theatre for a new audience

"Theatre for a New Audience, under its founding artistic director Jeffrey Horowitz, has spent more than three decades conjuring epic landscapes in small spaces."- Ben Brantley, The New York Times Founded in 1979 by Jeffrey Horowitz, Theatre for a New Audience's mission is to promote and enliven the performance and study of Shakespeare and classical drama. In 2001,

Theatre for a New Audience became the first American theatre to be invited to bring a Shakespeare production to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Theatre for a New Audience produces for Off-Broadway audiences and has also toured nationally, internationally and on Broadway. After more than three decades of award-winning and internationally acclaimed productions, Theatre for a New Audience opened the Polonsky Shakespeare Centre in the heart of Fort Greene, Brooklyn in 2013.

Theatre for a New Audience capacity

An internationally respected theatre, TFANA mounts three to five productions annually, serving an audience of 30,000 to 50,000.

Polonsky Shakespeare Center

After more than three decades of award-winning and internationally acclaimed productions, Theatre for a New Audience opened its first home, the Polonsky Shakespeare Centre, in 2013.

Funded and developed through a public-private partnership with the City of New York, the Polonsky Shakespeare Centre was designed by famed architect Hugh Hardy and H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture. It is the first theatre in New York designed and built specifically for classical drama since the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Centre in the 1960s.