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Established in 1986, Dixon Place is a nonprofit institution dedicated to supporting visionary artists through the development and presentation of original works in the performing and literary arts. In a professional, compassionate environment, artists are inspired and encouraged to implement new ideas and new practices. Programming and curatorial policies support inclusivity and diversity regarding gender, race, sexual identity, age, disabilities, social class, and ethnicity. Committed to fostering social justice, DP’s foremost priorities are to serve as a safe haven for artists of all stripes and callings and to provide meaningful, culturally enriching experiences for audiences.


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ERNIE'S SECRET LIFE Comes to Dixon Place Next Month


by Stephi Wild - December 11, 2023

Dixon Place will present the world premiere of Concrete Temple Theatre’s Ernie’s Secret Life, an episodic odyssey that fuses ever-changing puppetry and stagecraft with humor, music, and a raw understanding of our profound collective reality. Learn more about the show and how to get tickets here!...

Past Shows

Mx. Media: Voices, Visions, Geographies


Join us for an illuminating evening exploring queer geographies through film, photography, music, and words. Three artists who refract their ideas across multiple media will ...

The End of Incorporated Filth


Ladies and gentlemen, those of you in between, or none of the above: We welcome you hungrily to the Eltinge Theater in the year 1937. ...

The Vessel Project: Premiere + Workshop


A documentary web series that uses cosplay as a therapeutic experiment. The first iteration follows two NYC-natives who create an alter ego around traits they ...

World Wide Witch with Kay Turn Her and the Pages


Led by Kay Turner  (vocals), with  Viva DeConcini  (guitar) and  Mary Feaster  (bass), the Kay Turn Her band experience turns you on, turns you out, ...

Ain’t …It Funny


With a sarcastic edge and a touch of vulnerability, this show addresses the struggle to find humor in a post-pandemic reality. It’s a show that ...

MAUS & MINERVA: A Double Bill


Maus. “New kid on the block, William Maus, could draw comparisons to the likes of Sam Smith – although, this nascent artist seems a little ...

Twofer: Isobel, a Witch’s Life & Love and Other Hard Truths


Isobel: A Witch's LIfe. Days prior to departing for a long-since planned Uk tour with their partner, Swann discovers that they lived a past life ...

Wicked Queer Authors: The Afterlife Edition


It’s a fact: dead writers can’t read their work at Dixon Place’s HOT Festival. So, Wicked Queer Authors presents the Afterlife Edition! Join us for a ...

La Fusión: Susana Cook and Friends


La Fusión is a raucous cabaret that brings together such legendary downtown performers as Flamenco dancer Maria Elena Anaya, Star of the screen and stage ...

seapony
seapony
9/14


seapony is a trans-masc pregnancy ritual inspired by the reproductive cycle of male seahorses, who take the lead in childbearing. This ritual is offered through ...

Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon Brings the Fiyah!


Experience fiery poetry at Dixon Place's HOT! Festival with Women Writers in Bloom's fierce and fabulous poets!

L is for the way you look


Jean Carlomusto screens L is for the way you look,  a cult classic and short film that cobbles together lesbian history using whatever scraps of gossip ...

Ménagè à Trois: An evening in three acts


The Two Deaths of Saint Sebastian by Chris Browne Valenzuela A look into the life (or afterlife) of the unofficial Patron Saint of gay boys. ...

Experiments & Disorders


Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers. Featured Writers: Sini ...

HOT Dance
HOT Dance
9/12


HOT Dance! evening at Dixon Place, provides opportunities for choreographers of queer identity, working in all dance forms to workshop new dance works that run ...

Strings Attached


A solo performance play woven from intimate stories of love, resilience and severance; this political drama traces a quarter-life-crisis of a morning, where one man ...

The Personal is Political: Gay Male Poets Reckon with Identity on 9/11.


How does individual identity intersect with that of a larger community, and of a nation? Poet & critic Jerome Ellison Murphy introduces a one-hour reading ...

The Breast Sessions: Titty Ditties & Other Poetic Witticisms


An evening of music, thought-provoking poetry, and other mind-bending absurdities from the brain-hole of a black woman rocking the clown tits she supposes colonialism caused ...

The Ho Moe Show


Holly Hughes presents an excerpt of a rant in progress  Indelible in the Hippocampus is the Laughter , which asks the question: How it is ...

Taste of Dance Parade Showcase Gala


Dance Parade offers an exciting sampling of some of the thousands of dancers that will appear in the May Dance Parade, including tap, folk, hip-hop ...

Pentacle's Fall Further XII


Pentacle, the major arts management, presents its annual Fall Further.  This 12th year lineup shows a great diversity of companies and choreographic voices in the ...

MAKE (f)ART


MAKE (f)ART is a clown show about the correct and first class way to make theatre. Featuring Tony and Olivier Award Winner Sapphire Elizabeth Craouwtch(auex)tch, ...


Dixon Place has announced its Spring 2021 Production Season, premiering four commissioned puppetry productions performed for in-person and virtual audiences, with video on demand streaming ...

Dixon Place Spring 2021 Production Season with Four Commissioned Puppetry Premieres In-Person and Online


Dixon Placeannounces its Spring 2021 Production Season, premiering four commissioned puppetry productions performed for in-person and virtual audiences, with video on demand (VOD) streaming available ...

Dixon Place presents Unicorn Afterlife by Justin Perkins, In-Person and Online


Dixon PlacepresentsUnicorn AfterlifebyJustin Perkinsas part of its Spring 2021 Production Season of puppetry commissions, performed for in-person and virtual audiences May 5-8, 2021 at 7:30pm ...

BLACKBLADE
BLACKBLADE
12/13 - 1/10/2021


A Fantasy Radio PlayPart II of The Titan CycleConceived, Written, and Produced by Arif SilvermanDeveloped and Directed by Lillian Wooten WhiteIllustrations by Nadim SilvermanA decades ...

30-30-30
12/30


Join Dixon Place for a very special finale saluting the dancemakers who grace our stage and screen. On Wednesday, DECEMBER 30, at 7 p.m. EDT, ...

Spanking Machine - Marga Gomez


In Spanking Machine GLAAD Award-winning writer/performer Marga Gomez shifts across gender, latitudes and generations in a darkly comic memoir about the first boy she ever ...

DANCE QUARANTINE V


Curated by Sangeeta YesleyFeaturing @diFFFerentDances (Diana Pettersen-Hervas), Hana Kozuka, Melissa Escano, Rebecca Frazier, The Redef Movement Dancers and choreographers express their feelings at this challenging ...

On the Table
On the Table
4/1 - 4/4/2020


Diana Arnold serves up her waitressing stories for us, and explores the idea of being in service. Drawing from her autobiographical childhood experiences with a ...

I Hate Memory
I Hate Memory
3/20 - 3/28/2020


Written by Eszter BalintSongs by Eszter Balint & StewFeaturing: The MusiciansDirected by Lucy SextonMedia Design: Tal YardenMusical director: David NaglerAn anti-musical co-starring the Streets of ...

8 in Show
8 in Show
3/25


Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work.Azul Dance Theatre performing Beyond the DesertCES Danceworks performing In SixesHanna Q Dance Company ...

rape game.
rape game.
3/23

Fast Forward


Corinne Shearer and DancersPerforming Portrait of A Bigger PictureChoreography by Corinne ShearerUnder the direction of Corinne Shearer, this group of like-minded artists produces work that ...

The Rooster and the Trinary Matrix


When Jon wakes up in his NYC studio department after getting voted off of Americas Got Talent as the dancing trombone player, he literally sees ...

S.A.D.F.Ü.K.C.


S.A.D.F.U.K.C. is a F.U.N. project about the interconnections between immigration experiences and the unsatisfying online dating world. Lover #69s romantic adventures with other several S.A.D.F.U.K.C. ...

The Brewery


The Brewery is a piece that unpacks the role of alcohol in our society. Through 5 characters whose lives have been affected by booze, the ...

Fran Drescher, Please Adopt Me


This is my pitch to get Fran Drescher to adopt me. I grew up with the tv show The Nanny as my nanny, and now ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary dance choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive movement vocabulary. Curated by ...

Resilience
Resilience
2/29


When were you resilient? The cast of Resilience answer this question through movement, song, storytelling, and video. The intention of this piece is to encourage ...

Burnt-Out Wife
Burnt-Out Wife
2/21 - 2/28/2020


With her comically idiosyncratic text-driven dance style, Juli takes on monogamy, intimacy, loneliness, sex deprivation, and other impossibilities of marriage. In a pepto-bismol pink bathroom, ...

Femme Fest 2020 feat. Lisa Natoli & Marisa Lark Wallin


This is a shared-billed show. The Burden of the DiseaseSymptoms of autoimmune diseases like fatigue, depression and anxiety are often rooted in the burden of ...

Femme Fest 2020 feat. Nicole Bindler & C. Bain


This is a shared-bill show.The Case for InvaginationIn this second version of the work, Nicole Bindler deepens her investigation of a monologue that she created ...


With her comically idiosyncratic text-driven dance style, Juli takes on monogamy, intimacy, loneliness, sex deprivation, and other impossibilities of marriage. In a pepto-bismol pink bathroom, ...

Type Me Queer


An interdisciplinary music and comedy piece from prettypretty. The show itself utilizes storytelling through song, short scenes, projections, and movement. We explore queer expression and ...

On 1 Condition


Choreographers createon 1 condition: they must abide by the same crazy rule!CHOREOGRAPHERS INCLUDE:Kelly McLoughlinMelanie AguirreMike EsperanzaRachel HettingerX RanceRyan Daniel BeckZoe Clayton...

Fast Forward


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme The Inner Strength featuring featuring Kizuna ...

Little Theater


Little Theatre is an OBIE-winning, more-or-less monthly presentation of cutting-edge theatre, dance, performance art & media, more-or-less curated by Katie Rose McLaughlin, Shannon Sindelar & ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary dance choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive movement vocabulary. Curated by ...

Packrat
1/31


Renee Philippi; music: Lewis Flinn; dir: Renee Philippi....

End Zone
End Zone
1/25


The last thing a performance artist needs is a larger castyet that is exactly what he gets in End Zone, by Bob Shuman, set in ...

[cowboy face]


RidgeRock Tech seems like the perfect place to work: beer on tap, a flexible vacation policy, and at least 16 different employees named Matt. But ...

Hyacinth and Apollo


Hyacinth doesnt know how to ask for what he wants. Apollo wants and receives. Thamyris cant stop wanting everything in the whole wide world. The ...

Marathon, by Edoardo Erba (Translation by Francesca LoDico)


Two women training for the marathon. Running as a life or death challenge. While running, they go through their fears, their desires. Their need to ...

Amai: Maze Gate


Andrew Maillet (Amai) presents a concert of original songs from an in-progress album. Rendered in simple piano arrangements, the songs written in New York, Warsaw ...

Bad Husband //\ Bad Homo
Bad Husband //\ Bad Homo
1/3 - 1/11/2020


Can a poster boy for gay marriage become a pioneer of gay divorce? In BAD HUSBAND//\BAD HOMO, Ryan Conarro achieves the gay American dream of ...

Group Therapy


Do you believe Group Therapy will be right for you? Group Therapy is a semi-immersive safe space where different types of people come together and ...

ON THE TABLE
ON THE TABLE
11/6 - 1/8/2020


Diana Arnold serves up her waitressing stories for us, and explores the idea of being in service. Drawing from her autobiographical childhood experiences with a ...

Above the Noise


Above the Noise, an oratorio composed by Daphne Gampel, explores the experience of young adults questioning, reaffirming, discarding, and deepening their relationships with religion in ...

the carter play


Media-proclaimed grieving girlfriend, Michelle Carter, sent her long-distance boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, text messages encouraging him to commit suicide. Years after her involuntary manslaughter conviction, ...

GASP!
GASP!
12/18


Held on the Bloomingdales campus over the course of a 48-hour retreat, eight families, couples, and participants engage in role-playing and writing exercises in order ...

UNSEEN
UNSEEN
12/16


As the news of another black teen being killed by a white police officer covers every newspaper, Ava Janine Wright cant help but to be ...

Plasma
Plasma
12/6 - 12/14/2019


Plasma is a multimedia dance performance ritual honoring the Divine Femme. Plasma is nectar. Rap, vogue, and general relativity collide in a lecture presentation turned ...

The Cherry Orchard!


Chekhov thought The Cherry Orchard was a comedy. So do we. In just 75 minutes, seven actors will show you three quarters of Chekhovs playwith ...

Little Theatre
Little Theatre
9/11 - 12/9/2019


NOW I TASTE BLOOD?! written by Bailey Williams directed by Sarah Blush sound design by John Gasper A beautiful and exclusive golf course, as far ...

Will They Play Golf on Mars?


For over a century, Mars has served as a blank slate for a variety of different cultural and political imaginaries. Performing verbatim speeches from Elon ...

Moving Men
Moving Men
12/3


A series of new choreography that features all male dancers. Curated by Doug Post....

Bright And Brave: A New Musical


England, 1872 a sense of longing has filled the halls of Eton College, a boarding school for boys. Best friends Regy and Chat find themselves ...

You're Beautiful


A dramatic retelling of the Greek myth Pygmalion. Through live dance and projection, Youre Beautiful tells the story of the sculptor Pygmalion (Dan Danger) who ...

Sex vs. Love
Sex vs. Love
11/22


A Musical With Words and Dance Only; Just Kidding; Sadly, A Latino Investigation of Neo-Sex; Can We Ever Forgive The OG White Capitalist Who Invented ...

