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William Cameron's TRUTH BE TOLD To Have NY Premiere At The Gene Frankel Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - February 07, 2025

THE GENE FRANKEL THEATRE and ARA THEATER have announced the NY Premiere of William Cameron’s TRUTH BE TOLD, directed by Kim T. Sharp ​(THE HUMMINGBIRDS by Garret Jon Groenveld at Chain Theatre) and starring Francesca Ravera and Michelle Park. ...

Edu Díaz's PULSE Will Premiere at the Chain Theatre's One-Act Festival


by Stephi Wild - February 04, 2025

 PULSE, a short and surreal comedy by Edu Díaz about the transcendental power of love, will premiere at The Winter One-Act Festival at The Chain Theatre this week....

WHERE VOICES LINGER Will Premiere at The Chain Theatre One-Act Festival


by Stephi Wild - February 04, 2025

Set in 1968, Where Voices Linger follows the story of Antonio Lugano, a 70-year-old Filipino man who has spent five decades confined in an asylum. Learn more here!...

LAST TRAIN TO NEVADA Will Premiere at Chain Winter One-Act Festival 2025


by Stephi Wild - February 03, 2025

Chain Theatre will present LAST TRAIN TO NEVADA by Pascal Phoa this month. The play is part of CHAIN WINTER ONE-ACT FESTIVAL 2025. Learn more about this upcoming event here!...

THE BARBECUE Set for Chain Theatre One-Act Festival


by Blair Ingenthron - February 01, 2025

The Barbecue, written and directed by John Avino, will play Chain Theatre's 2025 One-Act festival this month. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!...

THE ROBOT, THE SPY, AND THE LOVE OF AI to be Presented at CHAIN WINTER ONE-ACT FESTIVAL


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 31, 2025

Chain Theatre will present the world premiere of THE ROBOT, THE SPY, AND THE LOVE OF AI - aproduction that explores the use of actual robotics and AI programming capabilities onstage. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

Erin Germaine Mahoney's TWO SISTERS Premieres at The Chain Theatre Festival


by Stephi Wild - January 31, 2025

A new play directed by Katina Medina Mora will have its world premiere in the Chain Theatre Winter One-Act Festival in New York City next month. Learn more here!...

A WHITE GIRL'S UNDERSTUDY Comes to the Chain Theatre


by Stephi Wild - January 31, 2025

“A White Girl’s Understudy” by Isabel Beatriz Tongson and directed by Skylar Hudson is coming to the Chain Theatre. Learn more about the upcoming show here!...

HOW TO FEEL WITHOUT TOUCHING Set for The Chain One-Act Theater Festival


by Blair Ingenthron - January 26, 2025

“How To Feel Without Touching”, a one-act play written by Bradley Valenzuela will have its world premiere at The Chain's Winter One-Act Festival. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets....

YOLO to Have World Premiere At Chain Theatre's Winterfest


by Blair Ingenthron - January 25, 2025

Writer and producer Raven Petretti-Stamper will join Chain Theatre's Winter One-Act Festival for the premiere of her short play YOLO. Learn more about the performances here!...

Past Shows

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.

The Schmidt Sisters: A Revolutionary Situation


Emerging Artists Theatre Presents The Schmidt Sisters: A Revolutionary Situation A workshop performance on September 18th 7pm   Part of the 2024 Spark Theatre Festival ...

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

Blue Surge
Blue Surge
3/28 - 3/30/2024


A staged Reading of Rebecca Gilman's "Blue Surge" Comes to Chain Theatre, at 312 West 36th Street.   Jeremy McClelland and Gray Thurstone proudly present  ...

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 ...

Death Keeps His Court
Death Keeps His Court
2/17 - 2/28/2024


Set in 1890s Old West, fear and paranoia set in when 11 stangers stuck in a saloon must decide who will leave with the Reaper.

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 ...

1983
1983
7/10 - 7/22/2022


1983AS PART OF THECHAIN THEATRE PLAY FESTIVAL 2022www.chaintheatre.orgJoin us this summer for the Chain Theatre Play Festival. "1983" will be part of the selected voices ...

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 ...

Still, Birth. - a play about pregnancy loss


STILL, BIRTH. a play about pregnancy lossBy Robyne Parrish and Coley CompanyCo-Produced by The Chain TheatreAS PART OF THECITY ARTISTS CORPS GRANT FROM 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 ...

The Frogs
The Frogs
7/27 - 8/12/2021


Dionysus, god of wine, merriment, and theatre, has left his home at Mount Olympus and joined the greatest farce of them all: the American politic. ...

Queen Z
3/20 - 3/21/2021


While theatres across New York City remain closed, the Chain Theatre is continuing its commitment to developing new plays by diverse artists and underrepresented voices ...

Chasing the River
2/7 - 2/29/2020


Chain Theatre Mainstage: Chasing the River...

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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Poster House (9/26 - 2/23)
Love Potions & Other Poisons in Off-Off-Broadway Love Potions & Other Poisons
The Slipper Room (2/16 - 2/16)
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The Museum of Modern Art (11/16 - 4/16)
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