Pizza or A Door in the Dark Does Not Dance

A pizza party. A dying guest. A portal to the next world. Nature Theater of Oklahoma returns to NYU Skirball with Pizza or A Door in the Dark Does Not Dance, a chamber opera that is miniature in scale and uncompromisingly epic in ambition. Act one starts innocently, with friends, festivity, and slices going around, until a guest reveals she is dying of a mysterious illness and vanishes from the party. Her presumed death cracks open a doorway to the next world, where the ghosts of the dead, or possibly undead, are still working through unfinished business: scores to settle, questions that demand answers. By turns intimate and cosmic, irreverent and aching. Small opera. Largest things. Pass the parmesan.