YAP Artistic Director Peter Kazaras, who knew and worked with Leonard Bernstein, created a simple and brilliant staging of the great American composer’s one-act masterpiece,
Trouble in Tahiti, for a touring YAP production in the fall of 2007 (also performed with the Seattle Philharmonic in winter 2008).

Margaret Gawrysiak (Dinah) and Joshua Jeremiah (Sam) in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, 2007 © Bill Mohn

Marcus Shelton, Eugene Chan, Megan Hart, and Joshua Jeremiah (Sam) in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, 2007 © Bill Mohn

Joshua Jeremiah (Sam), Margaret Gawrysiak (Dinah) in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, 2007 © Rozarii Lynch

Margaret Gawrysiak (Dinah), Marcus Shelton, Eugene Chan, Megan Hart in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, 2007 © Bill Mohn

Elizabeth Pojanowski (Dinah), Noah Baetge, Michael Anthony McGee, and Megan Hart in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, 2007 © Rozarii Lynch

Michael Anthony McGee, Elizabeth Pojanowski (Dinah), Megan Hart, David Lara (Sam), and Noah Baetge in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, 2007 © Rozarii Lynch