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,…
“Zinnie Harris’ audacious conjuring of Shakespeare’s Macbeth…Sometimes witty, always intelligent.” Read more from The Guardian here.
“A universally fabulous cast.” Read more from The Telegraph here.
“A thrilling reimagining that lays bare the real power behind the blood-spattered throne.” Read more from The Herald here.
“Nicole Cooper…is terrific: her Lady Macbeth is funny, sensual, proud and smart and Emmanuella Cole is great as a shrewd Lady Macduff. Their performances make the case that the Macbeth women have been seriously short-changed.” Read more from The Financial Times…
“Note the subtitle of this London import, an adaptation by Zinnie Harris. Shakespeare’s familiar lines for the ‘Scottish Play’ alternate with Harris’s contemporary dialogue, giving a feminist spin to the witchy tragedy of ambition, loyalty, and conscience from the POV…