Mother Goose: a comic chamber opera


Leonora Goosling, the innkeeper of the Mother Goose Inn and Suites, stops at nothing to record her guests tales and their happy endings. She is ...

Running in Place


The play deals with mental health, love and loss. Rebecca and Zoe, the two protagonists, relive their relationship from their first date to their last ...

Hollywood & Vine


The City of Angels has a devilish new citizen and shes standing on the street corner just waiting to entertain you! International drag darling and ...

No Holds Barred


A magical night featuring gifted professional & student aerial, circus, theater & dance artists. A fun, inspiring, original & sometimes shocking evening where artists pull ...

Fast Forward
Fast Forward
11/12


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme Earth Our Home, Our Identity, featuring ...

What If We Never Fell Apart?


What If We Never Fell Apart is a series of short, two person plays, that explores what its like to suddenly be in contact with ...

Ivankaplay
Ivankaplay
11/7


Shes hot, rich, and f*cking powerful. She knows bad things are happening. But shes making millions selling her line of shoes, Jareds voice is as ...

#Branded
#Branded
11/1


#Branded is an experimental work that explores human behavior in the Age of Information. An infusion of pop music, dance, language, and anything that trends, ...

On 1 Condition


Choreographers createon 1 condition: they must abide by the same crazy rule!CHOREOGRAPHERS INCLUDE:Kelly McLoughlinMelanie AguirreMike EsperanzaRachel HettingerX RanceRyan Daniel BeckZoe Clayton...

AJ Silver: A Cowboy From the Bronx!?


A high energy autobiographical one-man variety show combining storytelling, comedy, and Wild West arts to explain how a kid from the Bronx became an internationally ...

fools in plein air: fermented rain


Puppets, objects, projections and six performers have movement conversations with air, space, and discretionary boundaries inspired by folk tales and the natural world. Desperate distinctions ...

David's Friend


Davids Friend is the story of a crazy friendship in 1980s New York City a restless city during a reckless time. Its a comic odyssey ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary dance choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug ...

Mother Goose: a comic chamber opera


Leonora Goosling, the innkeeper of the Mother Goose Inn and Suites, stops at nothing to record her guests tales and their happy endings. She is ...

I Can't Sleep


I CANT SLEEP is a collection of dance theater and aerial pieces exploring the repetitions that drive and stagnate us: the short-circuiting and every day ...

Crossing Boundaries


New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries.Curated by Marcia Monroe....

Fast Forward
Fast Forward
10/15


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme Survival, featuring Beau Dobson and Dancers ...

Blue Whale Heart
Blue Whale Heart
11/14 - 10/14/2019


BLUE WHALE HEART is a love letter to the fast-paced, character-driven romantic comedies of the 1970s written with a distinctly modern hand. Set during New ...

Little Theatre


The OBIE Award-winning Little Theatrea more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media, more-or-less curated by William Burke, Katie Rose McLaughlin, Shannon Sindelar ...

Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region


Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region, is a new opera for folk and classical singers that follows ...

Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region


"Michigan Trees" follows the journey of Orna, a trans-woman, as she grapples with self-acceptance. Portrayed by a baritone (Grey Grant), "as she feels she is ...

The Lady Power Project: A Devised Song Cycle


The Lady Power Project is a devised song cycle driven by music and centered around intersectional feminism. The show features original music based off of ...

Equinox/Solstice


LAVA presents a new work, Equinox/Solstice, that has emerged from a year of residencies around the solstices and equinoxes, among the trees, along the river, ...

American Fables


In a series of loosely connected scenes that take us from a small town library in New England to a prison cell in Tehran, simple ...

Space Race
Space Race
9/14 - 9/21/2019


Finally, a play that brings light-hearted chuckles to the terrifying void of endless space! America and the Soviets race neck-and-neck, inch by inch, to be ...

Tin Pan Alley 2


The idea of Tin Pan Alley 2 is from the legendary birthplace of numerous American Standards in the early 20th century. The concert series mission ...

For The Time Being (Reading)


"For The Time Being" (by Ana Moioli, directed by Marina Zurita) is a non-realistic one-act play about letting go of the past, accepting the uncertainty ...

David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One Man Show


Actor-Writer-Monologist, David Dean Bottrell performs his highly-acclaimed comic storytelling show that the Los Angeles Times called hysterical and SoCal Public Radio deemed profane, hilarious, and ...

process memoir 5: The indigo kid.


I am ready. The time has come for me to begin, to conjure an active solo journey- an origin story inspired by multiple origin stories. ...

Underneath The Skin


Underneath The Skin is a solo dance theatre work based on the life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist and scholar who abandoned his ...

Reawakening


A young gay couple tries to fix what is left between them after a tragic incident at the Stonewall Inn. As they try to move ...

BAD HUSBAND //\ BAD HOMO


Ryan Conarro was never a very good gay. He wasnt into hooking up, partying, or wearing angel wings in parades. Scared of the scene and ...

The Tyranny of Structurelessness


People would try to use the structureless groups out of a blind belief that no other means could possibly be anything but oppressive. Jo FreemanAfter ...

I Do Believe in Fairies


A boy shows up in your bedroom, offers you some Fairy Dust, and takes you on a journey you will never forget. Peter, his drug-addled ...

IoB (The Internet of Beings)


Your dads going to love this Facebook album, she said. This was confusing: Dad had been dead for a year, and he didnt have a ...

Those Musclebound Cowboys From Snake Pit Gulch


Pinkerton Agent, Miss Daisy LaFleur travels by herself to the dangerous town of Snake Pit Gulch to get to the bottom of the corruption and ...

The Chaos Theory of Now


In this solo dramedy, science nerd Jennifer Joy mashes up chaos theory with a Trump-voting farm wife, a liberal rural politician, an Evangelical homeschooling mom, ...

Txt Play
Txt Play
7/16


Txt Play is a performance of text messages between Rebecca Baldwin and people close to the artist. Performers recreate conversations aloud replacing all digital communications ...

IvankaPlay
IvankaPlay
7/15


Shes hot, rich, and f*cking powerful. Shes making millions selling her line of shoes, Jareds voice is as soothing as ASMR, and her kids keep ...

The Sun Club


Thea wants to get into a good college. Peyton needs to transfer to a better school to save himself from bullying. As the pressure mounts, ...

DRK WSDM
DRK WSDM
7/12


Ever get that feeling that your heart is a gaping hole leading to a floor of abysmal darkness? No floor at all. Ever had a ...

Pretty Girls Don’t Light Their Own Cigarettes


Pretty Girls Dont Light Their Own Cigarettes is an ongoing autobiographical drag performance piece in 6 episodes. Pretty Girls is a drag queens coming of ...

The Switch
The Switch
7/10


Thanks for coming to THE SWITCH, a new solo show adaptation of the 2003 Jamie Lee Curtis vehicle FREAKY FRIDAY. Cant wait to hear your ...

breathing while trans


breathing while trans, a theatre and poetry piece, investigates what it means to breathe as a trans-feminine person. I often find myself catching my breath ...

Road Head
Road Head
7/9


Matts moving to LA in his 2002 Subaru! And Alex is coming with him! Hit the road with these zany besties, as they travel across ...

HOT! Festival Moves! An evening of Dance.


Tiny HurricaneWe love our children. They also destroy us. In Tiny Hurricane, a woman looks the charred wasteland of her pre-partum self dead in the ...

there’s a shewolf


Sarah is obsessed with Margaret of Anjou, and she doesnt quite know why. In theres a shewolf, she sets out to get this fifteenth-century Queen ...

Bad People


Bad People is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a grief stricken young woman. Using dry humor, unabashed nerdism, and cartoon dinosaurs, ...

Les Museums
Les Museums
7/11 - 6/11/2019


Les Museums is a play about Ingrid, a woman who ventures on dates through many of NYCs museums....

I Do Believe in Fairies


Dixon Place presents I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES by Mark Thomas Johnson with The Killer Darlings Directed by Yoni Weiss Produced by Doghouse Ensemble Theatre ...

Dixon Place presents: Tin Pan Alley 2


Tin Pan Alley 2 is a live mini-concert showcasing new original musical theatre works.The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during and after the show. ...

Girl Bully
Girl Bully
3/16


Two women (Mary and Mary) explore the meaning of the word"bitch" in an evening of comedy and theater. With appearancesfrom our childhood selves, old bosses, ...

SEX TAPE
SEX TAPE
2/15


This performance is Part 2 in a longer work entitled Manifesto, about power, care and gender where Revlock recreates moments in her life but shifts ...

Sex in Mechanicalville


Sex in Mechanicalville is a dystopian musical conceived by performance artist Sally Horowitz. Drawing from Greek tragedy, the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the ...

Fast Forward


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme Showmanship featuring MJM Dance & Kaley ...

My Girl
My Girl
2/9


Its 2007. Pink Ugg boots are in, and juicy tracksuits areeven more in. Best friends Wallis and Zoe gear up for the biggest events of ...

Fourways To Go


Luana wants to date Jack. She thinks a threesome with Princess will impress him. Princess wants Jack out of the picture. Carly wants to get ...

aciremA
aciremA
2/7


We are in 2078 Acirema where we have made unimaginable strides in technological achievement at the expense of individuality and free-will. The majority of the ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post.Featuring ...

Carousel
Carousel
1/30


Comic Performances and Picture Show. Hosted by R. Sikoryak, Featuring: Marcellus Hall Jeff Lewonczyk A. T. Pratt Lauren Weinstein and more!...

Untitled STRONG WOMAN Play


Willa fights back against an abusive boyfriend. She writes an inspiring blog post causing her to become a famous activist overnight. Popstar Lily Nevins acoustic ...

Casabalanca on the Hudson


'round up the usual suspects... "Casablanca on the Hudson" a fiery call to arms in support of those brave angels amongst us who remain through-out ...

Casablanca on the Hudson


Pamela Enzs text in collaboration with Julie Petrusaks media design and the inventive magic of musician/composer Elliott Randall work your senses together crafting a fiery ...

Me and Lee–The Musical


The true story of Judyth Vary Baker a teen science super-star recruited by the U.S. Government during the height of the Cold War in 1962 ...

Carnival of Souls


A modern take on a brilliant cult film thats been neon animated by Jack Feldstein. Annemarie Hagenaars plays a contemporary woman of the #metoo era, ...

DON’T TURN AROUND


Dan Danger returns to the stage in a solo ballet of the classic Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice. Through dance and projection, comedy and heart, ...

Space Race
Space Race
1/14


In this special encore presentation: Space Race presents for the first time to American audiences the spine-tingling truth behind mankinds greatest adventure. Experience daring thrills ...

CALL FOR CHOREOGRAPHERS: 2019 SoloDuo Dance Festival


CALL FOR CHOREOGRAPHERS: 2019 SoloDuo Dance Festival May 18th –19th @ Dixon Place APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 9th, 2019 (Reduced entry fee through December 21st) We ...

FULL DISCLOSURE
FULL DISCLOSURE
1/3 - 1/5/2019


As a part of the 2019 APAP Conference, TWEED TheaterWorks and Dixon Place will present the 2nd Annual FULL DISCLOSURE, an evening of song, theater ...

The Valkyries


The tenuous strands of connection between three women in an all-female doomsday cult start to unravel—revealing how women deal with trauma, what lengths they are ...

8 in Show
8 in Show
11/28


ABOUT THIS SHOW Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series ...

Fast Forward
Fast Forward
11/20


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

FUKT
FUKT
11/17


A meta-theatrical comic romp about incest, traumatic memory, and the courage to tell the truth! What starts off as a one-woman show gets interrupted by ...

Patient Love Friend


PATIENT LOVER FRIEND, has been lifetimes in the making, is about living, loving and dying in the early days of the AIDS epidemic....

MIXED MESSAGES | ON STARSKY (NO HUTCH)


The tale of performer David Driver’s Starsky & Hutch fantasy unfolds into an achingly honest story of sexual awakening, family loss, terror, and artistic inspiration. ...

On 1 Condition: Traffic Cone


Choreographers create…on 1 condition: they must abide by the same crazy rule! For this edition of O1C, choreographers must incorporate traffic cones into their work....

Space Race
Space Race
11/10


Space Race presents for the first time to American audiences the spine-tingling truth behind mankind’s greatest adventure. Experience daring thrills as you hurtle through the ...

Evelyn
Evelyn
11/9


Evelyn follows the life of Evelyn McHale, who tragically took her life by jumping off the Empire State Building in 1947. Both heart wrenching and ...

Venus in Gemini


Sister astronauts prepare to travel to Venus. Faced with the unpredictability of space travel and the minor inconveniences of taking a work trip, they find ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post....

Stiff Drink!?’ With Dr. Eustice Sissy (PSY.D.), Presents: ‘Songs from the Heart’


“‘Stiff Drink!?’ with Dr. Eustice Sissy (Psy.D.), presents: ‘Songs from the Heart’” begins as a mad-cap love-advice cabaret, replete with covers of popular torch songs, ...

MEG JO BETH AMY & LOUISA


Assigned with the super boring task of writing a novel for young girls, Louisa May Alcott finds herself in a state of writer’s block. That ...

ISLANDER
ISLANDER
10/23


Islander is a music and movement suite scored for various keyboards, sarunay, and electronics. The work examines the residue colonialism has left behind through centuries ...

It Takes Two to Tangle


We’ve all been down that road. Relationship equals getting to know every bit, smell, attitude, smile, twitch… You name it. You want to love and ...

Fast Forward
Fast Forward
10/16


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme “Connection”, featuring DoubleTake Dance and ...

Hanna Q Dance Company


Hanna Q Dance Company is a Contemporary-Modern Dance Company full of energy! The Swedish born and raised Artistic Director and Choreographer, Johanna LjungQvist-Brinson ( Hanna ...

