The Vienna Lessons
June 4 – 28, 2026
June 4 –
June 28, 2026
TH @ 7pm
FRI/SAT @ 2pm, 7pm
SUN @ 2pm
Vienna, 1787. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at the height of his powers but struggling financially, meets a serious and supremely confident teenager who wants to hire him as a teacher, Ludwig Van Beethoven. This comic-drama imagines how the relationship between two of music’s towering geniuses (whom many scholars believe met in real life) might have evolved. Featuring some of the great works of each composer, as well as some brilliantly imagined ‘collaborations’, The Vienna Lessons shows how these two men, separated by temperament and age, nonetheless find in each other the unique bond only true visionaries can share.
Running Time
2 hours 30 with intermission
Advisory
Adult, Teen, Pre-Teen
- Adult Language
- Sexual Themes
- Violence
Cast
Quentin Chisholm
Beethoven
Sandy Clancy
Constanze Mozart
Jesse Kodama
Mozart
Original Music by Jeremiah Bornfield
Creative
set design by Jessica Parks
lighting design by Jill Nagle
technical director, Brian Snyder
costume design by Patricia E. Doherty
sound design by Nick Simone
production stage manager, Rose Riccardi
assistant stage manager, Ian Duhart
assistant director and assistant lighting design, Janey Huber
master electrician, James Lockhart
wardrobe/set crew, Honey Spohr
News
REVIEWS & ARTICLES
When Mozart Met Beethoven: Inside the Imagination of The Vienna Lessons, NJ Rep’s New Play by Jack Canfora
– By Jim Manley
“Playwright Jack Canfora has written a perfect intersection for my “nerd-nesses”, all the ways that I love life.”
-by Sherri Rase for Urban Telegraph
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