"Theatre for a New Audience’s new Artistic Director Arin Arbus imports Teatro La Plaza’s boundary-smashing Hamlet to Brooklyn after celebrated runs around the globe. Conceived and directed by Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari, the show interweaves the poetry of the Bard’s play with real-life observations from the ensemble, all actors with Down syndrome. Infused with comedy, pop music and searing insights about Hamlet‘s...

"Theatre for a New Audience’s new Artistic Director Arin Arbus imports Teatro La Plaza’s boundary-smashing Hamlet to Brooklyn after celebrated runs around the globe. Conceived and directed by Peruvian director Chela De...

★★★★ “A blend of the contemporary and the classical…Ash K. Tata keeps the action clear and active… The performances are always crystalline…Shakespeare charts a clear rise and fall for his doomed protagonist, and McKinley Belcher III surfs those waves exuberantly…As embodied by the commanding Roslyn Ruff, Volumnia is an iceberg: cool and sturdy, with a power that looms beneath the...

★★★★ “A blend of the contemporary and the classical…Ash K. Tata keeps the action clear and active… The performances are always crystalline…Shakespeare charts a clear rise and fall for his...

"An arrogant Roman military hero, beloved by the aristocracy and despised by regular people, is banished from the city and turns furiously against it in this Shakespeare play. With McKinley Belcher III in the title role and Roslyn Ruff as Coriolanus’s mother, Volumnia, Ash K. Tata directs for Theatre for a New Audience" —Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times Theatre for...

"An arrogant Roman military hero, beloved by the aristocracy and despised by regular people, is banished from the city and turns furiously against it in this Shakespeare play. With McKinley...

"Ash K. Tata’s production brings Shakespeare’s tragedy of political unrest into a moment 'just after now.'" "The cast will be led by McKinley Belcher III as Coriolanus, Mickey Sumner as Aufidius—reimagined as a woman in this production—and Roslyn Ruff as Volumnia, Coriolanus’s mother. Their relationships form the emotional core of the political drama." "Rather than offering clear heroes or villains,...

"Ash K. Tata’s production brings Shakespeare’s tragedy of political unrest into a moment 'just after now.'" "The cast will be led by McKinley Belcher III as Coriolanus, Mickey Sumner as...