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Board Chaiman Ted Rogers, actor Debra Winger, Honoree Robert Woodruff, Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz, Gala Co-Chair Monica G-S. Wambold, presenter Robert Brustein, Master of Ceremonies Bill Camp, Gala Co-Chair Terry Christensen, and actor/writer Arliss Howard. Photo by Gerry Goodstein. On May 2, 2011, more than 320 patrons gathered to attend Theatre for a New…Read More »

Rajika Puri, internationally acclaimed Indian dancer and long-time friend of the Theatre, helped us prepare for construction with a site blessing. Click here to see the video of her song to Ganesh, Lord of all Obstacles, to keep him on our side throughout the construction process. Thank you, Rajika! . . . . . .…Read More »

We are thrilled to announce that the Boston presentation of our national tour of The Merchant of Venice has been recognized with the following nominations for the annual Elliot Norton Awards: Outstanding Visiting Production Outstanding Actor:  F. Murray Abraham Outstanding Actress: Kate MacCluggage Outstanding Director: Darko Tresnjak Outstanding Design: John Lee Beatty [set], Linda Cho…Read More »

On Sunday, April 10, Brooklyn’s Dreamers and friends attended a sold-out performance of Macbeth at The Duke on 42nd Street, starring John Douglas Thompson and Annika Boras and directed by Arin Arbus. Afterwards, the group gathered at the new Hell’s Kitchen restaurant Southern Hospitality for delicious barbeque and drinks with Arbus, Boras, Thompson, and other…Read More »

Emma Adler is a high school junior from New York. She is the editor in chief of her high school newspaper, and hopes to pursue a career in writing. The often inexplicable twists and turns which characterize William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline have fostered a popular dismissal of the work as “unplayable.” But a production of the…Read More »

This season, author Emily Gould joined Theatre for a New Audience to explore what connections the plays in our season have to our world. Through conducting one-on-one interviews, writing articles, and moderating talk-backs with actors and scholars, Gould investigated how these actors interpret the female characters in the four plays of our season. For more…Read More »

It was a few minutes before Theatre for a New Audience’s production of The Merchant of Venice starring F. Murray Abraham and directed by Darko Tresnjak was to start, and the extremely elderly woman seated next to me was looking up at the stage quizzically.  Finally she articulated the source of her confusion.  “What the…Read More »

This March, Theatre for a New Audience will embark on its first national tour with our acclaimed 2007 production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, directed by Darko Tresnjak and starring Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham as Shylock. In 2007, this production sold out Off-Broadway and at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival…Read More »

Theatre for a New Audience is thrilled to announce that we are the recipients of a $900,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant, for the current season and the following two seasons, will support the Theatre’s operating budget and its work with our affiliated artists, including Arin Arbus (Resident Director), Andrew Wade…Read More »

On the heels of our great event with Cymbeline comes Macbeth. Join Brooklyn’s Dreamers, our patrons’ group for young professionals, and get behind-the-scenes access to our upcoming productions. Tickets to the events include the performance and an exclusive after-party where you will mix and mingle with members of the cast! Sunday, April 10, 2011: Meet…Read More »