Crystal Field News

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'The Title Should Be Spoken Out Loud Around Three-Quarters In'.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'The Joint'.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'The House of Setting Sun'.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'The Chaplin Plays: A Double Feature'.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'The Blind Truth: A Musical Journey', A Musical Journey Through the Darkened Life of Vinny St. Marten.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Spinoza's Ethics,' by Emily Claire Schmitt, A Journey Through Time With 17th Century Philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Null & Void', 'When is a painting finished? When is a marriage over?'

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Mother-in-Law', A Comedy About the Classic Cult Figure with a Caribbean Twist.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Missamma', The Staged Adaptation of the Classic Telugu Film 'Missamma' Has its New York Premiere.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Millennium Mom', One Character, Three Actresses, Infinite Possibilities.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Mary V', A Battle of the Sexes 400 Years in the Making.

LURED, a new play by Frank J. Avella that explores the persecution of gays in Russia, will be presented in the 2016 Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director).

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Love Bites', A Short Drama About Lost and Rekindled Love.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Clown! Do Some Ballet!', A Movement Driven Dance and Clown Show About the Joys and Sorrows of Daily Life.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Camp BoHoGro!', A New Satire Rife with Surreal Campfire Singalongs, Hallucinatory Hippies, Political Intrigue and Espionage.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Autumn Stage', A Nostalgic Homage to Modernist Playwriting.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Alpha 66', A New Drama About the Struggles of a Family in 1960s Communist Cuba.

Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival Presents 'About Clarence and Me', A Story About Race, Love and Music Performed on the Bench of a Grand Piano.

From August 28 to September 18, 2016 Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, Artistic Director, will present its seventh Dream Up Festival, a feast of adventurous theater featuring new works from across the country and abroad. Helmed by the theater's Literary Manager, Michael Scott-Price, the festival offers 19 plays, all of which are world premieres or New York premieres.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY - Circus goers typically marvel at the power and restrained grace of an elephant in the ring, taking on delicate poses unusual for such gigantic creatures. But the process by which that power is tamed can serve as a metaphor for the human condition.