Coriolanus Revival
Coriolanus - 2026 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
Theatre for a New Audience
262 Ashland Pl Brooklyn, NY 11217
Time: Just After Now. Setting: Rome and Antium
Who should lead in a land where the political rules are rapidly shifting and reordering, class revolt is raging, and basic food has become unaffordable? Is there a place for Coriolanus, a noble war hero and uncompromising aristocrat, both admirable and detestable, who refuses to hide his contempt for the newly empowered plebeian citizens?
In 2020, during the pandemic, Ash K. Tata created a streaming version of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest. Now, Tata stages The Tragedy of Coriolanus incorporating live performance and a media-saturated landscape where the alienation of gaming violence and screen combat are contrasted with the intensity of IRL battles, and the relationship of Volumnia and her son Coriolanus gives human shape to the political drama.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus: Much Ado About Multimedia
4 / 10
Generally, the acting proves spotty. Possibly that thudding, bass-heavy sound design by Brandon Keith Bulls, icy music by David T. Little and an intermittent yellowish atmospheric haze undermines performances. A less than charismatic McKinley Belcher III is a handsome though mostly stolid Coriolanus; speaking the blank verse, he tends to hit the cadences hard. The greater disappointment is the director’s slack, unimaginative shaping of the crucial scenes involving those so-swayable Roman people, who collectively become the drama’s motivating force. Clad in East Village mufti, they’re noisy but scarcely suggest a dangerous Roman mob. Perhaps it would have been wiser to invest more in additional actors and their rehearsal than in tech.
Review: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
8 / 10
Coriolanus is not Shakespeare’s most compelling work, but this production’s standout actors, anchored by Belcher, could make you think otherwise. The plot includes war, politics and a civic uprising as the Roman general Coriolanus vanquishes the rival Volscians only to plead for their alliance when his arrogant refusal to display his battle wounds gets him banished from Rome. The ping-pong of allegiances threatens to get confusing, but director Ash K. Tata keeps the action clear and active, and projections by Lisa Renkel and Possible help define the locations. Other sequences are less clear; during battles, the video design sometimes becomes a muddled first-person shooter game, à la Call of Duty. But the performances are always crystalline.
by Gillian Blum - February 14, 2026
What did critics think of Theatre for a New Audience's THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS, directed by Ash K. Tata, which is running now at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center?
by Stephi Wild - July 30, 2025
Theatre For a New Audience has announced its upcoming season which will kick off this September with performances of The Wild Duck. The remaining shows in the season include The Tragedy of Coriolanus and Teatro La Plaza's Hamlet.
Coriolanus History
Other Productions of Coriolanus
| 1938 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 2017 | West End |
RSC West End Revival West End |
| 2019 | New York |
2019 Shakespeare in the Park Production New York |
| 2024 | West End |
West End |
| 2026 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
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