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…
Theatre for a New Audience has announced casting for Eric Tucker’s revival of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, using the three-act adaptation by Dakin Matthews. Read more from TheaterMania here.
Henry IV will open at Theatre for a New Audience this month, with performances running January 26 – March 2 at Polonsky Shakespeare Center. Read more from BroadwayWorld here.
“Ethan Lipton’s outstanding new concert play…sly, smart as heck, and somehow both extremely tender and laugh-out-loud funny…charming tunes and clever lyrics…a rare and humane gem.” – Sara Holdren Read more from New York Magazine/Vulture here.