alchemical

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Through an alchemical synthesis of music, text and dramaturgy, the audience is immersed in the deepest feelings of its characters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Van Geelen named his firm after citrinitas, the alchemical stage where lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

Temperatures are dropping, grocery prices keep climbing, and there’s a small, almost alchemical satisfaction in transforming the blandest, cheapest grain in the aisle into a breakfast worth lingering over.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2025

Something alchemical lurks in the language of Martyna Majok, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who somehow turns everyday dialogue into the stuff of philosophers.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

In the makeshift alchemical laboratory in the windowless attic of the crematorium, a small blue flame touched the curved glass base of a suspended flask.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor