Shelter in Place: A Living Room Vaudeville

Shelter in Place Premieres Aug. 2

Click Here for Teaser Nathan and I just finished filming our second Living Room Vaudeville, Shelter in Place, at the...

ISMO Illinois Summer Music Online

Gulfshore Opera Gala

Julie and Nathan Gunn performed choice opera favorites and beloved American songs as the featured artists for the 2020 Gulfshore...

Krannert Center / Lyric Theatre Student Excellence Fund

In February, co-directors of Lyric Theatre at Illinois, Nathan and Julie Gunn and Krannert Center Director Mike Ross launched the...

Happy New Year!

Dear friends, It looks like I haven’t written for a couple of years! There’s a New Year’s Resolution—I will be...

"If there’s such a thing as a perfect programme of listening for a Sunday evening – music that’s comforting, mostly undemanding, with a hefty dollop of nostalgia thrown in – the husband-and-wife-team of Nathan and Julie Gunn delivered it in spades. Their Wigmore Hall concert carried the atmosphere of an old-time broadcast from Radio City Music Hall, or, perhaps even the intimacy of an after-dinner parlour performance from the turn of the 20th century, and, notwithstanding the fact that much of the (all-American) music was from later decades, a Stephen Foster song – or even a recitation of some Emily Dickinson – would not have seemed out of place."

[...] the music direction by Julie Jordan Gunn, conducting, from the piano, an ensemble of 12 instrumentalists, gave admirable and firm support to the student singers.

Lyric Theatre brings The Rape of Lucretia into the #MeToo Era

SP: This production of The Rape of Lucretia was lead by an entirely female creative team. What was this like? How did it impact the telling of the story? The production process?

Gunn: In my opinion, the Rape of Lucretia is a story about sin, and evil’s desire to snuff out goodness. Lucretia is the embodiment of goodness in this story, and is attacked by evil in an act of sexual violence, which destroys her and everyone whom she loves, and yet is part of goodness’ ultimate victory. I think having an all-female team, which has been in every way a hugely affirming experience for me, puts women’s experiences at the center of the human condition. What happened to Lucretia is at the heart of our collective and personal experience.

Our Evening on Broadway!

On October 6th, Nathan and I sent the Krannert Center its 50th Birthday present: a concert celebrating everything about the...