Rambunctious, daring, hilarious, provoking, and fun. Trust us - You've never experienced a night of improvisation quite like this.
Fast and Furious is a variety show about urgency. A handful of artists across mediums—music, theatre, stand-up, etc—make art about what is happening to them RIGHT NOW!
Gi60 NYC One Minute Theatre Festival! An hour of tiny plays performed by 9 actors in one evening. Join us for this exhilarating smorgasbord of stories!
Malapert Love is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's comedies from award winning 21-year old playwright Siah Berlatsky. Plots are hatched, personas concocted, and paint thinner sniffed – all for unrequited love!
With the help of his supportive mother, Frankie prepares for his first-ever performance as a Drag Queen — but they must keep it a secret from his conservative, disapproving father.
Rachel, a 20-something trans girl, invites Crystal, a "scene girl" stuck in the 2000s emo aesthetic, into her apartment after she accidentally bumps into her and gives her a nosebleed. But despite Crystal's small stature and bubbly personality, Rachel slowly discovers she the person she invited in is not as harmless as she seems.
SERIALS is a late-night episodic play competition series. Each weekend of performances, five original, never-before-seen 10 minute works are rehearsed, teched, and fully staged, premiered live in front of our audience. The audience then votes on their favorites, which come back the next week with a brand-new episode, creating long-term overarching storylines and inventive, outside-of-the-box new plays.
The long lost story of an American actress turned Civil War spy.
Midnight palace party. You’re Invited. Protests surge outside, the Baptist imprisoned below. Salomé is an absurd after-hours ritual of power, desire, and queer transcendence. Dance or Die.
On the set of a late night comedy show, sycophants and stars manage the emotions of the violent, volatile Host. An absurd look backstage into the consequences of failing upwards.
A multimedia performance exploring immigration, antisemitism and escaping Communism, told from the perspective of a ten year-old girl immigrating from the Former Soviet Union. Blending story telling, projected video and live music.
Wondering what happened to the first person you were gay with? Maybe they’re still in the woods waiting for you. Better go check—a local cryptid could have taken your place.
A powerful new play about a Black mother’s fight to protect her sons while navigating poverty and systemic injustice. Raw, urgent and deeply moving, Mama’s Boy is a story of survival.
Let’s go, Scouts! Skippy, Rascal, Tiny, and Pup are off on their scout hiking weekend. Led by Scoutmaster Waldo, these next 36-48 hours will contain tests of courage, trust, and brotherhood that will change them forever. But there's something watching them in the woods. Are any of them prepared?
When an alien takeover infiltrates our society, stripping people of their identities, citizens must decide what they're willing to give up to be happy...The doctor is in.
Get ready for a night of pure, unfiltered silly! Come for the laughs, stay for the absurdity!
A 1970's soap opera taping goes off the rails when a director must rely on non-talent to play the leads after all the regular actors got sick with an STD.
An evening of horror stories, monsters, and scariest of all: your relationship with your parents! Grown Up Bedtime Stories is a one woman show and sensory experience that invites you to relive the horrors of growing up, through the deranged horror writings of a 17-year-old Cassidy. Complemented by original illustrations and animations, jump scares and music, don’t miss this horrifying night to remember.
This is a play about a girl who lies about her age on the internet, a boy who can't stop watching Liveleak videos, and a nun who's hiding a secret.
What if the biggest decision of your teenage years happened in secret, while four students and a teacher sat inches away?
A dark comedy that starts at a wake and ends with a cough, Adult Relationships follows two former lovers brought together by the death of a troubled mutual friend.
A metalhead, a wannabe metalhead, and a choir boy stuck in a hunting cabin for the onset of the zombie apocalypse. A new play by Bug Johnson.
One man. One family. A lifetime of unpacking. In his raw, riveting solo show A Cat in a Box, Tom Nemec explores childhood chaos and addiction—with deep vulnerability and biting humor.
Blood may be thicker than water, but that just means it can drown you faster.
Sex. Sin. Swing. Explore suburban stickiness with a night at the local swingers club (or squirrel sanctuary - if anyone asks). Oh, an unexpected guest is on the list!
A surreal descent into ritual, desire, and the seductive pull of power. At an elite mountain retreat, a desperate couple is drawn into a spiral of ritual, control, and transformation.
The world will end in 80 years. Just enough time to have a baby!
People are missing. So are the snacks. Evel Knievel died ten years ago. Or will it be tomorrow? A new dark comedy about what it means to mourn the dead, the undead, and the people we used to be.
The LeAb Iteration Lab conducts performance research, creating experiences of silence, repetition, and sustained attention. “An Iteration in Progress" seeks to understand how “routine” shapes our lives and experiences.
