He has directed nearly half of the Bard’s plays. The Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director FundĪrtist Sponsors for Barry Edelstein (director)īarry Edelstein (Director, Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. The Old Globe’s Barry Edelstein directs the American premiere of this rapturously beautiful and stirring new musical from a composer the Toronto Star calls “a startlingly talented emerging voice.” BroadwayWorld dubs Life After “musical theatre perfection…exquisite from start to finish.” Through the vivid imagination of a young woman looking for the facts, we find a more complicated truth instead. Britta Johnson’s Life After is a bittersweet, witty, and life-affirming new musical that explores the mess and beauty of loss and love.

Grieving the recent loss of her famous father, 16-year-old Alice begins to question the events surrounding his death and sets out to uncover what really happened on the night that changed her family forever. Sincere thanks to Barry Edelstein and the Globe for this gift.' - San Diego Story 'Visually stunning! This is a musical everyone should experience.' - The Vista Press You should go see it at any cost before it wends its way to Broadway.' - Desert Local News 'A musical not to be missed!' -BroadwayWorld 'Full of humor, large of heart and ultimately life-affirming.' -Talkin' Broadway 'Stirring and simply gorgeous - the cast is uniformly superb!' -Jazz 88 'A Globe debut to be savored. The work announces a significant talent in Britta Johnson.' - The San Diego Union-Tribune 'A beautiful piece of uly a game-changer. 'A luminous new musical! Lush, poetic and surprisingly funny. Music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations by Lynne Shankel CRITIC'S CHOICE The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Programīook, music, and lyrics by Britta Johnson.

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