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  • The Dark Night at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    We’ve been invited to create a new work for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The concert will feature Aureliano Cattaneo‘s La Nuit Sombre, played alongside Mozart‘s...

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    01 Oct

  • National Theatre Project 2024

    We have been selected for NEFA’s 2024 National Theatre Project Creation and Touring Grant! I saw a crescent moon above a branch of silver… is a...

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    23 May

  • Fulbright Greece 2024

    ΠΑΜΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ! In February Mat will travel to Greece as a 2024 Fulbright Scholar. During his fellowship Mat & Sebastian will research and collaborate with...

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    25 Jan

  • Society for Classical Studies 2024

    Four Larks traveled to Chicago in early January to present Hymns to the Society for Classical Studies at their annual conference. Mat & Sebastian joined a...

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    14 Jan

  • Mat at Yaddo 2023

    Mat was invited to spend the spring as a fellow in the gorgeous estate at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. He spent April-June hollering out...

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    01 Jul

  • Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities

    The Society for Classical Studies has selected our project hymns to support through their latest initiative Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities. The initiative was established to “bring...

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    21 Dec

  • 2022 MacDowell Fellowship

    Mat has spent the last six weeks researching and devising a new project in residence at MacDowell. Read more about Mat‘s fellowship in AMERICAN THEATRE:...

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    26 Oct

  • Preview Hymns at the Getty Villa

    For the next two weeks, the Getty will will preview a work-in-progress draft of our hymns. These in-development videos are being presented as a part of the...

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    30 May

  • Listen to Hymns on Bandcamp

    Our hymns are now available to stream and purchase via bandcamp  The music was recorded in individual artists’ homes during the COVID19 lockdowns and the accompanying...

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    15 May

  • 2022 Bogliasco Fellowship

    Mat and Sebastian were both selected to work as fellows in residence at the Bogliasco Foundation Study Center located on the Ligurian Coast in March...

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    21 Apr

  • ELEVEN 2021 Ovation Awards!

    The LA theatre community has honored our production of Frankenstein with 11 Ovation Awards (for the 2019/2020 theatre season in Los Angeles). We’re thrilled to have this recognition...

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    30 Mar

  • Ovation Award Nominations

    Our Frankenstein leads the count with a dozen nominations for LA Stage Alliance’s 31st Ovation Awards (for the 2019/2020 theatre season in Los Angeles). We’re grateful...

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    09 Mar

  • Twenty One

    Happy 2021 dear friends! Here’s hoping that live art will resume and we can be together again soon. In the meantime, we’re digging our heels...

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    04 Jan

  • Black Lives Matter

    We mourn the Black lives lost to and endangered by systemic racism in America and we stand in outrage and condemnation of police brutality, in...

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    05 Jun

  • Interviews

    Mat talked to BROADWAY WORLD‘s Gil Kaan about Frankenstein and the Sherwood Award…READ Mat and Sebastian recently huddled with ALTA‘s Chris Martin to discuss immersive performance...

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    10 Apr

  • Hype for Frankenstein

    The world premiere enraptured and enraged critics during its sold out extended run at the Wallis…Read what they had to say below… “INGENIOUS…a HYPNOTIC progression of sights,...

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    02 Apr

  • Press Pause

    All upcoming 2020 events have been postponed- follow us on FB and IG to be notified first, or join our MAILING LIST. We are sending...

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    25 Mar

  • The Dead Sing

    In an effort to support artists affected by the Covid-19 cancelations (hi!) the music hosting site bandcamp has cut their administrative fees, making it an excellent...

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    20 Mar

  • FRANKENSTEIN extended! (UPDATE: sold out)

    Our FRANKENSTEIN has been extended through Saturday March 7- last call to catch this “breathtaking and terrifying” (KCRW), “cerebral and viscerally spellbinding piece of entertainment” (ArtsBeatLA), a “jaw-dropping combination...

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    28 Feb

  • Mat receives 2020 Sherwood Award

    Mat Diafos Sweeney has received the 2020 Dorothy and Richard E. Sherwood Award, a $10,000 prize awarded by Center Theatre Group to an innovative and adventurous...

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    14 Jan

  • FRANKENSTEIN premieres FEBRUARY 19, 2020

    Our friends at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts have commissioned a brand new adaptation FRANKENSTEIN to premiere at the LOVELACE STUDIO THEATRE...

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    08 Jan

  • NoProscenium’s BEST EXPERIENCES of 2019

    National immersive theatre tastemakers NoProscenium have listed our Katabasis at the Getty Villa among the BEST SHOWS & EXPERIENCES of the year! “Four Larks’ journey...

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    30 Dec

  • LACO SESSION no.4 with CHRISTOPHER ROUNTREE & WildUp!

    Our site specific series with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra continues to take new shape, this time inside the 1909 downtown temple that houses the...

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    14 Oct

  • Raves for ‘SESSION’ no.3 with Matthias Pintscher in Silverlake

    Last week our latest collaboration with the LA Chamber Orchestra unfolded across the soundstage at Mack Sennet Studio, around a program curated by the brilliant...

