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Congratulations to all who attended and contributed to Theatre for a New Audience’s 30th Anniversary Gala! The event was the best-attended and highest-grossing in the Theatre’s history, more than $600,000 was raised to benefit artistic and educational programs. The festivities took place at The Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History, under the leadership…Read More »

I look forward to a student audience more than any other. They never cease to surprise and challenge me, and they will always let me know, in no uncertain terms, whether they like what I’m doing. Sometimes brutally, always honestly! There is something thrillingly combative about a student matinee; they make you know they are…Read More »

Photo by Henry Grossman While in town for the recent production of Love Is My Sin, director Peter Brook and long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne led a three-day workshop with an invited group of some of the most promising young directors working today. This workshop was a rare opportunity for the 16 participants to engage in…Read More »

The Actors and Directors Project (ADP) was established in 1997 to promote the development of American directors of Shakespeare. In particular, ADP seeks to develop directors’ sensibility for Shakespeare’s language and enhance their understanding of how actors can bring Shakespeare’s text to life. Each season, Theatre for a New Audience invites six to eight young…Read More »

A director of theatre, opera and film, Julie Taymor is the first woman to win the TONY Award for directing a musical (The Lion King), for which she also won Best Costume Design. Elliot Goldenthal is a renowned composer who creates works for the concert stage, theatre, opera and film, including several Oscar-nominated films and…Read More »

We are thrilled to report that Theatre for a New Audience’s new home in the BAM Cultural District is officially in its final design phase! Hugh Hardy and his team at H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture will set our beautiful 27,500-square-foot building on its final site on Ashland Place, where it will face an Arts Plaza…Read More »

Michael Pennington and Natasha Parry Theatre for a New Audience’s 30th Anniversary Season will culminate with the New York premiere of the C.I.C.T./Théatre des Bouffes du Nord production of Love Is My Sin, the sonnets of William Shakespeare adapted by Peter Brook and performed by Natasha Parry and Michael Pennington. Love Is My Sin, which…Read More »

Join us for Theatre for a New Audience’s 30th Anniversary Gala Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday Monica G-S. Wambold, Gala Chair Including the presentation of the Sixth Annual Samuel H. Scripps Award for Extraordinary Commitment to the Power of Language in Classical and Contemporary Theatre to Julie Taymor & Elliot Goldenthal Reception, auction and seated dinner at…Read More »

Journalist Alisa Solomon brought her Columbia University graduate students to observe a rehearsal of the Theatre’s recent production of Measure for Measure. Student Katherine Clarke shared her impressions. It is unusual for an arts journalist to be permitted entry to the sacred space of the rehearsal room. Traditionally, this space has been off limits to…Read More »