Organizational News

Theatre for a New Audience was recently highlighted in an article in The Wall Street Journal.  The Journal polled 40 artists in the New York area to ask how they would distribute an imaginary $1M to arts organizations in the city, and our Theatre made the top ten!  One artist designated his would-be gift for…Read More »

Theatre for a New Audience is launching two new digital publications designed by renowned graphic artist, Milton Glaser: Dialogues, a literary companion piece for each production featuring essays from prominent scholars and in-depth discussions between Council of Scholars members and artistic team members; and Folio, an annual collection of essays from Dialogues, articles from the…Read More »

Internationally-known playwright and actor Wallace Shawn and director André  Gregory were the special guests at Theatre for a New Audience’s recent annual Producers Circle Reception, hosted by Board Member Sally Brody and Mel Herzberg in their Brooklyn Heights home. This season, in collaboration with The Public Theater, Theatre for a New Audience is producing Shawn’s…Read More »

Theatre for a New Audience’s new humanities programming has a solid foundation with the establishment of a distinguished Council of Scholars. The Council is made up of five prominent scholars who will have a fundamental role in advising the Theatre’s artistic and education leadership. Through critical essays, talkbacks, and the development of broader public humanities…Read More »

On September 9th, the New York Times published its New Season edition of the Arts and Leisure, featuring notable theatre running from September 2012 to June 2013. Out of 99 shows nationwide, only two Shakespeare productions appear: an import from the Globe, and Theater for a New Audience’s Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Arin…Read More »

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 »

After only a few months on twitter, Theatre for a New Audience has reached 1,000 followers! Click here to follow us (@Theatre4ANewA) and receive the latest on productions, ticket offers, and our new Theatre in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District!

On Monday August 6, artists F. Murray Abraham, Arin Arbus, Zoe Caldwell, Ned Eisenberg, Dana Ivey, and Michael Rogers joined the Theatre’s Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz, Managing Director Dorothy Ryan, and members of Theatre’s Board and staff to celebrate the “Topping Out” of our new theatre in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District. Also on…Read More »

Channel 13 filmed a national Profile on Theatre for a New Audience for its weekly primetime program, NYC-ARTS.  Interviewed were F. Murray Abraham, Arin Arbus, Annika Boras, Bartlett Sher, Julie Taymor, John Douglas Thompson and Jeffrey Horowitz. The Profile also includes footage from rehearsals and performances of The Broken Heart and The Taming of the…Read More »

Michael Boyd (featured in the video below) was appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in July 2002 with a mission to reinvigorate the Company as an ensemble, and recommit to a socially engaged, contemporary and internationalist approach. Before joining the RSC, he was a founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in…Read More »