Past Shows

Past Shows

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2016

Mezzanine Theatre

Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre

Alligator

New Georges

November 27– December 18, 2016

By Hilary Bettis
Directed by Elena Araoz
Produced in collaboration with The Sol Project

Emerald and Ty are twin orphaned teenagers wrestling ‘gators for a living in a roadside attraction in a small tourist town deep in the Florida Everglades… alternately realistic and surreal, scored with gritty rock music, Alligator is a muscular, satisfying play about learning to tame our darkest impulses.

Alligator will be the first production of The Sol Project, a New York City-based theater initiative dedicated to producing works by Latinx playwrights, bringing the stories and culture of their community to the fore of American theater.

2017

Mezzanine Theatre	Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
*PEER GYNT & the Norwegian Hapa Band* Ma-Yi Theater Company January 17 - February 11, 2017 By Michi Barall Music by Paul Liber & Matt Park Directed and Originally Conceived by Jack Tamburri Peer is a brash young man on a journey to discover his ultimate self in this rock music odyssey about risk, reinvention and going roundabout. Ma-Yi Theater Company’s remaking of Ibsen’s classic verse drama asks what it means when we sacrifice everything to be most fully ourselves. More Info »	*The Great American Drama* New York Neo-Futurists January 17 - February 5, 2017 By Connor Sampson What makes a piece of theater a success? The Great American Drama is a living, ever-changing theatrical experiment to test the validity of the American Dream; that anyone, regardless of their given circumstance, can achieve prosperity and success through hard work and determination. More Info »
Love That Dog New York City Children’s Theater February 18 - March 5, 2017 Adapted and Directed by Andrew Frank and Jason Howard Based on the book by award-winning author Sharon Creech Featuring the poetry of Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Walter Dean Myers A multimedia play about a boy and his dog. Featuring the poetry of Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Walter Dean Myers, LoveThat Dog is a contemporary story about discovering the power of your own voice. Best for ages 8 and up. Presented in repertory with Please Bring Balloons More Info »	BKBX Presents: See Reverse Broken Box Mime Theater February 17 - March 5, 2017 Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) presents a brand new set of original short plays with SEE REVERSE. Set to a fresh soundtrack and dynamic lighting design, the mime re-definers of BKBX journey from film noir to political protest and everywhere in between, asking audiences to take their truth and turn it upside down, inside out, and back in time to reveal something truer than they held at the start. More Info »
Please Bring Balloons New York City Children’s Theater February 18 - March 5, 2017 Created by David Kilpatrick based on Lindsay Ward’s illustrated book, Please Bring Balloons Directed by Sara Morgulis An interactive, multi-sensory theater experience created for our youngest audience members. Based on Lindsay Ward’s beautiful illustrated book, Please Bring Balloons will be a fun and dynamic introduction to theater that you and your toddler will love. Best for ages 2-5 years old. Presented in repertory with Love That Dog More Info »	BKBX Presents: DESTINATION: EVERYWHERE Broken Box Mime Theater February 25 - March 4, 2017 DESTINATION: EVERYWHERE is a boisterous adventure that invites audiences to journey through invisible worlds. With a speaking host to guide even the youngest theater-goers, BKBXKids! weaves together nine inventive shorts into a rollicking hour-long program. This interactive performance includes a workshop where the kids are encouraged to meet the cast and learn how to mime! Presented on Saturdays during Broken Box Mime Theater's run of See Reverse More Info »
And She Would Stand Like This The Movement Theatre Company July 20 - August 6, 2017 Written By Harrison David Rivers Directed by David Mendizábal Choreographed by Kia LaBeija AND SHE WOULD STAND LIKE THIS is a theatrical retelling of Euripides' The Trojan Women fused with the world of underground LGBTQ+ ball culture. Set in a hospital waiting room after the emergence of an unknown and deadly virus, AND SHE WOULD STAND LIKE THIS reimagines the characters of The Trojan Women as Black and Latinx queer men and Transgender women fighting for their survival. More Info »	The Other Plays: Six Short Plays about Otherness and Diversity Theater Breaking Through Barriers March 10 - March 26, 2017 Playwrights include Dennis A. Allen II, Bekah Brunstetter, Lameece Isaaq, Basil Kreimendahl, and Neil LaBute Theater Breaking Through Barriers will proudly present its 5th Festival of new short plays, which will examine otherness in its many forms — Racial, Religious, Political, Sexual and Social — all through a lens of disability. The Other Plays promises to provide a provocative evening of truly enlightening, enraging and entertaining theatre that you will not want to miss! More Info »
KPOP Ars Nova in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company + Woodshed Collective September 7 - October 21, 2017 Conceived by Woodshed Collective + Jason Kim Book by Jason Kim Music & Lyrics by Helen Park + Max Vernon Immersive Design by Woodshed Collective Choreographed by Jennifer Weber Directed by Teddy Bergman KPOP is here and America will never be the same. Claim your exclusive, all-access pass and immerse yourself in the Korean Pop music factory where stars are made... or broken. KPOP was held in A.R.T./New York Theatres's Mezzanine Theatre, Gural Theater, and lobby spaces taking over the full building. More Info »	American Mill No. 2 Pioneers Go East Collective March 30 - April 9, 2017 Director & Co-writer Gian Marco Lo Forte Composed by Kamala Sankaram Choreography by Maura Donohue Original Concept by Abby Felder American Mill No. 2 is Pioneers Go East Collective original docudrama with folk songs about Ella May Wiggins – a textile mill worker and folk singer who found herself at the forefront of the protest movement during the strike at the Loray mill in Gastonia in 1929 (North Carolina). More Info »
	The Assignment Houses On the Moon Theater Company April 17 - May 7, 2017 By Camilo Almonacid and developed by Houses on the Moon Theater Company An English professor is shaken when a student’s personal essay reopens long buried wounds. The play explores the long-term emotional toll of violence, and the struggle to forgive others and ourselves. Through the run, Houses on the Moon will present gUN COUNTRY, a selection of stories by professional theater artists and members of the community whose lives have been touched by guns. More Info »
	T.B. Sheets Buran Theatre May 13 - May 27, 2017 By Adam R. Burnett Set in a tuberculosis sanatorium on a remote mountainside, a community of terminally ill mystics transcend to an order of living saints and build a spaceship to escape their physical ailments. This dizzying and iconoclastic new work celebrates the power and beauty of the fragile body and the multiplicity and fluidity of identity. More Info »
	SOLSTICE PARTY! Live Source Theatre Group November 2 - November 19, 2017 Written by Susan Soon He Stanton Directed by Tyler Mercer A group of friends gather to celebrate the Summer Solstice together in the deep Upstate New York woods behind an old farmhouse. What begins as a casual, fun weeked quickly devolves into something more sinister; a power-struggle and then a game of survival that is by turns bizarre and shocking. Written as a Jonestown parable for the Trump era, playwright Susan Soon He Stanton explores themes of "group-think" and betrayal that instigate our deepest primal fears. More Info »
	Sheila The Associates Theater Ensemble January 12 - 27, 2018 Created by The Associates Directed by Jamal Abdunnasir September 1987. The edge of town. Gloria opens her door to the woman she hasn't seen since she disappeared from home ten years ago. Mary sees the face that has haunted her memories of childhood and dreams of womanhood. But the reflection that the women seek in each other is distorted by the years of silence. How did they get here? Did one of them take a wrong turn, or were they driven apart? A thrillingly intimate drama, Sheila pits two women against the world. Not to conquer it—to survive it. But what chance do they have to decide the terms of that survival? More Info »

