Theatre For A New Audience Announces Upcoming Season

Theatre for a New Audience's Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz has set an ambitious four-play season that opens with the New York premiere of  C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes Du Nord's production of The Grand Inquisitor directed by Peter Brook October 22 through November 23 (co-presented with New York Theatre Workshop).  That play will be followed by another New York premiere, Edward Bond's Chair featuring Stephanie Roth Haberle and directed by RoBert Woodruff December 5 through 28; Othello directed by Arin Arbus, Theatre for a New Audience's Associate Artistic Director and 2008 Princess Grace Award-winner (The Grace Le Vine Theater Award), February 14 through March 7; and Christian Camargo in Hamlet directed by David Esbjornson March 14 through April 19.

The Grand Inquisitor will play at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street.  Chair, Othello and Hamlet will play at The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street.

The Theatre for a New Audience Season

C.I.C.T./ Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord's production of
The Grand Inquisitor
Adapted from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov by Marie-Hél ne Estienne, directed by Peter Brook
Featuring Bruce Myers in the title role.
Co-presented by Theatre for a New Audience and New York Theatre Workshop
October 22 through November 23 at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street.

The Grand Inquisitor offers a rare opportunity to experience Peter Brook's work on an intimate scale.  Peter Brook and actor Bruce Myers represent an extraordinarily vital partnership, having worked together for over thirty-five years.   Since its premiere in Warwick, England in February 2006, The Grand Inquisitor has been performed extensively throughout Europe and South America.  Prior to its New York premiere, The Grand Inquisitor will tour to several American universities and museums.

The Grand Inquisitor takes place in Seville during the Inquisition.  Christ, in his infinite mercy, returns to the world of man in human form and enters the burning streets of the city, where, the previous day, the Grand Inquisitor had sent a hundred heretics into the flames.  The Grand Inquisitor has Christ imprisoned and asks, "Is it you? You?"

The New York engagement and US tour of The Grand Inquisitor is produced in association with Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype.

Theatre for a New Audience presents the New York Premiere of
Chair
By Edward Bond, directed by RoBert Woodruff
Featuring Stephanie Roth Haberle
New York Premiere December 5 through 28 at The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street

Several years ago, Theatre for a Audience produced the acclaimed production of Edward Bond's masterpiece Saved directed by RoBert Woodruff (former Artistic Director of The American Repertory Theatre).  Chair reunites Mr. Bond and Mr. Woodruff. In Chair, Mr. Bond explores theatricality in an austere and concentrated way without embellishment or decoration.  Mr. Bond envisions a haunting Orwellian world in which security is more important than freedom.

Stephanie Roth Haberle plays Alice whose single kindly gesture of bringing a chair to a soldier waiting for a bus leads to the unimaginable.

 Edward Bond, now 74, is the English playwright who was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK when his 1965 play Saved was banned by the Lord Chamberlain.

Theatre for a New Audience presents
Othello
By William Shakespeare, directed by Arin Arbus
February 14 through March 7 at The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street

Othello, directed by Arin Arbus, Theatre for a New Audience's Associate Artistic Director and 2008 Princess Grace Award Winner (The Grace Le Vine Theater Award), depicts a society where Christians and Muslims are deeply divided. As Othello progresses, Shakespeare shifts the focus from the enemy outside to the enemy within.  Although the backdrop is political, Othello is a domestic tragedy about the formation and destruction of a marriage.

Hamlet
By William Shakespeare, directed by David Esbjornson
Featuring Christian Camargo
March 14 through April 19 at The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street

Hamlet, freshly interpreted by actor Christian Camargo and director David Esbjornson, explores a young prince deeply unsettled about his future. In 2003, Mr. Camargo was powerful in the title role in Theatre for a New Audience's production of Coriolanus. David Esbjornson is the Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Seattle Repertory Theatre. His directing credits include Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Delacorte and Edward Albee's Tony Award-winning play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? on Broadway.

Box Office Info:
Theatre for a New Audience 4-play subscription is $167 for The Grand Inquisitor, Chair, Othello and Hamlet.  A 3-play subscription to The Grand Inquisitor, Chair and Hamlet is $142. For Theatre for a New Audience subscriptions: call 212-229-2819, ext 10 or visit www.tfana.org.

Single tickets will be available in the fall:  For The Grand Inquisitor: 212-460-5475, www.nytw.org. For Chair, Hamlet and Othello: 646-223-3010, www.dukeon42.org. Single tickets are $75.00 except for Othello, which are $35.00.

For ages 25 and under, $10.00 tickets are available through the Theatre's New Deal ticket program.  New Deal tickets may be purchased for all performances, including day-of or future performances, with valid I.D. anytime during box office hours at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street, for The Grand Inquisitor or at The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, for Chair, Othello and Hamlet.

Theatre for a New Audience subscribers are eligible for an exclusive discount package to New York Theatre Workshop's remaining two productions for only $85.00.  For Theatre for a New Audience subscriptions: 212-229-2819, ext 10 or visit www.tfana.org.

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