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“Mr. Eno has studied the play closely, and the marvel of his new version is how closely it tracks the original while also being, at every moment and unmistakably, a Will Eno play. Enophiles…will delight in how snugly Ibsen’s peculiar drama accommodates Mr. Eno’s flair for playing games with language and his offbeat humor, which…Read More »

Joe Curnutte and More Set for New York Premiere of Will Eno’s Gnit. The Peer Gynt-inspired play will begin March 7 in a production from Theatre for a New Audience. Read the full article in Playbill.    

Will Eno’s Gnit Announces Casting for New York Premiere. Eno’s comic take on the Henrik Ibsen classic Peer Gynt will run this March at Theatre for a New Audience. Read the full article in Theatermania.    

The Gnit team assembles for the first day of rehearsal. View photos here.    

“Terrifically moving…casting Hunter was a masterstroke. Simon Godwin’s production, originally mounted at the Royal Shakespeare company and co-produced with D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, has his careful stamp. He and Emily Burns have cut the text intelligently. The American cast is uniformly beautifully spoken.” Read the full review in New York magazine.

“Simon Godwin has duly turned this problem play about the downfall of a spendthrift Athenian noble into a resonant parable of greed and inequality in our time.” Read the full review in the Financial Times.

“Fefu and Her Friends,” perhaps the finest work of the Cuban-American director and playwright María Irene Fornés, is finally getting a New York revival. When the Cuban-American director and playwright María Irene Fornés died last fall, the New York Times obituary referred to her as “an underrecognized genius.” Now, what is perhaps her finest work,…Read More »

Read about playwright María Irene Fornés, an essay by Migdalia Cruz, an interview with director Lileana Blain-Cruz, and more. Click here to read our free issue of 360° Viewfinder for facts and perspectives on the play, playwright, and production of Fefu and Her Friends.

“At the age of 94, director and author Peter Brook can genuinely be called a living legend. His career has stretched for over seven decades, from ground-breaking productions of Shakespeare to his nine-hour adaptation of the Sanskrit epic, the Mahabarata. His latest work is on stage now in Brooklyn. It’s called Why? and it asks…Read More »

A new work from one of the indisputably great directors is partly a tribute to theater and partly a warning about theatricality. Though he has been a director for 70 years, Peter Brook doesn’t like to call himself that. He prefers “distiller”: someone who boils away everything extraneous to render the essence of the story…Read More »