For over a decade, VTM has entertained and enlightened New York audiences with these productions:
Jonathan Leaf's The Germans in Paris
Heine in exile: VTM re-stages rising New York dramatist Jon Leaf's vivid depiction of literary life in mid-19th century France.
January 2007, The Arclight Theater, NYC
Michael McClure's VKTMS
The renowned Beat poet's mad riff on the Oresteia.
May 2005, The Medicine Show Theater, NYC
Glyn Maxwell's The Forever Waltz
The story a young man searching for his lost love in the underworld.
March 2005, The Workshop Theater, NYC
F. D. Reeve and composer Andrew Gant's The Urban Stampede
An opera which sets the Orpheus myth in a low-life bar.
January 2004, The Makor, NYC
Christopher Logue's War Music
The continuation of the story begun in Logue's Kings. This production was cut short by the 9/11 attack, but returned in March 2002 and went on to tour the Midwest and England.
September 2001, Wings, NYC
Christopher Logue's Kings
Logue's visionary and violent rendition the first books of Homer's Iliad.
June 2001, The Blue Heron Theater
Christopher Fry's Venus Observed
A lyrical adaptation of the judgment of Paris, featuring the music of esteemed neo-classicist Stefania de Kenessey.
December 2000, The Clurman on Theater Row, NYC
Craig Raine's 1953
The American premiere of this leading English poet's searing re-telling of Racine's Andromache, set in an alternative universe in which the Germans won WWII.
April 2000, The Grove Street Playhouse, NYC
Karl Kirchwey's Alcestis
The poet's prize-winning allegory blends 20th century psycho-drama with classical mythic forms.
May 1999, The 92nd St Y, NYC
Christopher Logue's The Husbands
Logue's celebrated adaptation of Homer's Iliad.
August 1998, Studio B, The 2nd Annual NY Fringe Festical, NYC
Christopher Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent
with J. W. von Goethe's Persephone: A Monodrama
Translated from the German by David Curzon
Fry's lyrical post-war gem of death and redemption, paired with Goethe's elegiac vision of Hell.
January 1998, The Clurman on Theater Row, NYC
Euripides' Helen
Translated by Rachel Hadas
Euripides' magical and mysterious "alternative version" of the end of the Trojan War.
February 1997, The Clurman, Theater Row, NYC
Seneca's The Madness of Hercules
Translated by Dana Gioia
Seneca's powerful tale of heroism and insanity.
October 1996, HERE Performance Space, NYC