A booklet produced by Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Hamm Archives featuring historic photographs, a timeline of Peter Brook’s productions and New York presence, essays by writer Violaine Huisman and Russian theatre scholar Anatoly Smeliansky, and information about Peter Brook/NY events…
The Trap of the Great Utopia by Dr. Anatoly Smeliansky on Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold. Created and Commissioned for the U.S. premiere of Why?, written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne.
“A glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times Critic’s Pick Read the full review from The New York Times here.
“Jackie Sibblies Drury’s outstanding, frustrating, hilarious, and sui generis new play… Symbolically breaking through the one-way mirror, [Drury] challenged us with fairly direct sh*t.” – Hilton Als, The New Yorker Read more from The New Yorker on Fairview here.
★★★★★ “Fairview explodes into life in the final act, where all these tensions are magnified with extraordinary boldness and loopy theatrical energy. And yet Drury’s play remains an enigma, whose discombobulating effects linger long after the performance.” —Financial Times Read…
“We were all excited to try to have a theater space—which is always coded as a white space, unless it’s a very specific kind of theater—shift for the benefit of people of color. Normally, it’s the reverse; people of color…
“Now, the play, along with its original cast, is playing a return engagement at Theatre for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, where considerably more people can see why this extraordinary, form-shattering, hilarious new work is truly the best play…
Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz received an OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement on Monday, May 20, 2019. Read the New York Times and Broadway Journal articles.
“I guess I wanted people of color generally to be acknowledged, in a way that’s complicated,” she answered with a certain hesitance. As someone who, like me, has been in situations where she was the only person of color in…
July 23, 2019 Dear Friends of Theatre for a New Audience: I’m writing about Terrence McNally’s FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIRE DE LUNE on Broadway starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon and directed by Arin Arbus. The production must…