Mark Rylance is one of the world’s greatest classical actors. Born in Kent, England, Rylance spent his early years in Connecticut and later Wisconsin, where his father was headmaster at a preparatory school. Rylance later attended the school, where he…
Theatre for a New Audience celebrated Shakespeare√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s 445th birthday with the annual Spring Gala on Monday, May 11 at The Powerhouse at the American Museum of Natural History. Juliet Rylance and Christian Camargo, who played Desdemona and Hamlet in the…
This season’s productions received rave reviews from audiences and esteemed critics. We are honored they have also been recognized with the following awards and nominations: OBIE Awards: Performance, John Douglas Thompson for Othello Special Citations awarded to director David Esbjornson…
Wednesday, July 15 Save the date, and join Brooklyn’s Dreamers for√Ǭ†Prospero√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Island: A Mid-Summer√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Bash! We’ll celebrate the best of Brooklyn at an Island-themed bash in fabulous Fort Greene, Brooklyn. This year we are delighted to partner with our future…
The Theatre has, for the third time, received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare for a New Generation program. This grant will enable 1,500 students from 15 NYC Public School to study in-depth and attend performances of…
We are proud to announce that each production from our 2008-2009 season received a play or artist nomination by The Drama League. Distinguished production of a play:√Ǭ†Chair Distinguished Performance:√Ǭ†John Douglas Thompson, Othello Distinguished Performance: Christian Camargo, Hamlet√Ǭ†√Ǭ† Distinguished Performance: Bruce…
Having two back-to-back,√Ǭ†critically acclaimed, sold-out productions is a problem that every theatre would like to have.√Ǭ†However, this situation creates a unique challenge for√Ǭ†Theatre for a New Audience: consecutive hits (Hamlet and Othello)√Ǭ†that the Theatre has produced√Ǭ†in rented space, with little…
At Woodbourne Correctional Facility in upstate New York, a group of twenty inmates are in rehearsal for Starting Over, a play about the impact of incarceration on families. The group wrote and developed the work under the guidance of Arin…
The 2009 Lucille Lortel Award nominations have been announced, and Theatre for a New Audience has been honored with ten nominations for our work this season√¢‚Ǩ‚Äùmore than any other company! Othello, which performed a sold-out run earlier this year and…
On Monday, March 23, Theatre for a New Audience presented An Evening With Shakespeare: Hamlet at the The 92nd Street Y. Christian Camargo, who plays Hamlet in our current production at The Duke on 42nd Street, and Alyssa Bresnahan, who…