When the pigeons flock

St. Ann’s Warehouse plays a vital role on the global cultural landscape as an artistic home for international companies of distinction, American avant-garde masters and talented emerging artists ready to work on a grand scale. St. Ann’s signature flexible, open space allows artists to stretch, both literally and figuratively, enabling them to approach work with unfettered creativity, knowing that the theater can be adapted in multiple configurations to suit their needs.

In the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park, under the vision of St. Ann’s founder and Artistic Director Susan Feldman, Marvel Architects, DBI Projects, theater consultants Charcoalblue and a team of expert engineers have designed a theater that offers St. Ann’s signature versatility and grandeur on an amplified scale while respecting the walls of the original 1860 Tobacco Warehouse. The new building complex includes, a Studio for smaller-scale events and community uses, as well as The Max Family Garden designed by landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, which is open to Brooklyn Bridge Park visitors during Park hours, and Bar Jolie curated by Vinegar Hill House in the lobby.

Almost four decades of consistently acclaimed landmark productions that found a home at St. Ann’s include: Lou Reed’s and John Cale’s Songs for ‘Drella; Charlie Kaufman and the Coen Brothers’ Theater of the New Ear; TR Warszawa productions of Festen, Macbeth (outdoors in the Tobacco Warehouse), and Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis; The Globe Theatre of London’s Measure for Measure with Mark Rylance; Druid Company’s The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh; Walsh’s Misterman, featuring Cillian Murphy, Arlington, and Ballyturk; Lou Reed’s Berlin; the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch and Let the Right One In; Kneehigh Theatre’s Brief Encounter, 946, and Tristan & Yseult; the Donmar Warehouse/Phyllida Lloyd’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy: Julius Caesar, Henry IV, The Tempest; the Young Vic production of A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson; Mark Rylance’s Nice Fish; and the World Premiere of Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, including the one-time only 24-hour marathon in 2016. Last season, St. Ann’s presented the National Theatre/Headlong production of People, Places & Things with Denise Gough and the Schaubühne Berlin’s Returning to Reims, directed by Thomas Ostermeier. This season: Daniel Fish’s reimagined Oklahoma!, Good Chance Theatre’s The Jungle, and The Wooster Group’s The B-Side.

Known for her rich aesthetic and highly detailed constructions, Robin Frohardt is an award-winning theater and film director. Her narrative based film, puppetry and sculpture, use recognizable materials, often trash, to create richly detailed worlds that make magic of the mundane and highlight the trivialities of daily life. Her theatrical work has earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award and multiple Jim Henson Foundation Grants. Her play THE PIGEONING hailed by the New York Times as “a tender, fantastical symphony of the imagination,” debuted in 2013 and continues to tour at home and abroad. Her follow-up project THE PLASTIC BAG STORE premiered in Times Square in 2020 and has since toured to Los Angeles, Chicago, Adelaide and Austin. Her films have been official selections at The Telluride Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, The One Earth Film Festival and BAM.

FogoAzul NYC is NY’s homegrown women/trans/non-binary Brazilian-American Drumline!  Founded in 2016 and based in Queens, we can be seen appearing at over 150 events per year ranging from birthday parties and weddings to fundraisers, galas, parades and marches.  Fogo Azul NYC is a community group open to folks who believe music and rhythm is in every human—if you give them the means, very loudly!  Fogo Azul NYC is an age and ethnically diverse community of people who span the drummer spectrum from novice to professional.

Part art project, part lesson in global citizenship, Students Rebuild is a free, ready-made adventure in learning that lets K-12 students leverage their critical thinking, creativity, and compassion to create change on global issues and support their peers. A Bezos Family Foundation program.