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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Julie Taymor with music by Elliot Goldenthal, is included in The New York Times‘ “2013: The Year in Pictures.” Click here to view the slideshow.

The New York Times profiles Theatre for a New Audience collaborators Mark Rylance and John Douglas Thompson, along with other notable actors, and examines what makes a great performance of Shakespeare. Click here to read the full article.

Thanks to support from generous donors and the City of New York, we have raised more than $54.9 million towards our goal of $68.5 million, which includes a $10 million program and operating endowment. Theatre for a New Audience’s new home will open this fall with a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by…Read More »

Beginning 2.5 hours prior to each scheduled performance, you can enter the lottery in The Public Theater lobby by filling out an entry card with your name and indicating if you want one or two tickets. Limit one entry per person, duplicate cards will be removed. At 2 hours prior to curtain, no more entries…Read More »

In addition to our live auction, this year we’re trying something new. Click here to view our online auction items!

Theater Listings for April 19-25 Previews and Openings Fragments’ (opens on Sunday) C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord returns to New York with this acclaimed production from 2011: a setting of five short pieces by Samuel Beckett, directed with becoming simplicity by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, that showcase the writer’s peerless gift for theatrical economy,…Read More »

Kathryn Hunter, taken ill during Sunday Matinee Solo Performance of Kafka’s Monkey, is well and will return to the Baryshnikov Arts Center Stage Tuesday.  For the full press release, CLICK HERE

“An ape headed from Africa to Europe on a steamer at the turn of the twentieth century seduces his captors by making a spectacle of drinking their booze, then teaches himself how to talk, walk, and think like a man. Or so he tells esteemed members of “the academy” years later, when, having almost fully…Read More »

A Captive of Human Nature BY CHARLES ISHERWOOD “Movie stars like Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro are celebrated for their ability to transform into the characters they play on screen, so that their very voices seem to take on new sounds, and their bodies new shapes. But, to my knowledge, they have not ever…Read More »

Theatre’s Primate Instinct By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI “This season, chimps are champs. In the recent dark comedy “Trevor,” a chimpanzee dreams of making it as an actor, while in David Ives’ newly revived “All in the Timing,” three primates armed with typewriters try to write “Hamlet.” Now comes the most poignant entry of all: the monologue…Read More »