On Monday, February 4, one hundred and sixty artists, friends and supporters gathered at Eleven Madison Park to celebrate Shakespeare Works in Brooklyn: Theatre for a New Audience√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Capital Campaign for a Permanent Home. Hosted by co-chairs Audrey Heffernan Meyer,…
The second production of our season, Oroonoko, has opened at The Duke on 42nd Street.√Ǭ† Nigerian-born writer Biyi Bandale√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s adaptation of the groundbreaking 1688 novella is a tragic love story of a prince√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s journey from kingship to slavery, told through…
In collaboration with the 92nd Street Y, Theatre for a New Audience presents a special event on Shakespeare√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Antony and Cleopatra. Marton Csokas (Antony) and Laila Robins (Cleopatra) will present a reading scenes from the play, followed by a discussion…
For our next installment of The Literary Supplement, we will continue our exploration of this season√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s theme by presenting a staged reading of The Self-Tormentor by the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer (c.190-159 BCE), known as Terence. He was a…
The Theatre for a New Audience Education Department kicks off the World Theatre Project (WTP) this month with professional teacher training taking place in fourteen public schools across the five boroughs. Each of these schools has chosen Theatre for a…
With our next production coinciding with Black History Month, Theatre for a New Audience offers additional programming to enrich our audiences√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ experience of Oroonoko and our current season√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s theme of √¢‚Ǩ≈ìAfrica, Europe, America: Exploring the Connections.√¢‚Ǩ¬ù Among these programs are…
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY EVENT Sunday, Jan. 27, 4pm Central Library, Brooklyn Director Kate Whoriskey, Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz and cast members discuss Oroonoko. LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Monday, Jan. 28, 7:30pm The Cherry Lane Theatre 38 Commerce Street Now in its second…
Theatre for a New Audience ended the year with accolades for our work in 2007. The New York Times declared Ohio State Murders one of the top ten productions of the year and that our company “remains the most sophisticated…
Biyi Bandele is a Nigerian playwright and novelist. Born to Yoruba parents in 1967, he spent his youth in Kafanchan, Nigeria. By age 14, he had begun work on his first novel, and in college won first place in a…
Aphra Behn wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688, the year before her death, during a particularly dark moment in English history. Behn was a strict royalist√¢‚Ǩ‚Äùa faithful supporter of the monarchy in England. Some scholars believe that the…