What they’re saying: live arts in Brooklyn this week, April 3

Macbeth (an undoing) @ Theatre for a New Audience
Theatre
TFANA, 262 Ashland Pl, Fort Greene
Shows April 5 through May 4
New Deal tickets available for $20 for those under 30. Use code: NEWDEALER at checkout

Playwright Zinnie Harris has adapted Shakespeare’s legendary play in a production that focuses on the perspective of Lady Macbeth and undoes the classic story we’ve come to know. After making its world premiere at The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh last year, the same team, featuring Nicole Cooper as Lady Macbeth and Adam Best as Macbeth,is bringing the acclaimed production to Brooklyn.

“It is not so much a revival as an exhumation, one in which [Harris] dares to speculate what the playwright might have done had he been true to his own instincts.” – Mark Fisher, The Guardian

“Cooper conveys all this with a ferocious intelligence that brims with barely restrained rage amongst the everyday madness in a thrilling reimagining that lays bare the real power behind the blood- spattered throne.” – Neil Cooper, The Herald Scotland

“Zinnie Harris reinvents Lady Macbeth as a flawed feminist icon in this respectful but powerfully reimagined adaptation.” – David Pollock, The Stage

8th Annual Sideshow Hootenanny
Circus, Sideshow, Live Performance
House of Yes, 2 Wyckoff Ave and Coney Island USA, 1208 Surf Ave, Coney Island
April 4 to 7, various times, activities, locations

This week Brooklyn is hosting the country’s only large-scale festival of sideshow performers, fans and producers from across the globe. The circus sideshow acts include magicians, sword-swallowing, jugglers, fire breathing, contortionists and much more.

Opening night will take place at House of Yes on Thursday, and numerous shows, workshops and parties will follow on Coney Island.
“The Hootenanny is my most anticipated event of the year! The collective group of Sideshow weirdos and shows that keep you on the edge of your…