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Waiting for Gadot
Waiting for Gadot
2/6 - 2/21/2026


A parody of Waiting for Gadot by Australian playwright Annabel McConnachie Three neighboring worlds — a café, a film set, and a park bench — ...


The Chain Winter One-Act Festival showcases a diverse range of original works from playwrights across the tri-state area, running from February 6 to March 1, ...



Kendra Jones' ON BURNSIDE MOUNTAIN is Coming to Chain Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 09, 2026

On Burnside Mountain, a play by Kendra Jones, is set to return to New York City this winter. Directed by Derek Dahmann, the production will be presented as part of the Chain Theatre's Winter One-Act Festival at the Chain Theatre....

Suzanne Bachner’s CIRCLE To Have NYC Preview Ahead Of Edinburgh Festival Fringe Run


by A.A. Cristi - January 08, 2026

Suzanne Bachner's award-winning play CIRCLE returns to New York City for a limited preview engagement ahead of its August run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. ...

Manhattan Arts Center Commissions New Work By NYC Playwright Andrew Michael Reid


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 17, 2025

Manhattan Arts Center has commissioned a new original play by New York City-based playwright Andrew Michael Reid. The organization presents five mainstage productions annually and serves as a regional hub for theatre, visual art, and arts education....

Bahamian Playwright Petron Dee Brown Unveils Electrifying New Drama At CSP New Works Fest


by Gillian Blum - November 30, 2025

Conch Shell Productions announced the festival presentation of Stand Right There and Perish, or (May I Never Lose You), a new work by award-winning Bahamian-born playwright Petron Dee Brown....

Submissions Open For Chain Theatre’s 2026 WINTER ONE-ACT FESTIVAL


by A.A. Cristi - November 06, 2025

Chain Theatre in New York City has opened submissions for its 2026 Winter One-Act Festival, running February 6–March 1, 2026. The acclaimed festival, which showcases new work from artists across the tri-state area, will continue the company’s mission of presenting bold, original voices in a dynamic ...

​​​​​​​Submissions Now Open for Chain Theatre's Winter One-Act Festival


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 06, 2025

Calling all playwrights, actors, directors, and producers! Submissions are now open for the 2026 Chain Winter One-Act Festival, a true celebration of bold voices and original storytelling....

A GAY MASSEUR'S GUIDE TO HAPPY ENDINGS To Get Two-Night Workshop In NYC


by A.A. Cristi - October 24, 2025

After a sold-out Provincetown run, Austin Jennings Boykin’s solo show A Gay Masseur’s Guide to Happy Endings will return for two performances at The Chain Theatre in New York City, November 12–13, 2025....

Photos: THE BLISS OPTION Opens At The Chain Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - October 02, 2025

American Renaissance Theater Company is presenting the World Premiere of THE BLISS OPTION by Andrew R. Heinze, co-directed with Eva Minemar. Check out photos of the show!...

OIL & WHISKEY to Continue NYC Tour At Chain Theatre in October


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 23, 2025

New York's Favorite Country Western Musical Oil & Whiskey, will continue their NYC tour with special pop-up performances at the Chain Theatre. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets. ...

A LEAF IN THE WIND to be Presented at Emerging Artists Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 09, 2025

Emerging Artists Theatre will present A Leaf in the Wind, written by Jeffery Chen and directed by Wasif Sami. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets. ...

Past Shows

Mini Me
Mini Me
12/4 - 12/7/2025


Mother and Daughter look alike. Everybody says so. They talk alike. Act alike. Make the same facial expressions. They even fight alike, which is exactly ...

Nine Shadows in Bloom: A Devised Piece


Door opens to an empty rehearsal room in Memory Courtyard. They appear, singing in symphony. What kind of past…or future, summons them?

A Leaf in the Wind
A Leaf in the Wind
9/12 - 9/13/2025


Emerging Artists Theatre will present A Leaf in the Wind, written by Jeffery Chen and directed by Wasif Sami . The workshop productions take place ...

A Test of Taste
A Test of Taste
7/18 - 8/2/2025


A Test of Taste , a play by Kendra Jones , is set to return to New York City this month. Co-directed by Jones and ...

Justice for Geetha
Justice for Geetha
7/11 - 7/19/2025


Justice for Geetha is a timely and powerful play in a time of anti-DEI  by Sunita Deshpande, premiering as part of the 2025 Chain Summer ...

SPACE
SPACE
6/19 - 6/22/2025


"SPACE” - A mixtape by Kelechi Udenkwo.   All songs written and produced by Kelechi Udenkwo Arrangements and choreography by Emma Rose Brooks Vocals by Aaliyah ...

Point Loma
Point Loma
5/31 - 6/15/2025


A must-see theatrical experience for fans of supernatural and horror genres, based on true events and histories.
New Play

SWIPE THIS! My Life in Transit


Stand Up Comedian and MTA Token Booth Clerk debuts her solo show as part of the NYC Fringe Fest.

Five Evenings
Five Evenings
3/20 - 3/30/2025


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

Ekphrasis
Ekphrasis
3/16


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

it's Supposed to be Fun


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

Tin Church
Tin Church
10/23 - 11/23/2024


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

Constellations
Constellations
11/14 - 11/17/2024


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

Model Majority Masterpiece Theatre - A Literary Comedy


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

Subway Windows


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

IN JUSTICE
IN JUSTICE
9/14


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

Time Capsule Project
Time Capsule Project
7/1 - 7/7/2024


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

Telos
Telos
5/6 - 5/12/2024


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

Gidion's Knot
Gidion's Knot
5/2 - 5/5/2024


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

Constellations
Constellations
4/18 - 4/28/2024


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

Witchland
Witchland
4/5 - 4/14/2024


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

Girls' Night
Girls' Night
2/18 - 3/2/2024


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

The Dead Arm
The Dead Arm
2/18 - 2/28/2024


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

Tourist Trap
Tourist Trap
2/10 - 2/22/2024


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

La monja alférez (The Lieutenant Nun)


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

Hamlet Speak
Hamlet Speak
7/26 - 7/29/2023


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

The Scope of William Jennings Bryan


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

The Match Girl
The Match Girl
6/30 - 7/2/2023


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

The Match Girl
The Match Girl
6/30 - 7/2/2023


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

La caída de Rafael Trujillo
La caída de Rafael Trujillo
4/14 - 4/30/2023


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

Dear Mom, I'm Gay! The Musical!


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

THIS G*D DAMN HOUSE
THIS G*D DAMN HOUSE
3/15 - 4/8/2023


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

Seis
Seis
2/16 - 2/26/2023


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

Así se baila en el norte
Así se baila en el norte
2/18 - 2/25/2023


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

What Passes For Comedy
What Passes For Comedy
10/28 - 11/19/2022


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

Third Wing
Third Wing
6/23 - 6/26/2022


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

Garbageman
Garbageman
3/17 - 4/10/2022


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

Kalispell by Kim E. Ruyle
Kalispell by Kim E. Ruyle
9/24 - 9/26/2021


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

Georgie D.
Georgie D.
7/24 - 8/15/2021


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

Bootstraps
Bootstraps
10/22 - 10/28/2019


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

The Nina Variations
The Nina Variations
12/6 - 12/9/2018


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

North of Providence
North of Providence
11/2 - 11/3/2018


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

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