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Five Evenings is a moving melodrama that weaves together the stories of two generations, exploring love, loss, and resilience in the face of unimaginable hardships. ...

Emerging Artists Theatre’s Spark Theatre Festival NYC (formerly the New Works Series) began in 2006 and focuses on new works, new talents, and new voices.

Can presentational artists separate pedestrian life and entertainment? We dissect and disrupt the performative nature of existence through risk and rejection of correctness.

Can the Wheel of Generational Trauma Ever Truly Stop Spinning?
New Play

Come watch the award-winning play, "Constellations" by Nick Payne, this November! In  Constellations , Marianne, a physicist, and Roland, a beekeeper, meet at a simple barbecue, ...

Celebrate books and freedom with a night of literary inspired sketch comedy by Model Majority. Get your tickets before they get banned.

Emerging Artists Theatre Presents The Schmidt Sisters: A Revolutionary Situation A workshop performance on September 18th 7pm   Part of the 2024 Spark Theatre Festival ...

Subway Windows,” part of an evening of dance/theatre at the SPARK Festival, takes its inspiration from “The Subway Series” paintings by contemporary visual artist Ilene Isseks. ...

Staged reading of a new musical inspired by recent events, IN JUSTICE follows an ambitious prosecutor as she lands her career case but encounters corruption.

Welcome to our first annual Time Capsule Project! Our Mission is to empower our participating artists to become the next generation of creative leaders in ...

Telos is a one-act play that examines why we do what we do; exploring a sense, or rather lack, of purpose amongst the vast majority ...

Over the course of a parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide ...

Their world embraces the concept of “what if” in the vast possibilities of a future within an expansive universe.

Experience the thrills and chills of WITCHLAND, a new scary, thrilling and funny play for adults.
New Play

A staged Reading of Rebecca Gilman's "Blue Surge" Comes to Chain Theatre, at 312 West 36th Street.   Jeremy McClelland and Gray Thurstone proudly present  ...

Girls' Night is a 10-minute play participating in Chain Theatre's one-act festival.   Use code GIRLS when checking out!   Despite her best friend’s grief ...

Set in 1890s Old West, fear and paranoia set in when 11 stangers stuck in a saloon must decide who will leave with the Reaper.

Lily, a girl afraid of silence, learns that "being alive" isn't inherently the same as being "not dead."

TOURIST TRAP, written by Elijah Guo and directed by Dylin Taylor, premieres at the Chain Theatre One-Act Festival on Feb. 10 at 8:00pm, Feb. 18 ...

A story of a 17th Century woMAN who fights against all odds to validate his gender identity.

"Hamlet Speak" is a new adaptation and shorter cut (world premiere) of Shakespeare's well-known tragedy that includes predominately the original text, punctuated with contemporary monologues ...

William Jennings Bryan was the greatest orator of the 20th Century.  Over 100 years ago, the three-time presidential nominee of the Democratic Party predicted the ...

How does a girl escape from the everlasting gravity that chains her to the ground? Meimei, a 16 year old girl in China, has become ...

How does a girl escape from the everlasting gravity that chains her to the ground? Meimei, a 16 year old girl in China, has become ...

The story of a man whose desire for absolute power poisoned his humanity and terrorized a nation. TEATRO CÍRCULO , one of the leading bilingual ...

Music and Book by David Allen Dilsizian. Based on a true story about a young man coming out to his religous mother.  Synopsis- Dan Sarkisian ...

Jet lagged, without warning, Danny is summoned from NYC by his brother Jacob to Florida. Their mother has 24 hrs to vacate their childhood home. ...

As part of CALLBACKseries2023, from February 16 to 26 Teatro Círculo presents 'Seis' by Uruguayan playwright Federico Roca, a moving tribute to six transgender women ...

As part of DANCEseries2023, from February 18 to 25, Teatro Círculo will bring for the first time the dance troupe Mexica Danza Folklórica. Directed by ...

  The critically-acclaimed Chain Theatre (NYT critic’s pick macbitches) is pleased to announce the world premiere production of G.D. Kimble’s WHAT PASSES FOR COMEDY, directed ...

1983AS PART OF THECHAIN THEATRE PLAY FESTIVAL 2022www.chaintheatre.orgJoin us this summer for the Chain Theatre Play Festival. "1983" will be part of the selected voices ...

In Third Wing forgotten employees complete obsolete tasks and search for meaning. Their spouses and children occupy the same incongruous space, a basic workplace that ...

Dan Bandana and Buddy Maple have known each other since high school. Last in their class but strong in spirit, they always find their way ...

For Immediate Release:Manhattan Repertory Theatre returns with the New York City premiere of Kim E. Ruyles award-winning play, KALISPELL!Manhattan Repertory Theatre presents the New York ...

STILL, BIRTH. a play about pregnancy lossBy Robyne Parrish and Coley CompanyCo-Produced by The Chain TheatreAS PART OF THECITY ARTISTS CORPS GRANT FROM NEW YORK ...

Playwright Jessica Durdock Moreno is the 2021 recipient of the John Golden Award for Excellence in playwriting from the Faculty of NYU Tisch. Presented as ...

Dionysus, god of wine, merriment, and theatre, has left his home at Mount Olympus and joined the greatest farce of them all: the American politic. ...

While theatres across New York City remain closed, the Chain Theatre is continuing its commitment to developing new plays by diverse artists and underrepresented voices ...

Chain Theatre Mainstage: Chasing the River...

A wickedly fun new comedy that skewers our reality-TV politics and the stories we tell about ourselves, Bootstraps by Kathryn Funkhouser premieres at the Chain ...

In this homage to "The Seagull", Steven Dietz locks Nina, a young actress played by Francesca Ravera, and Treplev, a young writer played by André ...

A new production of Edward Allan Baker's “North of Providence” will be brought to life at the Chain Theatre, November 2nd and 3rd. Carol (played ...