Theatre for a New Audience presents the world premiere of Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools at Polonsky Shakespeare Center from June 1-29. Directed by Tony winner Darko Tresnjak, the play is loosely inspired by Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. The company will feature seven actors, four…
Theatre for a New Audience announces that celebrated, OBIE Award-winning director Arin Arbus will be its next Artistic Director when Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz steps down on August 31, 2025, after a 46-year tenure. The appointment follows an extensive…
Jay O. Sanders has received a Drama Desk Awards nomination for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play for his portrayal of Falstaff in Dakin Matthews’ adaptation of HENRY IV, directed by Eric Tucker. TFANA’s production ran from January 30 through…
Theatre for a New Audience’s production of The Merchant of Venice at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum has received rave reviews. Read the 5 and 4-star reviews from The Guardian, The Times, The Scotsman, The Herald, Arts Review Edinburgh, WhatsonStage, The Stage,…
“Re-encountering the work, he is painfully struck by his young self’s optimistic depiction of ‘a kind of hybrid community made up from different parts of the country. That play now makes me recollect very vividly that eve of independence season…
“Directed with unhurried assurance by Awoye Timpo…Astonishing set design (by Jason Ardizzone-West)…The play becomes a delta…where tributary identities—Muslim, Yoruba, traditional, modern—mingle and surge toward confrontation.” —Dan Stahl, The New Yorker Read more from The New Yorker here. “Director Awoye Timpo…
TFANA will present the off-Broadway premiere of Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dwellers, directed by OBIE winner Awoye Timpo (Alice Childress’ Wedding Band). The Swamp Dwellers runs March 30-April 27. Read more from TheaterMania here.
“This production meets the eye humbly, no more than a small stage with two chairs. Then, largely through the force of its language—wisely foregrounded by the director, Eric Tucker, and vivified by a cast with several standouts…it grows to encompass…
“CONSISTENTLY ENGAGING…Director Eric Tucker dazzles us with the ways he tells this epic story…The spectacle of seeing a job supremely well done is enlivening.” – Kenji Fujishima, TheaterManiaRead more from TheaterMania here. “TEEMING WITH LIFE…STRONG PERFORMANCES ABOUND…Jay O. Sanders is…
“The plum role of Sir John Falstaff, one of the greatest comic parts in all Shakespeare, goes to Jay O. Sanders, who had us rolling in the aisles in Purlie Victorious. Elijah Jones will play Prince Hal, having recently starred in…