Monthly Archives: May 2012

Michael Boyd, Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company, Recipient of Eighth Annual Scripps Award

Written on May 10, 2012 at 3:06 pm, by

Michael Boyd (featured in the video below) was appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in July 2002 with a mission to reinvigorate the Company as an ensemble, and recommit to a socially engaged, contemporary and internationalist approach. Before joining the RSC, he was a founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in…Read More »

The Cast of The Taming of the Shrew visits the Theatre’s Construction Site

Written on May 1, 2012 at 10:54 am, by

On Friday, April 20, just a day before their final weekend of sold-out performances of the New York Magazine Critic’s Pick, The Taming of the Shrew, the cast of the production visited the site of Theatre for a New Audience’s first home in the BAM Cultural District in Downtown Brooklyn. Donning hard hats, the cast…Read More »

Announcing the Council of Scholars

Written on May 1, 2012 at 10:48 am, by

Theatre for a New Audience is establishing a Council of Scholars to expand the scope and depth of the Theatre’s humanities programs. The Council will have a fundamental role in advising the Theatre’s artistic and education leadership as it completes its Center for Shakespeare and classic drama as its first home in Downtown Brooklyn’s BAM…Read More »