21/22 Season + Subscriptions
SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS/FLEX PASSES NOW ON SALE
Join us as a valued subscriber and save on tickets to our productions with utmost flexibility. Plus, enjoy exclusive benefits like priority booking, flexible ticket exchanges, discounted guest tickets, and more.
THREE EASY STEPS TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE 21/22 SEASON
- Wedding Band plays April 28 to May 22, 2022. The dates and days are also listed in the calendar on TFANA’s website. If you are available during the performance dates for our show, proceed to the next step.
- Click below “Buy Subscriptions Packages.” You will be brought to a page entitled “Theatre for a New Audience Subscription Packages.” Select the size of the 2, 3 or 4 Flex Tickets and select number of guest and/or New Deal add-on tickets.
- Purchase the package.
2021-2022 Subscription Packages
Save with flexible ticket options to be used in any combination to the three shows in our 2021-2022 season:
2 Ticket Flex: $120
3 Ticket Flex: $180
4 Ticket Flex: $240
*Please note: Wedding Band is the final show of the season. 21/22 subscription tickets must be used within this season and cannot be transferred to future seasons.
Add-Ons
For all above Flex Packages, subscriber guest tickets may be added for $60 each. New Deal tickets (for patrons 30 and under, or full-time students of any age) may be added to any of the above Flex Packages for $20 each.
For questions regarding Subscriptions, please contact the Box Office at tickets@TFANA.org or 212-229-2819 ext10. Box Office hours are Monday–Saturday 12pm–7pm.
April 28–May 22, 2022
WEDDING BAND
A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
By Alice Childress
Directed by Awoye Timpo
Set in the deep south at the end of World War I during the flu epidemic, Alice Childress’s seldom-produced masterpiece is one of American drama’s most mercilessly revealing tales of interracial love. A jewel of theatrical concision and detail, the play traces a devoted couple’s caustic confrontations with anti-miscegenation laws, vicious family racism, community disapproval and finally deadly disease and their own long-buried feelings. Wedding Band, written in the heat of the Civil Rights era, speaks with stunning clarity to the public debates of the Black Lives Matter era. Awoye Timpo directs the play’s first New York production since its New York premiere in 1972.
“Wedding Band” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Open Caption Performance – Saturday, May 7, 2:00PM
October 30–November 21, 2021 – Now Closed
N.Y. PREMIERE
GNIT
By Will Eno
Directed by Oliver Butler
“[Audiences] will delight in how snugly Ibsen’s peculiar drama accommodates Mr. Eno’s flair for playing games with language and his offbeat humor, which cuts to the heart as incisively as it tickles the funny bone.” —The New York Times reviewing the 2013 world premiere of Gnit at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival
Peter Gnit, a modern-day version of Ibsen’s heroic character Peer Gynt, is a carefree young man on a reckless search for Experience and the True Self. Armed with tales from his mother of his early greatness and his absent father, he heads out into the world. Like all true stories of human endeavor and adventure, Gnit is part horror story, part fairy tale, and part road movie. A timely reckoning with received notions of Rugged Individualism and the self-made person. The play is performed with a 19-month break, filled with real-life tales of isolation, loss, courage, and love, and a 15-minute intermission. Come see how it all turns out.
February 5–March 6, 2022 – Now Closed
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Arin Arbus
Featuring John Douglas Thompson
A Co-Production with Shakespeare Theatre Company
“IN ARIN ARBUS’S PROVOCATIVE PRODUCTION…JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON AS SHYLOCK, [IS] PERHAPS THE GREATEST SHAKESPEARE INTERPRETER IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA.” –New York Times
Shakespeare’s perennially contested play about corrosive bigotry and blinding vengeance is poised at the radioactive intersection of race, class and religion in Arin Arbus’s production. As Ms. Arbus observes, “The Merchant of Venice depicts a divided society saturated with hate and inequity. The world boils with anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, classism, and homophobia.” John Douglas Thompson stars as Shylock in his fifth classical collaboration with Arbus. The show’s uniquely diverse company evoke a deeply stratified Venice. Its connections to our own grievously fractured world are vivid, stark and startling.
CAST
Isabel Arraiza, Varín Ayala, Shirine Babb, Jeff Biehl, Sanjit De Silva, Danaya Esperanza, Yonatan Gebeyehu, David Lee Huynh, Maurice Jones, Nate Miller, Alfredo Narciso, Haynes Thigpen, John Douglas Thompson, Graham Winton
Scenic Design by Riccardo Hernandez
Costume Design by Emily Rebholz
Lighting Design by Marcus Doshi
Original Music & Sound Design by Justin Ellington
Run time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, plus one 15-minute intermission.
HUMANITIES
Enhanced Flexibility This Season
- Free exchanges or refunds in the event a patron has been diagnosed with, tested positive for, or exhibited symptoms of COVID-19; or has been in close proximity to any individual who has been diagnosed with, tested positive for, or exhibited symptoms of COVID-19.
- Subscribers have access to free ticket exchanges until curtain and unlimited guest tickets.
- Single ticket buyers and New Deal ticket buyers have access to no-fee ticket exchanges until 24 hours prior to curtain. (A $5 exchange fee applies after that point.)
$20 NEW DEAL TICKETS
*All New Deal ticket holders must be 30 years of age and under or full-time students. ID required for pick up.
All productions, artists, and dates are subject to change. 21-22 Subscriptions are non-refundable, subject to change, and valid only for the 21-22 Season.
Deloitte and Bloomberg Philanthropies are the 2021-2022 Season Sponsors.
Principal support for Theatre for a New Audience’s season and programs is provided by The Hearst Foundations, JLGreene Arts Access Fund in the New York Community Trust, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Thompson Family Foundation, and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Theatre for a New Audience’s season and programs are also made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts; Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Endowment support for The Merchant of Venice is provided by The Howard Gilman Foundation Fund for Classic Drama.