[World Premiere] Transport Group Theater Company: Renascence

October 5–November 17, 2018
7:30:00pm + 3:00pm Sunday Matinees

A World Premiere Musical about a Radical and Reckless Jazz-Age Poet.

Renascence is the story of the radical and reckless poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, who lived one hundred years ago, a hundred years ahead of her time. At eighteen she writes a staggeringly profound poem that rocks the literary world and transforms this girl from rural Maine into a cause cèlébre. Vincent captivates everyone in her orbit (male and female), and is hero worshipped by young women for her unabashed intellect and frank sensuality. She works her newfound fame, leaving in her wake broken relationships with those who believed in her before anybody else. In her New York debut, composer Carmel Dean sets Millay’s words to music in a lush, contemporary score, immersing the audience in this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s groundbreaking and provocative point of view that resonates today more than ever.

Book by Dick Scanlan

Music by Carmel Dean

Lyrics from the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Directed by Jacks Cummings III and Dick Scanlan

Starring: Hannah Corneau, Katie Thompson, Danny Kornfeld, Donald Webber Jr., Mikaela Bennett, and Jason Gotay.