COMING OCTOBER 2023
The Satyrs are BACK!
Cyclops: A Rock Opera returns to NYC for a six show run at The Tank!
Featuring Aneesa Folds (Freestyle Love Supreme), Eric William Morris (White Girl in Danger, King Kong, Mamma Mia) as Odysseus and Korie Lee Blossey (Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway) as the Cyclops, an original rock score by Jason Landon Marcus and a book by Chas LiBretto, the Pulitzer-nominated "Cyclops: A Rock Opera" is dynamic and Dionysian musical journey where monsters are reborn and heroes are unmade.
Book your tickets now!
Cyclops: A Rock Opera
The Tank
312 W 36th St, New York, NY, 10018
October 20th, 21st at 9:30 pm
October 26th, 27th at 7:00pm
November 2nd, 3rd at 7:00pm
COMING September 2023
Less Than Rent’s SAD LAB
presents a workshop of
POISONVILLE
59E59 - September 10 at 3:00 pm
Recent Work
Song of Rage: The ballad of Joe hill
May 15, 2023
PETE’S CANDY STORE
A reading of Song of Rage: The Ballad of Joe Hill. A New Play Directed by Hunter Bird
Salt Lake City, 1914. Detective Carl Carlson investigates the violent murder of a grocer and his son, a case the state of Utah seems to want to close quicker than usual. When labor leader, songwriter, and Swedish Immigrant Joe Hill is arrested, Carl must decide if this is really just a case about the murder of a grocer...or if it's a conspiracy to strangle organized labor in the west for good.
A Play with Music.
poisonvillE
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
PETE’S CANDY STORE
A reading of Poisonville. A New Play Directed by Jake Beckhard
Butte, 1917: The worst mining disaster in American history sparks a massive strike on the nation's biggest copper mines, months after it has entered the First World War. Frank Little, an organizer for the radical Industrial Workers of the World, comes to town to help the strikers. But Butte's a place where everyone's got a motive. And not everyone's who they seem...
MOST RECENT WORK
The Laodamiad
When the Trojan War breaks out on Laodamia’s wedding day, she desperately tries to keep her new husband Iolaus safe with her, but inadvertently exposes him to a wider world of politics and power. A nightmarish prophecy ensures that the charismatic General Odysseus has him put at the front of the lines and when Iolaus is killed in combat, Laodamia becomes the war's first widow. How she bears with grief will echo through history and myth for millennia. Inspired by the handful of surviving lines from Euripides’ lost play "Protesilaos," "The Laodamiad" explores love, war, and loss.
TO VIEW CHAS’ FULL COLLECTION OF WORK:
“...A thrilling freak show...The band, pumping out delectably unique jams while Maenads cavort like flirtatious moths, communicates directly with our irrational side. This is a musical for people who are too cool for musicals yet still yearn for the old Dionysian revelry.”