Theatre for a New Audience returns to in-person performances October 30 with Will Enoβs Gnit, 19 months after it was shuttered just four previews into its run. The 2021β�2022 season will also include Alice Childressβ� Wedding Band: A Love-Hate Story in Black and White and Arin Arbus directing The Merchant of Venice.
Performances resume at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center (TFANAβs home) with Gnit (continuing through November 21), directed by Oliver Butler. The creative team features set designer Kimie Nishikawa, costume designers Γsta Bennie Hostetter and Avery Reed, lighting designer Amith Chandrashaker, sound designer Lee Kinney, and composer Daniel Kluger.
³§³σ²Ή°μ±π²υ±θ±π²Ή°ω±πβs The Merchant of Venice (February 5βMarch 4, 2022) will star John Douglas Thompson as Shylock. The Arbus-helmed production began as an online exploration in January 2021 as part of TFANAβs Artists & Community series. The Shakespeare Theatre Company co-production will travel to Washington, D.C., after its TFANA debut.
Childressβ� 1918-set interracial love story Wedding Band (April 23βMay 15) will be directed by Awoye Timpo. The production is the first New York revival since 1972 and marks the expansion of TFANAβs collaboration with Classix, a collective created by Timpo in collaboration with Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominque Rider, and Arminda Thomas.
In addition to Wedding Band, the two groups will launch (re)clamation, a new podcast series covering different aspects of Black theatre history.
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