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In 2007, the Theatre’s production of The Merchant of Venice sold out its run in New York and at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival. Next month, the celebrated production, starring Academy Award Winner F. Murray Abraham, returns to New York before embarking on a national tour. A mysteriously melancholy rich man, a dashing…Read More »

Before I sat down to talk to Jessie Austrian about her role as Imogen, Cymbeline’s brave and rebellious princess, I had the privilege of watching her and the rest of Fiasco Theater’s company as they rehearsed the show. The round platform and magical trunk that constitute the play’s entire set had arrived in the rehearsal…Read More »

“Colorful, fantastical, charming…for once, the play itself really is the thing.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times “Highly entertaining!” – The New York Post “Sincere with dialogue and merry of heart.” – Associated Press “Fresh and frisky and jammed with playful theatricality and music to match.” – Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News Click here to…Read More »

The Theatre is thrilled to announce that The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded us a $500,000 Challenge Grant to support a major expansion of the Theatre’s humanities activities. New programs will include lectures, seminars, workshops, and other activities for artists, scholars, adults, students and families, as well as new publications and web content,…Read More »

Click here to watch a video interview between author Emily Gould and actor and Fiasco Theater Co-Artistic Director Jessie Austrian, taking you behind the scenes of Cymbeline and into Fiasco Theater’s creative process. While you’re there, be sure to also check out video footage from the first rehearsal of Cymbeline!

Emily Gould; Bill Camp and Merritt Janson in Notes from Underground, photo by Joan Marcus. Before I got to actually see Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff’s stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground (the translation is by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhinsky), I’d read the script and about eight million reviews of the production; I…Read More »

TFANA TALKS is Theatre for a New Audience’s post-performance discussion programs with writers, scholars and artists about our productions. The programs are free to the general public. No ticket is required. Join us this upcoming Saturday, November 20, immediately following the 2 pm matinee at 3:45 pm. The panel will include: Moderator – Emily Gould,…Read More »

“True to the bombshell of a book that inspired it. Merritt Janson is Excellent. Bill Camp is one of the bravest, smartest, and most physically intense actors in New York. [He] taps into the raw, breath-sucking abjectness that makes Dostoyevsky’s novel such an enduringly harrowing read.” Ben Brantley – The New York Times “Bill Camp’s…Read More »

Emily Gould has written for The New York Times, The New York Observer, and Jezebel.com, among other publications, and is a contributing editor at Technology Review. Before becoming an editor of Gawker.com, a job she quit and then described in a cover story for The New York Times Magazine in 2008, she was an associate…Read More »

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow on November 11, 1821 to Maria and Mikhail Dostoevsky, a retired military surgeon who practiced at Moscow Mariinsky Hospital in one of the poorest sections of the city, which included a cemetery for criminals, a lunatic asylum and an orphanage for abandoned babies. It was in this environment…Read More »