This phenomenal cast glows post-packed house performance 
Irena’s love-interest resists his professor and the treatment of fellow Jewish university students 
Irena and her mother (Ilysia Pierce) have a falling-out as their ideologies conflict 
Composer Megan Cavallari and librettist Kait Kerrigan discuss the upcoming performance 
A mother greives over the impending loss of her child 
Irena triumphantly vows to smuggle children from the ghetto
Photos by Karl Sonnenberg