Production & Date Description
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June 2019

*  For productions involving only Sound Design, look under: SOUND DESIGN > THEATER

Shelley  

Shelley

February 2019

Joanne Hoersch’s historical drama imagining the joys and tragedies that come into the lives of Percy and Mary Shelley, and the envisioning of Frankenstein.

Related Tunes:
Time Is Nothing
Steady Rain  

Steady Rain

May 2016

Keith Huff’s fresh-from-Broadway drama about two cops, tainted by domestic affairs, violence, and the rough streets of Chicago.  Directed by Frank Licato, produced by Hudson Theatre Works, and mounted at Weehawken Water Tower.

Related Tunes:
Entr’acte
Steady Rain
Hell’s Belles  

Hell’s Belles

September 2015

Axe-wielding, grudge-bearing original walk-in music for Bryan D. Leys’s underworld comedy revue, staged at the Elektra Theatre in NY.  My offering: original walk-in tunes.

Related Tunes:
Nellie Gwynne Tango
Ubu Roi    ♫  

Ubu Roi   ♫

June 2015

Jarry’s zany absurdist folly, featuring Donald Stark's original music (based on a motif from the original score) from a dozen genres from tango to klezmer, directed by Michael Bias, mounted at the Black Box Theatre at Bergen PAC

Related Tunes:
Ubu Klezmer
Ubu Tangeau
Ubu The Movie
Ubu Rumble
Ubu al Ristorante
Ubu in Court
Ubu Rag
Enron    ♫  

Enron   ♫

October 2014

Garage Theatre Group’s conception of Lucy Prebble’s ever relevant Broadway play, set in a circus venue, directed by Mikaela Kafka

Related Tunes:
Circus Minor
Circus Major
Trader Dance
Dragon’s Breath    ♫  

Dragon’s Breath   ♫

July 2014

Michael C. O’Day’s original paranormal play about the peril of creative writing in an age of religious intolerance.  Directed by Mikaela Kafka, presented as part of NYC’s 2014 Fringe Festival. 

(Donald's second Fringe production.)

Related Tunes:
Apotheosis of Tabitha
Curtain
Jared’s Birth Rite
Jared’s Birthright
Red Gold
Rescue
Ride of the Sarkany
Resurrection of the Codex
Sanglorious Bloodless
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest    ♫  

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest   ♫

May 2014

Hudson Theatre Works's mainstage revival of Dale Wasserman’s stage retelling of Kesey’s classic, shifting greater focus onto the character of the Chief.  Directed by Frank Licato.

Related Tunes:
One Flew East One Flew West 1
One Flew East One Flew West 2
One Flew East One Flew West 3
Imagining Madoff    ♫  

Imagining Madoff   ♫

October 2012

Deb Margolin’s imagining of the recesses of Madoff’s mind as he wreaks havoc with trusting colleagues and investors, presented by Garage Theatre Group, directed by Frank Licato

Related Tunes:
Imagining Madoff
The Balcony    ♫  

The Balcony   ♫

October 2012

Director Frank Licato’s edgy vision of Genet’s masterwork for the Arclight Theatre

Related Tunes:
Bishop’s Beginning Monologue
General’s Girl’s Fantasy
Talk Radio    ♫  

Talk Radio   ♫

January 2012

Italian American Repertory Company's revival of Eric Bogosian's harrowing play about a talk show host and his troubled callers.

Related Tunes:
Monologue
Star of David
Strange Air
Your Taxes and You
Your Taxes and You - outro
Noises off  

Noises off

April 2011

Frank Licato's staging of the funniest, bawdiest comedy since Shakespeare

Related Tunes:
Noises Off
Bald Soprano    ♫  

Bald Soprano   ♫

April 2011

Ionesco's rule-shattering linguistically absurdist anti-play, directed by Michael Bias

Related Tunes:
Bald Soprano
Body of Water  

Body of Water

October 2010

Lee Blessing play exploring the fluid nature of memory, directed by Michael Bias

Related Tunes:
I Work for Your Defense
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy  

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

April 2010
A live staged reading of the Douglas Adams's original radio scripts of this outer space comic radio classic Related Tunes:
Final Clinching Proof of the Nonexistence of God
Valceribon People of Katraphoon Kampa
Enigma Variations  

Enigma Variations

February 2010

Garage Theatre Group's production of EE Schmitt's play of evasions, lies, revelations, and reversals, directed by Frank Licato

Related Tunes:
Variations on a Theme by Elgar - a la Alberti
Variations on a Theme by Elgar - Theme
On the Waterfront    ♫  

On the Waterfront   ♫

July 2009

A reading of Budd Schulberg's stage play, featuring an introductory performance of "I Cover the Waterfront."

