Happily, "Mass" will be fully produced this spring at Cornell University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, engaging the talents of approximately 130 performers.
Another of her plays, "Phaedra's Love," has been staged in Chicago and San Francisco; "Crave" is not the first to be fully produced in the United States.
The 90-minute production, part of a family opera series, is for ages 6 and up and is fully produced with narration.
New York will get a taste this week of Ms. Kane's hypnotic power with her 1998 "Crave," the first of her works to be fully produced in the United States.
In fact, "Crave," which is the first of Ms. Kane's works to be fully produced in the United States, doesn't have the eye-opening originality of its predecessors.
The play, the Soloways hope, will be the first to be fully produced at Railroad, possibly in the spring of 2012, if the money is in place (they are in the middle of a first anniversary fund-raising campaign).
They have dedicated the opening night, Wednesday, to the first performance of the chamber opera "Sumeida's Song," by Mohammed Fairouz, billed as the "first Arab-American opera to be fully produced on an American stage".
