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In January, Julie Taymor announced that she will direct A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the inaugural production in our first Brooklyn home.  She was recently featured in the New York Times, as well as the Guardian. To read either article, please click the links below: The New York Times The Guardian  

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  Maggie Siff, celebrated actress known for her work in Mad Men and Sons of Anarchy as well as for her prestigious career in the theatre, returns to the Theatre for a New Audience stage this season.  Siff, who last year performed the role Kate in the Theatre’s production of The Taming of the Shrew…Read More »

“‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (previews start on Saturday; opens on Feb. 17) Fans of no-frills, shrewdly conceived, elegantly presented Shakespeare have learned to circle their calendars for Arin Arbus’s annual Theater for a New Audience productions. This one, her fifth in as many years, features a love-hate relationship not unlike that in last year’s “Taming of…Read More »

On November 27, 2012, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced that Theatre for a New Audience was one of the 832 organizations nationwide chosen for an award this year out of more than 1,500 applications.  Applications were reviewed by panels of outside experts convened by NEA staff and each project was judged on…Read More »

Jonathan Kalb — acclaimed author, theater critic, and Theatre for a New Audience Literary Advisor and often dramaturg —  was chosen as the 2012 recipient of The George Freedley Award for his latest book Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater (University of Michigan Press).  This award is given by the Theatre Library Association to…Read More »

Theatre for a New Audience was recently highlighted in an article in The Wall Street Journal.  The Journal polled 40 artists in the New York area to ask how they would distribute an imaginary $1M to arts organizations in the city, and our Theatre made the top ten!  One artist designated his would-be gift for…Read More »

Theatre for a New Audience is launching two new digital publications designed by renowned graphic artist, Milton Glaser: Dialogues, a literary companion piece for each production featuring essays from prominent scholars and in-depth discussions between Council of Scholars members and artistic team members; and Folio, an annual collection of essays from Dialogues, articles from the…Read More »

Internationally-known playwright and actor Wallace Shawn and director André  Gregory were the special guests at Theatre for a New Audience’s recent annual Producers Circle Reception, hosted by Board Member Sally Brody and Mel Herzberg in their Brooklyn Heights home. This season, in collaboration with The Public Theater, Theatre for a New Audience is producing Shawn’s…Read More »

On September 9th, the New York Times published its New Season edition of the Arts and Leisure, featuring notable theatre running from September 2012 to June 2013. Out of 99 shows nationwide, only two Shakespeare productions appear: an import from the Globe, and Theater for a New Audience’s Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Arin…Read More »