Productions

Orpheus Descending Lighting & Sound America Review

“I wonder if the new season will produce another reclamation job as accomplished as Erica Schmidt‘s staging of this trouble-plagued Tennessee Williams work. Accomplished…gripping…a portrait of a small Southern town ruled by deadening Puritanism and brute force. It’s a way of life that crushes the weak, sensitive, or eccentric and it looks a lot like parts of America…Read More »

BroadwayWorld: Orpheus Descending Cast Announcement

“Maggie Siff, Pico Alexander & More to Star in ORPHEUS DESCENDING at TFANA. Orpheus Descending is TFANA’s first production of a play by Tennessee Williams and the final production of TFANA’s 22-23 Season.” Read more from BroadwayWorld here. ORPHEUS DESCENDING runs July 9 through August 6. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.

American Theatre: Director Arin Arbus Branches out with Des Moines

“Known for her lively, no-gimmick stagings of Shakespeare with Theatre for a New Audience, the director is branching out with Des Moines. Arbus said she’d been interested in directing Des Moines—a five-character play about an impromptu gathering in the city of its title that becomes something much deeper and stranger—since she read it in 2013. She…Read More »

Playbill: Des Moines Cast Announcement

“Johanna Day, Michael Shannon, Heather Alicia Simms, and more to star in TFANA’s Des Moines.” Read more from Playbill here. DES MOINES runs November 29, 2022 through January 1, 2023. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.

BroadwayWorld: Des Moines Cast Announcement

“Michael Shannon, Johanna Day, Hari Nef & More to Star in DES MOINES Off-Broadway Premiere at TFANA. With its dark humor, Des Moines confronts death, mortality, and the stubborn pursuit of grace among those who barely believe in it.” Read more from BroadwayWorld here. DES MOINES runs November 29, 2022 through January 1, 2023. Click here to…Read More »

TheaterMania: Des Moines Cast Announcement

“Michael Shannon, Johanna Day & more join Theatre for a New Audience’s off-Broadway premiere of Denis Johnson’s DES MOINES.” Read more from TheaterMania here. DES MOINES runs November 29, 2022 through January 1, 2023. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.

Remember This Review: New York Times Critic’s Pick

“Starring a masterly David Strathairn, and adapted from Karski’s own words by Clark Young and Derek Goldman, it brings Karski’s recollections to anguished life.” Read more from The New York Times here. Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski is now playing through October 9. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.

Remember This: New York Times Feature

“Opening Old Wounds as the Man Who Warned About the Holocaust” In the solo play “Remember This,” David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II. Read more from The New York Times here. Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski is now playing through October 9. Click here to learn…Read More »

Remember This: New York Magazine Review

“Lit up amid spools of fog, Strathairn’s eyes are soft and active and overwhelmed all at once in these scenes. It’s a stage performance in close-up. You see it all through those eyes.” Read more from New York Magazine here. Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski is now playing through October 9. Click here to learn more…Read More »

New York Magazine: “Remember This is one of the plays we can’t wait to see this fall.”

“David Strathairn has made a nearly decade-long project of playing Jan Karski, a Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust witness, developing and refining this solo performance piece along the way.” —New York Magazine, 29 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This Fall Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski is now playing through October…Read More »