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    05 Mar

  • acclaim for katabasis

    Our sold-out katabasis has completed its run at the Getty Villa, and the reviews are in! See photos, video, and hear music from katabasis here....

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    01 Feb

  • katabasis rescheduled – January 2019

    Our site-specific processional opera is back on at the Getty Villa from January 24-26 2019! Following a delay by the Woolsey Fire, which shuttered the...

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    26 Dec

  • threnodies- this weekend only!

    This weekend we were set to present a site-specific processional opera at the Getty Villa, but nature had other plans. All of our thoughts are...

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    14 Nov

  • LACO :: SESSION no. 2

    On the heels of a spectacular opening to the series this spring, we will continue our site-specific new music explorations with the Los Angeles Chamber...

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    01 Sep

  • k a t a b a s i s

    We’re preparing a mystery rite through the hallowed halls and gardens of the Getty Villa this November. Created as a companion piece to the Villa’s...

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    29 Aug

  • Four Larks in THEATER Magazine

    Four Larks is featured in the current issue of Theater Magazine; a national journal of criticism, plays and reportage out of Yale. Read David Bruin’s...

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    12 Feb

  • LACO :: Session

    We’re joining forces with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for a site-specific concert party on May 24th at Angel City Brewing Co. We’ll be art-directing...

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    01 Feb

  • SOLD OUT

    All of our added performances have sold out! Thank you to everyone who joined us for this deep sea mind dive. Pictures and Video coming...

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    20 Nov

  • Undine – One Weekend Only!

    Four Larks returns for one weekend only with a visually immersive concerto, scaling the submarine depths of an oversaturated imagination. Join us in our transformed...

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    30 Oct

  • Hymns for the 21st century

    We are unveiling the first draft of our new project this weekend at the Getty Villa. This new music and performance piece is adapted from...

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    20 Apr

  • ὕμνος at the Getty Villa

    four larks has been invited to create a brand new piece at the Getty Villa in April. Join us for ten songs of devotion, praise,...

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    21 Feb

  • Fabrik Critique

    Check out Jacki Apple’s brilliant reflection on the performance and turmoil of 2016 for Fabrik Media including a thorough reckoning with four larks’ “brilliant postmodern...

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    10 Feb

  • Immersive LA

    So long 2016. The Los Angeles Times says goodbye to a year filled with immersive art and experiences, including a conversation with four larks’ director...

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    23 Dec

  • Installation Video

    Our brilliant friends Kristopher Gee & David Enoch Moore (Wind Ridge Films) captured the spectres, shrines, and secret temptations of our hermitage from The Temptation...

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    19 Oct

  • Final Shrine

    With the final offering in place, The Temptation of St Antony has come to an end. Thanks to all the pilgrims and fellow travelers who...

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    10 Oct

  • Final Extension

    It’s true! We’re extending through October 9th. But thats it! After the 9th we’re packing our books and heading back up the mountain. Two weeks...

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    27 Sep

  • Critical Rave Wave

    The Temptation of St Antony is sold out again through this weekend and we’re receiving the most incredible response from audiences and critics alike. Read...

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    10 Sep

  • Press Roundup

    Los Angeles Times expansive feature on four larks and interview with Mat and Sebastian: latimes.com Los Angeles Downtown News interview with Mat and Ellen on...

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    30 Aug

  • La Bibliothèque Fantastique

    We’ve invited some of our favorite LA musicians to sing down the cavern after each performance of the Temptation of St Antony. View the full...

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    27 Aug

  • On Flaubert, St Antoine, & Nice

    Gustave Flaubert‘s The Temptation of St Antony is an interrogation of humanity’s religious impulse. The author was compelled and repulsed by the subject in equal measure. He loathed...

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    15 Jul

  • The Temptation of St Antony returns in Summer ’16

    Four Larks immersive opera returns for an exclusive season in late August! Our ovation award winning team reunites for the final draft of this acclaimed and...

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    14 Jul

  • LÅRKSPRÜNG

    Come hear an incredible night of globe spanning music in our secret cavern downtown!  LÅRKSPRÜNG features Silvester(DK), Dhara World Music, Lukas Papenfusscline, Katherine Redlus, Prudence Rees-Lee feat. Dan Destiny, Lionel O, and a...

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    20 Mar

  • Los Angeles Theatre Awards

    Four Larks has received six nominations for the Los Angeles Theatre Awards from Stage Raw. We have been nominated for Best Musical, Best Original Score,...

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    16 Mar

  • Best of 2015

    Thanks to KCRW for including us in their top ten for the second year in a row! “Sticking downtown, Four Larks again makes my list. This young company melds...

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    01 Jan

  • Ovation Awards

      Four Larks has received the Ovation Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Music from the LA Stage Alliance. We were also nominated for our...

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    09 Nov

  • Best of LA 2015 from LA WEEKLY

    Four Larks are featured in L.A. WEEKLY’s “Best of LA” 2015 We’re so excited to be included in this list of treasures! Check it out! http://features.laweekly.com/bestof2015/...

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    01 Oct
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