The Unwritten Law
The Unwritten Law
9/5 - 9/7/2018


World Famous beatboxer Chesney Snow presents his journey from a legacy of incarceration to fatherhood, homelessness to Harvard University, to ultimately starring in the musical ...

chronicles: CHAPTER I


Step into a bar. Soak up the sounds of a singer. Strike up a conversation with a stranger. Step into a bar. Soak up the ...

Prism and Dewdrop's Cult Sing-Along


Father Zod has been dead for 45 years, yet Dewdrop and Prism continue to haul his rotting carcass from show to show, competing for his ...

GLORY!
GLORY!
8/9


A ‘Dramedy’ that takes us through a harrowing, hilarious night with two elderly but spry African American sisters. Jesstell Beaumont-Handsome, is convinced she has accidentally ...

Playdate
Playdate
8/8


Hugh Hefner wakes up one morning and realizes that his home doesn't feel like his home anymore. His kids seem to be keeping secrets from ...

The Adventures of Stoni Butchell and Chartruisa


Stoni Butchell is a Texan butch who gossips and sings Joni Mitchell songs. Chartruisa, a monotone green alien, is visiting earth to learn how to ...

Kitten Season


A two-legged kitten brings novice animal rescue workers to a run-down apartment complex, where a feral cat colony has grown to enormous proportions. Their good ...

New Times: A Trilogy


New Times is a trilogy of short plays that dive into the topics of science, religion, animal rights, and gender equality. Each play represents the ...

Tens Across The Board


Tens Across the Boards is an homage to the women who continually inspire the artist formerly known as Dionne Slay. Throughout the decades these women ...

RomeoRomeo
RomeoRomeo
7/27


A mash-up of 'Romeo and Juliet' and the Nixon Watergate tapes. The Romeos want to bring down the monopoly of Helvetica and Time New Roman—and ...

Hello, Daddy!: One Man’s Journey to Cure Heterosexuality


Built off a decade of journal entries, acclaimed comedian Sam Morrison uses stand-up comedy, storytelling, and character and prop work to chronicle transformations of shame, ...

Lucian/Lucien


After getting bludgeoned by a lesbian at a bar, Lucian wakes up in a 1940s speakeasy and gets the literal gay ripped out of him. ...

Cruisical: A Lesbian Musical


Cruisical: A Lesbian Musical is an anachronistic musical comedy where six queer cis women—Mercedes de Acosta, Moms Mabley, Vita Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, and ...

Inhibited Bites


Inhibited Bites is a revelatory, darkly-comedic performance built from more than a thousand index cards containing thoughts, observations, and reflections jotted down by artist Neil ...

Cleo Berlin: LIVE!


Cleo Berlin, presents her one-woman variety show, Cleo Berlin: LIVE! The offspring of a karaoke-diva Filipina and a mysterious German artist, Ms. Berlin , the ...

SHABOOM!
SHABOOM!
7/20


SHABOOM! is a spectacle teetering at the edge of disaster. Sharing a mind of anarchy and absurdity, Shoemaker, Soileau and Vaughn create environments and actions ...

Glace Chase’s Neurotica


Independently wealthy, highly medicated and always here to help, total bottom Glace Chase presents Neurotica: Brooklyn’s hit demented comedic cabaret featuring offbeat stories, eye-popping tunes ...

queen
queen
7/19


An intentional repurposing of the religious ritual. Horizontal instead of vertical. Many instead of one. Bodies instead of The Body. A coming together. A witnessing. ...

SHEER DEPRAVITY ~PLUS~ Utensils


A Andreas is a queer dance artist, theater maker, and drag king based in NYC. They are a classically trained and cross-trained dancer, a core ...

Fat Faggot


In this comedic musical sketch show, you are lovingly invited into the life and mind of Ben Langhorst, a fat faggot. Through dramatizations of real ...

Playground Lessons


The show focuses on risk-taking on stage as both performer and observer explore the common experiences of envy, pain and shame through a queer lens. ...

The Toe Incident


When you’re down in the dumps and you summon your best friend back from the dead, you don’t always get what you expect....

Catharsis, or, Under the Oak Tree


Catharsis, or, Under the Oak Tree, takes us into the mind of The Dreamer, who is in love with The Figment. Throughout the play, they ...

Neptune
Neptune
7/13 - 7/14/2018


On a journey where we all are given the chance to wrestle with the question ‘What makes me hard to love?’, a young, black, queer, ...

American Cuck


American Cuck seeks to place this alt-right obsession with cuckolding into historical context and to explore the ways in which this newest version of an ...

CLOWN TOWN
CLOWN TOWN
7/12


Through clown, cabaret, burlesque, and audience participation, Eric Schmalenberger pulls some benevolent pranks, shares some trickster wisdom, displayed adorable blasphemy, and blurs, blow-dries, and breaks ...

My Marlene
My Marlene
7/11


War has returned to Europe and the Middle East, Paris has been bombed, a flood of refugees surges westward and Trump puts a ban on ...

person[ing] ~PLUS~ Dance like no one likes you ~PLUS~ Eastern Body Diary ??????


person[ing] by The Organism that Persons Using borrowed text, song, & movement, The Organism that Persons (The OtP) seeks to create new worlds from old ...

RUN! It’s getting ugly!


Created with the intention to resist the intense wave of racism that is dividing this country, this play portrays the ridiculous xenophobia that makes people ...

Not For Resale


Not for Resale is a play that explores queer identities, queer communities and, the implications of queerness in socially constructed spaces. A high-spirited, comedic, at ...

PICK A COLOR


PICK A COLOR follows four women over the course of a holiday season at their local nail salon. It's a play about surviving the present ...

An Untitled Play About Sluts


Kris, Eyeball, Baby, and Lane are a quartet of techno heathens in Berlin. They try to keep the party bumpin despite queer loneliness, suicidal thoughts, ...

to Bare the Rose ||| a visual memoir


to Bare the Rose ||| a visual memoir is a solo self-exploration of intimacy and trauma under love. This memoir recounts, redefines, and relearns truths ...

I Love You, Jesus Christ!


Jesus and Judas are in love and everything is wonderful; until God intervenes. This divine intervention forces Jesus to abandon Judas and set off on ...

SLUMMING IT


Recreating New York City's Victorian nightclub and all male brothel Paresis Hall, this play romps through a fantasy cabaret with post-gender acts such as Goldie ...

Employee Well-being


Creating a Positive Work Environment: Strategies for Employee Well-being and Engagement In the bustling landscape of modern workplaces, where deadlines loom large ...

The Barbarians
The Barbarians
6/21 - 6/23/2018


A loggorheic encyclopedic rambunctious gollywompus of a play concerning speech acts, political power, fractal geometry, eusociality, theater, and some other stuff too, in which a ...

NYC10 Dance Initiative


NYC10 is a unique dance show that provides performance opportunities to 10 emerging dance companies to showcase their work and additionally receive feedback, reviews, and ...

Fast Forward


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

Moving Men
Moving Men
6/18


A series of new choreography that features all male dancers. Curated by Doug Post....

DEB MARGOLIN’S 8 STOPS


A comedy concerning the grief of endless compassion! 8 STOPS takes a long, humorous, tender look at motherhood, the suburbs, the fear of death, and ...

The other’s shadow


Inspired by the Dostoyevsky's novel Notes from the underground, The other’s shadow is a project across performance, video-installation, visual art, site specific and time-based media ...

Carousel
Carousel
6/13


Live readings and projected presentations of graphic novels, gag cartoons, and other visual art, presented by a wide array of comic strip makers, graphic novelists, ...

CONCRETE BOOM: volume one
CONCRETE BOOM: volume one
6/11 - 6/12/2018


Concrete Boom: volume one is an evening of cutting-edge, devised visual theatre curated by Concrete Temple Theatre and includes excerpts of new work including puppetry ...

The Could've-Beens


The Could've-Beens is the story of five sperm cells in search of an egg... which they have difficulty finding once they realize they are inside ...

OURS
OURS
5/29


Bob Sugarman’s story of repeated, horrific alien abductions was the inspiration for the 1994 blockbuster, Birds of Prey. Decades after the film, Bob is stumbling ...

Eyes of a Blue Dog


For years now, they’ve been meeting in their dreams. In reality, they’ve never met. One wakes each morning and searches for the other. But the ...

The Hell 9000 Dance Party!


What do Death! Cher! Satan! & Kim Kardashian! Have in common? They’re all Starring in: The Hell 9000 Dance Party! An all new multimedia extravaganza ...

The Institution


An interactive theatrical experience that will use dance, music, and storytelling to explore power, privilege, and perspective. The ultimate goal is to find ways to ...

“RATED BLACK”


‘RATED BLACK’ is a solo show that weaves together original poetry and music to navigate the thoughts, feelings, and issues of a young black man ...

Unicorn Afterlife ~PLUS~ Babcia, or a Wild Woman by Any Other Name ~PLUS~ Garden of Florine


Unicorn Afterlife by Justin Perkins A humming. A jagged light scars the blackness. The world slowly comes into focus, but it's not the world at ...

Winter in Eden: A Play in Four Seasons


Winter in Eden is a lyrical re-imagining of the Garden of Eden. As the characters discover their sexuality and death, they bring on Eden’s first ...

Valley Girls


In 1955, a computer visionary struggles to realize her dream of creating a program that can fool humans into thinking it’s one of them. In ...

The Story of Tap: 20th Anniversary


The Story of Tap: 20th Anniversary is a continuation of a series originally done at Dixon Place for six evenings in 1998 and 2005. It ...

hallelujah
hallelujah
5/12


A carefree and curious Delilah meets a tormented Sam, who intrigues her and drags her into a destructive relationship. Her best friend, Saul, prevents her ...

Believe
Believe
5/11


Arriving in a strange land, Dan Danger is met with success and opportunity only to have his world come crashing down. Through dance and video ...

DRAFT DODGING: POEMS FOR THE CONSCRIPTED


When a national draft is reinstated, the lines between dream and reality begin to blur as four friends are forced to decide whether to enlist ...

ON 1 CONDITION: BLINDFOLD


New York's hottest incubator for new dance. Choreographers ranging from experimental to commercial dance create new short works while following the same absurd rule. For ...

Divide Light
Divide Light
4/26 - 4/29/2018


Lesley Dill, one of the most prominent American artists working at the intersection of language and fine art, has paired with composer Richard Marriott, Artistic ...

Sleepy Eyed Kids


Becca is taking a break from college to stay with her sister Haley in the newly gentrified neighborhood of Brooklyn. When she discovers her sister ...

Dixon Place Presents: 8 in Show


Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work....

Isla
Isla
3/26


In Hit the Lights! Theater Co.’s new shadow play with music, ISLA (pronounced eese-luh) is a story about the harsh realities of political refugees, the ...

Photo Play
Photo Play
3/21


Photo Play is a rumination on the power of personal snapshots: why we take them, how they map the present to the past, and what ...

Fast Forward


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme ‘‘Personal Reality’’ with Monteleone Dance ...

Dixon Place Presents: Class: Who Owns The American Dream


An angry working-class white student confronts his snobbish African-American professor in this play that deals with entitlement, delusion, and desperation on college campuses....

Starblasters


You’re nearing 30, back living with your parents, struggling at your local theme park job, and buried in debt. This isn’t your fault. The system ...

Dixon Place Presents: Little Theatre


The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media curated by William Burke, Jeff Jones, Katie Rose McLaughlin & ...

The Beautiful Ambiguous: A Millennial Play


Set in present-day NYC, ‘’The Beautiful Ambiguous’’ tells the story of Rich, a college student desperately seeking love in all the wrong places. Exploring themes ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post. ...

Nighthawks (An Odyssey)


Somebody remembers a lost lover. Somebody searches for some food. Somebody gets lost in the night. Set over the course of one evening, nighthawks (an ...

Dixon Place Presents: The Fop: Love & Lust in Victorian Queer New York


Take a bawdy romp through the streets and saloons of Victorian New York with gangsters, trans folks, drag queens, hustlers, serial killers, widows, and urchins ...

Dixon Place Presents: On 1 Condition: Ka-Boom!


An incubator for exciting new dance, O1C brings New York’s most eclectic choreographers together to premiere short works….on 1 condition….. they must all abide by ...

The Same Shirt Show


Julia Larsen and Olivia Rose Barresi tackle some of the most iconic scenes for men in western dramatic literature, from Shakespeare to Mamet… all while ...

Dixon Place Presents: Dark Horse


Cassandra, “The Songstress of Magic” invites you to experience her journey as a magician. Through jaw-dropping sleight-of-hand, innovative illusions, and musical vignettes of magic, Cassandra ...

Dixon Place Presents: Black Queer Night


It’s Black History Month, time to celebrate Black Queer Women* lives and art with everybody! We move hearts and remove obstacles, remembering that ‘resistance is ...

Dixon Place Presents: Fast Forward


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme ‘Culture & Space’ with Benjamin ...

Dixon Place Presents: Piece by Piece


A witty mosaic of memories drawn from a ballerina before and after her brain hemorrhage. Rebeccah Bogue stars in this unapologetic new work that embraces ...

Dixon Place Presents: Love Magic Ritual Spell


LOVE MAGIC RITUAL SPELL is a new play that explores magic, love, and female friendship in an evening of broken hearts and buried intentions. Join ...

Dixon Place Presents: Little Theatre


The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media curated by William Burke, Jeff Jones, Katie Rose McLaughlin & ...

Dixon Place Presents: Book Club.


