Event Information

After the long pandemic hiatus, NEW PLACE PLAYERS returns to New York City with a production of OTHELLO, directed by Makenna Masenheimer, combining their signature original live chamber music, and acting which celebrates language, action, and deeply human storytelling. OTHELLO will play a limited engagement at Casa Clara (218 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010). OTHELLO will be performed for an intimate audience of fifty people in the round, immersed in a former foundry with a rich collection of statuary, featuring both skylights and balconies. As one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, this production of OTHELLO will be a searing & intimate look at shame, manipulation, and the devastation it provokes. It will bring New Place Player’s signature dynamic interplay of music, Lecoq movement, swordplay, and language to a new level — with musicians and actors collaborating with one another to inspire an extraordinarily fresh take on Shakespeare’s powerful and timeless story.