THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY

Theater for the New City, Executive Director Crystal Field is proud to present The Six Paths, a spiritual exploration of Vietnamese Buddhism that delves into ...

Playwright Ishmael Reed has taken the proto rap about Shine, a Black man who survives the Titanic’s sinking, and expanded it into a courtroom drama.

Tommie Smith and John Carlos are heralded world class sprinters bound for Olympic glory when their controversial college professor challenges them to speak out against ...

In a rural part of southeastern Louisiana, Mahala, raised by her parrain Takoda, became an upwardly-mobile professional and upon losing him realizes all she has

Christmas arrives early this year on August 29! A new holiday musical arrives at Theater for the New City with music ranging from rock t

Theater for the New City, Crytal Field (Artistic Director), FFP, and Stage Voices proudly present the Off-Off Broadway world premiere of “ Tongs and Bones ...

Laugh, cry, and celebrate with teenagers, veterans, elders, addicts, queers, and teachers. Letta’s performance is a testament to the power of personal and collective histories.

Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella is the new Broadway adaptation of the classic musical. Featuring songs such as "Impossible/It's Possible" and more!

This hour long cabaret style performances features songs from some of our favorite past musicals, including Into the Woods, West Side Story, and more!

Screenwriter Paul is still sheltering in place long after the Covid threat, only sometimes visited by his schleppy older family friend, Trudy. Now of a ...

It’s the day before New Year’s Eve when two people meet at a concert in this new play by Theater for the New City resident playwright ...

"Party?" a poignant comedy described by playwright Anne Marilyn Lucas as "A Doll's House meets  Neil Simon " provides a fresh and often humorous look ...

MARY SHELLEY’S TIMELESS NOVEL about the creation of a Monster who is abandoned – is brought to the stage by Emmy Award-winning writer (Sesame Street) ...

‘LEAVES’ is a love story like you've never seen before.

Written by Robin Goldfin , Flawless is based on and inspired by an award-winning essay by Canadian writer David J. Lawless. A family's youngest daughter ...

#∞ With a cast of women whose ages span six decades, #∞ weaves personal stories reflecting women’s oppression through video, spoken word, monologue, and scenes ...

This show, about the ups and downs of a woman’s romantic relationships during perimenopause, mixes humor with drama. The result is an unpredictable journey through perimenopause, ...

Mining the comedy of missed connections, This Random World asks the serious question of how often we travel parallel paths through the world without noticing.

For the second appearance of his newest play, THE CONDUCTOR, Ishmael Reed has revived the Living Newspaper, a 1930s WPA theatrical form that was shut ...

In the land of Erehwon, everything is just the way it should be. Then the leader decides to make things “better.” A musical comedy inspired ...

Lace up those boots and follow the White Rabbit to Wonderland! Set your clocks and get ready for a very important date as you have ...

STOP KISS is a powerful and heart-wrenching love story that will take you on a journey of laughter, tears, and ultimately, hope. This non-linear narrative ...

Jordy , a struggling playwright, makes a deal with the Devil , her soul in exchange for the Devil’s help in writing a single original ...

Mirror, Mirror written by Stephen Cornine, Jonothon Horton and Susan Bucci is the story of a group of people throughout seven different time frames. Every ...

Theater for the New City presents ADA by Demetria Daniels from February 16 to March 5, 2023 at the Johnson Theater, 155 First Avenue, New ...

"Who Murdered Love?" by Lissa Moira and Richard West is a Dadaist musical comedy set in 1924 New York City and in a Paris dreamscape. ...

You will never look at a homeless person the same way after seeing "The Very Last Dance of Homeless Joe," a new play by actor/playwright/comedian/visual ...

Marguerite and Gloria, both in their mid-60s, have been close friends for over 40 years.  When they get together one evening to plan Gloria’s wedding ...

Defne Halman* appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association in an Equity approved Showcase in the world premiere of the one woman show 'Noises In My ...

Strokes of Genius is a pivotal drama about abstract expressionist painters, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, and Elaine de Kooning. Told in their own words, this ...

Expelled from high school and arrested for antiwar activity, teenaged Samantha loses her college scholarship. Her mom despairs, and her Puerto Rican boyfriend actually wants ...

Is knowledge power in corporate America? Or is some other less lofty commodity the secret ingredient to success and elevation to the C-Suite? When the ...

HAMLET IN HARLEMBy Alberto FerrerasA comedy of errors about a tragedy of errors: an all-Latino version of Hamlet that promises thrills, chills, offensive stereotypes and ...

This new play about Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe and Elia Kazan follows their lives framed around Millers testimony before the House Unamerican Activities Committee or ...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit by the Iranian author Nassim Soleimanpour: forbidden to leave his home country, he wrote a one-performer play as a letter that ...

Ronald "Smokey" Stevens earned a place on Broadway thanks to raw talent and his wits, becoming a prominent musical comedy performer in such productions as ...

