NYTimes.com: The Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor will return to the New York stage in October with a production of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” to open the new Brooklyn home of Theater for a New Audience, an Off Broadway company where Ms. Taymor has regularly worked since its founding in 1979. “Midsummer” will be Ms. Taymor’s first show since her high-profile firing from the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” in 2011 by its producers, with whom she is still in a legal battle over back pay, royalty and copyright protection.
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Being that Taymor is one of my favorite designers, I was very excited to read an article one her. I think it's good of her to step back into the New York theatrical community again after being off the radar for awhile due to the Spider-Man fiasco. It's also nice to see her reaching out to a smaller theatre as opposed to a more commercialized production. Perhaps, she is doing this because she can't find work on a bigger production due to the fiasco, but nonetheless it is good to see a designer with such name-value going back to her roots and designing for a theatre where she had done some of early works. I think all designers should be able to humble themselves and return to smaller branches of theatre that may not accumulate so much fame as they are used to.
So I know that Spiderman was a huge deal because of all the conflict with Taymor and all the issues with the previews, but to be perfectly honest, I don't understand why people have to bring that up with her now. Taymor is genus and im absolutely ecstatic about her directing Midsummer. I think any design or concept that she has for this show will be incredible because she has this way of creating a world where all of these strange things are possible. This of course being from a designer's point of view, I can't exactly speak for any actors who have or will be working with her. This might be why its a smaller production, but there's something about this being a smaller productions that I think seems intentional. I think that having a small space in an off broadway theater makes the experience for the audience that much more memorable because they can feel closer to the world of the show.
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