Shakespeare Theatre Sets First Season Under New Leadership
New artistic director Simon Godwin’s first season will include works by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, James Baldwin, and a new adaptation of ‘Peter Pan’ by Lauren Gunderson.
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Theatre for a New Audience Announces 2018-19 Season
The Brooklyn theatre will present new works from Peter Brook and Calvin Trillin, and a ‘Julius Caesar’ directed by Shana Cooper.
Hemp Houses: Know the Ropes
How modernization and automation are rendering a once-common rigging system a historic relic.
Theatre for a New Audience Announces 2017-18 Season
The season will feature a world premiere by Adrienne Kennedy.
Stillness Is the Move: Coaching Dianne Wiest for ‘Happy Days’
How she turned the constraints of Beckett’s buried-alive heroine Winnie into expressive assets.
Hugh Hardy: Bringing Life to Buildings
The designer and restorer of some of his city’s most iconic theatre spaces was something of a New York icon himself.
Commedia Tonight: A New ‘Servant’ From Two Masters
Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp keep the Jeune Lune flame burning with a fresh, improvisatory take on an old chestnut.
Theatre for a New Audience Announces 2016-17 Season
The lineup features works by Thornton Wilder, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, and more.
How Arin Arbus Revived a 130-Year-Old Debate About Feminism
Putting Strindberg’s ‘The Father’ and Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ in rep heightened the similarities, and the contrasts, between the Scandinavian rivals.
And Then There Was Nunn: A Master Nears a Finish Line
For his 35th Shakespeare, ‘Pericles,’ director Trevor Nunn decided to make it in America, at Theatre for a New Audience.