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THE THEATRES 2022-2023 ARTISTIC SEASONThe 2022-2023 Season featured four exciting productions: the New York Premiere of Clark Youngs and Derek Goldmans Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, directed by Goldman and starring David Strathairn; the New York Premiere of Denis Johnsons Des Moines, directed by Arin Arbus and featuring Michael Shannon; the first New York production in English in twenty years of Lope de Vegas Fuente Ovejuna (in the New York Premiere of Adrian Mitchells translation), directed by Flordelino Lagundino; and Tennessee Williamss Orpheus Descending, directed by Erica Schmidt and featuring Maggie Siff. Additionally, director Eric Tucker explored Shakespeares Richard II, featuring Christian Camargo as Richard, alongside Dakin Matthewss adaptation of both parts of Shakespeares Henry IV, featuring Jay O. Sanders as Falstaff, in intimate workshop presentations, which provided our audiences with an inside view of how theatre is created. The Theatres productions and programs served a diverse audience of more than 23,000 during the 2022-2023 Season.ARTS IN EDUCATIONIn the 2022-2023 Season, the Theatres arts in education residenciesWorld Theatre Project (WTP) and New Voices Project (NVP) served 1,232 students and 41 teachers in 47 classrooms at 13 public schools throughout New York City. ACCESS, ENGAGEMENT AND HUMANITIESAccess: The Theatre fulfills its commitment to make its world-class productions accessible to people of all income levels through subscriptions and a variety of discount and low-cost ticketing outlets. The Theatre also ensures access at Polonsky Shakespeare Center for persons with disabilities.Humanities: The Theatre promotes learning at all ages by inviting general audiences to engage with the language and ideas of its productions through free Humanities Programs, which operate under the guidance of its Council of Scholars, four distinguished academics with expertise in a variety of humanities disciplines. In the 2022-2023 Season, the Theatres Humanities Programs engaged approximately 694 people through 11 free TFANA Talks post-show discussions with the productions casts, creative teams, and eminent scholars. In addition, for each mainstage production, the Theatres free, online dramaturgical publication the 360 Viewfinder offered context on the plays themes and interviews with the creative teams. The five 360 Viewfinders for the 2022-2023 Season received a total of 13,767 impressions and were read online 2,844 times.In the 2022-2023 Season, the Theatre inaugurated Reflections, a series of TFANA Talks hosted by acclaimed essayist, columnist, and creator and host of WNETs ALL ARTS program Generational Anxiety, Bianca Vivion. Reflections features guests from the worlds of arts and activism, lensing the work on our stage through the political and cultural questions that matter to a rising generation of New Yorkers.THE MERLE DEBUSKEY STUDIO PROGRAMIn addition to the special workshop performances of Henry IV and Richard II, the Theatre and the New Schools Manne School of Music co-produced a developmental workshop of Aeschyluss Agamemnon, directed by Robert Woodruff and with music by David T. Little.