Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) is a libretto for an opera by the American modernist playwright and poet Gertrude Stein. The text has become a rite of passage for avant-garde theatre artists from the United States: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Judson Poets' Group, The Living Theatre, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, and The Wooster Group have all produced the piece.
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decorator Otho, while appearing in The Groundlings comedy troupe and performing in the stage play DoctorFaustusLightstheLights, portraying Gertrude Stein...
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surrealist plays include Aragon's Backs to the Wall (1925). Gertrude Stein's opera DoctorFaustusLightstheLights (1938) has also been described as "American...
suggested the topic, and the libretto as delivered can be read in Stein's collected works. The opera features two 16th-century Spanish saints—the former...
collector and critic. He was born in Allegheny City (now in Pittsburgh), the older brother of Gertrude Stein. He became an influential promoter of 20th-century...
actress. She is the daughter of Michel Vinaver (born Michel Grinberg), a French writer and dramatist, and the great-granddaughter of the pre-1917 Russian...
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five acts, later reduced to four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito (there are several...
composer, text by Gertrude Stein, directed by Lawrence Kornfeld "DoctorFaustusLightstheLights" (1979) composer, text by Gertrude Stein, directed by Lawrence...
by their theatrical work House/Lights (which was itself derived from Gertrude Stein's DoctorFaustusLightstheLights). Beloff created Where Where ThereThere...
the relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Souhami devotes two chapters, respectively, to the early years of Gertrude Stein and the...
Alice Notley, Radiotart, Stockholm, Sweden. 2021: DoctorFaustusLightstheLights, by Gertrude Stein/The Rosehips, Radioart, Stockholm, Sweden. 2022: To...
followed productions of Gertrude Stein's DoctorFaustusLightstheLights and Kenneth Rexroth's Beyond the Mountains, which sold out and flopped, respectively...