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Full guide →When to go. Head straight out at curtain call. Two-show days are the worst bet at both performances — the cast rests through the matinee and is spent by the evening. A Sunday matinee is the best single bet, because it is a one-show day. In bad weather the barricades sometimes never go up at all.
Who comes out. Anywhere from nobody to most of the cast. Nobody can tell you in advance which three — not us, not the theatre. Treat any list that claims otherwise with suspicion.
What to bring. Tonight’s Playbill and a fine-tip Sharpie, held open to the page you want signed. Ask before you photograph anyone, and keep the pavement clear — it is a working door, not a red carpet.
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Some families fight about who hosts Thanksgiving. Elektra's family fights about who murdered Dad, and the answer is Mom. Theatre for a New Audience brings Sophocles' original revenge tragedy back to Brooklyn in Anne Carson's sharp, plain-spoken translation, and it is the first major New York revival of the play in about thirty years.
Daniel Fish directs (yes, the Oklahoma! guy, so expect the furniture to be the least of your surprises). Tina Benko plays Elektra, a woman whose grief has curdled into pure, patient rage. Rebecca Naomi Jones is her careful sister Chrysothemis, Cricket Brown is Orestes, the brother who finally comes home to settle the bill, and Sally Wingert is Clytemnestra. Ted Hearne writes new choral songs for a six-voice a cappella chorus, so the Greek chorus actually sings this time.
It plays the Polonsky Shakespeare Center from November 10 to December 6, 2026, with opening night on November 20. Bring a friend you trust, and maybe not your mother.
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