A group of socially conscious young people start a book club to study the work of the mysterious internet philosopher aleX. Their dedication to aleX ...

Dixon Place Presents: Unpacking Job


In “Unpacking Job,” a woman marks the anniversary of her grandmother’s death by re-staging iconic photos of her youth. As she goes through the vintage ...

Dixon Place Presents:Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post....

Dixon Place Presents: Hook Line Sinker


Hook Line Sinker centers on the inner workings of a content aggregation site. New-hire Matthew falls under the spell of the enigmatic Fergus, CEO of ...

Dixon Place Presents: A Tribute to May Irwin: Rag-Time Germs of Love


Rag-Time Germs of Love are dedicated to performing forgotten songs of the Rag-Time era. Their repertoire consists of a wide range of bizarre, rocking obscurities, ...

Dixon Place Presents: A Brief History of Colonization


India is one of, if not the most colonized country on the planet. Partly because we’re such lovely and welcoming people. Starting with the Portuguese ...

Madame Pascal


Madame Pascal follows a fictionalized history of a Broadway star who longs for rock credibility; the friend who manages him; the addict who loves him; ...

Dixon Place Presents: Just Me


Just Me is masterful storytelling in the combined oral traditions of American folktales and African history-keeping griots. Perri Gaffney shares true stories from the intricate ...

L. Ear
L. Ear
1/26


Having been fooled by the language and turned mad, King Lear finally understands the very meaning to Cordelia’s “love and be silent.” By deconstructing King ...

L.ear
L.ear
1/26


In a world filled with cacophony, we seem to be lost in the game of communication. Languages we use fail to express our true selves, ...

Dixon Place Presents: I Love New York: A Found Text American Dream/Nightmare


I Love New York explores modern anxiety and the quest for external validation by juxtaposing material from TripAdvisor.com and Ellis Island immigrant interviews. Laughs are ...

Dixon Place Presents: The Yellow Wallpaper


Confined to rest and separated from her new-born child, a woman finds comfort within the yellow wallpaper that decorates her room. A multimedia staging of ...

Dixon Place Presents: The Yellow Wallpaper


Confined to rest and separated from her new-born child, a woman finds comfort within the yellow wallpaper that decorates her room. A multimedia staging of ...

Dixon Place Presents: Chatter


Chatter explores a very specific kind of solitude, the solitude of being in your 20s. Claire moves to New York. She knows that this supposed ...

Dixon Place Presents: Unboxing


The Viral Squad is a group of YouTubers with big dreams in the world of entertainment. But when their most popular member crosses a line ...

Dixon Place Presents: PERSON[ING] ~PLUS~ OFFICE OF ILLEGALS: DREAM ON


Using borrowed text, song, & movement, The Organism that Persons (The OtP) seeks to create new worlds from old ones and offer new perspectives on ...

Dixon Place Presents: Inhibited Bliss


Inhibited Bites is a revelatory, darkly-comedic performance built from a collection of more than 1,000 index cards containing artist Neil Goldberg’s thoughts, observations, and reflections. ...

Dixon Place Presents: The Universal Drum: A Dramatic Visual Poem in ASL, English, & Percussion


The Universal Drum is an experimental work in development that explores the harmony of Deaf and Hearing worlds through drums. This piece integrates new music, ...

Dixon Place Presents: Dietrich Rides Again


A timeless struggle for acceptance. A timely story of a woman’s power. The mystery. The history. An enduring icon of feminine strength back in the ...

Dixon Place Presents: Divina: A Perfectly Imperfect Cabaret


With “O Mio Babbino Caro,” “Habanera,” and other selections from Maria Callas’ famous repertoire, this modern day cabaret shows how the resilient soprano from New ...

Dixon Place Presents: Scar Tissue


Best friends Jessica and Sam both carry scars that have never quite healed. Jessica struggles to forget a damaging relationship from her formative years in ...

Going South


Going South sheds a light on North Carolina’s legal system by focusing on four cases tried on the same docket. The cases—Custody, Cake, Co-Eds, and ...

Jared and Ivanka Live


Jared and Ivanka Live deconstructs invisibilized structures of power and access. Beginning with image and surfaces and moving toward a more interior contemplation on American ...

Dixon Place Presents: Chasing Warren Remedy


Set during the weeks leading up to the Westminster Dog Show; Chasing Warren Remedy tells the story of a trainer whose single desire is to ...

Une Bûche De Noël, A Work-In-Progress


On the eve of the Winter Solstice, jaded and cynical New Yorker Jeremy Hays finds himself returning to his hometown, Piney Crest, after his beloved ...

The Hopelessly Hopeless Story of All Good Girls


The Hopelessly Hopeless Story of All Good Girls interrogates the assembly of female subjectivity as the performance of inherited memory and etiquette through digital aesthetics, ...

Death! and the act of the living


Michel de Montaigne once said, ‘To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be ...

222 W. 23RD ST.


222 w 23rd St. is a play about a woman, who on the brink of homelessness, lands at the Chelsea Hotel, unaware of its famed ...

Lezzie With A 'Z'


Lezzie with a ‘Z’ is a one-woman show and an homage to Liza Minnelli’s 1972 filmed theatrical production: Liza with a ‘Z’. Peppered with Reid’s ...

Dr. Mira
Dr. Mira
12/15


At a moment in history when almost anything can be summoned on demand through the shiny bright rectangle in your pocket, many human experiences are ...

Luscious Lips


Luscious Lips is a one-act reality drama exploring the motivation and impact of catcalling, male privilege, and the female experience. Jo, an up and coming ...

Dog Park
Dog Park
12/14


After a series of unfortunate events, the world has been thrown into chaos. What was once the United States is now The People’s Kingdom for ...

Intimatics I-III


Intimatics I-III  investigates how government structures intimate interactions between individuals and among communities, and how intimate interactions might restructure government. Part I is a meditation ...

SCUM
SCUM
12/9


This mash-up of performance styles (from worlds as disparate as cabaret, vaudeville, burlesque and haunted houses) centers around two female figures: Valerie Solanas and Carolyn ...

Dick: After Melville


A dark soul. A dreadful menace. A deadly obsession. An epic story of the blue sea. All packed into one massive show. In a monomaniac ...

The Origin of Irrevery


Drawing from Jungian psychology, the vernacular of country music, Wagner’s concept of Gesamtkuntswerk, and the imagery of Butoh, German Expressionism, and Bauhaus, The Origin of ...

My Anxiety: A Work In Progress ~PLUS~ Psyche


I’m like a living comic book. I create drawings as receptacles for my anxiety; I get anxious that people won’t get it, so I have ...

Moving Men
Moving Men
12/5


A series of new choreography that features all male dancers. Curated by Doug Post....

Monsters
Monsters
12/2


Mimi and Louise like Charlotte’s drugs…too much. Charlotte likes her toy boy Perry…too much. Charlotte is Mimi and Louise’s mother. A struggle for survival ensues ...

Diamonds On My Windshield


It’s hard to capture the wind, the freedom of the highway, and the psychedelic insanity of road-tripping in the 1970’s. Ellen Kaye, whose parents owned ...

8 in Show
8 in Show
11/29


ABOUT THIS SHOW Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series ...

Vandels
Vandels
11/27


Vandals centers on the footnotes of history, finding that sometimes destruction is the only outlet for creative passion. It is a devised piece, consisting of ...

Fast Forward
Fast Forward
11/21


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme ‘Hope’ with Blythe E. Smith ...

Building A Real Boy


Building a Real Boy sheds light the critical issues surrounding freedom of information and privacy on the internet. This show is devised from Aaron Swartz’s ...

MLCG (My Little China Girl)
MLCG (My Little China Girl)
11/3 - 11/18/2017


When David Bowie died, performing artist Soomi Kim was suddenly reminded of her own coming of age in the MTV generation and her adolescent desire ...

Down The Urinal Hole and Around The Corner


A Dixon Place premiere you won’t tell your parents about when you dress up and sneak out to see it late at night. Inspired by ...

Mad-Liberation


The Raving Jaynes create highly physical, fully-improvised works of theater. In ‘Mad-Liberation,’ they unfold a unique story inspired by an audience-generated Mad Lib. Mixed among ...

On 1 Condition: Unicorns


Choreographers create…on 1 condition: they must abide by the same crazy rule!...

She-She-She
She-She-She
11/14


Hook & Eye Theater weaves together stories from America’s New Deal era with the modern day to create She-She-She, a magical abstraction of wilderness and ...

Little Theatre


The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media, more-or-less curated by William Burke, Katie Rose McLaughlin, Shannon Sindelar ...

The Stephen F. Austin Middle School History CLUB TALENT SHOW FUNDRAISER


A cast of misfit students have grown up idealizing the Battle of the Alamo and spent their afternoons in History Club re-enacting the heroics of ...

BACK HOME
BACK HOME
11/10


A trip that lasted longer than planned. A family that’s starting to pull back. An endless love that proved to be finite. Back Home is ...

Pigeon Spikes


In Pigeon Spikes, an absurdist dark comedy, a wealthy Manhattan couple’s comfortable, safe relationship to the art they patronize is forever altered when their favorite ...

The Animal Show
The Animal Show
11/8 - 11/9/2017


In the latest installment of composer-performer Michael Harren’s multi-media performance, The Animal Show, Harren blends humor with candor to convey the importance of keeping all ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post. ...

Don Juan: A Work In Progress


http://dixonplace.org/performances/don-juan-a-work-in-progress/...

Pocket: A Work in Progress


The wedding party goes through all traditional rites of passage during the reception – First Dance, Cake Cutting, a Toast – in song and dance, ...

Other Planet Hearts


Other Planet Hearts is an exploration of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince” and the notion of imperfect love, using elements of text, music, and ...

DOWN THE URINAL HOLE AND AROUND THE CORNER


A Dixon Place premiere you won’t tell your parents about when you dress up and sneak out to see it late at night. Inspired by ...

NIGHT WITCHES
NIGHT WITCHES
10/26 - 10/27/2017


The second installment of Night Witches, a new play. In the fall of 1941 after the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova, a ...

The Daerie Queene


Hours after their father passes away, Cara Sullivan and her flaky brother, Pete, try to navigate the uncharted task of planning their father's funeral. Along ...

Night Witches


"Night Witches" is the second installment of the ongoing development of a new play about the first female combat pilots. In the fall of 1941 ...

Antrak ~PLUS~ hero's house ~PLUS~ The Rest Of It ~PLUS~ Flowers in Space


Antrak Shayna Strype This Studs-Terkel-Wannabe journeys into the unknown buoyed by the grandeur of American landscapes, the fleeting intimacy of conversations with strangers, and a ...

Crossing Boundaries


Featuring Ardella Bang, Parijat Desai, B.U.G.S. & Selma Treviño New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe. Les ...

The Marooned ~PLUS~ Not in the Cards ~PLUS~ OOO: Out Of Office ~PLUS~ PLACE (No) Place


The Marooned Josh Rice The Marooned is an absurdist puppet theatre piece about a woman who is stranded on the roof of a submerged house ...

Body Maps
Body Maps
10/21


An original performance work created in collaboration by the performers out of the BODY MAPS workshop directed by Tim Miller Come see the ensemble performance ...

WHORTICULTURE


An Absurdist Confrontational Tragicomedy of out-sized proportions where Lark and her friends perform a Gender Studies thesis on the roots of female Why Live Shows ...

Carousel
Carousel
10/19


Cartoon slide shows & other projected pictures, presented by a wide array of comic strip makers, graphic novelists and visual artists, as well as luminaries ...

NO 1 CHINESE ~PLUS~ AS FAST OR FASTER ~PLUS~ THE HEALING SHIPMENT PROLOGUE ~PLUS~ EARTHRISE


Musician Patrick Breiner, Director Rowan Magee, and puppeteers Emmanuel Elpenord and Takemi Kitamura have been developing No 1 Chinese since 2015. There are more Chinese ...

FAST FORWARD
FAST FORWARD
10/17


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme ‘Re-Explored’ with The Dancing Georgina ...

The Hero of Alexandria ~PLUS~ A Lesson In Being Smothered By A Dragon ~PLUS~ A Gothic Opera ~PLUS~ How a River Carries You


The Hero of Alexandria Tomas Del Valle A young inventor is resting before the next step of his journey when three Gods cross his path. ...

Just Trust
Just Trust
10/13 - 10/14/2017


This semi-autobiographical romp follows Amy Stiller’s quest to reclaim her spiritual and emotional integrity as the only unknown person in a family of celebrities. Losing ...

I WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND, PLEASE: WHY NO ONE LIKES YOU AND THE EASY METHOD TO MAKING REAL HUMAN FRIENDS!


In this seminar, the complicated process of friendship–making will finally be demystified as we explain step by step such topics as; smiling, making eye contact, ...

PERFORMANCE OF A FEMININE OBJECT ~PLUS~ THE LAST RAT OF THERESIENSTADT ~PLUS~ #NSA ~PLUS~ TREAT AS URGENT AND GET BACK TO ME


In Performance of a Feminine Object a hoop animates a female performer making reference to the historic and cultural disciplining of the female body. In ...

Jack Dogherty and the Soul Cages ~PLUS~ Squids, a Turtle, a Sea Lioness ~PLUS~ Regret + Time Travel


Jack Dogherty and the Soul Cages Inkfish Jack Dogherty, a fisherman and part time scavenger, longs to meet a merrow (merman). When he finally does, ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post. ...

ALL THE DIAMONDS YOU CAN EAT ~PLUS~ MANUMIT ~PLUS~ PACKRAT ~PLUS~ BEASTIES


Like Ike and Tina, Bobby and Whitney, OJ and Nicole, All the Diamonds You Can Eat (ATDYCE) is a love story that never should have ...

