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Earlier this February, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes interviewed Wallace Shawn on his weekend show, “Up with Chris Hayes.” In this segment, Shawn reads from his play The Fever, and joins a panel discussion about privilege, global capitalism and other political themes which permeate his essays and plays.  To view this segment on MSNBC’s website, click the…Read More »

On Friday, April 20, just a day before their final weekend of sold-out performances of the New York Magazine Critic’s Pick, The Taming of the Shrew, the cast of the production visited the site of Theatre for a New Audience’s first home in the BAM Cultural District in Downtown Brooklyn. Donning hard hats, the cast…Read More »

Theatre for a New Audience is establishing a Council of Scholars to expand the scope and depth of the Theatre’s humanities programs. The Council will have a fundamental role in advising the Theatre’s artistic and education leadership as it completes its Center for Shakespeare and classic drama as its first home in Downtown Brooklyn’s BAM…Read More »

If you saw our production of The Taming of the Shrew this spring, you likely noticed the beauty of the warm, wooden, Wild West-style set, designed by Donyale Werle. The set was realized by Paper Mâché Monkey, a newly founded, New York-based art studio specializing in sustainable design and the green fabrication of hand-made sculptures,…Read More »

CRITIC’S PICK: The Taming of the Shrew (at the Duke on 42nd Street through April 21) By SCOTT BROWN April 6, 2012 With detectably elevated esprit de corps, the cast of director Arin Arbus’s delightful new Shrew (from Theatre for a New Audience) romps around a frontiersville set in hoop skirts and bowlers — but don’t for a minute…Read More »

Click here to listen to director Arin Arbus and composer Michael Friedman discuss their collaboration on The Taming of the Shrew on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaefer. The show features a discussion about the play, and a live performance of music from the production by John Pankow (“When you Kiss an Italian Girl” ;left), Olwen…Read More »

Dorothy Ryan Managing Director Now that our first home has been under construction for nearly a year, many of our friends and future neighbors have remarked that they now see our building’s progress above the construction fence. Theatre for a New Audience’s first home is now starting to take shape in three dimensions. While the…Read More »

“That’s an inspired touch.”  New York Times “Love collides with gory revenge in John Ford’s rarely produced tragedy, which is getting a welcome production from Theatre for a New Audience.  In Selina Cartmell’s astonishingly lucid and ravishingly beautiful production, the piece simply rivets audiences’ attention.” Theatermania “Theatre for a New Audience and director Selina Cartmell…Read More »

The Broken Heart opened February 12, followed by a party supported by The Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative. Above left, The Broken Heart actor Bianca Amato and director Selina Cartmell; right, director Julie Taymor and The Broken Heart assistant director Danya Taymor. To read about Selina Cartmell’s mentorship with Julie Taymor through the Rolex…Read More »

In 2009, after directing the Theatre’s acclaimed production of Othello, The New York Times called Arin Arbus “the most gifted new director to emerge this season.” She went on to direct the theatre’s productions of Measure for Measure and Macbeth, and is currently in rehearsals for The Taming of the Shrew. But this winter found…Read More »