2018

Mezzanine Theatre	Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
Folk Wandering Pipeline Theatre Company February 23 - March 25, 2018 Conceived by Jaclyn Backhaus & Andrew Neisler Book & Lyrics by Jaclyn Backhaus Music & Additional Lyrics by Blake Allen, Mike Brun, Andrew R. Butler, Joel Esher, Alex Fast, Jo Lampert, Barrie McLain, Annie Tippe, and Dominique Toney In 1911, Rosealia dreams of a better life. In 1933, Kai struggles to keep daughter safe. In 1955, Hannah finally fights for herself. Folk Wandering is a sweeping new musical conjured from the hearts and minds of Jaclyn Bauhaus, Andrew Neisler, and nine emerging singer-songwriters. This expansive story investigates the making and breaking of the American dream across three bygone generations. Join Pipeline Theatre Company and their band of troubadours this spring for an awakening of the hope, heartache, and longing that binds us all together. More Info »	Halcyon Days Oberon Theatre Ensemble March 4 - 25, 2018 Written by Steven Dietz Directed by Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. How do you make something go viral in the days before social media? Halcyon Days by Steven Dietz is a shrewd satire exploring what it took to get America behind the 1983 invasion of the western hemisphere's smallest country, Grenada. This eye opening exploration of the D.C. "spin machine" is a brutally witty and thought provoking behind the scenes look at America's first "public relations" war. More Info »
One Thousand Nights and One Day Prospect Theater Company April 4 - 29, 2018 Book and lyrics by Jason Grote Music by Marisa Michelson Directed by Erin Ortman In mythic Persia, a daring young woman spins tales to save the kingdom and her life. In modern-day New York, a Jewish man and Palestinian woman fight to find love in a fractured world. This world premiere musical, adapted from Jason Grote's critically-acclaimed play 1001, reinvents "The Arabian Nights," colliding the contemporary and the ancient. Through a genre-bending score, it questions past and present images of the Middle East, exploring the power of story in our everyday lives. More Info »	UNCENSORED MCC Theater April 5 - 8, 2018 Written and Performed by the MCC Theater Youth Company Directed by Jennifer Shirley and Kevin Carillo UNCENSORED features original and thought-provoking works by New York City teens. Original monologues, scenes, music, and ensemblr pieces written by the company members explore this year's theme: WHAT'S IN THE GROUND? UNCENSORED gives audiences a rare, unfiltered glimpse into some of the most creative hearts and daring young voices in NYC's five boroughs. More Info »
Time's Journey Through a Room The Play Company May 10 - June 10, 2018 Written by Toshiki Okada Translated by Aya Ogawa Directed by Dan Rothenberg If Ghosts represent the past, what represents the future? Time's Journey Through A Room is a portrait of how we move forward from life-changing events. Part love story, part ghost story and set one year after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, this soulful and complex play observes how hope can spring up alongside sadness and fear, and change can be realized if we are awake to the present moment. More Info »	Mangled Beams American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA) April 13 - 29, 2018 Written by Dawn Jamieson Directed by Christen Omantra Callahan Rather than one man's quest for meaning, Mangled Beams is a play about "A People." It's the first play about the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) high beam walkers' involvement in the cleanup at Ground Zero after 9/11. As four men wait for work at the union hall miles from their home and families, they themselves are like mangled beams. Then the unimaginable happens. Unable to turn their backs on the tragedy, they go to work on the search and rescue effort - untangling beams while they reclaim their identity and find personal redemption. More Info »
Henry VI, Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two Parts NAATCO August 11 - September 8, 2018 Adapted and Directed by Stephen Brown-Fried Experience Shakespeare's saga of a nation spinning wildly out of control. Henry VI is the story of a great nation's decent into barbarism and cruelty. It is a study of how the experience of a problematic foreign war erodes civil discourse at home, and how that erosion allows political self-interests to take hold and send a country hurtling into civil war. More Info »	The Sea Concerto Flux Theatre Ensemble May 6 - 19, 2018 Written by August Schulenburg Directed by Heather Cohn & Kelly O'Donnell The Sea Concerto follows Lynnie, a poet who has lost her creative voice to the silence that claimed her father's. Now, a mysterious letter from her Aunt Janet asks her to return to her old seaside home to take back something of her father's. Will it help explain the mystery of why he gave up music? Will that answer help her write again? And can she ever forgive the betrayal that tore her family apart? In the spirit of classic memory plays like The Glass Menagerie and Side Man, The Sea Concerto explores the legacies of pain and resilience that we inherit, pass on, and sometimes let go. More Info »
Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet BEDLAM September 14 - October 28, 2018 Uncle Vanya adapted by Kimberly Pau Directed by Stephen Brown-Fried "As I began preparing to present the two plays in rep, I saw an opportunity to display their strong thematic similarities in a new way. Both plays showcase characters experiencing longing for love at different times in their lives. In Uncle Vanya, they are looking back saying, 'How did I get here?' In Romeo and Juliet, they are looking forward saying, 'How can I get there?' By watching these epic classics side-by-side in the same sitting, the audience can follow the doubling actors on a journey through a landscape where both worlds intersect, revealing the characters' varying experiences of love, loss, and longing at various milestones in their lives." - Eric Tucker, Director More Info »	The Fourth Wall Theater Breaking Through Barriers May 26 - June 23, 2018 Written by A.R. Gurney Directed by Christopher Burris Peggy has redecorated the living room and her husband, Roger, can't stand it. Peggy's usual exquisite taste has been overcome by a mysterious lapse which caused her to redo the room as if it were a stage set. Everything faces one wall, THE FOURTH WALL, and everyone who enters the room begins to behave as if they were acting in a play. Troubled by this odd behavior, Roger calls in the local theatre professor in the hopes that he can "doctor" Peggy's "play," break THE FOURTH WALL, and bring the madness to a close. "All Access" performances with Open Captioning and Audio Description: Sunday, June 3rd at 3pm, Thursday, June 14th at 8pm. Talkbacks with ASL interpreters will follow All Access performances. More Info »
Dare to Be Different–A Festival of New Musicals and Special Events Amas Musical Theatre November 15 - December 7, 2018 PRESENTING FOUR BRAND NEW MUSICALS and TWO VERY SPECIAL EVENTS - "THE ALGONQUIN KID" AND "WITH LOVE, MARILYN." GO TO www.amasmusical.org FOR MORE DETAILS! The Algonquin Kid, written by Michael Colby, music director Michael Lavine, directed by Charles Repole (Nov. 17). With Love, Marilyn, written by and starring Erin Sullivan, music director Garrett Taylor, directed by Stephanie Rosenberg (Dec 7). Bridges, music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen, book by Cherly L. Davis, directed by Jeffrey Page (Nov 15 - 16). Romeo and Bernadette, book by Mark Saltzman, with music adapted from classic Italian Melodies, music director Aaron Gandy, directed by Justin Ross (Nov 19 - 20). Stealing Freedom: The True, Heroic Life of the Extraordinary Captain Smalls, written by Scott Winfield Sublett, music director Evan Alparone, directed by Christopher Scott (Nov 29 - 30). Distant Thunder, book by Lynne and Shaun Taylor-Corbett, music and lyrics by Chris Wiseman and Shaun Taylor-Corbett, directed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett (Dec 6 - 7). Visit www.amasmusical.org for more details! More Info »	The Beyoncé Adjusted Realists July 27 - August 18, 2018 Written By Eliza Bent Directed by Stephen Kaliski Nodding to Queen Bey but based on the Anton Chekov short story "The Fiancé," The Beyoncé is a razor sharp and deeply personal coming-of-age conundrum written by acclaimed playwright Eliza Bent (Toilet Fire, Aloha Aloha), "this generation's answer to Amy Sedaris: frank, weird, and immensely likable" (Time Out New York). With her wedding approaching, Nadia discovers that her heart doesn't want what it obviously should want: a decent husband and a stable family life. She instead fantasizes about running off to the bright lights of the big city, to the counterculture of self-discovery. Is this a silly daydream or a full-body call to adventure that must be answered? More Info »
	Meaningful Conversation New Light Theater Project September 7 - 22, 2018 Written By Owen Panettieri Directed by Anaïs Koivisto During a blackout, new neighbors David and Nat engage in unusual conversation and wind up revealing more about themselves than they intend. Two years later, they are thrust back into each other's lives when a domestic dispute erupts in their building, forcing them to reexamine their initial encounter in unexpected ways. More Info »
	WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN The Movement Theatre Company November 11 - December 16, 2018 Written By Aleshea Harris Directed by Whitney White WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN is a community ritual created in response to the deaths of Black people as a result of racialized violence. As lines between characters and actors, observers and observed blur, a dizzying series of vignettes build to a climactic moment where performance and reality collide, highlighting the absurdity of anti-blackness in our society. Through facilitation and dialogue we must decide how to cope, resist, and move forward. More Info »

