Show

ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS

2025.26 Season

Written by

Heather Christian

Directed by

Lee Sunday Evans

About this Event

In this “PROFOUNDLY STRANGE AND OVERWHELMINGLY BEAUTIFUL” (New York Times) music-theater piece, creator Heather Christian infuses a classical oratorio with a captivating blend of blues, gospel, jazz, and soul. Both otherworldly and achingly intimate, this immersive event delves into the intricacies of human memory alongside the powerful forces that shape the universe. Deemed “GORGEOUS – A MUST SEE!” (TimeOut New York), Christian’s utterly singular work explores the origins of existence and our place within it.

Staged by Obie Award-winning director Lee Sunday Evans and featuring a virtuosic company of singers and instrumentalists, the critically heralded ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS makes its highly anticipated return, celebrating our curiosity, wonder, and all we’re capable of becoming when in communion with each other.

Originally premiered by Ars Nova.

Featuring:
Kirstyn Cae Ballard, Jonathan Christopher, Carla Duren, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Brian Flores, Jonny-James Kajoba, Barrie Lobo McLain, Ángel Lozada, Divya Maus, Ben Moss, Onyie Nwachukwu, and Dito Van Reigersberg.

With understudies:
Major Curda, Laura Darrell, Elisa Galindez, and Jacob Ryan Smith
And With Musicians:
Fraser Campbell, Jane Cardona, Najette Swain, John Murchison, Odetta Hartman and Peter Wise

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Date

09.30.25–11.16.25 / Tue–Sun

Time

7:00–9:00 PM

Location

The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre

About the
Playwright

HEATHER CHRISTIAN is a Drama Desk and 2 time Obie Award winning composer/librettist/ performer making music centered shows and rituals. Recent shows include her own work Terce: A Practical Breviary (Prototype Festival/ HERE Arts Center), Oratorio for Living Things (Ars Nova), Prime: A Practical Breviary (Playwrights Horizons Soundstage), I am Sending you the Sacred Face (Theater in Quarantine, virtual theater) Animal Wisdom ( The Bushwick Starr—now a feature film co-produced by ACT and Wooly Mammoth) in addition to being a lead artist on devised works Mission Drift (Nat’l Theater London), The World Is Round (BAM). She is also the composer and lyricist of upcoming Broadway bound adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time written with Lauren Yee, premiering at Arena Stages in Washington DC in 2025.. Recent Film and TV Composition: (A Good Girls Guide to Murder (BBC and Netflix), Teenage Euthanasia (Adult Swim) The Shivering Truth (Adult Swim), The Craft: Legacy (Blumhouse) Lemon (Dir. Janicza Bravo). She was named one of TimeOut NY's Downtown Innovators To Watch, was given a special citation by the New York Drama Critics Circle for musical innovation in 2024 and has been awarded the Richard Rogers, Stephen Schwartz and Jonathan Larson Prizes. She’s released 11 records, has taught at NYU and Princeton, operates her own recording studio in Beacon, NY, and can be seen in concert as Heather Christian & the Arbornauts.