Run!
Run!
10/7


A pretty ordinary white nationalist family falls into a muddy and desperate identity crisis when they are attacked by La Contaminación Cultural. Their sense of ...

BRIDESHEAD OBLITERATED


A young artist becomes romantically entangled with a family of disgraced English aristocrats, and his life is never the same. Part literary deconstruction, part orgiastic ...

BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN BARONESS


Stella Starsky shines in her moving and side-splitting solo play that explores both the mundane and the mystical implications of modern womandom free from motherhood, ...

SHEEP #1 ~PLUS~ IT’S THE JONBENÉT RAMSEY SHOW! ~PLUS~ A SONG TO SAIL ON


Inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s writings, sheep #1 is the adventure of a sheep in search of the meaning of life. The performance is in ...

BINDLESTIFF OPEN STAGE VARIETY SHOW


An uncompromising theatrical experience that includes aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, trained rats, a Heavy Metal Magician, a cougar ...

Almodóvar Distopya
Almodóvar Distopya
9/15 - 9/30/2017


Almodovar’s work explores themes related to gender diversity and “sub-classes” conflicts, I would like to focus on my personal Queer-Puerto- Rican-Cha- Cha-Heels-Shaman identity as a ...

Love Liberates: An Anthology of How to Live as told by Maya Angelou


A cabaret based on the work and life of Dr. Maya Angelou. Her work notably speaks to the deepest parts of the human condition as ...

Piece by Piece


Hello, World! I’m Rebeccah. I call myself a dancer. I mostly look like a dancer. But I don’t entirely fit. My outline’s all wrong. I’m ...

8 in Show
8 in Show
9/27


Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. Expressions Dance Company performing MOYUBA Choreography by Jenny Efremova Ishita Mili performing The ...

Village Voices


Told in their own words, Village Voices is a series of interviews with real-life characters in New York’s West Village examining first hand accounts of ...

Calle Allende ~PLUS~ The Red Chair


Shackled by restraints of reality, Frida finds herself unable to paint. In a moment of desperation, she re-discovers her life source-the other Frida. ~PLUS~ A ...

On One Condition: Plastic Wrap


Choreographers create…on one condition: they must abide by the same crazy rule!...

Fast Forward


Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme ‘Awareness’ with Janice Rosario and ...

Bright and Brave: A New Musical


A true story based on the writings and letters of Reginald ‘Regy’ Brett and Charles ‘Chat’ Williamson, along with their classmates Elliot and Beak, during ...

Old Man Dancing


Realizing some of his behaviors don’t demonstrate the ‘gracefully’ aging performer he would like to be, Herman imagines himself as an old man looking back ...

The Bag Lady Manifesta


Habits. Relationships. Belief Systems. Memories – our histories walk among us. And to ignore them is to be haunted by them. Taja Lindley’s The Bag ...

On the side of a road


A seat for contemplation is left maimed on the side of a road, an authentic impulse turns into a loop and loses itself, a meaningful ...

Blanket Statement


A documentary play composed of interviews with college students about their experiences with formal sex education both in and out of the classroom, Blanket Statement ...

Terrifying Times Call For Terrifying Jewelry


2016 Tom Murrin Performance Awardee, Laurie Berg presents an evening length performative take over of Dixon Place. A jewelry show and live performance mash-up, Berg ...

YOU’RE THE PUPPET! ~PLUS~ (BEAT) ~PLUS~ AN EASY GUIDE TO TIME MANAGEMENT


You’re the Puppet! is the next installment in a series from Post Election Therapy. What started as a multi-disciplinary, improvisational reaction from artists, dancers, musicians, ...

We make our own games.


As children, our freedom and creativity, sense of play, storytelling ability, and constructive tendencies inspired our parents and teachers to believe in our ability to ...

How to Die in Spanish


15 years ago a there was a miracle: Marliss was diagnosed with terminal cancer, but she survived. Now, she has cancer again, and this time ...

Sixteen
Sixteen
8/17


Dixon Place presents: Zaman's third foray into the criminal INjustice system follows his play "Fresh Meat" which premiered at "FringeNYC" to a sold out showing ...

Lucky
Lucky
8/1 - 8/16/2017


Follow the trips and falls through the hustle and bustle of city life as Lucky discovers who he is and what he’s meant to do. ...

The Unwritten Law
The Unwritten Law
7/30 - 8/14/2017


World Famous beatboxer Chesney Snow presents his journey from a legacy of incarceration to fatherhood, homelessness to Harvard University, to ultimately starring in the musical ...

Virtual Memory


As a boy, Ben knew he was gay when he had his first crush on a cartoon character. Through this tale of embarrassing childhood memories, ...

The Apple Boys (Staged Reading)


At the turn of the century in the heart of Coney Island, a strongman, a hotdog vendor, a rollercoaster track operator and an apple delivery ...

#INSTAQUEER


#INSTAQUEER is an examination of obsession, anxiety, queerness, and the hoops we are willing to jump through as we seek connection online in a homophobic, ...

Red, White, Blue, and Blood; Return to the One She Love


Visual and performance artist David Mramor recently revisited Yellowstone National Park. A place that he worked ten years ago, the same year that he came ...

Now That’s What I Call Mom’s Insurance


Stuck in a rather awkward age group in a rapidly corroding country, several young writers have come together to raise fictional havoc for your viewing ...

NSA
NSA
7/28


Two kids play pretend, two teenagers experiment, and one college student downloads grindr. A coming of age story in three parts, NSA mashes together two ...

Bad Skin
Bad Skin
7/27


Bad Skin is a kooky queer cabaret where 90s jamz mingle with original tunes orchestrated by a non-musician. Summer’s poppin around the vacant Motel 6 ...

Taco Tuesday


The sibling bond is something that can be strong or fragile. When the beloved matriarch of three siblings starts to lose her graceful battle with ...

AUTOPORTRAIT


In order to survive the post-truth era, AUTOPORTRAIT imagines what it would look like if we learned to float between truth and fiction as well ...

The Story of the Orca’s Silver Tongue as Told by the Manager of the Only Taco Bell in Juno


The Story of the Orca’s Silver Tongue as Told by the Manager of the Only Taco Bell in Juno follows the epic tale of a ...

She Got Off The Couch


The line between reality and the fantastical is blurred in this comic story of a young lesbian whose family begins to fray when she tries ...

She Was a Great Dad
She Was a Great Dad
7/13 - 7/22/2017


She was a Great Dad is a jazz infused tale of love and secrecy inspired by the life of transgender Billy Tipton, who was born ...

To T or Not to T
To T or Not to T
7/7 - 7/22/2017


Following up his last touring solo show, actor and comedian D'Lo comes back to Dixon Place with his latest stand-up storytelling show To T, or ...

Dixon Place presents JULY by Jordan J. Baum


July finds five boys and five girls in the back of a moving U-Haul as they do basically nothing to investigate the recent murder of ...

July
July
7/21


How to Create a Brand and Marketing Strategy for Your Theatre Making a Grand Entrance A powerful brand is more than just a logo or ...

and after, we dreamt of purple


and after, we dreamt of purple is a play that takes place behind closed doors. We watch Charlie, Jesse, and Halle, as they navigate mental ...

The Prize, a twisted horror play in four acts


Inspired by the classic short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, this black satirical horror comedy tells the story of two powerful corporate ...

BISHOUJO + TWISTERS & WITCHES-?SNEAK PEEK! + MEMORIAS


Three choreographers with three dances that explore escapism, transformation, history, and memory....

Pastoral Play


Everyone’s been hooking up with each other in the meadows. The Wooer loves the Wooed. The City Slicker loves the Wooer. The Wooed’s not into ...

Fast Forward


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

Mom Play, Dad Play, Good Play, Bad Play


Synchronized swimmers dance underwater, ruminate, and make out. They stew in their own self-consciousness, ambition, identity, broken hearts. Over the course of the play they ...

My Body: Not for Consumption


With this unique collaboration between photographer, curator and community, we aim to show that a naked body is not an inherently sexual object. Grounded in ...

BANDWIDTH: The Ups & Downs of a Lesbian Diva


An up and coming mezzo soprano makes her debut at Carnegie Hall, comes out of the closet and finds love. Running up and down the ...

The Contract Player


The Contract Player explores the flashbulb and cigarette smoke of post-WWII Hollywood from the LGBTQ+ perspective. Roland Gray, the most successful leading man in the ...

The Sexual Pioneers Talk Show!


Tune in to The Sexual Pioneers Talk Show! hosted by Cassidy Dawn Graves (sexually inquisitive) and Davy Crockett (actual pioneer). This spirited show seeks to ...

This Place


Incorporating documentary and narrative storytelling, this thirty minute play explores the lives of LGBT inhabitants of a conservative country off the Persian Gulf. This Place ...

IT WILL ALL WORK OUT
IT WILL ALL WORK OUT
4/14 - 4/29/2017


It Will All Work Out, takes stories from his upcoming memoir, mixes them with funny, original songs and tops it all off with fabulous, colorful ...

GODZILLA VS. MY EX-?GIRLFRIENDS: A PLAYWRITING COLLECTIVE PARTY


Godzilla is rampaging across NYC and only an army of ex-girlfriends can bring the beast to submission...

CONSTELLARIUM


President Falco, of the planet Constellarium, addresses his people in a series of speeches spanning a year....

ASTRONAUTS WANTED


Three volunteers are on their way to Mars....

CROSSING BOUNDARIES


New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe. Featuring Sandra Kramerov, Mare Hieronimus, Vanessa Vargas + Nela Cote ...

SOLO: AN AMERICAN CHOREOPOEM


A brother and sister team up for a road trip across a futuristic America in the hopes of saving a community of artists from perishing ...

FAST FORWARD


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

(PROJECTION)


Part comedy of manners, part millennial coming of age, (Projection) is a theatrical romp through the messy living room of your twenties....

THE STORY OF TAP…ETC.


An evening of conversation and dance, celebrating the art tap dance and the culture surrounding it....

TURNING PAGE
TURNING PAGE
2/10 - 4/8/2017


Turning Page is a sophisticated, funny and deeply compelling solo show about legendary actress Geraldine Page whose sparkling career earned her a record-breaking eight Academy ...

TERMS AND CONDITIONS: LIVE


R. Sikoryak has drawn the entire, unedited text of the iTunes Terms and Conditions as a color graphic novel, in over 90 distinct comics styles. ...

FRED
FRED
3/17 - 4/1/2017


A new play about a robot from Phoenix, his comatose mother and their life changing journey to a retirement home in outer space!...

It's All Coming Back To Me Now


In 2005, a mother and daughter living on the Upper West Side fall victim to the storm that shook America: Hurricane Katrina. As they excavate ...

IT’S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW


A mother and daughter seek refuge from the spectre of Hurricane Katrina in their Upper West Side apartment....

8 IN SHOW
8 IN SHOW
3/29


ABOUT THIS SHOW Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series ...

I GOT THE LAST LAUGH! (INSPIRED BY THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JACKIE “MOMS” MABLEY)


An interview with Charles Earthstein, from The Chicago News and M&M Publications and the one and only Jackie “Moms” Mabley, at Harlem’s World Famous Apollo ...

TUBMAN
TUBMAN
3/27


Tubman is a theatrical experience that questions what freedoms looks like in the modern world....

FAST FORWARD


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

DOWN ON GRIFFIN ALLEY


Based on the life, trial, and execution of Lena Baker, Down on Griffin Alley questions what went down in Jim Crow Georgia and still goes ...

HOOKIN’ OR DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM


Six sex workers find a newborn in a trash can. They have a choice to make....

BLACKTHORN & QUINDERLY


Acclaimed investigators, Blackthorn and Quinderly take on their trickiest case yet in this theatrical farce....

REMEMBER THE FUTURE


What happens when a forgotten past catches up with you?...

SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN


This is a story of convergence. This is what happens when the mundane, the unimaginable, and the horrors of reality meet. We are living in ...

THE WOMAN WHO SHED HER SKIN


A woman single-mindedly pursues her physical image at the expense of her inner self. When that self desperately rises up to take control, no quarter ...

Attractions


Attractions is a multimedia theatrical event that uses cinematic Brechtian videography to explore the life of Dr. Eva Nyat, a New York-based cancer specialist who ...

FAST FORWARD


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT


Research & Development is a participatory theater experience in which audiences enter into a surreal venture capital laboratory. Ridiculous inventions, outrageous apps, and ludicrous start-ups ...

THE OPTIMIST
THE OPTIMIST
2/17 - 2/18/2017


The Optimist tells the story of a man, sitting in a bar waiting for his long lost love to return. He holds tight to his ...

BLACK HERSTORY NIGHT


Sparkling Special for Black History Month! Get a taste of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-European and Afro-American dance, poetry and music art. Featuring Oxana Chi, Rosamond King, Candace ...

CAROUSEL
CAROUSEL
2/15


Comics Performances and Picture Shows, Curated & Hosted by R. Sikoryak! Live readings and presentations of graphic novels, gag cartoons, and more. With voice actors ...

THE BENCH: A HOMELESS LOVE STORY


“The Bench”, set in urban decay and rubble, explores the emotional heartbreak of five homeless characters and the catastrophic hysteria surrounding AIDs in the 1980's. ...

Little Theatre


Featuring Alex Borinsky, Mrs William Horsley (Matthew Thurber), Kristine Haruna Lee + Morgan Green, and Daaimah Mubashshir + Kat Yen The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a ...

CHICKEN
CHICKEN
2/11


A madcap subterranean adventure lit with circus folk, death, and a sort of redemption...

