My ÁntoniA

World Premiere of My Ántonia

The world premiere was a huge hit - Latte Da sold out the run, extended, and sold out again - it was the best-selling world premiere in their history!

June 3 - July 26th at Theater Latte Da in Minneapolis

Conceived by Jessie Austrian, Noah Brody, Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses
Music and Lyrics by The Kilbanes
Book by Noah Brody
Adapted from the novel by Willa Cather

Directed by Jessie Austrian
Choreographed by Joey Miller
Music Direction by Jason Hansen

My Ántonia is a new musical adaptation of Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Willa Cather’s 1918 masterpiece.

Commissioned by Theater Latte Da, the project, which pairs the composing team The Kilbanes with Noah Brody and Jessie Austrian of Fiasco Theater, is an ensemble-led, folk-rock musical that tells the story of the immigration and survival of a young Bohemian girl and her family to a farm in Nebraska in the 1880s. In her masterful story, Cather not only tracks the rise of the Midwest as an agricultural superpower, she subtly asserts a new founding story of American exceptionalism: its greatness was achieved not so much because of the conquests of rugged individuals, as the communities of determined, immigrant women.