This week, Crain’s Business reported that development of the BAM Cultural District is picking up speed, with six cultural and public projects getting the green light to begin construction within the year, including Theatre for a New Audience’s new home.…
Excerpts of an interview with Jefferson May, ‘The Duke’ in our current production of Measure for Measure, by NewYorkTheatreGuide.com. For the full interview, click here. Did you go to training school, if so which one? UCSD. (University of California, San…
Continuing the Theatre’s 30th Anniversary season, Measure for Measure begins previews Saturday, February 6 and opens Sunday, February 14. The production is directed by Arin Arbus, the Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director who won acclaim for staging last season’s production of…
American theatre and film actor Jefferson Mays will make his Theatre for a New Audience debut as The Duke in the upcoming production of Measure for Measure. In 2004, Mays won a Tony, Drama Desk, OBIE, and a Theatre World…
Theatre for a New Audience’s Education Department finished 2009 on a high note with the completion of the New Voices Playwriting program in public schools. One 7th-grade class in Brooklyn especially captured the hearts of their Teaching Artist Erin McCready…
Thanks to everyone who voted for Theatre for a New Audience a few weeks back in Chase Community Giving’s Facebook contest. While we didn’t win, our friends at Stella Adler Studio of Acting did – and now they’re the only…
At a January 8 ceremony, The Actors’ Equity Foundation presented the Joe A. Callaway Awards to Kate Forbes and John Douglas Thompson. The Callaway Award, honoring “the best performances in a professional production of a classic play (one written prior…
The Village Voice “The company that risked most and achieved most was Theatre for a New Audience – its productions of Granville-Barker’s Waste, Gilbert’s Engaged… Bond’s Saved [and] the best Shakespeare New York saw in the decade, poetically alive and…
This month’s issue of American Theatre Magazine, the premiere national monthly magazine for the American professional non-profit theatre, includes a feature article on Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director of Theatre for a New Audience. The article chronicles Jeffrey’s storied history…
Kicking off Theatre for a New Audience’s 30th anniversary season, Orpheus X opened Thursday, December 2 at the Duke on 42nd Street. Time Out New York gives the production 4 stars: “…Eckert injects moral urgency into Orpheus’s search for his…