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This piece on Shlemiel the First appears in the December 12, 2011 issue of The New Yorker. If you have a subscription to the magazine online, you may read it here. Critic’s Notebook December 12, 2011 Hey Diga Diga! by John Lahr All fans of the American musical who are sick of boulevard nihilism, movie…Read More »

We are thrilled to announce that actor John Douglas Thompson, hosted by Theatre for a New Audience, is among the recipients of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship by the William & Eva Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre. The program is designed to support actors’ professional and artistic…Read More »

Theatre for a New Audience is now seven months into construction in Downtown Brooklyn’s BAM Cultural District. The 30-inch mat slab has been poured, consisting of 947 cubic yards of concrete. In pursuit of our goal of environmentally sustainable construction, the concrete mixture contains slag, a by-product of steel manufacturing. In addition to being a…Read More »

Mining Life’s Hardships for a Vein of Comedy By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Published: November 15, 2011 Laughs are always erupting, like bubbles from the depths of tar pits, in the writings of Samuel Beckett. I sometimes wonder if his reputation for annihilating pessimism owes as much to photographs of him in the winter of his life…Read More »

On Wednesday, November 2, Theatre for a New Audience friends and supporters attended a performance of the Broadway production Relatively Speaking, featuring three one-act plays by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen, and directed by long-time Theatre for a New Audience friend and supporter John Turturro. Following the uproarious production, Turturro and members of…Read More »

On Monday, October 24, Cymbeline was featured on WNBC Nightly News with Chuck Scarborough. Fiasco Theatre members Jessie Austrian, Noah Brody, and Andy Grotelueschen were interviewed by Chuck about the production and their work as a company. Then, on Friday, October 28, NPR’s Leonard Lopate show featured co-directors Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld in his…Read More »

In Theatre for a New Audience’s 32nd season, the Theatre presents five plays by Shakespeare, John Ford, Samuel Beckett and Isaac Bashevis Singer adapted by Robert Brustein. As described by Jeffrey Horowitz, founding artistic director, “These works couldn’t be more different, but each author explores with humor, irony and humanity worlds turned upside down.” The…Read More »

Fiasco Theater’s Cymbeline began its third run in two years on Thursday, September 8, at The Barrow Street Theatre.  Following the show, guests gathered for a party to celebrate the new life for the acclaimed production – thought to be New York’s first commercially-produced Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare.  Among the attendees were David Cromer, Cherry…Read More »

This summer, with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Theatre for a New Audience hosted twenty-three middle and high school educators to participate in the Shakespeare Institute, an in-depth training program in understanding and teaching Shakespeare’s plays language, and themes. The Institute took place from August 1 thru August 12 at Columbia…Read More »

Kicking off Theatre for a New Audience’s 32nd season is the return of Fiasco Theatre’s Cymbeline! Following its sold-out Off-Broadway debut this past January, the Theatre is partnering, for the first time ever, with seasoned Broadway and Off-Broadway commercial producers Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian and Tom Wirtshafter (Our Town directed by David Cromer) to bring…Read More »