THE ITCH
THE ITCH
2/7


Ana and Simon, sibling-collaborators, set out in one final attempt to change the inevitable. The Itch is a film- play about sibling love, addiction, and ...

IPSA DIXIT
IPSA DIXIT
2/3 - 2/4/2017


IPSA DIXIT (“she has said it”) is an evening-length work of theatrical chamber music that explores the intersections of music, language, and meaning through blistering ...

KIMONO MY HOUSE


Kimono My House is a band duo performing stripped down rock classics....

PIN* AND THE BLUE FAIRY


PIN* AND THE BLUE FAIRY is a new play based on Collodi's classic The Adventures of Pinocchio that examines the wooden puppet's journey to become ...

NO HOLDS BARRED


A magical night featuring gifted professional & student aerial, circus, theater & dance artists. A fun, inspiring, original & sometimes shocking evening where artists pull ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post. ...

WILLI B. WILDE PRESENTS: A LIVING ROOM SPECTACULAR


Drag personality Willi B. Wilde acts as emcee/hostess to a fresh lineup of artists for an unforgettable evening that is part talk show, part drag ...

Shards
Shards
1/30


Shards, a piece which evokes concepts of luxury, glamour, and memorial, deals with the systematic destruction, the loss of functionality, and the aftermath of despair ...

The Unwritten Law


The Unwritten Law weaves a Black American family’s 100 year narrative with contemporary dance, live music, drama, visual projection and poetic storytelling detailing the family’s ...

ANTS GO MARCHING


The Ants Go Marching is a slice of late summer evening where two women - one newly a mother and the other newly heart broken ...

I.M. LOST!
I.M. LOST!
1/28


I.M. LOST! is a show based on interviews with clowns and the author/performer Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn’s experiences with clown training. Clowns fail again and again, but ...

Staging Wittgenstein ~PLUS~ I.M. LOST!


The goal of Staging Wittgenstien is to dramatize philosophical thought conveyed in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico–Philosophicus through the lens of his later idea of the ...

GREENLAND
GREENLAND
1/27


Greenland follows a family in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado who reunite after a devastating event changed their lives forever 10 years ago. The piece ...

WHITE AND GUILTY


White and Guilty is an often comedic, sometimes too realistic look at the hypocrisies and atrocities perpetrated by white males. Two cis-gendered white men explore ...

Wuthering Heights (...Just the Height Points...)


Inspired by Emily Brontë's 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights is set amidst the harsh English countryside, where passion consumes two lovers. The play  explores desire, destruction, ...

CAMPFIRE! QUEER STORYTIME


Join Burlesque Star World Famous *BOB* & Style Icon Dust Tea Shoulders at CAMPFIRE! Queer Storytime for tales of hilarity & heartbreak & a chance ...

CORPSE REVIVAL PERFORMANCE SERIES: LIKE CLOCKWORK


A single art installation is a ticking backdrop for six new plays exploring various walks of American life in the face of the current policitcal ...

SHAKESPEARE’S SISTERS


Shakespeare’s Sisters is a one woman show set in middle America. Mara is a woman who has just been admitted to the Hydro ward in ...

QT: RAINBOWS ACROSS THE DIASPORA


A poetic and cultural journey exploring the rich lives of LGBTQ people. Featuring Skye Cabrera and Urayoán Noel...

BY THE TIDE


Ina Langston, devastated by the turmoil of unceasing sorrow, is wrestling with her desire to end her time on Earth and her love for the ...

[PH][F]REAKING


In an age of unlimited power via keyboard and conflicting models of masculinity presented online, Joe doesn’t know how to assert himself in the world ...

[PH][F]REAKING


In an age of unlimited power via keyboard and conflicting models of masculinity presented online, Joe doesn’t know how to assert himself in the world ...

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN ARTISTS’ SALON


International Women Artists’ Salon presents a showcase of performance, literature, and video. Featured artists TBA....

The Genius Project


An investigation of the threads of neuroscience that catch on in popular culture, and have focused on conversations about the myth (and the cult) of ...

9 GRAMS
9 GRAMS
1/20


9 GRAMS is the story of Maisha Yearwood's imprisonment in Bakirkoy Prison in Istanbul, Turkey in 2009. Maisha was living in Tel Aviv, Israel and ...

BEING HUMAN: A POETRY READING


The poets Chris Antzoulis, Joanna C. Valente, and Julia Gari Weiss get together for an evening of observational poetry inspired by contemporary events and exploring ...

SPINE OUT: NOVELISTS READ PERSONAL ESSAYS


Join host Emmy Laybourne, as she welcomes novelists to reveal stories from their lives at the winter installment of the critically acclaimed literary event SPINE ...

IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE, RENO


Reno is an opinionated, radical feminist alternative voice who creates heavily improvised stream-of-consciousness topical monologues with incredible wit, political consciousness and common sense. Starting with ...

EXPERIMENTS & DISORDERS


Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers. Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford. Featuring Joyce Miller...

Fast Forward


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

FLOODPANTS: A FAIRYTALE FOR GROWN-?UPS


A 9 year old girl and her young brother battle real and fantastic dark forces: absent mothers, pot-growing divorced dads, hippie math teachers, magic rocks, ...

FRONT LINES


It’s been a while since Dean has come into contact with many people when his sister Ellie invites him to spend the night with her ...

WOMEN AND CHILDREN


Women and Children is a play about the things we are willing to give up in order to survive. Set over the course of two ...

CONKRETE JUNGLE CHOREOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE


Conkrete Jungle returns with its annual choreographer showcase, assembling a fresh mix of emerging and established talents from NYC ‘s dance scene. All of last ...

CONKRETE JUNGLE CHOREOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE


Conkrete Jungle returns with its annual choreographer showcase, assembling a fresh mix of emerging and established talents from NYC 's dance scene. All of last ...

Men and Grandma!


My grandmother was very clear when she told me at age 5, ‘‘Boys are assholes and I get the feeling you like them so be ...

THE ORCHIDS


The Orchids is a black comedy about two young people who get ensnared in a system that only sees their value as objects of commerce. ...

PANK + FOLDER MONTHLY


PANK and FOLDER magazines are teaming up to present a monthly poetry reading series in the lounge at Dixon Place. Each month, two poets will ...

YOURS UNTRULY ~PLUS~ IN REPAYMENT


N REPAYMENT Created and Performed by The Junkyard (Chris Carcione, Jessica Hart, and Magdalen Zinky) Federal student debt is $1.2 trillion and rising, and millions ...

OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE ~PLUS~PORTRAIT OF DIANA


Daydreams is lurking in your daily life and pops up somewhere close to you. That could be your closest station or coffee shop or on ...

Doris and Cleveland


Doris and Cleveland were dating until Doris took a job out of town for a year. Now with Doris back in town, they try to ...

Doris and Cleveland


Doris and Cleveland were dating until Doris took a job out of town for a year. Now with Doris back in town, they try to ...

The Mosquito


Hang out at the lounge at Dixon Place, the iconic & funky east-village theatre. Have a drink while checking out an early evening collection of ...

The Origen of Love


Jason did something bad. Jason lives with his unnerving grandfather. Jason is building an image-based message board on the internet with m00t, a man he ...

ADF@DIXONPLACE
ADF@DIXONPLACE
1/4 - 1/8/2017


ADF presents excerpts of three new dance theater works by Mark Dendy, Claire Porter & Sara Juli, and Cherdonna. Mark Dendy Projects Elvis Everywhere (ADF ...

Fat Skirt Big Nozzle
Fat Skirt Big Nozzle
1/4 - 1/8/2017


A comic duet inspired by the work of surrealist painter James Ensor between two women who may be old friends or arch rivals or both. ...

FULL DISCLOSURE: DAVID CALE IN FLUFFING FOR BEGINNERS


Three interwoven stories of unexpected erotic encounters, romantic interludes and afternoon liaisons, Fluffing for Beginners tells tales of sexy goings on in bedrooms, hotel rooms ...

FULL DISCLOSURE: JOSEPH KECKLER IN CONCERT


“Major vocal talent… whose range shatters conventional boundaries” (NY Times) and “Best Downtown Performance Artist” (Village Voice) Joseph Keckler presents an evening that pulls together ...

FULL DISCLOSURE: CAROL LIPNIK IN GODDESS OF IMPERFECTION


Live performance has always been at the center of Carol Lipnik’s music. Her style and songs are born from a desire to create a cathartic ...

LAVA PRESENTS A GODDESSEY: WORK IN PROGRESS


A feminist survival story that journeys through emotional and geologic landscapes while carrying a transmuting traveler from a bleak and blurry patriarchal present into a ...

FULL DISCLOSURE: JOHN KELLY IN TIME NO LINE


Time No Line is a solo performance work that focuses on how we can recognize collective histories through the experience of an individual. Based on ...

GERSHWIN LIVE: MAJOR MAGICS


There’s a place in the back of your mind where dreams coalesce and memories linger, only to rise up later in moments of ecstasy and ...

She Was a Great Dad


Inspired by the life of Billy Tipton, She Was a Great Dad tells the tale, of a transgender female to male musician in the era ...

30-30-30
30-30-30
12/30


Join Dixon Place for a very special celebratory finale on Friday, December 30th, featuring 30 dance companies showcasing 3 minutes of work each, saluting the ...

30-30-30
30-30-30
12/30


Join Dixon Place for a very special celebratory finale on Friday, December 30th, featuring 30 dance companies showcasing 3 minutes of work each, saluting the ...

WASHBOARD JUNGLE CD RELEASE PARTY CONCERT: SUNNYLAND!


Washboard Jungle, the greatest post-modern jug band you’ve never heard of, lurched into existence in the dark recesses of ABC No Rio in 1989 and ...

Next Faggot Nation


Inspired by the novel Faggots by acclaimed playwright and activist Larry Kramer, a variety of gay literature, and stories of everyday gay men, Next Faggot ...

Wheelchair
Wheelchair
12/19


Gordon lives alone with a severe disability. Even though he believes himself to be one of 36 righteous people in the world, Gordon is being ...

Wonder/Through the Looking Glass-Houses


Acclaimed transgender performance artist, choreographer & story-teller Arrie Davidson helms the socially progressive company, KineticArchitecture Dance Theatre and their first evening-length work, Wonder/Through the Looking-Glass ...

Wonder/Through the Looking Glass-Houses


Acclaimed transgender performance artist, choreographer & story-teller Arrie Davidson helms the socially progressive company, KineticArchitecture Dance Theatre and their first evening-length work, Wonder/Through the Looking-Glass ...

The Black Lamb


Nestled in the deepest, wildest heart of a haunted wood is a pool of tears. A man has come to scoop them all up, but ...

Love Trade
Love Trade
12/15


LOVE TRADE is an exploration of gender and cultural assumptions in upheaval. The piece uncovers a love tangle between the Western goddess Demeter—frozen in eternal ...

Carousel
Carousel
12/14


In December, Carousel will feature presentations of graphic novels, gag cartoons, live drawing, and more! ABOUT THE ARTIST R. Sikoryak is the author of Masterpiece ...

LITTLE THEATRE
LITTLE THEATRE
8/8 - 12/12/2016


ABOUT THIS SHOW The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media, more-or-less curated by Frank Boudreaux, Normandy Raven ...

Little Theatre


The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media, more-or-less curated by Frank Boudreaux, Normandy Raven Sherwood, Katie Rose ...

The Hummm
The Hummm
12/10


THE HUMMM explores the soundscape of Chekhov’s Three Sisters and selected short stories. Based on the belief that vibration carries meaning, the piece uses sound ...

When We Said No


A Beautiful Desperation presents an evening of five new original performances ranging in style from video- and dance-based storytelling to character-based comedy. When We Said ...

Titanic 1997 Iraq 2003


Myrtle Gordon is filming her new war movie—but she can’t nail the accent, and it’s driving her mad. Her son Vlad is a prolific vlogger ...

Crossing Boundaries


New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe. Featuring Carol Mendes...

Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show


An uncompromising theatrical experience that includes aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, trained rats, a Heavy Metal Magician, a cougar ...

I love you, and I want you to be my bird


The eagle evokes patriotism, the pigeon evokes squalor. Storks spread new life, poultry spreads influenza. A single white dove is peace itself, a state almost ...

Second Seed: Part 1


ABOUT THIS SHOW The Second Seed project is energized by the following questions: What seeds did our ancestors plant for us, which do we water, ...

The Vyuga Project


Inspired by T.S. Elliot’s The Wasteland and Sarah Kane’s Crave, Polina Ionina and William Hand’s The Vyuga Project uses fragments of found poetry to explore ...

8 in Show
8 in Show
11/30


Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series page. PERFORMING COMPANIES ...

Anne Boleyn For President of the Class of 2104


Transport Anne Boleyn to a cutthroat liberal arts college. Enter Henry (the Eighth) – bro with a heart of gold and President of the all-powerful ...

Cleaning Out the Fridge & A Taking Into Question: Pixelated


Two independently created solo works exploring the experience of psychosis from different perspectives. Cleaning Out the Fridge grapples with the fear of becoming one’s parents, ...

Crossing Boundaries


New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe. Featuring Jody Sperling, Elise Knudson, Mei Yamanaka, Elke Rindfleisch & ...

Blacktop Highway
Blacktop Highway
11/4 - 11/19/2016


With “irrepressible energy and engaging presence” (NY Times), ground-breaking performer & one of the infamous NEA-4, John Fleck has been a prominent theatrical figure since ...

Fruit of the Sea


When a down on her luck pet store clerk discovers she’s actually landlocked mer-princess Calamaria, Fruit of the Sea, her life is turned head over ...

