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 joined us in the cavern and contributed to the shrine. Until next...
View ArticleInstallation 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 of St Antony. Step inside...
View ArticleImmersive 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 Mat Sweeney. Read all about it. The post...
View ArticleFabrik 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 opera” The Temptation of St...
View Articleὕμνος 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, resistance and rage, sown from the seeds of the oldest surviving greek...
View ArticleHymns for 2017
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 the Homeric Hymns. Read on for a primer on the source material,...
View ArticleUndine – 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 DTLA hideaway for a night of sublime...
View ArticleSOLD 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 soon here: fourlarks.com/production/undine The post SOLD OUT...
View ArticleFour 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 brilliant review and analysis of Four Larks’ The...
View ArticleNew Music USA
Four Larks has received support from New Music USA for our latest project, Undine, set to premiere in 2017. Follow our project page for developing details of this exciting partnership. The post New...
View ArticleBest 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/ The post Best of LA 2015...
View ArticleOvation 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 Lighting, Design, Choreography and for Best Production of the...
View ArticleBest 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 installation art, theater, and opera in...
View ArticleLos 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, Music Direction, Choreography, Lighting Design...
View ArticleLÅRKSPRÜNG
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...
View ArticleThe 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 transfixing theatrical tour de force....
View ArticleOn 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 the irrationality...
View ArticleLa 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 program here. The post La Bibliothèque Fantastique appeared...
View ArticlePress 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 the music and experience of The Temptation...
View ArticleCritical 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 the latest below… “The Temptation of St Antony...
View ArticleFinal 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 left- and this weekend is nearly sold out- Last chance...
View ArticleLACO :: Session :: 5.24.18
We’re thrilled to join 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 and co-producing this event. LA music...
View Articlek 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 latest exhibition ‘Underworld : Imagining the...
View ArticleLACO :: 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 Orchestra this Fall. Join us at DTLA’s Hauser...
View Articlethrenodies- 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 with those affected by the tragic fire. This weekend,...
View Articlekatabasis 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 Villa for two weeks in Novemeber, we’re excited to...
View Articleacclaim 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. <a...
View ArticleRaves for latest ‘SESSION’ with LACO 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 Matthias Pintscher, featuring Michelle...
View ArticleLACO 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 PICO UNION PROJECT, in collaboration with new...
View ArticleNoProscenium’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 through the underworld at the...
View ArticleFRANKENSTEIN 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 on February 19, 2020 (Performances...
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Mat Sweeney 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 Los Angeles theatre artist at a...
View ArticleFRANKENSTEIN 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...
View ArticleThe 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 time to revisit one of our...
View ArticleEverything is Canceled
Our world premiere of HYMNS and all forthcoming LACO SESSIONS have been postponed until further notice. (follow us on FB and IG to be notified first, or join our MAILING LIST) In the meantime we send...
View ArticleHype for Frankenstein
The world premiere enraptured and roiled critics during its sold out extended run at the Wallis…Read what they had to say below… “INGENIOUS…a HYPNOTIC progression of sights, sounds, and ideas…a...
View ArticleTalking about Art in an Apocalypse
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 making and their...
View ArticleBlack 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 solidarity with protesters around the world. This movement...
View ArticleTwenty One
Happy 2021 dear friends! This year promises to be extremely new. Here’s hoping that live art will resume and we can be together again soon. In the meantime, we’re digging our heels in to the digital...
View Article12 Ovation Nominations
Our Frankenstein leads the count with a dozen nominations for LA Stage Alliance’s 31st Ovation Awards, which recognize the 19/20 season. We’re grateful for the recognition from our peers and comrades...
View ArticleELEVEN 2021 Ovation Awards!
We’re so grateful to the LA theatre community who have honored our production Frankenstein with 11 Ovation Awards (for the 2019/2020 theatre season in Los Angeles). We’re thrilled to have this...
View Article2022 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 and April 2022. Living alongside six distinguished...
View ArticleListen to Hymns on Bandcamp
Our hymns are now available to stream and purchase via bandcamp <a href=”https://fourlarks.bandcamp.com/album/hymns”>hymns by fourlarks</a> The music was recorded in...
View ArticlePreview 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 Getty’s Theater Lab. The completed album is...
View Article2022 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: “The MacDowell Fellowship program aims to...
View ArticleAncient 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 the ancient...
View ArticleMat 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 folk songs and stringing together some new melodies in a...
View ArticleSociety 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 group of selected artists and scholars to...
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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 artists and musicians in Athens,...
View ArticleNational Theatre Project 2024 Finalist
We are finalist for NEFA’s 2024 National Theatre Project Creation and Touring Grant! I saw a crescent moon above a branch of silver… is a new multidisciplinary performance work adapted from queer...
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