Playwright Ishmael Reed uses satire to explore aspects of American culture and history overlooked by others. His "The Slave Who Loved Caviar" is a theatrical ...

The Voire Dire Project 5.0: Images in Sepia Directed by Liz Amadio 3 Sepia Photographs/3 Plays/16 Artists/1 Integrative Experience Behind the Shadow by Liz Amadio#& ...

A historical play set in the mid-19th century in a now landmarked building in Battery Park--the entry point to the United States prior the facility ...

Theater for the New City (TNC) has presented its Village Halloween Costume Ball annually since 1976. With safety paramount this year, the fete will take ...

A high-spirited female buddy road trip story set in the time of the great Rabbi Judah. Written by Douglas Lackey, directed by Alexander Harrington. World ...

Join us for A Fabulous Evening Of Short Films From Award Winning Directors. Only $20. Including a remastered print of the great Charlie Chaplins The ...

Theater for the New City's Lower East Side Festival of the Arts returns May 28-30, 2021 as an indoor and outdoor live audience event with ...

A shoplifter and a security guard meet and move in together, changing each other's lives....

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY WILL LAUNCH "OPEN 'THO SHUT" NOV. 14 TO DEMONSTRATE A NEW, UNCONVENTIONAL CONCEPT FOR SAFE PERFORMANCE AS PART OF "MORE ...

Theater for the New City will present - TNC "Alive" reading of Lockdown: Epilogue, the conclusion of Lockdown 2020 by Frank J. Avella (Vatican Falls, ...

Theater for the New CityCrystal Field, Executive Director Celebrates PrideFREE ONLINETNC PRIDE 2020www.theaterforthenewcity.net.Theater for the New City (TNC), in its 50th season, joins the LGBT ...

They Came to the Castle: Immigrants, a Tenor and Lola Montez is a historical play set in the mid- 19th century in a now landmarked ...

In this experimental theatrical clown fable, a family embarks on an adventure into a foreign land. What awaits them is predictably strange and surprisingly familiar. ...

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY, Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director, in collaboration with producers Olivia Pane & Natalia Presents: The Medea of Euripides, Directed and ...

Theater for the New City presents the world premiere of HOOKED ON HAPPINESS, a new musical about global warming, for a limited engagement November 7th ...

A Life In The Rye looks at J.D. Salinger's life and the impact that Catcher In The Rye had on him, his fans, fanatics obsessed ...

The Rosen family, battered and blessed, celebrates life as their hearts lie gasping on the floor. Broadway's Loni Ackerman, who starred as Eva Peron in ...

Three new one-act comedies by Richard PloetzGOLDFISH Sabrina, a feral child, just turned 6 and her parents are throwing her a party in their shabby ...

Theater for the New City, Crystal Field (Artistic Director) presents, in the Dream Up Festival: REVOLUTIONARY a sci-fi, acoustic rock musical about a conscious revolution ...

Beginning on the one year anniversary of her survival of a mass shooting, Joy battles Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, agoraphobia, borderline alcoholism, and the ...

Daniel Pavacic, Marisa Gold, Peter Tarantino and Abigail Grizzle star in this play by Claude Solnik, directed by Jim Keeler, about a pivotal time in ...

Norman's been a little distant lately. After breaking up with his long-time boyfriend, Norman Sable-Church moves clear across the country, leaving his fathers, George and ...

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY, Crystal Field Executive Director, proudly presents Generations of Pride, an evening of speakers and performances reflecting LGBT history pre-Stonewall, the ...

Five ghosts who faced adversity in life will be homeless when the historic NYC building they inhabit is demolished. Sarah Bernhardt, baptized Catholic, faced antisemitism ...

A Pow-Wow is more than just a spectator event: it is a joyous reunion for native peoples nationwide and an opportunity for the non-Indian community ...

In this pseudo-Southern Gothic dark comedy, a vibrant group of teens from two very different suburban neighborhoods clash over class differences, drugs, and sex and ...

The Bohemians is a comedy about a couple who move into the elegant-sounding Waldorf Towers, which has seen better days. Their parents immediately go to ...

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Tony nominated theatre luminary Austin Pendleton’s WARS OF THE ROSES: HENRY VI & RICHARD III, his adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest villain, ...

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Tony nominated theatre luminary Austin Pendleton’s WARS OF THE ROSES: HENRY VI & RICHARD III, his adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest villain, ...

Playwright/director Elia Schneider is known for hauntingly visual productions that transcend language with strong imagery and a dreamlike fresco of movement and design. Her newest ...

"Recovery," written by Anne Marilyn Lucas and directed by Stephan Morrow, is a drama of three young women, all lost in the pain of addiction, ...

"Arendt-Heidegger: A Love Story" by Douglas Lacket, directed by Alexander Harrington, dramatizes the troubling, lifelong affair between Zionist Hannah Arendt and Nazi sympathizing philosopher Martin ...

Theater for the New City (TNC) Dream Up Festival presents the world premiere of Masseur, written and directed by Christian Ávila. Masseur opens September 6, ...