Wonderful Thoughts


Dodo, a human, arrives in the Siberian wilderness after a long barefoot journey across the Northern Hemisphere. So remorseful for their complicity in humankind’s ecological ...

Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre
Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre
11/16 - 11/17/2016


numb New York City-based choreographer Salvatore LaRussa returns with his dance company, Salavatore LaRussa Dance Theatre, to present the world premiere of his latest work, ...

Fast Forward
Fast Forward
11/15


In November, Fast Forward’s theme is “Universal Relation.” As Arts NY Dance will present Oasis and MADArt Creative will present The Inner Reaches: An Early ...

Little Theatre


The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media, more-or-less curated by Frank Boudreaux, Normandy Raven Sherwood, Katie Rose ...

Angst in A'Cappella


Angst in A Cappella is the story of a young black male and his love affair with music told through his interpretation of the Grunge ...

Carousel for Kids


Featuring words and pictures by special guest cartoonists, children’s book authors, and graphic novelists. Projections, stories, gags, live drawing…and more! For kids of all ages....

Sounds of a #Taplife: Take Two


Whether we are willing to accept it or not, the universe works in mysterious ways. Seen or unseen, there is a lot that goes on ...

Things You Don't Know About Asia/n... Or You Do


Tonight, stereotypes will be challenged. Maybe. A multimedia show about Asians that unapologetically features Asians. But fear not, there will be a white dude. Devised ...

story of my eye


story of my eye is a vaudevillian meta-pageant; it’s a public access variety show; it’s a saturnalia of excessive grotesquery that dips into pseudo-sincerity; it’s ...

A Self: Scattered Like The Leaves ~PLUS~ To Pieces


A Self: Scattered Like The Leaves A story of dyslexia told from the inside. Through abstraction we journey with a girl through a memory of ...

Between Us
Between Us
11/5


BETWEEN US tells the story of Diego, a 20-something gay man struggling to find meaningful connections following the death of his long-term boyfriend. After a ...

/VANITAS/
/VANITAS/
11/3


VANITAS is the emotional vacancy of repeatable, predictable forms; it is the emptied, utilitarian expectation you feel looking at a modern city’s horizon, the power ...

Wacky of Wallabazoo: A Yo-yo Boy's Adventure


Justin ‘‘Wacky’’ Weber stars in an all-ages circus theater show that he wrote and designed about a boy who faces crisis then risks everything to ...

Under Exposed


Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post. ...

ME//YOU//SHALL//LOVE


Alexa Salamé has developed an original piece inspired by translations of the poetry of Sappho and created a work fully integrating the body and the ...

Spermhood- Back by Popular Demand!


‘‘When Caroline asked me to be a sperm donor, I was speechless. But then I did it. And it changed everything. Jerking off in a ...

The Animal Show
The Animal Show
10/27 - 10/29/2016


Composer-performer Michael Harren’s multi-media performance, The Animal Show, blends humor with candor to convey the importance of keeping all animals safe from harm. Through stories ...

Carousel: The Political Show


In October, Carousel will feature presentations of graphic novels, gag cartoons, live drawing, and more, just in time for the election. Featuring the cartoonists Ruben ...

Crossing Boundaries


New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe. Featuring Sandra Kramerov, Mare Hieronimus, Vanessa Vargas + Nela Cote ...

Dogma
Dogma
10/24


Based on the belief that there are benevolent forces in the world trying desperately to help us (if we would just get out of the ...

My Old Man (and Other Stories)
My Old Man (and Other Stories)
10/7 - 10/22/2016


Barry is a forlorn Tom Waits impersonator with a water-stained floor and romance-induced insomnia. Andrea dreams of success as a museum educator while intermittently struggling ...

Mefloquine Dreams


“Mefloquine Dreams” is a play exploring the damaging effects of an anti-malaria drug, mefloquine, and its psychoactive properties. In some instances, this drug mysteriously attacks ...

MONEY FOR NOTHING: Early Days At MTV With Mike Armstrong, David Felton, and Jim Turner


This night of storytelling takes you way, way back to the pre-reality TV days of MTV in the ‘80s and early ‘90s when the network ...

Fast Forward
Fast Forward
10/18


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

Ruins of Achelach


Michelle Levy summons the serendipitous elements that brought her to this very moment: a déja vu in a field; a religious craving; an overlooked report ...

PORNING THE PLANET: The De-Sensitization of a Nation


In this solo show by writer & performer Raquel Almazan, a star is born—a porn star that is. In this dark comedy based on the ...

No Holds Barred


A magical night featuring gifted professional & student aerial, circus, theater & dance artists. A fun, inspiring, original & sometimes shocking evening where artists pull ...

Instructions to Decode A(n In)human Transformation


Instructions to Decode A(n In)human transformation is a postmodern punk ‘‘roach’’ cabaret inspired by Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Written in verse and delivered as spoken poetry ...

The Shadow and The Like
The Shadow and The Like
9/29 - 10/1/2016


J CHEN PROJECT is a modern dance company based in NYC, that explores identity within the human experience through creation, performance, mentoring and inspiring young ...

Guerrilla Lit Reading Series


This series has hosted readings by emerging & established authors since 2007. Because the pen is mightier than the Kalashnikov (we hope). Curated by Lee ...

CAMPFIRE! Queer Storytime


Join Burlesque Star World Famous *BOB* & Style Icon Dust Tea Shoulders at CAMPFIRE! Queer Storytime for tales of hilarity & heartbreak & a chance ...

Chimney-holic ~PLUS~ Ruby & Charlie ~PLUS~ Marcel & Man Ray


Chimney-holic Created by Maiko Kikuchi Chimney sweeping is his life’s work. That’s why he keeps making chimneys… Daydreams appear all of a sudden out of ...

After I Was Free


The beautiful Susanna is cornered by two elders of the town while bathing naked in her garden. They offer her an impossible choice: submit to ...

GUTS
GUTS
9/27


A literary performance series which encourages experimentation, nakedness, the non-expert, the unreasonably compelling, the wild and the hopelessly romantic. Writers, from a wide variety styles ...

The Secret City


Part revival, part salon, part spectacle, this monthly ‘service’ features performance, visual art, music, food, & literature, designed to inspire, invigorate & amaze the vibrant ...

Blossom
Blossom
9/9 - 9/24/2016


Emerging puppeteer & Jim Henson Foundation resident artist Spencer Lott visualizes the surreal landscape between reality and memory through the beautiful unraveling of one man’s ...

The Greenhouse Effect: Resurrected


Sally Greenhouse, ”The Thinking Person’s Performance Artist” (The Boston Globe), returns to Dixon Place after overcoming paralysis, documenting her miraculous recovery from a broken neck ...

Am I An Image Moving #7


It is the art of talking about something by referring to something else. You see something that moves and you wonder what is this unidentified ...

Mango & Tragedy & Beer - A Special CD Release Party With The Mangfather featuring Bob Katz


BOB KATZ (‘‘You never know what he’ll do next’’)—known for his genre-bending Mango & Tragedy …& Beer shows, raucous lyrics, and love a certain tropical ...

Spine Out: Novelists Read Personal Essays


Join host Emmy Laybourne, as she welcomes novelists to reveal stories from their lives at the autumn installment of the critically acclaimed literary event SPINE ...

Experiments & Disorders


Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers. Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford. Featuring Margo Jefferson ...

Fast Forward


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

How Do You Throw a Party?


A monthly improv show featuring local team Ski Legend and a revolving guest. It’s funny, it’s refreshing, it’s a good time – and the bar ...

International Women Artists’ Salon


International Women Artists' Salon presents a showcase of performance, literature, and video. Featured artists TBA....

Mom in the Car on the Way to the Airport


Historical re-enactment of mom's 90 minute monologue during car ride to LAX, during which son and husband, doze, not-listen. Mom chronicles her students, her recent ...

StylePointe


StylePointe Fashion Show explores the relationship between Fashion and Dance. Fashion Designers and Dance Choreographers collaborate to choreograph dance vignettes from the inspiration behind the ...

Juniper Tree ~PLUS~ LARP Me Gently


Juniper Tree A devised adaptation of the Grimms’ fairy tale featuring an innovative fusion of puppetry and mask performance. It is the first installment of ...

My Own Private Solo Show


A little girl covets her father's tuxedos, steals his act and rises to the middle. Marga Gomez, in collaboration with director David Schweizer, returns to ...

The turtle pond was a fail


Soder and Mailka are our Elegant Lades who wheel the audience through cycles of birth, ruin and regeneration. The play tumbles forth as almost the ...

The Mosquito


Hang out at the lounge at Dixon Place, the iconic & funky east-village theatre. Have a drink while checking out an early evening collection of ...

8 IN SHOW
8 IN SHOW
8/31


ABOUT THIS SHOW Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series ...

L.A. CHILD AND OTHER STORIES


ABOUT THIS SHOW In this collection of award-winning short stories, men, women and teenagers from New York City to L.A. grapple with the unpredictability of ...

ITUNES TERMS AND CONDITIONS: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL (EPISODE 3)


ABOUT THIS SHOW Cartoonist R. Sikoryak has drawn the entire, unedited text of the iTunes Terms and Conditions as a graphic novel, in over 90 ...

CAMPFIRE! QUEER STORYTIME


ABOUT THIS SHOW Join Burlesque Star World Famous *BOB* & Style Icon Dust Tea Shoulders at CAMPFIRE! Queer Storytime for tales of hilarity & heartbreak ...

CONSTELLATIONS ~PLUS~ THE KIND OF THING YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT


ABOUT THIS SHOW Constellations is a multimedia theater piece that reflects and tracks the psychological and emotional development of a young black female. The one-woman ...

LILY
LILY
8/24


ABOUT THIS SHOW This is the story of two endings separated by sixty-three years. This is the story of how when the world as you ...

COMMUNITAS
COMMUNITAS
8/23


ABOUT THIS SHOW Communitas, a creative think tank, anticipates a new cultural topography, offering a refraction of the times we are moving toward. We continue ...

AGATA OF CATANIA


ABOUT THIS SHOW Agata, a Sicilian butcher in in the 1890’s, is stuck under the rule of her kind, but overprotective father, Umberto. Sporting a ...

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN ARTISTS’ SALON


ABOUT THIS SHOW International Women Artists’ Salon presents a showcase of performance, literature, and video. Featured artists TBA. Get here early, we’ll be playing a ...

RAW
RAW
8/19


ABOUT THIS SHOW RAW is a show without a porpoise. A purpose, excuse me. RAW is a show without a purpose. It explores what it ...

LAST DITCH PLAYLIST


ABOUT THIS SHOW Brad Baron’s full-length play Last Ditch Playlist is an ode to the memory of a unraveling gay romance. Aaron and Wes’ joy ...

MY VALENTINE


ABOUT THIS SHOW ‘‘Once I was involved with a well-known artist. I had liked his work and followed his career. Learning he was single, and ...

VAGABONDS
VAGABONDS
8/17


ABOUT THIS SHOW VAGABONDS is a comedy that reimagines the life of the eminent French writer Colette. In this alternative history, she chooses not to ...

BEGGARS RAIN


ABOUT THIS SHOW Beggars Rain is an experimental monologue in which writer/actor/director Robert Firpo-Cappiello portrays a protagonist known only as ‘‘Dooley’’ and a rich supporting ...

HIGH VOLTAGE


ABOUT THIS SHOW Through sound and humor, High Voltage transforms the Dixon Place Lounge into an electric cage. Join Marc Jablonski as he dissects the ...

AMY ALLISON WITH LEE FELDMAN & JON GRABOFF


ABOUT THIS SHOW Singer-songwriter Amy Allison sings mostly original songs & some standards, accompanied by Lee Feldman on piano & Jon Graboff on guitar. Get ...

FOLKING-AWESOME: QUEER ALT-FOLK & AMERICANA FEST!


FOLKING-AWESOME shows that the American heartland- as based in NYC- will never be the same again. Come hear about all the classic honky-tonk topics–heart-break, lost ...

FOLKING-AWESOME: QUEER ALT-FOLK & AMERICANA FEST!


ABOUT THIS SHOW FOLKING-AWESOME shows that the American heartland- as based in NYC- will never be the same again. Come hear about all the classic ...

ANDREA LLOYD WEBBER: LIVE! AT PARADISE STREAM


ABOUT THIS SHOW Semi-celebrated American Mezzo Soprano Andréa Lloyd Webber (no relation) and her comrade in arms, musical portmantologist Yon Yonson, phD (unaccredited) can normally ...

STORAGE
STORAGE
8/10


ABOUT THIS SHOW Bronwyn, a 63-year-old hospital social worker and cabaret singer, hires Matthew, a 34-year-old gay man and former media film technician, a now ...

CONOR JAMES LIVE


ABOUT THIS SHOW On June 1st, Conor James released his first EP: Charles St. He is proud to be presenting a 50-minute show at Dixon ...

LAUNCH EVENT FOR SINISTER WISDOM 101 – VARIATIONS


ABOUT THIS SHOW This special volume of the 40-year old lesbian art and literary journal Sinister Wisdom, explores the varied meanings of lesbian feminism in ...

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN


ABOUT THIS SHOW There are dozens of people named Kevin Ritter on Google. They have all sorts of careers and lives. In We Need To ...

IMRE LODBROG ET SA PETITE AMIE: STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER


ABOUT THIS SHOW Imre Lodbrog is a semi-fictional French rock star who agreed to have Barbara Browning help him write his story. We recount it ...

TAXI TAKE ME!


ABOUT THIS SHOW Having survived a near-fatal car crash, Rae needed to employ NYC’s Taxis to move her recovering body from place to place between ...

