Productions

“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.

“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 »

“Lit up amid spools of fog, Strathairn’s eyes are soft and active and overwhelmed all at once in these scenes. It’s a stage performance in close-up. You see it all through those eyes.” Read more from New York Magazine here. Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski is now playing through October 9. Click here to learn more…Read More »

“David Strathairn has made a nearly decade-long project of playing Jan Karski, a Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust witness, developing and refining this solo performance piece along the way.” —New York Magazine, 29 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This Fall Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski is now playing through October…Read More »

“Theatre for a New Audience has revealed its line-up for the upcoming 2022-23 season, with plays by Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Tennessee Williams, and more. New York premieres of works by Denis Johnson as well as Clark Young and Derek Goldman have also been announced. Performances will be held at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.”—Playbill Click…Read More »

“The season will open with David Strathairn in Clark Young and Derek Goldman’s Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, running September 10-October 9, with Goldman directing. This will be followed by Denis Johnson’s Des Moines, directed by Arin Arbus (November 29-January 1) and Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna, directed by Flordelino Lagundino (April 29-May 28).” Click here…Read More »