Click here to listen to director Arin Arbus and composer Michael Friedman discuss their collaboration on The Taming of the Shrew on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaefer. The show features a discussion about the play, and a live performance of…
Dorothy Ryan Managing Director Now that our first home has been under construction for nearly a year, many of our friends and future neighbors have remarked that they now see our building’s progress above the construction fence. Theatre for a…
“That’s an inspired touch.” New York Times “Love collides with gory revenge in John Ford’s rarely produced tragedy, which is getting a welcome production from Theatre for a New Audience. In Selina Cartmell’s astonishingly lucid and ravishingly beautiful production, the…
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…
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,…
Associated Press January 31, 2012 by MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) – In a season where little grows in the Northeast, something in Brooklyn is doing just that, foot by foot. The metal guts of what will be a sleek…
The New York Times Extreme Theater: Wake-Up Calls From the 1600s By ALEXIS SOLOSKI January 27, 2012 THE 17th-century playwright John Ford never met a character he didn’t want to kill: gruesomely, ingeniously, poignantly. He liked them stabbed, starved, poisoned,…
The steel structure has begun to rise on the rear portion of our building, with the rest of the structure to follow throughout the winter and early spring. We anticipate “topping off” our steel in May. Above photo, left: Structural…
The Broken Heart is a gripping, powerful and transformative drama that demonstrates the deeply moving humanity of one of the finest playwrights of the Jacobean period. This timeless piece explores a society where men and women are tested to their…
Making her American directorial debut with John Ford’s The Broken Heart, Selina Cartmell is an award-winning British director who has made a splash in Irish theatre, where she makes her home. In 2007, Selina was chosen as world-renowned director and…