Seven slices of life. A dance. A fight. A tattoo session. Before it hurts dissects the intimacy formed around the messiness of grieving.
TENTS
Thursday, November 13th—Friday, November 21st
The production is directed by Taylor Edelle Stuart with scenic design by Molly C. Carroll and lighting design by Heather Crocker.
At the end of the world, Diana has found the perfect spot to lay low. The problem? Elmer has already claimed it. When he asks her to help search for his missing wife, the uneasy alliance between two strangers becomes a high-stakes negotiation where every story could mean the difference between life and death.
Featuring Russ Cusick as Elmer and Rubina Vidal as Diana, Tents is an intimate two-hander that explores trust, myth-making, and the fragile hope that remains when the world has burned away.
A comic, intimate solo show by Fabiana Mattedi exploring beauty, aging, and identity through sharp storytelling, humor, and reflection—sparked by a subway moment and shaped by lived experience.
Pilau is a cozy variety show blending stand-up and sketch comedy. It features brilliant under-the-radar comedians, leaving you as satisfied as a warm, comforting meal.
"half infinity" is a semi-verbatim play about your QAnon relatives.
Set in a prestigious MFA Drama program in NYC, The Pigeon, a queer riff on Chekhov’s The Seagull, is a love letter to queer drama kids that didn’t fit it.
A frenzied dance through the untamed wilderness of sex, vulnerability, and obsession, Le Blaireau is a theatrical study into what the hell happens when we lose ourselves in the woods.
A seminar on career paths on Broadway beyond acting.
Get ready to laugh your Face Tape off! Come see our newest sketch comedy team, led by director Emily Claypoole and head writer Kali Doyle. They’re serving chaos, camp, and deeply funny nonsense. See you there!
Molly joined a Hollywood celebrity's cult. Do you want to hear about it?
Dream Team: A new dark comedy pop-punk performance
What happens when an assassin and a pirate get stuck on a ship together? Things get moody, spicy and hilarious. Salt Life a new pirate romance for the modern lovers
"Shringarik Lavani" is an immersive dance show that travels back to Maharashtra in the 1600s with fast rhythms, energetic dancing, powerful poetry, and storytelling that spans from comedic to contemplative.
An institutionalized femme on suicide watch impersonates trans activist Sylvia Rivera in order to hide who she is, as she grapples with self-love and an unmet need to belong. Written and performed by Summer Minerva.
The world will end in 80 years. Just enough time to have a baby! With doomsday just outside of their natural lifespans, four friends navigate the personal and existential implications of living as the final generation.
After yet another heartbreak, Felipe dives headfirst into Grindr. Inspired by Lana Del Rey, he simultaneously obsesses over his latest situationship while trying to hook up his pain away.
Drama of Works presents PUNCH Puppet Slam: UNIVERSAL MONSTERS! A diverse group of puppet artists use a wide variety of puppet styles to collaborate to tell the tales of Dracula, Frankenstein and all their friends - extend the spooky vibes into November!
Traveling alone to a Cranberries concert, Jen gets trapped in a crumbling hotel bathroom for 5 hours—IMGONNAWANNA: a darkly funny, raw story of resilience and escape.
Three New Yorkers dealing with their relationships and their mental health.
The Poinciana Woman
November 25th @ 9:30 PM
Writer, Performer, Producer — Libby Yowell
The Poinciana Woman is a hauntingly intimate one-woman play that reimagines an Australian urban legend through a modern lens. Written and performed by Libby Yowell, the piece weaves folklore and memory to explore womanhood, inherited trauma, and the stories that shape us. Set beneath the vivid canopy of the poinciana tree, this striking debut invites audiences to confront the blurry line between myth and truth, asking what happens when the ghosts of our past come creeping into our present.
Four actors perform a live, shot-for-shot parody of Home Alone in “one breathless hour” (NY Times). Recent Cutbacks returns with their hilarious holiday blend of puppetry and 90s nostalgia.
In a retirement community, three women reflect on their pasts, reenact scenes and confront the absurdities of aging.
From the legally degenerate minds behind Golem Owned a Tropical Smoothie, Ethan, Garrett, and the gang bring you GOLEM’S CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA!!! It’s hand-crafted, and almost a hundred years old!!
A historical-ish new comedy about the literal lengths women must go to be recognized in their time!
A surreal two-act, one-woman multimedia musical that fuses performance art, poetry, photography, noir film, neo-burlesque and circus art into a confessional cabaret about a teen addict's true tale of escape.
