RealTime Arts’ Free Ourselves From Stone: Ukrainian Voices Reclaimed arrives November 13 as the final event in a trio of live performances of Ukrainian folktales and music, woven with commentary from Ukrainian war veterans.
The latest is to be held at St. Peter & St. Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Carnegie, a hub for the Ukrainian community. The evening starts with a full Ukrainian dinner, followed by the performance, and ends with a community discussion in which the public can connect with veterans of the current war with Russia, visiting from Ukraine.
The cast includes Cynthia Dallas, Lish Danielle, Kyle Haden, Hazel Leroy, and Ricardo Vila-Roger, joined by writer, filmmaker and musician Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko (City of Asylum fellow) and his wife, singer Mari Frazé-Frazénko, both from Lviv. The performance is directed by RealTime’s Rusty Thelin.
The three performance-based community gatherings support development of RealTime’s upcoming large-scale music-theater work, with the working title there is a blue that only children see. The source material for the new work, written by Molly Rice, includes conversations between Ukrainian and United States veterans, input from audiences through the Storytelling Series, and elements of Ukrainian folklore.
The world premiere of there is a blue is slated for production in fall 2026.
TICKETS AND DETAILS
RealTime Arts’ Free Ourselves From Stone: Ukrainian Voices Reclaimed will take place at St. Peter & St. Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 220 Mansfield Blvd., Carnegie, PA, 6-9 p.m. Thursday, November 13, 2025. For tickets, visit realtimearts.org.
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