About Us

Old Wine in New Bottles

Handcart Ensemble produces new adaptations, new translations, and new works for the theater, drawing primarily from classical sources. Read our mission statement for more information.

From our photo archives

Borgen and his son, in Act III of Ordet.

Handcart's Horizon

Watch here for details on productions planned for the coming year and seasons, which include a reading of Racine's Iphigenia in a glorious new translation by poet Rachel Hadas, a full production of Homer's Odyssey as adapted by poet Simon Armitage, and a startlingly orginal version of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (for which a teaser will appear in our December benefit of A Child's Christmas in Wales: Stories and Poems by Dylan Thomas); all from a company described as "the city’s most reliable and interesting presenter of contemporary renditions of classic theatre texts (NYTheatre.com)."