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From: Lesley Groff Sent: Thursday, January , : To: Jeffrey Epstein CC Subject: Fwd: Theatre for a New Audience announces its new home's inaugural production, directed by Julie Taymor Sent from my iPhone =br>Begin forwarded message: =rom: James Lynes >> Date: la To: "a Subject:=/b> Theatre for a New Audience announces its new home's inaugural produc=ion, directed by Julie Taymor Dear Mr. Epstein: Jeffrey Horowitz and Theatre for a New Audience are proud to share with=you the news that received national and international attention overnight a=out Julie Taymor directing a new production for the Theatre of A MIDSUM M=R NIGHT'S DREAM. Scroll down this email to review the articles f=om The New York Times, Variety, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardi=n, and other sources. Thi= production will be the inaugural show in our Bes= wishes from =nbsp; James Lynesch:p> ao:p> James J. Ly=es Capital Campaign Director154 Christopher Street, Suite 3D New York, NY 10014 EFTA_R1_01731241 EFTA02566199  <= class="MsoNormal" fax www.tfana.org =o:p> Janu=ry 23, 2013 Taymo= To Direct 'Midsummer As Inaugural Show For Theater= New Home By Patrick Healy The Tony Award-win=ing director chttp://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/ti=estopics/people/t/julie_taymor/index.html> will return to th= New York stage in October with a production of Shakespeare's 40=9CMidsummer Night's Dream" to open the new Brooklyn home <http://theater.nyti=es.com/2011/06/25/theater/theater-for-a-new-audience-starts-building-home-i=- brooklyn.html> of Theater for a New Audience, an Off Broadw=y company where Ms. Taymor has regularly worked <http://theater2.nytimes.coqmem/theater/treview.html?res=9C05E3DA1F39F93BA35750C0A960958260> since its founding in 1979. "Midsummer" will be M=. Taymor's first show since her high-profile firing from the Broadw=y musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" in 2011 by its pr=ducers, with whom she is still in a legal battle over back pay, royalty and=copyright protection. In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Ms. Tay=or said she chose "Midsummer" as the theater's inau=ural production because of the play's celebratory nature: Character= fall in love, reunite after spats and wed, and others put on a play themse=ves. A celebrated downtown theater director and puppet-maker before f=nding fame and fortune directing the blockbuster musical "The Lion K=ng," Ms. Taymor she was still thinking over concepts for staging 4>=804oMidsummer" and did not know yet if she would be designing pupp=ts or masks for the show. As for the "Midsummer" budget, sh= said she did not know how much the production would cost, but added that i= would be "typical" for Off Broadway and noted that Theater=for a New Audience "never does big budgets." "=pider-Man" attracted international headlines for, among other thing=, its $75 million budget, more than twice as much money as any Broadway sho= in history. Ms. Taymor said she was talking over ideas for "=idsummer" with Es Devlin, the British set and costume designer who i= known for big-budget spectacles like the closing ceremony for the London O=ympic Games last summer. "Midsummer" will not be set=in any particular time or period, "but rather in its own world,Q=9D Ms. Taymor said. She did say that she may include children and teenagers=in the cast, after recently holding a workshop of the play with children 4,=804oto play with their energy and physicality and to think about raw eleme=tal energy." Ms. Taymor's long-time partner, Elliot Goldent=al, will compose original music for "Midsummer." 2 EFTA_R1_01731242 EFTA02566200  4P=804>There is a visceral nature to the theater, and I want to have that in t=e production," said Ms. Taymor, who has never directed a "M=dsummer" before. She was a designer on the play in 1984 when Theate= for a New Audience did a children's version — her first co=laboration with the company and its artistic director, Jeffrey Horowitz, wh= is now a close friend. The play will begin performances on Oct. 19 i= the theater's new 299-seat main stage space, which has been design=d by architect Hugh Hardy. Opening night is set for Nov. 2. Asked if=her return to New York theater was any more special because of her experien=es on "Spider-Man," Ms. Taymor simply