Emma Adler is a high school junior from New York. She is the editor in chief of her high school newspaper, and hopes to pursue a career in writing. The often inexplicable twists and turns which characterize William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline…
This season, author Emily Gould joined Theatre for a New Audience to explore what connections the plays in our season have to our world. Through conducting one-on-one interviews, writing articles, and moderating talk-backs with actors and scholars, Gould investigated how…
It was a few minutes before Theatre for a New Audience’s production of The Merchant of Venice starring F. Murray Abraham and directed by Darko Tresnjak was to start, and the extremely elderly woman seated next to me was looking…
This March, Theatre for a New Audience will embark on its first national tour with our acclaimed 2007 production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, directed by Darko Tresnjak and starring Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham as Shylock. In…
Theatre for a New Audience is thrilled to announce that we are the recipients of a $900,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant, for the current season and the following two seasons, will support the Theatre’s operating…
On the heels of our great event with Cymbeline comes Macbeth. Join Brooklyn’s Dreamers, our patrons’ group for young professionals, and get behind-the-scenes access to our upcoming productions. Tickets to the events include the performance and an exclusive after-party where…
John Douglas Thompson and Annika Boras will star as the title character and his ambitious wife in the Theatre’s upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The show, directed by Arin Arbus (Othello, Measure for Measure), begins previews at The Duke on…
In 2007, the Theatre’s production of The Merchant of Venice sold out its run in New York and at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival. Next month, the celebrated production, starring Academy Award Winner F. Murray Abraham, returns to…
Before I sat down to talk to Jessie Austrian about her role as Imogen, Cymbeline’s brave and rebellious princess, I had the privilege of watching her and the rest of Fiasco Theater’s company as they rehearsed the show. The round…
“Colorful, fantastical, charming…for once, the play itself really is the thing.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times “Highly entertaining!” – The New York Post “Sincere with dialogue and merry of heart.” – Associated Press “Fresh and frisky and jammed…