TFANA Talks

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“Theatre for a New Audience is one of America’s most admirable and exciting theatre companites…some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way that elicits admiration from all other theatres and is or ought to be the envy of most of them.”

-Tony Kushner

To enhance audience experience, the Theatre offers TFANA Talks in conjunction with all productions. These free, one-hour post-performance discussions are led by scholars, artists and/or journalists following selected Saturday matinees.Participant panelists have included Ellen Chances (professor of Russian literature at Princeton University), David Scott Kastan (Shakespeare scholar at Yale University), playwright Tony Kushner, and scholar/author James Shapiro, among others.
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Our 2011-2012 TFANA Talks are:

Fragments
Saturday, November 19th, following the 2pm performance – talkback moderated by Jonathan Kalb with the company of Fragments: Jos Houben, Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni.
Saturday, December 3rd, following the 2pm performance – talkback with Lois Oppenheim, Tom Bishop, moderated by Jonathan Kalb

Shlemiel the First
Sunday, December 18th, following the 3pm performance – talkback with Zalmen Mlotek, David Gordon, moderated by Jeffrey Horowitz
Tuesday, December 27th, following the 7pm performance – talkback with Robert Brustein, moderated by Jeffrey Horowitz

The Broken Heart
Saturday, February 18th, following the 2pm performance
Saturday, March 3rd, following the 2pm performance

The Taming of the Shrew
Saturday, March 31st, following the 2pm performance
Saturday, March 14th, following the 2pm performance

“Shakespeare doesn’t belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It’s like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.”

-Peter Brook

“If there’s any company in New York that Elliot Goldenthal and I identify with, it’s Theatre for a New Audience. It’s really family to us. It’s an enabler. It’s not oriented toward the money. It’s aimed toward the work, and that’s refreshing.”