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Fiasco Theater's dynamic 6 actor production of Cymbeline debuted at Access Theater in Tribeca in 2009 and made it's uptown premiere at Theatre for a New Audience in January of 2011. The production ran Off Broadway at Barrow Street from September 2011-January 2012.

The production had subsequent engagements in Los Angeles at The Broad Stage (LA) & May 28 to June 1,2014 at Folger Theatre (DC).

Photos by Ari Mintz

VIDEOS

Barrow Street Theatre (Trailer)

 

REVIEWS

Cymbeline Revitalizes Shakespeare’s Much-Mocked Epic (Vulture)

“In just two and half hours, Fiasco (produced at the New Victory by Theater for a New Audience) reminds us what theater, at its simplest and most powerful, is really for: the alchemical thrill of watching an entire world conjured into being out of sheer wit and will.” READ MORE

Simply Shakespeare, No Tangled Web (The New York Times)

“The lucid, modest performances here let the comedy, poignancy and unlikely magic of “Cymbeline” surface gently and naturally, unencumbered by conceptual baggage. Despite the doubling, tripling and quadrupling of roles, I have never seen a “Cymbeline” as easy to follow as this one…For once, the play itself really is the thing, and nothing is allowed to block its view, even actorly vanity.” READ MORE

Cymbeline (Entertainment Weekly)

“The true testament to the performance is in the finale, a sitcommy succession of revealed identities and resolved misunderstandings that requires nearly everyone to be on stage at once and switching between roles, all while making sure the audience is clued in on what’s happening. It’s pulled off with deceptive ease…” READ MORE

PRESS

New Sounds: Live musical performance and discussion from “Cymbeline”

https://www.newsounds.org/story/109721-cymbeline-song/

CREATIVE TEAM

Principal Cast: Jessie Austrian, Noah Brody, Paul L. Coffey, Andy Grotelueschen, Ben Steinfeld, Emily Young
Understudies: Patrick Mulryan, Ellen Adair
Designers:
Sets - Jean Guy Lecat
Costumes - Whitney Locher
Lights - Tim Cryan
Fabulous Trunk - Jacques Roy
Associate Director: Michael Perlman
Directors: Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld

The list above includes the core creative team, but is not comprehensive. We are grateful and lucky to have worked with everyone who made Cymbeline possible, from the teams backstage and front of house to design associates and interns, and all of you, our community and audience members.