said that she was loo=ing forward to working on the play. "Spider-Man" bec=me the most talked-about Broadway show in many years because of a nightmare=E244s- worth of creative and technical delays, cast injuries, and offsta=e showdowns between Ms. Taymor and her composers — Bono and the Edg= of U2 — and the show's producers. Bono, Edge, and t=e producers ultimately replaced Ms. Taymor as the show's director a=ter more than three months of preview performances during the winter of 201=. The producers contended that she resisted their pleas to revamp "=pider-Man" into a more family-friendly musical (thereby possibly se=ling more tickets and recovering its high costs), while Ms.Taymor said the p=oducers refused to support her requests and ideas for changes in the script=and the score. "Spider-Man" opened in June 2011 to m=stly negative reviews but has gone on to become a popular show with tourist=, although ticket sales have cooled a bit in recent months. Ms. Taym=r sued the producers in federal court in late 2011, saying they were profit=ng from her "Spider-Man" script and staging and owed her mo=e than $1million in back pay and royalties; they counter sued, arguing tha= she had been fired for breach of contract. The judge in the case announced=last August that the two sides had reached a settlement agreement in princi=le, but since then the sides =ave not been able to come to terms <http://artsbeat.blogs.nytime=.com/2013/01/23/taymor-to-direct-midsummer-as-inaugural-show-for-theaters-n=w- home/ttplartsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/settlement-talks-continue=in-court-battle-over-spider-man- musicalh . The specifics of their ongoing differences have never been discl=sed; Ms. Taymor declined to comment on Wednesday about the issues holding u= a settlement, but said that a negotiated resolution was "looking g=od." "I'm hoping that we're going ha=e a good outcome very soon," she said. A version of this article appeared in print on=01/24/2013, on page C3 of the New York edition with the headline: Taymor to=Direct 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0=/23/taymor-to-direct-midsummer-as-inaugural-show-for-theaters- new-home/ =/span> <http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2=13/01/23/taymor-to-direct-midsummer-as-inaugural-show-for- theaters-new-home=> 3 EFTA_R1_01731243 EFTA02566201  January 23, 2013 By David Ng January 23, 2013= 4:08 p.m. Julie Taymor, at the opening-night performance of the Broadw=y musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" in New York in 2011. (Charles Syk=s / Associated Press /January 23, 2013) Since being fired in 2011 from the Broadway musical " S=ider-Man <http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/spider-man-%28=ictional-character%29-PEFCC000006.topic> : Turn Off the Dark," d=rector Julie Taymor <http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/julie-t=ymor- PECLB003827.topic> has kept a relatively low public prof=le, her time presumably occupied by the ongoing lawsuit between her and the=show's producers. Taymor might be considered damaged goods when it c=mes to Broadway, but her trademark innovative style still has its fans. In h=r first directing gig since the "Spider-Man" <http://www.latimes.com/to=ic/entertainment/movies/spider-man-%28movie%29-ENMV00010402.topic> debacle, Taymor will return to her roots by staging a new production o= Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Theatre for a New Audience in=Brooklyn. The production is scheduled to open Nov. 2 and will be the=inaugural production of the company's new permanent home near Brooklyn's </=pan> <http://www.latimes.com/topic/us/new-york/new-york-city/brook=yn- %28new-york-city%29/fort-greene-PLGE0100100802012900.topic> Titus Andronicus <http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/tit=s-andronicus-%28music-group%29-PECLB0000013288.topic> The director has also made film versions of "The Tempest" and "Titus." "Midsummer" is set to begi= preview performances on Oct. 19. Taymor reached a tentative settlem=nt in her legal battle with the producers of "Spider-Man" in August. But it=has been reported as recently as this month that no final deal has been rea=hed yet. http://www.latime=.