Ideator, Writer, Creator, Director, Artistic Consultant
What the Fleck?
A successful performance artist known as one of the infamous ‘NEA Four’ – along with Karen Finley, Tim Miller, and Holly Hughes – whose lawsuit against the National Endowment of the Arts achieved notoriety in the early 90’s.
Lawd Ham Mercy
This is show about my family. It travels from West Point Mississippi to New Orleans Louisiana in the 1960s and 1970s to Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s to LA in the 1990s to the present.
She Said
I was raped in New York City during my final week of college in 2013. This moment marked a rupture in my childhood freedom and forced the beginning of my autonomy as an adult.
Getting Ready With Bear Princess
Matthew Anchel explores gender identity, expression of self and liking and accepting the different facets of ourselves that we all have.
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Art should be shared and when that happens, love emerges. The work remains dear to those who were invested in it and unforgotten. This is my credo. —-Stephanie Vlahos Intimate Opera’s encore By RICHARD S. GINELL DEC. 8, 2011 12 AM PT LA Times Intimate Opera was a small company that got tired of bouncing around from one Learn More
A Branch of Frangipani–a stage director prepares Willy Holtzman’s play, The First Mrs. Rochester
Willy Holtzman’s play The First Mrs Rochester is a witty and sometimes gritty depiction of the author Jean Rhys, and the inspiration for her acclaimed novel, The Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys was thought to be dead until she was discovered by an actress hoping to revive her career. When Selma Vaz Dias finds Rhys in Learn More
Scenes from Cooperstown – a jazz opera by Sasha Matson
The story of Cooperstown is an American story about the great American pastime–baseball. It speaks to the heart of country and of our passions and how they easily and guilelessly blur or tear apart.
Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales Of Hoffmann find their inspiration from the short stories of the 19th century German composer, painter, caricaturist, and author E.T.A. Hoffmann, wherein Hoffmann himself is the protagonist.
In the Moon Room
Everlasting, steadfast beacon, she moves in phases of renewal. The moon. We stand in her sanctuary.
WeARE Adaawe at the Edinburgh Fringe
This is a story about the moon This is a story about hands reaching for shining icons This is a story about dreams that shed light in the dark We are the moon We are women Life is our sanctuary Beat the drum. Be the beat. The Adaawe tradition is a gathering of Ghanaian Learn More
Thea Musgrave for her 90th Birthday
“I am a woman and I am Scots and I was educated in France.” —Thea Musgrave Women in the arts are unique. Their voices can be filled with light and darkness. They tread hard edges, softening or gently revealing the depth of human experience through the inspired womb of invention and deep reflection. Thea Musgrave Learn More