2019

Mezzanine Theatre	Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
The Convent Weathervane Productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater January 16 - February 17, 2019 Written By Jessica Dickey Directed by Daniel Talbott In Jessica Dickey’s The Convent, a group of women go on a retreat to live like nuns in the Middle Ages and are baptized with 80s pop, female mysticism, hallucinogens and sex. The Convent is a toothy dark comedy about desire, devotion and the mystery of intrinsic divinity. More Info »	SKIN Broken Box Mime Theater January 18 - February 3, 2019 Written and performed by Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) Artistic Director Becky Baumwoll Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) activates their unique reinvention of throwback French pantomime to present a 90-minute collection of all-new stories that riff on the many layers of Skin: color, consent, border, point of contact, identity, a molting snake. There will be a Brooklyn beard competition, a dance of romance, and a sitcom gone awry. There will be wrestling and zombies. There will be lights, original music, and bodies telling each narrative, weaving them all into a singular evening of activated imagination and a dive into the deep deep. More Info »
The Importance of Being Earnest (Two Ways) New York Classical Theatre March 5 - 24, 2019 Written by Oscar Wilde Adapted and Directed by Stephen Burdman Who really wears the pants in 1895 England? New York Classical Theatre opens its 20th Anniversary Season with a gender-flipping production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The entire cast swaps genders and roles at every other performance! Considered one of the funniest comedies in the English language, Earnest is a satire of social manners and obligations in Victorian courtship. This will be NY Classical's first show presented in a traditional seated venue. Since 2000, NY Classical has provided affordable and approachable performances in iconic New York City settings, from Brookfield Place to Central Park. More Info »	The Neurology of the Soul Untitled Theater Company No. 61 February 8 - March 2, 2019 Written and directed by Edward Einhorn A new play by Edward Einhorn examining the nexus between neuroscience, marketing, art, and love. Set at a neuromarketing firm, it follows a neuroscientist who is trying to scientifically define love ; his wife, an artist who is using her brain scans as the basis of video self-portraits; a marketer who is trying to apply the science of love to advertising; and a gallery owner who deals with art as a commodity. This multimedia production continues Untitled Theater Company No. 61’s ongoing interest in combining theater with the fields of economics and neuroscience. More Info »
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Aquila Theatre Company April 5 - 7, 2019 Directed by Desiree Sanchez FRANKENSTEIN: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has haunted our collective imagination for 200 years. First published in 1818, her novel is considered the first true science fiction novel, a classic that explores science's potential in opposition to its consequences. Victor Frankenstein creates life and, dealing with the repercussions of his actions, he must destroy his own creation. Aquila Theatre's production of this timeless piece creates a bold and thrilling homage to Shelley's original novel. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: One of Shakespeare's most beloved and witty comedies is brought to vivid life in this innovative new production. Full of memorable characters--Puck, Oberon, Hippolyta, and Nick Bottom--and the famous "play within a play," the play deals with the universal theme of love, and its attendant complications: passion, lust, frustration, depression, confusion, and, of course, marriage. Aquila Theatre weaves a web of theatrical magic that will take audiences to the heart of an enchanted forest, the injustice of the Athenian court, and the political strife of the fairy kingdom. More Info »	Entangled The Amoralists April 18 - May 11, 2019 Written by Charly Evon Simpson and Gabriel Jason Dean Directed by Kate Moore Heaney In the aftermath of a mass shooting in NYC, the black mother of a victim and the white brother of the shooter try to make sense of what happened, each individually grappling with a soul-shattering experience that few understand. An exploration of loss and survival, ENTANGLED is the story of two strangers connected by tragedy in a nation still struggling to see itself for what it is. More Info »
American Morning Prospect Theater Company May 8 - 19, 2019 Book, music, and lyrics by Timothy Huang Directed and choreographed by Marlo Hunter Chin and Eng share a taxi medallion, a homeland, and the American Dream. When so much ties them together, what drives them apart? Based on a true incident, Prospect presents this Richard Rogers Award-winning musical for the first time in a staged workshop production. More Info »	Women In Theatre Festival Project Y Theatre Company June 5 - 30, 2019 Three Musketeers 1941, by Megan Monaghan Rivas Co-Directed by Andrew William Smith and Michole Biancosino, Project Y Co-Artistic Directors Sleeping Beauty, by Amina Henry Directed by Michole Biancosino The Women in Theatre Festival seeks to broaden the opportunities for women in the entertainment industry by producing new work by women with more than 50% female representation of all artists involved. The 4th Annual Women in Theatre Festival will feature 10 separate productions, headlined by two fully staged World Premieres, commissioned specifically for the Women in Theatre Festival: Three Musketeers 1941, by Megan Monaghan Rivas, and Sleeping Beauty, by Amina Henry. Additional programing includes The Hrosthwitha Project: Adaptations of Calimachus by Eliza Bent, Susan Bradbeer, Antu Yacob, Laura Pittenger, Kaaron Briscoe Minefee, and Kelley Nicole Girod. Also work by: Gina Femia, Illana Becker, Dana Jacks, Colby Rossmassler, Hannah Manikowski, Stephanie Swirsky, Sheila Bandyopadhyay, The Bellweather Project, Crashbox Theatre, and more! More Info »
Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson Working Theater June 11 - July 6, 2019 Written by Rob Ackerman Directed by Theresa Rebeck Inspired by a true, little-known story about the making of an iconic TV commercial in which a legendary film director puts a movie star’s life in the hands of a very jittery props guy. A humorous and ultimately disturbing account of power in the workplace, “Gumballs” examines how truth is negotiated in both art and in life, and who gets to control the narrative in an increasingly divided society. More Info »	Lear's Shadow Smith Street Stage September 5 - 22, 2019 Directed & Adapted by Beth Ann Hopkins Musical Composition & Direction by Elliot Roth A young girl has run away to her Grandmother's attic, a space for forgotten objects covered with drop cloths and dusty time. When searching through a stack of old books, she opens one up to reveal that the words literally come alive off the pages as characters and creatures emerge around her and begin to tell her the story of King Lear. A classic story, retold through the eyes of a child. More Info »
Drive East 2019 Navatman Inc August 5 - 11, 2019 Immerse yourself in the music and dance traditions of India—and enjoy their various permutations from artists across the globe. A festival like no other, with evenings featuring seasoned artists alongside undiscovered gems from around the world, Drive East brings you the legacy of a modern voice within an ancient form. More Info »	Nothing Gold Can Stay Partial Comfort Productions October 1 - 26, 2019 Written by Chad Beckim Directed by Shelley Butler Clay and Jess have big dreams: college, refuge from the cold Maine winters, and a permanent escape from the paycheck-to-paycheck, rent-a-center furniture lifestyle of their parents. When Jess finds herself temporarily stuck behind and at odds with her stepfather, she moves in with Clay's mom and begrudgingly takes a job at the local chicken farm. Meanwhile Clay heads off to college, counting down the days to his return, desperate to avoid the destiny of his geography. NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY is love story for the opioid era. More Info »
(A)loft Modulation the american vicarious September 26 - October 26, 2019 Written by Jaymes Jorsling Directed by Christopher McElroen It’s the last explosive heyday of jazz and the inhabitants of a seedy Manhattan loft jam night after night, while a compulsive photographer documents everything with round-the-clock reel-to-reel recordings and photographs. (A)loft Modulation traces the turbulent, roiling obsessions of this group of musicians—a who’s who of jazz from 1957 to 1965—and their pursuit of purpose, while social chaos seeks to overthrow American culture. It’s angst vs. contentment, selfishness vs. benevolence, artist vs. layman—a struggle that plays out through the fractured lens of unlabeled reel-to-reel tapes which are stumbled upon 60-years after they were recorded. Featuring a live jazz band that improvises nightly, (A)loft Modulation harnesses the power of these rare and precious sound and video recordings, taking the audience on a thrilling and emotional tour of this watershed moment in jazz history. More Info »	Peter and the Starcatcher Theatre for Humanity November 1 - 17, 2019 By Rick Elice, music by Wayne Barker Directed by Brad Cain Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair...and the bonds of friendship, duty and love. More Info »
Dare to Be Different Festival of New Musicals and Special Events Amas Musical Theatre November 2 - 24, 2019 MISSING PERSON, by Susan Campanaro, music and lyrics by Lynn Portas, directed by Christopher Scott. KEATON AND THE WHALE book and lyrics by Molly Reisman, book and music by Emily Chiu, music director Benji Goldsmith, directed by Leora Morris. MIGHTY FUNNY KINDA’ LOVE (A God-sib’s Tale) book, music, and lyrics by Pamela Baskin-Watson, book by Nedra Dixon, directed by Elmore James. THE DOTTIE MARSCHINO SHOW, starring Dottie Maraschino and the Stems, music director David Caldwell, directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner. VICTORY TRAIN by David Buskin and Jake Holmes, music director Doug Katzaros, directed by Lynne-Taylor Corbett. DUET FOR THREE by David Caudle, lyrics by Paul James, music by Kay Swift, music director Aaron Gandy, directed by Gabriel Barre. WINDYWOO AND HER NAUGHTY NAUGHTY PETS, book, music and lyrics by Wendy Ann Gardner, music director Stephanie Bianchi, directed by Jonathan Cerullo. More Info »	IN A DARK DARK HOUSE Knife Edge Productions December 6 - 21, 2019 By Neil LaBute Directed by Sam Helfrich Drew, who has been court-confined for observation at a psychiatry facility, calls his older brother Terry, to corroborate his claim of childhood sexual abuse, releasing barely-hidden animosities between the two. "In a Dark Dark House" tells a tale of sexual and emotional abuse and two estranged brothers who attempt to overcome it and understand the legacy of abuse, both inside and outside their family home. More Info »
MATILDA the Musical Actors Technique New York December 7 - 22, 2019 Directed by Carl Anthony Tramon The Post-Broadway Manhattan Premiere of every kid's favorite story comes to life in an inventive new turn on the story. An original producer of the Broadway production has teamed up with ATNY, the premiere Acting school in NYC, and some of the most astonishing young talent in the country. Playing at the award-winning A.R.T. NY Theatres for matinee and evening performances on weekends in December. Reserved seating, as well as fun Pillow Seating in front of the stage, is available. Come get swept away in time, movement, music, and magic of MATILDA. More Info »