LIKE JELLY


ABOUT THIS SHOW Meredith and Celeste are on a search for the immortal jellyfish; real creatures with Benjamin Button abilities. Celeste has a pet jellyfish ...

BINDLESTIFF OPEN STAGE VARIETY SHOW


ABOUT THIS SHOW An uncompromising theatrical experience that includes aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, trained rats, a Heavy Metal ...

HOW DO YOU THROW A PARTY?


ABOUT THIS SHOW A monthly improv show featuring local team Ski Legend and a revolving guest. It’s funny, it’s refreshing, it’s a good time – ...

MISS BLANCHE TELLS IT ALL


New Orleans, 1969. It’s almost show time for Miss Blanche, the most popular female impersonator in the Quarter. Only tonight, Blanche is unavoidably detained. Instead, ...

NEW NARRATIVE MOVIE NIGHT MAKEOUT


Twin New Narratives. Two boys. Montage. Fragments of monologue. Camera obscura. Painted ladies. The Russian River meets the Pines. Stoned at the farmer’s market. Making ...

BOYS WHO TRICKED ME


Called ‘‘heart-healing musical theatre’’ by Joshua Barone of The New York Times, Boys Who Tricked Me is a song-cycle, party-game, sleepover-style musical. It was previously ...

INTERABANG
INTERABANG
7/29


Ry is a biracial playwright and this is his identity crisis play. Meet Barker, his pet Shih-Tzu, who also happens to be his spirit animal. ...

THE COMMERCIALLY UNVIABLE QUEER TRASH THEATRE CYCLE


An anthropomorphized tomato named Taissa, a barefoot Contessa, and the gaytriarchy walk into a bar, and drunkenly stumble out a few hours later with a ...

IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE, RENO


Reno is an opinionated, radical feminist alternative voice who creates heavily improvised stream-of-consciousness topical monologues with incredible wit, political consciousness and common sense. Starting with ...

UNEARTHING ~PLUS~ A GIRL IN RAGS


In Unearthing, an ancient, genderqueer griot sits in a waist-high mound of dirt sourced from an unrecognized burial ground of enslaved Africans in New York ...

ALL THEM WHO WEAVE THE WIND


All Them Who Weave The Wind is a conversation between the past and the present, the living and the dead. It takes place in the ...

THE FIELD
THE FIELD
7/26


‘‘Day after day we’d meet in the same field. Our relationship a complete secret. It wasn’t that it was considered ‘not cool’ that kept us ...

BITS: A BITCRUSHER VARIETY SHOW!


An evening of theater, music, and burlesque from BITCRUSHER, a new digital theater collective. BITS will feature snippets from each of the original shows in ...

IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE DEVIL


If You Want to See the Devil utilizes unconventional storytelling; at times the performance may seem more like performance art than musical theater, at other ...

DANDY DARKLY’S MYTH MOUTH!


Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth! explores themes of religious extremism, substance abuse and our contemporary worship of social media via allegorical tales concerning a junkie Persephone, ...

3SISTERS, OR: IF WE COULD ONLY GET TO GREENWICH VILLAGE


3SISTERS, Or: If We Could Only Get to Greenwich Village is what would have happened if Anton Chekhov wrote his plays at a gay bar. ...

THE CENTER IS EVERYWHERE ~PLUS~ HOT! LAVA


the center is everywhere is a duet for twin friends presented through movement, video projection, sound looping, and live-action interviews, in which we show how ...

DOUBLE PENNY


Set in the living room of a tiny NYC apartment during the hottest day in June, Double Penny explores sexual promiscuity in the modern era ...

DAMAGED GOODS


TOSOS kills it again with Virginia Baeta’s noir-infused, gender-bending DAMAGED GOODS. It was supposed to be an easy job: trail the bad girl heiress and ...

IT’S NOT THAT I HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST LIVING… ~PLUS~ FOR DEREK, CHROMA 1995 ~PLUS~ DYNASTUD


A gay, mentally-ill homeless man lives in an in-between place of the present and his abusive past. His reality is a Gothic playground of frightful ...

QUEERING THE STAGE WITH JACK SHAMBLIN


Jack Shamblin is the Yul Brynner of Genderfuck theatricality. In constant physical transformation, his topics are equally in flux: from sodomy to the Holocaust to ...

DARING DUALITY: AS ABOVE SO BELOW


Daring Duality: As Above so Below is a celebration of the broad spectrum of gender, culture, and sexuality. Queer performers of color will use burlesque, ...

LEGENDS, STATEMENTS & STARS!


The schizophrenic and youth-friendly appeal of ‘‘All That’’ meets RuPaul thematics and ‘‘Let’s Make a Deal’’ irreverence. Legends, Statements & Stars! is a talk show ...

VALUE FULFILLMENT


Value Fulfillment, or the only type of duration that exists in the universe, is a revelatory concept that instills deeper metaphysical meaning into a seemingly ...

A TRIBE CALLED BUTCH


A Tribe Called Butch is a fast and furious (45 minutes—don’t be late!) literary reading series that features butch-identified writers and artists. Events are planned ...

FAST FORWARD


Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a ...

TINKER TOY, PINKER BOY


Tinker Toy, Pinker Boy transcends the soil and the sea, a levitation into clouds of pastel and fantasy, perched high above to reflect on reality ...

GERSHWIN LIVE: CAN-D IN THE CLUB


CAN-D In the Club takes you on a trip to the future to question the present. The infamous SciFi rap duo CAN-D, Amy Khoshbin and ...

EXPERIMENTS & DISORDERS


Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers. Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford....

INTERESTED IN


Interested In begins directly after Parker, a young college student, comes out of the closet. Told through a series of vignettes, we follow his awkward ...

 TRANSLATE (VOICES OF DANCE)


Curated by J CHEN PROJECT’s Artistic Director Jessica Chen, TRANSLATE (voices of dance) is an annual choreographers’ festival. With an emphasis to support the dance ...

 CROSSING BOUNDARIES


New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe....

THE FIELD
THE FIELD
7/26 - 6/26/2016


‘‘Day after day we’d meet in the same field. Our relationship a complete secret. It wasn’t that it was considered ‘not cool’ that kept us ...

 LAVA: HALF WAY THERE
LAVA: HALF WAY THERE
6/23 - 6/24/2016


LAVA celebrates PRIDE with a glimpse of the bedrock building blocks of our freshest expression of feminist acrobatic dance. Our epic new work, which will ...

 NYC10 DANCE INITIATIVE


NYC10 is a unique dance show that provides opportunities to 10 emerging dance companies to showcase their work (up to 10 minutes each) and receive ...

DANDY DARKLY’S MYTH MOUTH!
DANDY DARKLY’S MYTH MOUTH!
7/22 - 6/22/2016


Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth! explores themes of religious extremism, substance abuse and our contemporary worship of social media via allegorical tales concerning a junkie Persephone, ...

 NO MAN’S LAND


The Anthropologists’ NO MAN’S LAND wrestles to the stage the story of American Dad, Jeremiah Heaton, who literally went to the ‘‘ends of the earth,’’ ...

THREE CHRISTS


ABOUT THIS SHOW Three Christs begins with a host, the unnamed, self-professed ‘‘Scientist,’’ setting the parameters of an experiment he will perform on three patients ...

 LIVE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES


ABOUT THIS SHOW Our Story: Girls in the Nose: Pickin’ since 1985 Girls in the Nose (GITN), a lesbian-feminist rock band of six uncompromising women, ...

SPINE OUT
SPINE OUT
6/9


ABOUT THIS SHOW Join host Emmy Laybourne, as she welcomes novelists to reveal stories from their lives at the summer installment of the critically acclaimed ...

 MOVING MEN


ABOUT THIS SHOW A series of new choreography that features all male dancers. Curated by Doug Post. Featuring Sidra Bell, Masanori Asahara & Hee Ra ...

 BINDLESTIFF OPEN STAGE VARIETY SHOW


ABOUT THIS SHOW An uncompromising theatrical experience that includes aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, trained rats, a Heavy Metal ...

 LEAVES OF GRASS – UNCUT


TUESDAY, MAY 31 & THURSDAY, JUNE 2 AT 7:30PM ABOUT THIS SHOW Leaves of Grass – Uncut, a solo performance by Patrick Scully, summons the ...

THE IRON MULE SHORT COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL


FEATURED FILMS Cancelled — Written by Rob Asaro, directed by Francisco Escobar A man realizes his entire life is an elaborate TV show when his ...

 TEACHING TO TRANSGRESSION: THE MUSICAL


ABOUT THIS SHOW A night of musings on Women, Rock & Roll, Pedagogy, and Poesy written, directed, choreographed & composed by Jordan Martin featuring the ...

SPERMHOOD
SPERMHOOD
5/13 - 5/28/2016


FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, MAY 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 AT 7:30PM ‘‘When Caroline asked me to be a sperm donor, I was speechless. But ...

 ANOTHER FACE IN THE CROWD


ABOUT THIS SHOW An exploration of innocence & immediacy. Another Face in the Crowd is a nonverbal clown piece exploring the impulse that drives us ...

 THE NOISE


ABOUT THIS SHOW Miles, a young architect, finds that fracking earthquakes are destroying his house & keeping him from sleeping. In his dreams, his boss’s ...

8 IN SHOW
8 IN SHOW
5/25


ABOUT THIS SHOW Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series ...

 CROSSING BOUNDARIES


ABOUT THIS SHOW New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Interested in combining elements ...

NIGHT, LIKE VELVET: IN TWELVE LETTERS


ABOUT THIS SHOW Experience a musically theatrical, non-linear, and surrealist setting of the poetry of Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes in Night, like velvet: in ...

 I SHOULD SAVE THIS


ABOUT THIS SHOW During her tormented high school years, Katy saved over ninety AIM instant message conversations. Ten years later she excavated them from her ...

 FAST FORWARD


ABOUT THIS SHOW Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill ...

THE BOX SHOW


ABOUT THIS SHOW The Box Show is a one-woman sketch show in which a single actor performs over 20 characters all from within the confines ...

 INHERITANCE OF WAR


Inheritance of War is a new theater piece tracking life-partners Gage & Patriot as they fight to survive in Northland, a dystopian post-WWIII city-state wrought ...

 THINGS I LEFT ON LONG ISLAND


Things I Left On Long Island is the story of 28-year-old Marny, who moves back home to live with her mother after finding a lump ...

 BOTTOM OF THE SCRUM


A dark comedy about a gardener who is invited to be part of the house staff of a mansion. While inside, he gets more than ...

 UNDER EXPOSED


ABOUT THIS SHOW Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated ...

 BINDLESTIFF OPEN STAGE VARIETY SHOW


ABOUT THIS SHOW An uncompromising theatrical experience that includes aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, trained rats, a Heavy Metal ...

AN EVENING OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS POEMS


A kinetic reading of some of Tennessee Williams’s most moving poems, staged with minimalism & style. These particularly revealing selections are a rare insight into ...

THE SECRET CITY


Part revival, part salon, part spectacle, this monthly ‘service’ features performance, visual art, music, food, & literature, designed to inspire, invigorate & amaze the vibrant ...

BRIEF AND DISTORTED ENCOUNTERS WITH ARGENTINE WILDLIFE ~PLUS~ SEVEN DEVILS AND A FRENCH NUN


Brief and Distorted Encounters with Argentine Wildlife Written & directed by Sophie Weisskoff Drawn from the true tales of a romantic trip to a sun-dried ...

NEWFAGS CAN’T TRIFORCE


Unicorns, ghosts & The 1996 Vista Grande Elementary School 5th Grade Spelling Bee Champion collide in NEWFAGS CAN’T TRIFORCE, a hypnotic ritual inspired by 4chan, ...

ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD : WORKSHOP #1


In a quiet Northern California suburb, eight perfect high schoolers share a magical friendship. Then one of them jumps in front of a train, and ...

TODAY
TODAY
4/2


NBC’s The Today Show beams the news onto millions of screens every morning: every hotel continental breakfast, every hospital waiting room, everyday. In the Internet ...

VERA & VALYA & THE MAGICAL ONE-CAT CIRCUS


There lived in the town of Yaroslavl two sisters & their magical cat. The sisters lived in happiness, training their cat in the hopes of ...

DIXONFACE/WATCHPLACE


DIXON PLACE & WATCHFACE PRESENT DIXONFACE/WATCHPLACE A Benefit to celebrate Dixon Place's 30th Anniversary & launch of Watchface Archives website! FRIDAY, APRIL 1 AT 7:30PM ...

REMEMBERING EVANGELINE


Remembering Evangeline tells the story of a man who goes back for the woman he has left behind in Korea. It is an odyssey filled ...

V. Ec Ryt Rit .V Useo Noh


V. Ec Ryt Rit .V is a spine healing ritual-in-process. The layers of Diagonales’s play stem from the spinal powers of their scoliosis spine. Through ...

And I Saw Her


Ana, a young Filipina, arrives one morning at the suburban home of Claire Wilson, who has recently suffered a nervous breakdown. Ana claims that Claire’s ...

Salon sYmphoNY


Celebrate international women artists from history and the here and now on International Women’s Day. Hosted by Jenny D Green. Dozens of New York-based women ...

Exile 5.42


In early 2015 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 6 prisoners took hostage of the warden & successfully won the attention of the public, after the convicted former ...

Jessica Taylor/DAMAGEDANCE 5 Year Anniversary Season


Tickets available for purchase at https://www.artful.ly/store/events/5516. VIP tickets available for purchase at https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/profile?id=12021. Jessica Taylor/DAMAGEDANCE celebrates its 5 Year Anniversary Season with the premiere of ...

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