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-julie-taymor-to-direct-midsummer-n=ghts- dream-in-brooklyn-20130123,0,5848768.story chttp://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts=culturefia-et-cm-julie-taymor-to-direct-midsummer-nights- dream-in-brooklyn-=0130123,0,5848768.story> Thursday 24 January 2013 10.52 EST J=lie Taymor: bringing the Bard to Brooklyn. Photograph: Ann Johansson/AP 4 EFTA_R1_01731244 EFTA02566202  Julie=Taymor is to direct her first production since abandoning Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark almost two years ago.</=pan> Taymor left th= notorious — but still ongoing — mega-musical in March 2011=after producers demanded a major overhaul following a difficult four-month p=eview period. She has not worked in theatre since and remains locked in a legal battle ove= royalties and copyright. However, this autumn she will reunite with her longtime collaborator, t=e composer Elliot Goldenthal, to mount an off-Broadway production of A Mids=mmer Night's Dream, entitled simply Midsummer, to open a new theatre in New=York on 19 October. , also won a Tony award. However, Midsummer's budget will=be a fraction of those of the musicals <http://www.guardian.co.uk/s=age/musicals> "There is a visceral nature t= the theatre, and I want to have that in the production," <=span> <=pan style="font-size:11.0pt"> January 23, 2013 =y GORDON COX <http://www.variety.com/biography/2930> <=mg border="0" width="188" height="238" id="Picture_x0020_8" src="=id:[email protected]" alt="Description: Julie Taymor"> Taymor Julie Taymor has settled on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" a= the play she'll helm to inaugurate the new Brooklyn home base of Theater f=r a New Audience this fall. The Off Broadway production "Midsummer" w=ll be Taymor's first gig for the Gotham stage since her high- profile stint a= helmer of Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," followed by her subs=quent messy divorce from that project. For several months Taymor has=been on tap to launch the soon-to-be-completed TFANA building in Fort Green=, Brooklyn, but it hadn't yet been decided which Bard play she'd choose to d=rect. Taymor ("The Lion King") has long been associated with TFANA, beginni=g with a 1986 staging of "The Tempest" and followed by "The Taming of the S=rew," "Titus Andronicus" and "The Green Bird," a 1996 staging of a Carlo Go=zi play that moved to Broadway in 2000. TFANA's new building -- the f=rst permanent home for the troupe, which was founded in 1979 -- will includ= a 299-seat mainstage and a 50-seat second space. Casting and other d=tails for "Midsummer" have yet to set, but previews begin Oct. 19 ahead of a=Nov. 2 opening. EFTA_R1_01731245 EFTA02566203  January 23, 2013 Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal Will Conjure Midsummer Ni=ht's Dream in TFANA's New Brooklyn Home By Kennet= Jones Tony Award winner Julie T=ymor <http://www.playbillvault.rom/Person/Detail/6737/Julie-Taymor> ( The Lion King <http://=ww.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8729/The-Lion-King> = will direct and longtime collaborator Elliot Goldenthal <http://www.playbil=vault.com/Person/Detail/608S/Elliot-Goldenthal> (=a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3477/The-Green-Bird"> The Green Bird) will compose original music for a new fall 2013 product=on of William Shakespeare <http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7=39/William- Shakespeare> 's A Midsummer Night's Dream, t= be the inaugural production in Theatre for a New Audience <http://www.playbillvault.=om/Person/Detail/116471/Theatre-for-a-New-Audience> 's new permanent home in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District. TFANA announ=ed the news on Jan. 23. It had been known that Taymor would direct a classi= for the not-for- profit's new home. Shakespeare's romantic comedy-fantasy i= set in the woods outside of Athens, where sprites and fairies meddle with t=e affairs of men and women. If history teaches us anything, this =idsummer should be visually potent: In 1998, Taymor became the first wo=an to win the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical - and also wo= a Tony for Best Costumes - for her production of The Lion King= acknowledged as a masterstroke of design, direction, movement and mask wor=. For Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark <http://www.playbillvault.com/Show=Detail/13708/Spider-Man- Turn-Off-the-Dark> ,Taymor