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…
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…
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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…
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…
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.…
On Friday, April 20, just a day before their final weekend of sold-out performances of the New York Magazine Critic’s Pick, The Taming of the Shrew, the cast of the production visited the site of Theatre for a New Audience’s…
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…
If you saw our production of The Taming of the Shrew this spring, you likely noticed the beauty of the warm, wooden, Wild West-style set, designed by Donyale Werle. The set was realized by Paper Mâché Monkey, a newly founded,…
CRITIC’S PICK: The Taming of the Shrew (at the Duke on 42nd Street through April 21) By SCOTT BROWN April 6, 2012 With detectably elevated esprit de corps, the cast of director Arin Arbus’s delightful new Shrew (from Theatre for a New Audience) romps…