NY Season 11/12

AT THE GYM AT JUDSON April 18 – May 6

243 Thompson Street (corner of Washington Square South) New York, NY 10012

Wed 2PM, Wed 8PM, Thurs 2PM, Thurs 8PM, Fri 8PM, Sat 2PM, Sat 8PM, Sun 2PM

Macbeth runs approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes including one 15-minute intermission.

Directed by Desiree Sanchez.

Production Design by Desiree Sanchez. Lighting Design by Peter Meineck.

Aquila’s Macbeth is a beautifully wrought, tension filled and dynamic production that places Shakespeare’s language at its core. Performed by a cast of professional British actors with extensive credits in the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, West End, major regional, London and New York theatre, this superb cast brings Shakespeare’s intoxicating language to vivid life. This Macbeth is Aquila’s 21st season of Shakespeare and the company’s excellence in ensemble work and verse speaking led the New Yorker to write, “Aquila’s production is beautifully spoken, dramatically revealing and crystalline in effect” and the New York Times to describe Aquila as “an extraordinary inventive and disciplined outfit.” Macbeth has been touring major performing arts centers across the United States playing to audiences in excess of 1000 a night. Don’t miss this opportunity to see simply superb Shakespeare by an outstanding ensemble in New York at the beautiful brand new performance space at Judson right on Washington Square.

Aquila Theatre’s production is part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national program of the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest.

Macbeth is part of Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives which has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life. www.ancientgreeksmodernlives.org

Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.