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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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.
The Brooklyn theatre will present new works from Peter Brook and Calvin Trillin, and a ‘Julius Caesar’ directed by Shana Cooper.
How modernization and automation are rendering a once-common rigging system a historic relic.
The season will feature a world premiere by Adrienne Kennedy.
How she turned the constraints of Beckett’s buried-alive heroine Winnie into expressive assets.
The designer and restorer of some of his city’s most iconic theatre spaces was something of a New York icon himself.
Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp keep the Jeune Lune flame burning with a fresh, improvisatory take on an old chestnut.
The lineup features works by Thornton Wilder, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, and more.
Putting Strindberg’s ‘The Father’ and Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ in rep heightened the similarities, and the contrasts, between the Scandinavian rivals.
For his 35th Shakespeare, ‘Pericles,’ director Trevor Nunn decided to make it in America, at Theatre for a New Audience.