served as direct=r, co-book writer and mask-designer. TFANA founding artistic directo= Jeff <http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/87192/Jeffrey=Horowitz> rey Horowitz said in a statement, "Julie and Elliot are bold= innovative, adventurous artists. We first worked together in 1984 on a 60-=inute version for Theatre for a New Audience's A Midsummer Night's Dream=/i> presented at the Public Theater. Twenty-nine years later, it's thrillin= they are directing and composing the first full production of A Midsumm=r Night's Dream we are mounting as the inaugural presentation in our fi=st permanent home." According to TFANA, in 1986, Horowitz invited Ta=mor to stage The Tempest for Theatre for a New Audience. It was the f=rst play by Shakespeare she directed. Goldenthal composed the original musi=. Taymor and Goldenthal later directed and composed Theatre for a New Audie=ce's productions of The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus and in=1996, Carlo Gozzi <http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/12992/Ca=lo-Gozzi> 's The Green Bird, which transferred to Broadw=y in 2000. Composer Goldenthal creates works for orchestra, theater,=opera, ballet and film (including Taymor's films "The Tempest," "Titus" and="Frida." In 2003, he was honored with the Academy Award and a Golden Globe A=ard for the score to "Frida." 6 EFTA_R1_01731246 EFTA02566204  Theatre for a New Audience's first per-anent home is designed by world-renowned architect Hugh Hardy and H3 Hardy C=llaboration Architecture. It includes the Samuel H. Scripps Mainstage (299 s=ats) and the Theodore C. Rogers Studio (50 seats). The Samuel H. Scr=pps Mainstage, the first stage built for Shakespeare and classic drama in N=w York City since Lincoln Center's 1965 Vivian Beaumont, is inspired by the=Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe. According to TFANA, "It is a uniquely f=exible space which combines an Elizabethan courtyard theatre with modern te=hnology. The relationship between the stage and audience can be shaped for e=ch production into different configurations. " Since its founding in=1979, Theatre for a New Audience has played in more than 20 different venue= across Manhattan and Brooklyn. Theatre for a New Audience is near t=e BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building, Harvey Theater and Fisher Building as well a= the Mark Morris <http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/4838/Mark=Morris> http://www.playbill.com/news/article/174316-Julie-Taymor-=nd-Elliot-Goldenthal-WilI-Conjure-Midsummer-Nights- Dream-in-TFANAs-New-Broo=lyn-Home <=p> =/span> January 23, 2013 Tony Winner Julie Taymor to Direct A Midsummer Night's Dr=am for Theater for a New Audience By Ryan Gilbert Two-time Tony-winning director J=lie Taymor is set return to the New York stage in the fall with a productio= of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.=Taymor's partner, Oscar winner Elliot Goldenthal, will compose original mus=c for the production, which will open the new permanent Brooklyn residence o= the off-Broadway company Theater for a New Audience. Previews will begin o= October 19, with an opening night set for November 2. Taymor and Go=denthal have previously collaborated on Theatre for a New Audience'= productions of The Tempest,The Taming of the Shrew, Titus=Andronicus and The Green Bird, which transferred to Broadway in 2=00. Goldenthal scored Taymor's film versions of The Tempe=t and Titus. He won the Academy Award for his score to Taymor4>=804os film Frida. His original two-act opera Grendel, direct=d by Taymor, premiered at the Los Angeles Opera. In 1998 Taymor beca=e the first woman in history to win the award for Best Direction of a Music=l for Lion King, and also earned the Tony for Best Costume Design fo= the musical. Her other Broadway credits include Juan Darien and =pider-Man, Turn Off The Dark. In addition to Titus, The Tempest a=d Frida, Taymor directed the movie musical Across the Universe http://www.broadway.com/buzz/166845/t=ny-winner-julie-taymor-to-direct-a-midsummer-nights-dream-for- theater-for-a=new-audience/ 7 EFTA_R1_01731247 EFTA02566205  <http://www.broadway.com/buzz/166845/tony-winner=julie-taymor-to-direct-a-midsummer-nights-dream-for- theater-for-a-new-audiercek 8 EFTA_R1_01731248 EFTA02566206