Tensions are running high on an annual family camping trip — and the onset of the zombie apocalypse sure doesn’t help. In hereditary horror grease my chin, disputes over parenting, pronouns, and privacy give way to a fight for survival as a family wrestles with its own monstrosity.
Get ready for a night of pure, unfiltered silly! This sketch show has it all—parties, un-parties, oddball thieves, and the kind of embarrassing wins that make you laugh, cringe, and cheer all at once. Fast-paced, wildly funny, and just the right amount of weird, this is the comedy escape you didn’t know you needed. Come for the laughs, stay for the absurdity!
Three world premiere micro-operas about love, loss, truth, and transformation.
Four friends meet for a holiday week in the Poconos. When one announces they plan to commit a murder, all hell breaks loose. Inspired by the SCUM manifesto by Valerie Solanas.
National Youth Poet Laureate Stephanie Pacheco’s urgent, poetic new play exposing how schools are tied to systems of punishment and imagining what it takes to break free.
In this all-Black adaptation of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, nine long-term friends, trapped in a villa in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, try to survive a serial killer who looks to take vengeance for the skeletons in their closets.
A prison chef has made 217 last meals for death row inmates. But his 218th wants to eat dirt. . Can he be saved? Can anyone on death row be saved? Inspired by real events, Huntsville asks: what is the value of a last meal, when everyone gets "Texacuted" anyway?
An afternoon of music, theatre, and dance, resourcing Southern Black brilliance—featuring David H. Parker, Diovanna Obafunmilayo Frazier, Kyra Shaw-Davis, Jessica Charles, and Jonathan Lykes.
The editor-in-chief of a college newspaper tries to keep the status quo intact as the 2016 presidential election looms large over the United States in this 80 minute political dramedy.
As two best friends grapple with an earth-shattering revelation, they learn about faith, friendship, and how hard it is to keep old of either.
LaRouge, a drag queen, is perfomring her cabaret act. Through stories and songs, she recalls her life's journey being eerily similar to a short story she read in high school.
Patient, dynamic improvisation from some of he city's best performers.
Five modern-day men climb a mountain to roleplay as Dionysus-worshipping women and break free of the prison of masculinity.
New folk-pop musical Last Song on Earth: An offbeat, heartfelt take on post-apocalyptic survival by Danielle Llevada, Kyu Park, & Riley Glick
"Ritual: Red" is more than a play; it is a ritual of liberation, offering audiences a cathartic and immersive experience that resonates with anyone who has struggled to find their voice in a world that often silences it.
An antique dealer helps her hoarder friend to not lose her apartment. While they work their way through thousands of objects, the complexity of their relationship rises, in the same pace that one of them realises she is not where or when she thought she was.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get a yeast infection.
Stan Zimmerman’s suicide awareness play, Right before I go runs this September. The Golden Girls/Gilmore Girls writer will appear on stage alongside a casts of all-star actors.
A makeshift family is united by their shared body odor, which has isolated them from polite society. When Sapphire finds a cure, the family begins to fall apart.
A lyrical one-man play about boys becoming men, Holes in the Shape of My Father blends poetry and pain to confront fatherhood, masculinity, and the meaning of absence.
Four friends meet for a holiday week in the Poconos. When one announces they plan to commit a murder, all hell breaks loose. Inspired by the SCUM manifesto by Valerie Solanas
A magical comedy about grief and the consequences of living truthfully, with a crow fued, ghosts, and little german boy.
Welcome to Reflection, Epheverie Theatre Co.’s inaugural festival. These six bold plays explore identity, perspective, and transformation—reflecting our mission as a queer and AAPI-led company championing new voices.
Arriving 52 minutes late for her own rehearsal of her tastelessly intimate one-woman show, Amy demands guidance from her ethereal director Moira.
Follow Urch and Jean, two employees of a suicide hotline on Christmas eve as all hell breaks loose when Danny shows up for help after being shot in the head and not dying.
At midnight, Madge’s camp counselors chant “THE CATHOLICS ARE COMING!” and The Anabaptist Game begins. Fueled by whimsy, Madge convenes with medieval ancestors about whether forgiveness could set us free.
When two lost souls are set up on a blind date they are forced to confront their internal enemies in hopes of not destroying each other.
Girls. Friendship. Girl-friendship. Secrets. Confession. Secret-confessions. Period blood, glitter, dolphins, ponies and, obviously, Mr. Darcy.
Come see the first public staged reading of Andy Boyd's Pentheus, a t-girl adaptation of the Bacchae.
Originally conceived as a 7 part episodic series with SERIALS, C. Lingus, Independent Journalist is part noir, part sex comedy, part satire, and all a lampooning of our political moment.