2020

Mezzanine Theatre	Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
Romeo & Bernadette Amas Musical Theatre January 14 - February 16, 2020 Book and lyrics by Mark Saltzman Music adapted from Classic Italian Melodies Romeo - Yes, THAT Romeo - finds himself in 1960 Brooklyn, chasing a girl he believes is his beloved Juliet. But no, its' Bernadette, the beautiful, foul-mouthed daughter of a crime family in this wild spoof of Shakespeare's timeless tale. More Info »	Border People Working Theater January 25 - February 22, 2020 Written & performed by Dan Hoyle Directed by Nicole A. Watson BORDER PEOPLE is based on conversations with immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and border crossers of all kinds at both the Northern and Southern borders, and the many unseen borders in between. A startling gallery of portraits of those who cross borders, geographical or cultural, by necessity or choice. More Info »
Suicide Forest Ma-Yi Theater Company February 25 - March 15, 2019 Written by Haruna Lee Directed by Aya Ogawa Returning by popular demand, following a sold-out run at The Bushwick Starr, Haruna Lee’s Suicide Forest is a bilingual nightmare play excavating the Japanese American consciousness and its intimate relationship with sex, suicide, and identity. In 1990’s Japan, a teenage girl grapples with her sexuality in a male-defined society as a salaryman desperately tries to escape his masochistic psyche. When their journeys collide, they expose their darkest desires fueled by shame with the notorious Suicide Forest looming over their imagination. More Info »	The Best of TheaterWorks! Working Theater February 22 - 29, 2020 Directed by Nicole A. Watson An off-Broadway production featuring the best short plays to come out of the last 19 years of Working Theater’s TheaterWorks! playwriting program, offered to working people across New York City. The Award by Alma Brothers Comte des Cierges by Carlos Cotto A Cigarette Girl in the South Bronx by Constance Gemson Drawing Close by Valerie Knight Steps by Althea Matthews To Boldly Go by Michael D. O’Hara Expert Opinion by Dhipinder Walia More Info »
	THE ARTIST WILL BE WITH YOU IN A MOMENT Parallel Exit March 7 - 29, 2020 Created, Written, and Performed by Joel Jeske Directed by Mark Lonergan Three-time Drama Desk nominee Parallel Exit returns to NYC with a brand new show. Join us for an immersive audience experience featuring Joel Jeske in a solo comic performance as an artist, performer, and clown. A creative force who "can get laughs simply by breathing" (The New York Times), Jeske invites audiences to participate in a multimedia performance and visual art installation with himself as the character, creator, and subject. The production offers Jeskes signature treatment of art, physical comedy, and audience interaction in a work that subversively asks us what we choose to value and why. More Info »

2021

Mezzanine Theatre	Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre
No Pants in Tuscon The Anthropologists November 5 - 14, 2021 Written & Directed by Melissa Moschitto It’s the year 1883 and an ordinance prohibiting women from wearing pants has been passed in Tucson. In this subversive new comedy, The Anthropologists dares to calculate the cost of gender oppression. Drawing upon archaic state laws criminalizing cross-dressing, No Pants In Tucson asks: why are you so obsessed with my body? With a creative and producing team of women, non-binary and transgender artists, The Anthropologists’ newest devised play dares to calculate the costs of gender-oppression today. More Info »	Alma Baya Untitled Theatre Company No. 61 August 13 - 28, 2021 Written and Directed by Edward Einhorn An original absurdist sci-fi drama. Alma and Baya live on a hostile planet in a pod designed to sustain just them. When a refugee arrives from another pod, the have to balance survival versus compassion. More Info »
Almost, Maine EPIC Players December 4-12, 2021 Written by John Cariani Directed by Travis Burbee On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream. EPIC is excited to bring to life ALMOST, MAINE, by John Cariani; a show about hope, love, and connection. Something we are all seeking as we look into the future. More Info »	Brecht on Brecht Theatre Breaking Through Barriers October 19-November 20, 2021 Written by Bertold Brecht and arranged by George Tabori Directed by Nicholas Viselli Musical Director Dionne McClain-Freeney Brecht on Brecht celebrates one of the 20th century’s greatest and most prolific playwrights with a stunning, kaleidoscopic, 90-minute revue of his life’s work. Featuring poems, stories & scenes by Brecht and songs by Kurt Weill & Hans Eisler Brecht on Brecht explores the political and social issues he faced throughout his life, as an artist fleeing the Nazi Regime and as an exile, ultimately landing in America. Originally produced by TBTB just months after 9/11, Brecht On Brecht hauntingly mirrored our feelings during that time in the world. 20 years later, Brecht’s words once again resound with pitch-perfect clarity, echoing all we are experiencing in our world today – and offering guidance and hope for these uncertain times. More Info »

2022

Mezzanine Theatre

Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre

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Bruise & Thorn

Pipeline Theatre Company

March 4 - 27, 2022

Written by C. Julian Jiménez
Directed by Jesse Jou
Choreographed by Cesar Valentino

Bruise and Thorn are Nuyorican, queer, and tired af of their jobs at a busted up laundromat in Jamaica, Queens. But not for long: Bruise is saving up to become a chef (like on Chopped!), and Thorn spits bars on street corners, one America's Got Talent audition away from becoming the Boricua Nikki Minaj. When the laundromat's basement turns out to be an illegal cockfighting ring, the cousins can't tell if this is an opportunity to cash out and become their most fabulous selves—or a trap to keep them locked into what everyone expects them to be.

DirectorFest 2022

The Drama League

Bill 1: January 19-22, 2022
She Talks To Beethoven by Adrienne Kennedy
Directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant
&
Girlfriend, Book by Todd Almond
Music & Lyrics by Matthew Sweet
Directed by Sivan Battat

Bill 2: February 2-5, 2022
The Seventeenth Chapel by Aditi Brennan Kapil
Directed by Reena Dutt
&
A Number by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Ryan Dobrin

DirectorFest is the only festival focusing on the art of contemporary stage directing by an exciting new generation of talent. These brand new productions are led by The Drama League's 2021 Directing Fellows.

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Citizen Wong

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre

April 12-May 1, 2022

Written by Richard Chang
Directed by Ernest Abuba & Chongren Fan

An epic tale of Gilded Age pioneer Wong Chin Foo (王清福, 1847–1898), a 19th-century social rights activist and journalist who wielded pen and pulpit to fight the first U.S. law to ban any race from the country, and claim the rightful place for Chinese Americans in New York’s Chinatown to America today.

