FIASCO Theatre announces a full season

https://www.fiascotheater.com/current-season

This is a surprising, but welcome announcement. I wonder if Fiasco has managed to expand their resources significantly, because normally they only do 1 production a year in NY, if even. And it's usually presented with the assistance of a larger company like Roundabout or CSC. I know they've been touring their ITW for a while - maybe they've been making good margins and saving up for an expansion of the company?

This is an impressive and exciting line-up on paper - particularly the Hamlet partnership with Deaf West.

So far, I have yet to see Fiasco repeat their success with Into the Woods. I saw their Twelfth Night and their Merrily, and I found both pretty disappointing. Having said that, I do appreciate their creative approach to theatre-making, and I very much look forward to seeing what their do with this wide variety of programming.

Updated On: 9/11/21 at 05:59 PM

My biggest problem with Fiasco's Merrily and Woods was the casting...I know some of those folks are company members, but the casts have not been anywhere near as good as the productions themselves, and the productions suffered as a result.

My guess, and I don't know, is that they were doing much of this stuff informally, for invited guests or just themselves, and then realized they had a potential revenue stream. I do think this is at least partly a new model for them, similar in at least some ways to how Red Bull has been operating for quite a while.