TFANA sets 2011-12 season

Off Broadway's Theater for any New Audience has arranged a 2011-12 season which includes Samuel Beckett shorts directed by Peter Brook, a Klezmer tuner and also the latest Shakespeare production from helmer Arin Arbus. "Fragments," the gathering of short Beckett plays, comes to Gotham like a stop with an worldwide tour. Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne direct the evening, including "Rough for Theater I," "Rockaby," "Act Left Without Words II," "Neither" and "Appear and disappear.Inch Show Cast for that show, which runs November. 9-12 ,. 14, includes Jos Houben, Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni, all whom are veterinarians of prominent Brit troupe Complicite. Next is "Shlemiel the very first,Inch the 1994 Klezmer musical in line with the Isaac Bashevis Singer story. New Gotham production is going to be helmed by David Gordon. Created and modified by Robert Brustein, show is carried out by an eight-person cast along with a Klezmer band in 24-perf run that begins 12 ,. 13. Early in the year, Arbus, whose TFANA productions of "Othello" and "Macbeth" have won raves, helms Shakespeare's comedy "The Toning down from the Shrew." With casting still to become introduced, It runs March 17-April 20. Also on tap is John Ford's 17th-century play "The Damaged Heart," the traditional Sparta-set tragedy to become directed by Brit helmer Selina Cartmell. Annika Boras ("Macbeth") stars within the Show is placed to operate February. 4-March 4. Season choices are additionally towards the formerly introduced return of "Cymbeline," the Fiasco Theater production that arrived inside a TFANA slot last season just before being acquired for any commercial Off Broadway run that starts perfs in the Barrow Street Theater August. 27. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com