‘Tamburlaine, Parts I and II’ to be performed in Brooklyn
Previews begin Saturday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m. for Christopher Marlowe’s 1587 epic “Tamburlaine, Parts I and II,” edited and directed by Olivier Award-winner Michael Boyd and starring John Douglas Thompson.
“Tamburlaine, Parts I and II,” with a company of 19 actors playing 60 roles in its first major New York production since Broadway in 1956, opens Sunday, Nov. 16, at 1 p.m. at the Theatre for a New Audience in the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place.
Marlowe’s two-part drama will be performed as one three-and-a-half-hour play, plus a 30-minute intermission, through Dec. 21.