Master Class
by Terrence McNally
in A Staged Reading
featuring Angela Iannone* as Maria Callas
Directed by Alan Piotrowicz
Friday, January 12, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 5:00 pm
at the Centerbrook Meetinghouse in Centerbrook, CT
ANGELA IANNONE*
as Maria Callas
AMY BUCKLEY
as First Soprano
LISA WILLIAMSON
as Second Soprano
GENE STENGER
as Tenor
"No applause. We're here to work... This is a master class..."
Inspired by world-renowned Opera diva Maria Callas’s magnificent Juilliard master class series, Terrence McNally’s Tony Award-winning play spotlights the tour-de-force artist and vulnerable woman known as La Divina. Join Callas as she relentlessly coaxes, prods, and edifies her young students, motivating them to give the performances of their lives, while revealing her humor, her demons and her genius.
Just in time to celebrate the centennial of Ms. Callas's birth, BCP is proud to present this staged reading of McNally's play — heralded as a "total triumph" (NY Post) and "mesmerizing theater" (NJ Star-Ledger) — featuring the talents of Angela Iannone*, whose previous turns in the role have been described as "mesmerizing" (Milwaukee Magazine) and "in a master class all her own" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
Contains adult language and themes.
*Ms. Iannone appears through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.