TFANA in the News

“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 »

“A rare new production of Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna brings home the play’s sense of threatened violence and constant danger.” Read the full review here.

“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.

“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 »

“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.

“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 »

“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.

“In recent decades in New York, Peter Brook was a questing favorite at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Theatre for a New Audience…Friends and colleagues who worked with him on this side of the Atlantic, and theater makers who never met him but look reflexively to his tenets — including openness and presence in…Read More »

“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.

“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 »