Susan has fled to Latvia. Sadie hides in New Mexico. Beckett longs for Ireland. All three are alone; all three are haunted by their grandparents; all three hear the Big Bad Wolf scratching at the door. Three Houses is a post-pandemic open mic night parable about magic, madness, and the end of the world.
Run time is approximately 100 minutes with no intermission.
Or Matias (Music Direction and Supervision), dots (Scenic Design), Haydee Zelideth (Costume Design), Christopher Bowser (Lighting Design), Nick Kourtides (Sound Design), Earon Nealey (Hair and Makeup Design), and James Ortiz (Puppet Design), Elizabeth Emanuel (Production Stage Manager)
Featuring: Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh (Conductor/Piano/Organ), Yuko Naito-Gotay (Violin), Blair Hamrick (French Horn), and Maria Bella Jeffers (Cello).
“Malloy’s music remains as hypnotic and embracing as ever.” -Jesse Green
“Perhaps the most societally noteworthy new musical to come out of the post-COVID era.” -David Gordon
“Malloy never ceases to be imaginative.” -David Finkle
“Run, don’t walk to dive into a new Dave Malloy musical, THREE HOUSES.” Caroline Cao, New York Theatre Guide
“Lively score and a gifted cast.” Jonathan Mandall, New York Theater
About the Playwright
Dave Malloy is a composer/writer/performer/orchestrator. He has written music for eighteen musicals, including The Witches, an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel at the National Theater in London; Moby-Dick, a four-part musical reckoning with Herman Melville’s epic; Octet, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations, including Best Musical, Score, Book, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet, a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey; Preludes, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”; and Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage, an anti-academia rock opera. He has won three Obie Awards, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Lortel Award, a Theater World Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, an ASCAP New Horizons Award, and a Jonathan Larson Grant; has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova; and is a Premiere Residency Writer at the Signature Theatre. Upcoming: Black Swan. He lives in New York. davemalloy.com
Photo by Rebecca Greenfield
