{"id":221197,"date":"2025-09-12T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221197\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:32:20","slug":"ochre-house-theater-ramps-up-the-politics-in-its-latest-musical-play-opera-box-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221197\/","title":{"rendered":"Ochre House Theater ramps up the politics in its latest musical play, \u2018Opera Box\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics usually operate in the background of the musical plays produced by Ochre House Theater, especially those written by artistic director Matthew Posey. Lately, though, his scripts connect its protagonists more overtly to the country\u2019s deep divisions. In May, the show Moving Creatures was centered around an evil oligarch.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"The cast of Ochre House Theater\u2019s production of artistic director Matthew Posey\u2019s politically charged musical play \u201cOpera Box.\u201d\"  width=\"880\" height=\"895\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/1302017\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3392x3448+0+0\/resize\/880x895!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdb%2F32%2F14524c1942c5a6c57aaab3a7df45%2Fdsc05413.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>     The cast of Ochre House Theater\u2019s production of artistic director Matthew Posey\u2019s politically charged musical play \u201cOpera Box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ochre House\u2019s latest Posey production, Opera Box, extends the trend with characters on both sides of the political divide in a story about a Southern family beset with addiction and natural disasters. Ramping up the company\u2019s typically eclectic style, the play is written in verse and features video projections as a backdrop, an actor wearing a giant puppet head and original songs performed by a live band.<\/p>\n<p><b>Details<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Running through Sept. 20. Tickets at <a href=\"http:\/\/ochrehousetheater.org\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ochrehousetheater.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arts Access is an arts journalism collaboration powered by The Dallas Morning News and KERA.<\/p>\n<p>This community-funded journalism initiative is funded by the Better Together Fund, Carol &amp; Don Glendenning, City of Dallas OAC, The University of Texas at Dallas, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, Eugene McDermott Foundation, James &amp; Gayle Halperin Foundation, Jennifer &amp; Peter Altabef and The Meadows Foundation. The News and KERA retain full editorial control of Arts Access\u2019 journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politics usually operate in the background of the musical plays produced by Ochre House Theater, especially those written&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-221197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115192053665428003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}