Monthly Archives: May 2023

Orpheus Descending – “Productions We Can’t Wait to See This Summer.” – New York Magazine

Written on May 19, 2023 at 12:15 pm, by

“A lesser-known Tennessee Williams play gets an appealing star in Maggie Siff (of Billions) — to be directed by Mac Beth’s Erica Schmidt.” Read more from New York Magazine here. Orpheus Descending runs July 9 through August 6. Click here to learn more.

Orpheus Descending – Summer Theatre Preview in The New Yorker

Written on May 12, 2023 at 5:18 pm, by

“And what was the last time that Tennessee Williams’s “Orpheus Descending” (Polonsky Shakespeare Center, July 9) was given a serious New York production? The glittering Maggie Siff (“Mad Men,” “Billions”) stars in the superheated Southern drama at Brooklyn’s Theatre for a New Audience, where she scorched the boards as Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing,”…Read More »

360° Viewfinder: Fuente Ovejuna

Written on May 8, 2023 at 5:57 pm, by

Read the Fuente Ovejuna 360° Viewfinder, the Theatre’s free online guide to the production. This issue centers discussion around Lope de Vega’s subversive investigations into power, human rights, and resistance through scholarly articles by Barbara Fuchs, Carlos Bousoño, and Douglas Parker and includes Jonathan Kalb’s interview with director Flordelino Lagundino and Music Director Paddy Cunneen. View the…Read More »