Is Sixteen old enough to be an adult? Hamza Zaman delves into the seminal age of Sixteen with "Sixteen: The Troublemaker Diaries". Sixteen is when ...

A seasoned assassin is hired to wipe out an obscure fringe playwright. Yet as she moves closer to the kill, she uncovers an inexplicable link ...

At a time when me too moments are sparking conversation and debate, Grace is Good brings a new me too story to the stage. Theater ...

Take off those Spanx and get ready to let loose for FAT ASSES: THE MUSICAL. Theater for the New City, Crystal Field, Executive Director is ...

Theater For the New City presents this one night only special event with one-act plays by Claude Solnik, Craig Pospisil and Robert Previto that take ...

Innumerable American children and teens are exposed to gun violence at home, in school, in their communities and in the media. In "Subway Story (A ...

The play dramatizes the life, loves and ultimately the tragic decline of Josh Gibson, who was perhaps the greatest slugger of the Negro leagues and ...

Part of our shared experience as Americans today is how we strain under the weight of the tech sector. Millionaires are made overnight and we ...

"One Drop," a family drama with music by Andrea J. Fulton, brings to life the politics of a young mixed-race man's "passing" for white in ...

ROSES: HENRY VI & RICHARD III, his adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest villain, Richard III, returns for three nights only, December 3rd, 4th and 5th at ...

4 plays/4 paintings/20 artists/1 integrative experience J. Lois Diamond’s 'In Alabama' Liz Amadio’s 'In the Attic' Maxine Kern’s 'Dostoyevsky' Coni Koepfinger’s 'AfterLife' Inspired by the ...

When a mother and therapist are confronted with an unexpected dilemma in the raising of a disabled young woman, they must face decisions neither of ...

He got a chance to be a Beatle for 100 days at the height of the band's popularity. The story of Paul McCartney's double. Theater ...

Aspen’s acclaimed Theater Masters will present its eleventh annual “Take Ten,” an exciting, fast-paced evening of eight 10-minute plays from award-winning MFA graduate playwriting students ...

Twelve abandoned beings try to figure out their present and the future, but eventually subdue to their fate. Blind, the adaptation of Maeterlinck’s same titled ...

A Pakistani cabbie and a Connecticut banker's lives collide in this new play for our times, exploring everything from immigration to identity, class to color, ...

Beatles songs come to life, not with music, but as stories and situations. A cast of 15 presents this world premiere theatrical tribute for fans ...

This play mixes historic figures such as Lincoln, John Brown, Frederick Douglass and slavery advocate Stephen A. Douglas in their own words with the fictional ...

Ghost Light Now & Then is a “time-fluid” play that is both historic and contemporary. A ghost light is a single light left on onstage ...

An evening of famous and new playwrights, Luigi and Langston presents a rarely performed one-act by Langston Hughes, a classic by Luigi Pirandello (presented as ...

“Victoria Woodhull,” a play by Claude Solnik, tells the story of the first woman to run for president in 1872 even before women had the ...

Theater for the New City  (Crystal Field, Artistic Director) Presents: Millennium Mom  by Liz Amadio A Cosmic Orchid production of an Equity-Approved Showcase as part ...

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY TO PRESENT "THE DEATH OF A BLACK MAN (A WALK BY)" BY WILLIAM ELECTRIC BLACK For Gun Awareness Month, an ...

Can an overweight gay man find love with the help of his drag queen roommate, a stripper-turned-evangelist, a lazy-eyed nymphomaniac and even the soulful presence ...

The Three-Mile Limit dramatizes a voyage aboard a transatlantic ocean liner in 1927. Real-life and fictional characters reflect the diversity of the passengers and crew. ...

Life is just fine in the picturesque Irish town of Corofin when an American tourist arrives. But when the caretaker of a few cottages dies ...

The New Stage Theatre Company is proud to present the world premiere of Night, or Thyestes 2.0, a movement theatre piece written by Charles L. ...

Julian Carthy returns from prison to his father’s trailer on the Texas-Mexico border, hell-bent on carving a fresh life and finding his daughter. There he ...

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Cino Theater: Douglas Lackey; dir: Stephan Morrow....

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Cabaret Theater: Richard Ploetz; dir: Jan Streicher....

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Community Space Theater: John Steppling; dir: Stephan Morrow....

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Community Space Theater: Pheobe Legere; lyrics: Pheobe Legere; music: Pheobe Legere....

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Community Space Theater: Claudia Angelini; dir: Stephan Morrow....

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Community Space Theater: George Tabori; dir: Manfred Bormann....

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Cino Theater: Mario Fratti....

The Joyce & Seward Johnson Theater: Gretchen Cryer, David Ippolito; lyrics: David Ippolito; dir: Gretchen Cryer....

Community Space Theater: Bernard Kops; dir: Kelly Morgan....

Fifty years ago, Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater embarked on an extraordinary journey. Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann, the group has spent decades crafting ...