Lincoln Center Theater presents the LCT3 world premiere production of In the Green, a new musical by Grace McLean, directed by Lee Sunday Evans.
(Photos by Julieta Cervantes)
4 images In the Green tells the origin story of one of Medieval history's most powerful and creative women: Hildegard von Bingen. Before she became a healer, a composer, an exorcist, and finally a saint, she was a little girl locked in a cell with her mentor, Jutta. In the Green is the tale of two women and the journey that leads one to embrace death, and the other to celebrate the beauty and blemishes of a fully lived life.
Lincoln Center Theater presents the LCT3 world premiere production of new musical In the Green, written by and starring Grace McLean and directed by Lee Sunday Evans, which begins previews at the Claire Tow Theater on June 8, 2019, ahead of an official opening on June 27 and a limited engagement through to August 4, 2019.
Being a kid in medieval Germany was no day at the beach, especially if you were Hildegard von Bingen. The youngest among 10 siblings, her parents sacrificed her to the Catholic Church when she was eight, and she spent the next 30 years locked away in a dark cell. She would emerge, circa 1136, to become a devout nun as well as a gifted writer, composer, and botanist who also performed exorcisms... Read more
