2025-07-15T08:48:11-07:00 2024-08-31 990 2023-09-01 133059081 THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC THEA 2122292819 154 CHRISTOPHER STREET 3D NEW YORK NY 10014 DOROTHY RYAN-LEITCH VP/Sec/MD 2025-07-15 true 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z JEFFREY HOROWITZ C/O ORG 154 CHRISTOPHER ST NEW YORK NY 10014 9103860 false X WWW.TFANA.ORG X 1979 NY SEE SCHEDULE O. 35 28 293 3 0 5425613 3327143 1184946 1719345 458015 653017 2576 50001 7071150 5749506 0 0 4302850 4195930 0 1022726 3500478 3052520 7803328 7248450 -732178 -1498944 21038288 21090246 1281285 1742737 19757003 19347509 THE MISSION OF THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE IS TO DEVELOP AND VITALIZE THE PERFORMANCE AND STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE AND CLASSIC DRAMA. THE THEATRE IS DEDICATED TO THE LANGUAGE AND IDEAS OF WRITERS - TO A DIALOGUE OVER CENTURIES BETWEEN SHAKESPEARE AND A PROVOCATIVE RANGE OF CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS. THE THEATRE HAS PRODUCED OVER 75 MASTER WORKS OF THEATRE, INCLUDING 33 OF SHAKEPEARE'S 38 PLAYS ALONGSIDE OTHER CLASSIC WORKS AND DISTINGUISHED CONTEMPORARY PLAYS. false false 5622523 1719345 THE THEATRES 2023-2024 ARTISTIC SEASONTheatre for a New Audiences 2023-2024 Season featured four exciting productions: the Off-Broadway Premiere the hybrid lecture/performance Prometheus Firebringer, written, directed, and performed by Annie Dorsen after Aeschylus; Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot, directed by Arin Arbus and featuring Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks, who was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance; a co-presentation with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company of Soho Rep and NAATCO National Partnership Projects Public Obscenities, written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury; and the American Premiere, presented in association with Rose Theatre, London, of The Royal Lyceum Edinburghs production of Zinnie Harriss Macbeth (an undoing), which was nominated for four Drama Desk Awards. The Theatres productions and programs served a diverse audience of more than 30,000 during the 2023-2024 Season.ARTS IN EDUCATIONIn the 2023-2024 Season, the Theatres arts in education residenciesWorld Theatre Project (WTP) and New Voices Project (NVP) served 1,477 students and 65 teachers in 60 classes at 17 schools throughout New York City. The Theatres Summer Institute for Teachers hosted 25 middle and high school teachers from across the country at Polonsky Shakespeare Center in an immersive study of Shakespeare that integrates theory, practice, and performance.ACCESS, ENGAGEMENT AND HUMANITIESAccess: The Theatre is committed to making its productions accessible to people of all income levels through a variety of discount and low-cost ticketing outlets. The Theatre offered open-captioned performances for those who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing at one weekend performance per production during the 2023-2024 Season.Humanities: The Theatres Humanities Programs engaged approximately 1,208 people through 14 free TFANA Talks post-show discussions with the productions casts, creative teams, and eminent scholars and community members. TFANA Talks in 2023-2024 included three installments of Reflections, a series of post-performance conversations with guests from the worlds of the arts and activism, targeted to engage a rising generation of New Yorkers. In addition, for each mainstage production, the Theatres free, online dramaturgical publication the 360 Viewfinder offered context on the plays themes and interviews with the creative teams. The four 360 Viewfinders for the 2023-2024 Season received a total of 38,555 impressions and were read online 21,181 times.THE STUDIOShakespeare and classical drama projects in development in the 2023-2024 Season included workshops of Shakespeares Comedy of Errors, featuring Alex Brightman and David Fynn, Shakespeares The Winters Tale and Ben Jonsons Volpone, and Ben Jonsons The Alchemist. These workshops were directed by Simon Godwin. 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