New Works Provincetown, a developmental theatre lab founded by producer Mark Cortale to create and develop new theatrical works, has commissioned its first full length musical entitled “The L…
,” both of which centered on very different kinds of divas. Fading society women in “Grey Gardens” and entrepreneurs and rivals Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein in “War Paint.” “Buyer & Celler” had its own force of nature. It told the story of a struggling gay actor who is hired to curate the Malibu basement of Barbra Streisand
The outsized personality at the center of “The Last Diva” belongs to Victoria Merritt, a gorgeous, superstar soprano. It dramatizes her conflicts at a major opera house in the wild world of classical music in the 1990s, as she grapples with artistic and professional pressures.
In addition to “The Last Diva,” New Works Provincetown is in the process of commissioning two more major theatrical works that will be created by voices of diversified race, ethnicity and gender in August and then October. These new pieces will each also be developed in Provincetown with workshops during the 2020 and 2021 season.
Cortale serves as producing artistic director of The Art House. He has also announced that New Works Provincetown has partnered with Jonathan Murray and Harvey Reese’s Wild Oak Media for its first three commissions.
New Works Provincetown began its inaugural season this past October with Edmund Bagnell’s one man show “He Plays The Violin.” A national tour of the show and subsequent summer run at The Art House have been postponed to 2021.
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