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Washington National Opera: the hour-long opera PENNY, with music by Douglas Pew and words by DW, will premiere on January 23 and 24, 2015, at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. Tickets available here. This project is a WNO/KC American Opera Initiative one-hour commission.

Song cycle TO SEE THE STARS, with music by Faye Chiao and words by DW: March 29, 2015, at the Maryland Science Center. With the LUNAR Ensemble.

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Dara Weinberg

writer // teacher // director // los angeles

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on being john le carré’s son

July 11, 2008weinberg

There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carré novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That’s a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few.

-Nick Harkaway on his new novel, The Gone-Away World. Via Bookslut.

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