The Jury: A New Musical

Theatre Now New York

February 11-26, 2022

Music by Jonathan Bauerfeld
Book and Lyrics by Casey Kendall

THE JURY is a new life-affirming musical by Casey Kendall (book & lyrics) and Jonathan Bauerfeld (music). It tells the story of Tess Butler who, after a short lifetime of battling opiate addiction and burning bridges, is dead. Now, it is up to seven people from her life to come together and decide whether or not she’s worth saving. Tess can only bear witness as they reconstruct her life, uncovering secrets, confronting hard truths, and slowly reaching a consensus. Life, or death. Rest, or redemption.

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

EPIC Players

May 12-22, 2022

Music and Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rebecca Feldman
Directed by Aubrie Therrien

Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a fast-paced, wildly funny and unforgettable theater experience. Elevated by EPIC Player's neuro-diverse company of artists, an eclectic group of pre-teens vie for the spelling championship while learning the meaning of friendship. Each performance is complete with several chances for audience participation and a healthy amount of competition.

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DISCUS

Hunger & Thirst Theatre

March 19-26, 2022

Written by Becca Schlossberg
Directed by Jenn Susi

Hyacinth is dead. Well, no, not yet; he's lost in the Nether Place. But what happened? Who killed him? Wait, did someone kill him? And where's Apollo? That's all Hyacinth can remember at first: that his life truly began the night he locked eyes with the great god Apollo...

DISCUS boldly reimagines the often-overlooked queer love story of Apollo and Hyacinth: a heartbreaking and candid play that challenges us with its powerfully relevant themes of class, power, justice, accountability, and above all: change. Can love inspire a person (or a god) to change for the better?

Queen

NAATCO in partnership with Long Wharf Theatre

June 10 - July 1, 2022

Written by Madhuri Shekar
Directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar

Three researchers on the verge of proving the root cause of bee extinction face a potentially fatal flaw in their model. Careers, politics and ethics collide as they are each faced with a choice between doing what is right or what is good, and must examine what those two things even mean when truth can't be found in numbers alone.

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Take Shape

Broken Box Mime Theater

April 1 - May 1, 2022

Written and performed by Broken Box
Mime Theater (BKBX)
Artistic Director Becky Baumwoll

In Take Shape, BKBX explores ten stories of emergence and transformation. What does it look like for a relationship to outgrow its shell like a hermit crab? How does an astronaut move after years of being alone? How long does it take, after an eviction, for a home to become an empty room? The collection of stories includes apocalyptic farce, high-stakes heist, metaphorical image collage, and grounded naturalistic drama. In each narrative piece, the modern mimes of BKBX illustrate how the shapes of our worlds, bodies, and ideas can shift and reshift around and within us.

Los Otros

Premieres NYC

August 24 - October 8, 2022

Book and Lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh
Music by Michael John LaChiusa
Directed by Noah Himmelstein

Through a series of beautiful and intimate moments, two Californians, Lillian and Carlos, explore significant moments in their lives, discovering they are linked in unexpected ways. Semi-autobiographical, Los Otros captures a universal story of interconnectedness, love, risk, and revelation through the lens of two people’s lives. Acclaimed director Noah Himmelstein (The Lucky Star; I Am Harvey Milk) helms the New York premiere of this unique musical by Tony Award nominees Ellen Fitzhugh and Michael John LaChiusa which features musical direction by J. Oconer Navarro (Caroline, or Change) and orchestrations by Tony Award winner Bruce Coughlin (The Light in the Piazza).

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CHUSHINGURA - 47 Ronin

Amaterasu Za

October 18 - November 13, 2022

Adapted and directed by Ako Dachs

Chushingura - 47 Ronin is based on real events that happened in Japan in 1702-03. One of the most enduring stories in Japan, this moving story of honor, sacrifice, and revenge will be presented in a new stage adaptation in Japanese with English subtitles by a large cast, with sword-fighting!

The Karpovsky Variations

Boomerang Theatre Company

May 13-29, 2022

Written by Adam Kraar
Directed by Tasha Gordon-Solman

Julia Karpovsky’s father is brilliant, talented—and lives half a world away. Growing up among her eccentric and disparate relatives, Julia navigates her way through a family with a missing piece, searching for the elusive notes of her father's clarinet. This musical story traces the Karpovskys' encounters at airport lounges over two decades as they improvise what it means to be a family.

The Refugees

Adjusted Realists in association with Weber State University

June 4 - 26, 2022

Written and Directed by Stephen Kaliski
Co-Directed by Matt Mastromatteo

Who do we let in? This simple question resonates across the entirety of our lives today, ranging in scale from family feuds to geopolitical crises. In THE REFUGEES, a jaded queen and her activist children struggle to answer it, each side fiercely opposed over whether their prosperous realm should offer asylum to masses of immigrants displaced by climate change.

Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle

Egg and Spoon Theatre Collective

August 23 - September 2, 2022

Written by Alexander Perez
Directed by Rebecca Martinez

Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle takes its audience into the complicated and darkly comedic lives of five co-workers doing their best to hold a scrappy amusement park together. The highs and lows of working at "Randy's" are no joke, but this little piece of life, detailing the experience of a day job that's also killing you, is too funny and too relatable not to break your heart and leave you laughing through the cringe. Randy's Dandy explores class, capitalism, and the American dream through the colorful lens of this deeply human group of people.

