Director Ashley Tata and Gideon Lester, who runs the Fisher Center at Bard, join “All of It” host Alison Stewart to discuss Bard’s modified-Zoom-based production of Caryl Churchill’s play “Mad Forest,” which is co-produced by Theatre for a New Audience. Listen…
Iconoclasts blowing up the classics are an everyday occurrence in theater. But the process acquires an extra cachet when the demolition experts are as inventive and celebrated as Will Eno and Taylor Mac, both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for…
“Mr. Eno has studied the play closely, and the marvel of his new version is how closely it tracks the original while also being, at every moment and unmistakably, a Will Eno play. Enophiles…will delight in how snugly Ibsen’s peculiar…
Joe Curnutte and More Set for New York Premiere of Will Eno’s Gnit. The Peer Gynt-inspired play will begin March 7 in a production from Theatre for a New Audience. Read the full article in Playbill.
Will Eno’s Gnit Announces Casting for New York Premiere. Eno’s comic take on the Henrik Ibsen classic Peer Gynt will run this March at Theatre for a New Audience. Read the full article in Theatermania.
The Gnit team assembles for the first day of rehearsal. View photos here.
“Terrifically moving…casting Hunter was a masterstroke. Simon Godwin’s production, originally mounted at the Royal Shakespeare company and co-produced with D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, has his careful stamp. He and Emily Burns have cut the text intelligently. The American cast is…
“These clever phrasings are echoed in Hunter’s astounding performance. She brings to each dense moment a platter bejewelled with ironies.” Read the full review in The New Yorker.
“Simon Godwin has duly turned this problem play about the downfall of a spendthrift Athenian noble into a resonant parable of greed and inequality in our time.” Read the full review in the Financial Times.
“Simon Godwin’s staging [is] energetic…confident [with] brilliant sets and costumes by Soutra Gilmour. It takes less than no time, and a few pronoun flips, to accept Kathryn Hunter as Lady Timon, the wittily off-beat host of an arty Athenian salon.…