Reviews and Features
| Extreme Theater: Wake-Up Calls From the 1600s A feature on John Ford and our production of The Broken Heart, The New York Times, January 27, 2012 A Matter of Voice Six Actors No Longer in Search of a Play Cicely Berry, voice coach to the stars Theater Talkback: Highlights From a Decade of Watching Shakespeare Building Stratford-upon-Manhattan Royal Shakespeare Company sets the stage for six-week stay in New York The Deed is Done, The Doers Undone Shylock’s legacy, and what Shakespeare saw What Price a Pound of Flesh? Simply Shakespeare, No Tangled Web Dostoyevsky’s ‘Sick Man’ Hits YouTube Shakespeare’s Sonnets Get a Turn on the Stage Another Public Figure Succumbing to Lust A Rising Director’s Medium-Security Side Project Kate Forbes and John Douglas Thompson Presented with Callaway Awards A Threesome: Husband, Wife, Shakespeare Theatre for a New Audience in Critics’ “Best of” Lists (PDF) Because John Douglas Thompson Stole the Show- Twice To Be Determined Orpheus X Orpheus X |
 Norbert Leo Butz and Amy Ryan in Bond’s Saved, directed by Robert Woodruff Robert Stattel and Miriam Healy-Louie in Titus Andronicus, directed by Julie Taymor. Photo by Ken Van Sickel. LisaGay Hamilton in Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders. Photo by Gerry Goodstein. Mark Rylance in Measure for Measure. Photo by John Tramper. Peter Calander in Julie Taymor’s TheTempest. Photo by Ken Van Sickel |
| Happy Journey of an Actor as Tragic Hero A feature on actor John Douglas Thompson (Othello), The New York Times, October 4, 2009 |
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| Surrounded by So Many, One Soul Remains Alone The New York Times reviews Hamlet, March 31, 2009 |
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| Love Curdled Through a Malevolent Scheme The New York Times reviews Othello, February 24, 2009 |
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| Chair Variety reviews Chair, by Edward Bond, December 10, 2008 |
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| His Word is Bond A Feature on Robert Woodruff, director of Chair, Time Out New York, December 11, 2008 |
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| By the Brook A Feature on Peter Brook, director of The Grand Inquisitor, Time Out New York, October 30, 2008 |
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| The Grand Inquisitor Variety reviews The Grand Inquisitor, October 30, 2008 |
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| Holy Man and Holier in a Battle for Power The New York Times reviews The Grand Inquisitor, October 30, 2008 |
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| Queen of the Nile as Victorian subject The Star-Ledger reviews Antony and Cleopatra, April 5, 2008 |
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| The 2008 Tony® Connection (PDF format) Theatre for a New Audience Alumni Win at the Tonys |
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| Oroonoko Time Out New York reviews Oroonoko, February 2008 |
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| Slavery as Seen From the Other Side A Feature on Biyi Bandele, author Oroonoko, The New York Times, February 17, 2008 |
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| Best of Year Acclaim for Theatre for a New Audience (PDF) Various Publications, December 2007 |
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| A College Is Stalked by an Attitude The New York Times reviews The Ohio State Murders, November 7, 2007 |
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| Accolades for Ohio State Murders (PDF Format) Various awards and nominations |
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| What She Learned From Her Alma Mater A Feature on Adrienne Kennedy, author of Ohio State Murders, The New York Times, November 4, 2007 |
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| A Twist on ‘Oliver Twist’ The New York Sun reviews Oliver Twist, April 5, 2007 |
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| Neighborhood Report: Park Slope; Gloppy Potatoes and a Little Man Named Oscar A Feature on F. Murray Abraham’s Visit to a Brooklyn Public School, The New York Times, May 16, 2007 |
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| The Merchant of Venice, Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon A four star Review from Theatre for a New Audience’s participation in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival, The Guardian, March 29, 2007 |
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| O, Villain, Villain, Loosed in Elizabethan Minds The New York Times reviews The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice, February 5, 2007 |
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| Maybe He’s Just Not Into You, Helena The New York Times reviews All’s Well That Ends Well, February 14, 2006 |
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| Putting a Bit O’ Bounce into the Dark Comedy The New York Times reviews Measure for Measure, December 7, 2005 |
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| Mixing the Old and the New On Stage: Praising American Classical Theater, Not Burying It Feature on Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz, The New York Times, February 13, 2003 |
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| Shakespeare’s Grab Bag, Globally Rendered The New York Times reviews Cymbeline, January 2, 2002 |
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| The Arts: A Melting Pot ‘Cymbeline’ Theatre (PDF Format) Financial Times reviews Cymbeline, November 26, 2001 |
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| The Delights of Diversity The Independent reviews Cymbeline, November 28, 2001 |