The next chapter begins this fall with the opening of our new Center for Shakespeare and Classical Drama in Downtown Brooklyn. We are proud to announce our inaugural season, which begins with Julie Taymor’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream…
Thanks to support from generous donors and the City of New York, we have raised more than $54.9 million towards our goal of $68.5 million, which includes a $10 million program and operating endowment. Theatre for a New Audience’s new…
Beginning 2.5 hours prior to each scheduled performance, you can enter the lottery in The Public Theater lobby by filling out an entry card with your name and indicating if you want one or two tickets. Limit one entry per…
In addition to our live auction, this year we’re trying something new. Click here to view our online auction items!
Theater Listings for April 19-25 Previews and Openings Fragments’ (opens on Sunday) C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord returns to New York with this acclaimed production from 2011: a setting of five short pieces by Samuel Beckett, directed with becoming simplicity…
Kathryn Hunter, taken ill during Sunday Matinee Solo Performance of Kafka’s Monkey, is well and will return to the Baryshnikov Arts Center Stage Tuesday. For the full press release, CLICK HERE
“An ape headed from Africa to Europe on a steamer at the turn of the twentieth century seduces his captors by making a spectacle of drinking their booze, then teaches himself how to talk, walk, and think like a man.…
A Captive of Human Nature BY CHARLES ISHERWOOD “Movie stars like Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro are celebrated for their ability to transform into the characters they play on screen, so that their very voices seem to take on…
Theatre’s Primate Instinct By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI “This season, chimps are champs. In the recent dark comedy “Trevor,” a chimpanzee dreams of making it as an actor, while in David Ives’ newly revived “All in the Timing,” three primates armed with…
Kafka’s Monkey By David Cote To say that humans are descended from apes is, taking the phrase literally, to imply that we have fallen from a higher state. In gaining speech, bigger brains and a will to shape the world,…