The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Carson Kreitzer

“Do I dare disturb the Universe?” Jews, Commies, Spies, and the soft-spoken man who became the destroyer of worlds, then had his security clearance revoked.

<I>The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer</i> at Next Theatre.
<I>The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer</i> at Next Theatre.
<I>The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer</i> at Next Theatre.
<I>The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer</i> at Next Theatre.
<I>The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer</i> at Next Theatre.
Cast Requirements

4 men
3 women
with doubling

Honors

Winner: Rosenthal New Play Prize; Stavis Award; American Theater Critics’ Steinberg New Play Citation.

Publisher

Smith and Kraus’ New Playwrights: Best Plays 2004; Dramatic Publishing.

Press

“Kreitzer has a huge vision…Oppenheimer is superb theater.”
—Cincinnati Enquirer

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Press

“So much brilliance, ambivalence, ego, history, myth, science, moral argument, emotional heat, poetry and sheer dazzling theatricality are compressed into the mere two hours it takes for Carson Kreitzer’s The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer to detonate on the stage…that by the time it is all over, you might easily feel you’ve been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.”
—Chicago Sun-Times

Production and Development History

Produced: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (2003); Frank Theatre, Minneapolis (2003); Next Theatre, Chicago (2005); Actor’s Express, Atlanta (2005).

Developed in a residency at The Playwrights’ Center.

Commissioned: New York State Council on the Arts.