“In ARIN ARBUS’s provocative production…JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON as Shylock, an outstanding classical actor, [is] perhaps the greatest Shakespeare interpreter in contemporary America…A virtuoso of psychological insight and emotion…he takes what’s timeless and transmutes it to the present.”
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“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,
“Re-encountering the work, he is painfully struck by his young self’s optimistic depiction of ‘a kind of hybrid community made
TFANA will present the off-Broadway premiere of Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dwellers, directed by OBIE winner Awoye Timpo (Alice