St. Ann's Warehouse Teams with American Express Partner for First Season at New Home

St. Ann's Warehouse, which for 36 years has enlivened New Yorkers with innovative music and theater by some of the world's most vital creative artists, is about to open its first permanent home, a 25,000-sf theater at the breathtaking site of the Tobacco Warehouse, on the waterfront in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The new St. Ann's Warehouse will present an Inaugural Season 2015-16 that epitomizes the organization's indispensable contribution to the global cultural landscape - a series of international productions in which world-class artists reconfigure flexible, open space to realize their spectacular visions.

Artistic Director, Susan Feldman, welcomed a new partnership with American Express: "St. Ann's Warehouse is thrilled to have American Express join us on this grand adventure of activating an historic old building and launching it as a new cultural space on the waterfront in DUMBO Brooklyn."

This new initiative will allow American Express Card Members to purchase tickets for select shows before the general public, beginning Wednesday, July 8th at 10:00AM EST through Tuesday, July 14th at 10:00PM.

The St. Ann's Warehouse Inaugural Season 2015-16 begins with the Donmar Warehouse celebrated production of Henry IV (November 6 - December 6), the second with St. Ann's in director Phyllida Lloyd's trilogy of all-female Shakespeares, set against the backdrop of women in prison.

From January 8 to 17, 2016, St. Ann's will rejoin forces with the PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival and the Irish Arts Center to present the American Premiere of The Last Hotel, the first opera of brilliant Irish playwright and director, Enda Walsh, and leading Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy.

In February, St. Ann's will welcome back the esteemed Mark Rylance with the New York Premiere of Nice Fish, a new play conceived and written by the prose poet, Louis Jenkins, and the Tony- and Olivier Award-winning Rylance, adapted from Jenkins' book of poems about ice fishing in Minnesota. St. Ann's will present this new production of the American Repertory Theater from February 14 - March 13, 2016. Starring Mark Rylance on stage and directed by composer Claire van Kampen, Nice Fish marks the first return of these lovely artists to St. Ann's Warehouse since Shakespeare's Globe Theatre production of Measure for Measure in 2005.

St. Ann's Warehouse will further showcase the versatility of its new theater with the American Premiere of the Young Vic Theatre's immensely acclaimed, modern-day production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Arguably, St. Ann's Warehouse is the only New York theater capable of staging this inspired, revolving production, directed by Benedict Andrews, with an explosive cast led by Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster. Streetcar will be performed April 23 - May 22, 2016.

One of the exciting aspects of having the new St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park is the organization's ability to operate year round and out of doors. To complete this "sampler" first season, St. Ann's has invited the international contemporary circus NoFitState to construct its spaceship-shaped tent under the Brooklyn Bridge. The company will make its North American debut with Bianco, a gorgeous spectacle that weaves live music, dance, design and theater to create poetic and poignant images of prowess and daring. NoFit State brings their signature style of human balance and counter balance in an ever evolving and constantly changing landscape of ensemble action, moving trusses, steel towers and audiences. St. Ann's will present Bianco in residence from May 3 - 29, 2016.

The Howard Gilman Foundation is the Lead Sponsor of the St. Ann's Warehouse 2015 -16 Inaugural Season in its new home.

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