A Theater Also Rises

Eight months after , Theatre For a New Audiences' new Brooklyn space is already a part of the area's emerging artistic landscape.

Courtesy of the Associated Press came word last week of the construction of the "metal guts" of the three-story glass cube of a theater on Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street.

The top-off of steel for the estimated $47.5 million facility had been planned for last fall.

The theater company, currently based in Manhattan, will host productions of classic, Elizabethan and modern drama with the aim at capturing the attention of audiences not familiar with plays from the likes of Gogol, Ibsen and Shakespeare.

Fresh off a disastrous stint as director of the rock musical Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark, Julie Taymor joined Deputy Mayor Robert Steel and TFNA founder Jeffrey Horowitz at last summer's groundbreaking event.

Taymor said she would direct the company's first production once the 299-seat space is completed.