Organizational News

Theatre for a New Audience is establishing a Council of Scholars to expand the scope and depth of the Theatre’s humanities programs. The Council will have a fundamental role in advising the Theatre’s artistic and education leadership as it completes its Center for Shakespeare and classic drama as its first home in Downtown Brooklyn’s BAM…Read More »

The Broken Heart opened February 12, followed by a party supported by The Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative. Above left, The Broken Heart actor Bianca Amato and director Selina Cartmell; right, director Julie Taymor and The Broken Heart assistant director Danya Taymor. To read about Selina Cartmell’s mentorship with Julie Taymor through the Rolex…Read More »

In 2009, after directing the Theatre’s acclaimed production of Othello, The New York Times called Arin Arbus “the most gifted new director to emerge this season.” She went on to direct the theatre’s productions of Measure for Measure and Macbeth, and is currently in rehearsals for The Taming of the Shrew. But this winter found…Read More »

On December 1st, Theatre for a New Audience’s annual Producers Circle Reception was hosted by Board Member Robert Ascheim and his wife Mary in their home. The forty guests included members of the Theatre’s premier donor society, the Producers Circle, and several of the Theatre’s Board Members. The evening’s special guests were Obie Award-winning actor…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 »

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 June 24th, Theatre for a New Audience had its official Groundbreaking and Design Unveiling Celebration! Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz’s vision of a destination theatre for Shakespeare and classic drama is finally coming true in Downtown Brooklyn’s BAM Cultural District. Construction began in April of this year, and completion is expected in April 2013.…Read More »

Kate D. Levin, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs; Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; TFANA Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz; First Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris; TFANA Board Chairman Theodore C. Rogers; Julie Taymor; Mark Rylance; NYC Economic Development Corporation President Seth Pinsky; Downtown Brooklyn Partnership President Joe Chan; Harvey Lichtenstein, Chairman, Cultural Planning and Development, Downtown…Read More »

Board Chairman Theodore C. Rogers announced a $100,000 Gala Challenge from the Theatre’s Board of Directors in the final moments of the Spring Gala on May 2nd. All contributions for the Gala (which supports the Theatre’s Off-Broadway productions and education programs that serve thousands of students in the New York City Public schools) received after…Read More »

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 »