Related Tunes:
I Cover the Accompaniment
Marlon Brando Sat Right Here    ♫  

Marlon Brando Sat Right Here   ♫

May 2009

Revival of Louis LaRusso’s play about Hoboken residents recalling the glory days when their hometown Hoboken was a movie set, featuring Sopranos cast members.

Related Tunes:
Lenny Sat Right Here
Marlon Brando Sat Right Here
View from the Bridge  

View from the Bridge

March 2009
Italian American Repertory Company's revival of Arthur Miller's classic, directed by Frank Licato Related Tunes:
A Certain Alarm - Finale
Eddie’s Phone Call
La Morte d’Eddie
Only God
View From the Bridge - Entr’acte
Night Reginald Filbert Called It Quits    ♫  

Night Reginald Filbert Called It Quits   ♫

February 2008

A Rex Knowles comedy, directed by Frank Licato, featuring a TV-show-style song, lyrics by Frank Licato, tune and performance by Donald Stark

Related Tunes:
Reginald
Lamppost Reunion  

Lamppost Reunion

May 2007

Revival of Hoboken native Louis LaRusso’s play “about a kid from Hoboken,” presented at the kid’s hometown Historic Museum, featuring Sopranos cast members, directed by Frank Licato

Related Tunes:
Hoboken Four
Shape of Things  

Shape of Things

November 2004
Neil Labute's dramatic exploration of the moral values inherent in an artist's pursuit of his art, directed by Frank Licato
Golden Boy  

Golden Boy

September 2002

Clifford Odet's pugilistic play about violence and violins, directed by Frank Licato

Related Tunes:
Golden Boy
Rocket to the Moon  

Rocket to the Moon

February 2002

Clifford Odet's play, directed by Frank Licato

Related Tunes:
Rocket to the Moon
Fever  

Fever

July 2001

Robert Clem's award-winning Fringe Festival play, directed by Frank Licato, imagining Crime and Punishment in tumultuous 1969

Related Tunes:
Season
Gangster Apparel  

Gangster Apparel

July 2001

Richard Vetere's stage play, directed by Frank Licato

Related Tunes:
Gangster Apparel
Asylum  

Asylum

June 1996
Steven Sater's black-comic rollercoaster ride on the fringes of love and dysfunctionality, directed by Frank Licato Related Tunes:
Asylum - Prologue
We Love It Out Here
You Gotta Get Me Outta Here
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari  

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

October 1995
Vincent Lamberti's stage adaptation of the seminal silent horror film Related Tunes:
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Prologue
Chaste
Dorme Bene
Festival of Fools
Freaks Song - Tango
Manipulative Moon
Raining
To Live in My World
Traveling Sideshow
Welcome to the Shady Frost Sanitarium
Columbus in the Age of Gold  

Columbus in the Age of Gold

September 1995
Paul Perditto's play, produced by Paul D'Amato, directed by Frank Licato Related Tunes:
Sarabande
Star
Ghosts of Newstead Vault  

Ghosts of Newstead Vault

January 1995

Vincent Lamberti's supernatural-tinged play riffing on Lord Byron and his demons; directed by Frank Licato

Related Tunes:
Better to Hold
Ghosts of Newstead Vault
Nothing Is As It Seems - Prologue
Requiem for a Newfoundland Hound
So We’ll Go No More A-Roving
Unveiling
Necromancers  

Necromancers

August 1994

Vincent Lamberti's haunting Victorian penny dreadful, fictionalizing Bram Stoker sparring with Henry Irving and conceiving the undead; directed by Frank Licato

Related Tunes:
Appearance of the Street
Ladies and Gentlemen
Necromancers
Nellie Gwynne’s Waltz
Old Lady Bateman
Prayer
Sir Henry’s Dream
Seduced  

Seduced

June 1994

Frank Licato's revival of Sam Shepard's poetic play riffing on the spirit of Howard Hughes, set during the Siege of Leningrad

Related Tunes:
Luna
Vegas
Promise  

Promise

March 1994

Frank Licato's revival of Aleksei Arbuzov's play set during the Siege of Leningrad

Related Tunes:
Promise
Portrait of Jennie  

Portrait of Jennie

January 1994
Vincent Lamberti's play based on Robert Nathan's spooky time-warping novel Related Tunes:
Where I Come From
American Buffalo  

American Buffalo

October 1993

Classic Mamet play, revived and directed by Frank Licato

Related Tunes:
American Buffalo - Heads
American Buffalo - Tails