{"id":361336,"date":"2026-10-01T00:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361336\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T00:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:34:52","slug":"tina-benko-rebecca-naomi-jones-to-star-in-daniel-fishs-elektra-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361336\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Benko, Rebecca Naomi Jones to Star in Daniel Fish\u2019s Elektra in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1855720\" title=\"2017 06 12 Public Julius Caesar 018 Tina Benko\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2017-06-12-Public-Julius-Caesar-018_Tina-Benko-e1790806950692.jpg\" alt=\"2017 06 12 Public Julius Caesar 018 Tina Benko\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\"\/>Tina Benko <br \/>(\u00a9 Tricia Baron)<\/p>\n<p>Tina Benko will star in Daniel Fish\u2019s Theatre for a New Audience production of\u00a0Elektra by Sophocles, adapted by Anne Carson. Performances run November 10-December 6 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.<\/p>\n<p>Benko will play the title role, alongside Rebecca Naomi Jones as Chrysothemis, Cricket Brown as Orestes, Sally Wingert as Clytemnestra, Michael Rudko as Aegisthus, and an a cappella chorus that includes Catherine Brookman, Sophia Rose Byrd, Mingjia Chen, Tina Fabrique, Maya Lagerstam, and Tanner Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Fish\u2019s creative team includes Jim Findlay, Amy Rubin, and Josh Higgason (scenic designer), Doey L\u00fcthi (costume designer), Scott Zielinski (lighting designer), Christopher Botta (sound designer), Ted Hearne (composer), Wally Cardona (choreographer), and Jeremy Chernick (cpecial Effects). Ryan Gohsman is the Production Stage Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Fish first staged the play in London\u2019s West End in 2025, in a substantially different production that starred Brie Larson, Stockard Channing, and Patrick Vaill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tina Benko (\u00a9 Tricia Baron) Tina Benko will star in Daniel Fish\u2019s Theatre for a New Audience production&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-361336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}