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Bloom Bloom Pow: A Queer-Joy Climate-Doom Comedy

Dead Horse Productions

September 16 - October 2, 2022

A NEW GEORGES SUPPORTED PRODUCTION
written by Genevieve Simon
directed by Katherine Wilkinson
co-produced by Brittany Proia and Al Parker

Mag, a nonbinary twentysomething, returns to their childhood home in a small conservative Ohio town. Everything is dull and weird and not queer at all. They are trying to keep it together despite desperate phone calls from their mom, chatty co-workers, and visions of melting ice caps and dead horses at the bottom of the east river. Mag's life gets more interesting (and sexy) when they meet The Creature and learn about the algae taking over the town's water supply. Will Mag save the city, or is it the algae's time to shine?

Bloom Bloom Pow is inspired by 1950s monster movies and the real-life 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when the tap water became deadly for humans because of toxic algal blooms.

POWERHOUSE

Manhattan Repertory Theatre

October 6 - 30, 2022

Playwright: David Harms
Director: Ken Wolf

A powerful female lawyer is being pushed out of her high profile Law Firm due to an inappropriate relationship that she is having with younger associate.

This relentless, passionate lawyer challenges the traditional roles in this male - dominated business, and asks the question: "What happens when a woman truly stands in her own power?"

L'Amour A Passy

B&R Productions

November 4-20, 2022

By GW Reed

Directed by Manfred Bormann

Benjamin Franklin’s affair with the beautiful composer Madame Hardancourt Brillon, a married woman half his age.

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Tartuffe

EPIC Players

December 1 - 11, 2022

Written by Moliere

Directed by Travis Burbee

A neuro-diverse rendition of the pointed social comedy Tartuffe, set in the roaring 1920s.

2023

Mezzanine Theatre

Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre

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Memorial

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre

January 19 - February 19, 2023

By Livian Yeh Alice Scovell
Director: Stephen Burdman

When her “untraditional” memorial is selected to commemorate Vietnam veterans -- to fierce opposition -- Maya Lin must ask herself if democracy about compromise and working together.

The Rewards of Being Frank

NY Classical

March 3 - 26, 2023

Playwright: Alice Scovell
Director: Stephen Burdman

A hilarious new sequel to Oscar Wilde's classic comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest."

Drop in seven years later on Wilde’s characters and see what happens when they meet Frank. After all, the only thing more Important than being Earnest, is being Frank!

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Mothermotherland

Slovo. Theater Group

January 11-15, 2023

Mothermotherland is a devised performance that explores motherhood, motherland, and Ukrainian and American experience through the lens of Mykola Khyvylovy’s autobiographical short story “I am (a Romantic)”.

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The Midnight Chapters

Scantic River Productions

January 20-22, 2023

"Monsters Are Made In The Minds of Men" by Ryan Bultrowicz and "The Truth About Whispers" by Katherine Oostman

Directed by Katherine Oostman

Monsters Are Made In The Minds of Men: Camila's father was a monster hunter. He spent his day's chasing after Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, and an array of other mythical beasts. But now he's dead and Camila and Liam, her boyfriend, are left to rummage through his monster- hunting arsenal.

The Truth About Whispers: Ro is an amateur time traveler. When a mysterious client by the name of “Gray” walks into her office and commissions her to adjust a memory from a New Year’s Eve Party past, Ro doesn’t think much of it. However, as she ventures deeper and deeper into Gray’s memories, she is confronted with increasing paradoxical happenings.

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Dark Night Takeover @ The Gural

Please join our member companies for evenings of readings every Wednesday through Saturday in late January and February at 7:30pm in the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre

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The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents The 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel

New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company

May 3 - 27, 2023

written and directed by Colette Robert
music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney

As six high-achieving debutantes interrupt their preparations to peek into the shimmering ballroom, The Harriet Holland Social Club’s esteemed Madam President does her damnedest to ensure it all goes well. She needs no stumbles tonight. No teary-eyed smudges, no unraveling lace, no unraveling ANYTHING. Because if she can’t control these girls, whatever will they think over at Table 4?

Experienced in real time as a Black debutante ball in a large American city today—and featuring an all-Black-women company and creative team, down to its three-piece band—The Cotillion interrogates the complexities of Black debutante ball culture and finds that beneath all the respectability politics and sweet serenades lie contradictions even quality make-up can’t cover up. It puts us all in our evening shoes—those fancy ones that start to pinch as the night wears on—to consider how we choose to uplift young Black women in a world that seeks to diminish them.

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Powerline Road

Theatre Now NY

March 17 - April 1, 2023

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Michael Finke
Directed by Michael Bello

POWERLINE ROAD is a dark, gripping tale of power- who has it, who wants it, and what people are willing to do to get it.

This neo-noir synth-pop musical by Michael Finke follows four Floridians over the course of 24 hours as they navigate divorce, politics, conspiracies, drugs, the twisted world of social media, and the corruption of the private prison industrial complex, all while discovering what it means to take power into their own hands.

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Into the Woods

EPIC Players

June 8 - 18, 2023

Join EPIC on a neuro-diverse journey Into the Woods! Based on the Grimm Brothers’ most popular folktales, Into the Woods is a reimagining of what can happen when beloved fairytale characters meet on hilarious, soul-stirring, and often times heartbreaking paths in the woods. Be careful what you wish for, you just may get it.

The 8th Annual Women in Theatre Festival

Project Y

June 2 - 17, 2023

The Women in Theatre Festival (WIT) develops, showcases, commissions, and produces the work of diverse women playwrights, lead creative artists, actors and designers for audiences in NYC. WIT seeks to broaden the opportunities for women in the entertainment industry by producing new work by women with more than 50% female representation of all artists involved.