Tony winner Darko Tresnjak will direct the world premiere of Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools Off-Broadway for Theatre for a New Audience. The production will begin performances June 1, 2025, at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, TFANA’s home, and run through June 29.…
Happily, our favorite playwrights all seem to have premières this season…Ethan Lipton switches on his new musical, “We Are Your Robots” (Polonsky Shakespeare Center; Nov. 7). – Helen Shaw Read more from The New Yorker here.
“I expect it to be a funny, sardonic, yet moving time.” – Diep Tran Read more from Playbill here.
We Are Your Robots reunites Lipton and Silverman, who previously worked together on Tumacho, The Outer Space, and No Place to Go. Here, Lipton and his bandmates of 20 years will play robots who’ve come to the theatre to answer…
Theatre for a New Audience has revealed its 2024-25 season, with American and world premieres of plays by Ethan Lipton, Wole Soyinka, and Taylor Mac, and works by William Shakespeare. Horowitz observes, “TFANA presents Shakespeare alongside some of the theatre’s…
Jeffrey Horowitz, Founder of Theatre for a New Audience, having led and grown the not-for-profit organization since 1979, will retire on August 31, 2025, at the end of TFANA’s just-announced season of Shakespeare alongside plays by classical and contemporary playwrights:…
Theatre for a New Audience congratulates Misha on being named a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama for his play Public Obscenities. The Pulitzer committee described the play as “a densely written, deeply-felt drama that examines identity, home, queerness, and language…
Macbeth (an undoing) has received four Drama Desk nominations: Outstanding Revival of a Play (Zinnie Harris), Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play (Nicole Cooper), Outstanding Costume Design of a Play (Alex Berry), and Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play (Lizzie Powell).…
“Zinnie Harris’s highly cerebral and sometimes revelatory adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, follows Lady Macbeth (played here by the fascinating Nicole Cooper)…The new play is bracketed by meta-theatrical devices: Lady Macbeth has a chambermaid, Carlin (the very funny Liz Kettle), who…
“A brilliant play…that leaves you stunned and amazed…The cast is superb! Nicole Cooper is an explosive, mesmerizing Lady Macbeth…She is sexy and charming, but also ruthless and deadly…Adam Best is magnificent as Macbeth. He plays the role with such intensity,…