DIXON PLACE

Insufficient Funds, the independent theatre and film production company, presents Isabel Monk Cade's new play "Funny Valentine," starting Friday, February 13th at Dixon Place in...

A Sexy Shadow Puppet Sci-Fi Spy Tale! Brought to you by the creators of the Enchanted Revolution...

Trynna Be a Playa is a one act comedy written & directed by Onyi Okoli.  Welcome to the early 2000's where college life was still...

William Shakespeare's THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS tells the story of Caius Martius Coriolanus, a Roman general who—caught between duty and desire—faces exile from the country...

MAKE (f)ART is a clown show about the correct and first class way to make theatre. Featuring Tony and Olivier Award Winner Sapphire Elizabeth Craouwtch(auex)tch,...

A Fantasy Radio PlayPart II of The Titan CycleConceived, Written, and Produced by Arif SilvermanDeveloped and Directed by Lillian Wooten WhiteIllustrations by Nadim SilvermanA decades...

Curated by Sangeeta YesleyFeaturing @diFFFerentDances (Diana Pettersen-Hervas), Hana Kozuka, Melissa Escano, Rebecca Frazier, The Redef Movement Dancers and choreographers express their feelings at this challenging...

Written by Eszter BalintSongs by Eszter Balint & StewFeaturing: The MusiciansDirected by Lucy SextonMedia Design: Tal YardenMusical director: David NaglerAn anti-musical co-starring the Streets of...

Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work.Azul Dance Theatre performing Beyond the DesertCES Danceworks performing In SixesHanna Q Dance Company...

Corinne Shearer and DancersPerforming Portrait of A Bigger PictureChoreography by Corinne ShearerUnder the direction of Corinne Shearer, this group of like-minded artists produces work that...

When Jon wakes up in his NYC studio department after getting voted off of Americas Got Talent as the dancing trombone player, he literally sees...

The Brewery is a piece that unpacks the role of alcohol in our society. Through 5 characters whose lives have been affected by booze, the...

Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary dance choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive movement vocabulary. Curated by...

With her comically idiosyncratic text-driven dance style, Juli takes on monogamy, intimacy, loneliness, sex deprivation, and other impossibilities of marriage. In a pepto-bismol pink bathroom,...

This is a shared-bill show.The Case for InvaginationIn this second version of the work, Nicole Bindler deepens her investigation of a monologue that she created...

Choreographers createon 1 condition: they must abide by the same crazy rule!CHOREOGRAPHERS INCLUDE:Kelly McLoughlinMelanie AguirreMike EsperanzaRachel HettingerX RanceRyan Daniel BeckZoe Clayton...

Little Theatre is an OBIE-winning, more-or-less monthly presentation of cutting-edge theatre, dance, performance art & media, more-or-less curated by Katie Rose McLaughlin, Shannon Sindelar &...

The last thing a performance artist needs is a larger castyet that is exactly what he gets in End Zone, by Bob Shuman, set in...

Hyacinth doesnt know how to ask for what he wants. Apollo wants and receives. Thamyris cant stop wanting everything in the whole wide world. The...

Andrew Maillet (Amai) presents a concert of original songs from an in-progress album. Rendered in simple piano arrangements, the songs written in New York, Warsaw...

Do you believe Group Therapy will be right for you? Group Therapy is a semi-immersive safe space where different types of people come together and...

Above the Noise, an oratorio composed by Daphne Gampel, explores the experience of young adults questioning, reaffirming, discarding, and deepening their relationships with religion in...

Held on the Bloomingdales campus over the course of a 48-hour retreat, eight families, couples, and participants engage in role-playing and writing exercises in order...

Plasma is a multimedia dance performance ritual honoring the Divine Femme. Plasma is nectar. Rap, vogue, and general relativity collide in a lecture presentation turned...

NOW I TASTE BLOOD?! written by Bailey Williams directed by Sarah Blush sound design by John Gasper A beautiful and exclusive golf course, as far...

A series of new choreography that features all male dancers. Curated by Doug Post....

A dramatic retelling of the Greek myth Pygmalion. Through live dance and projection, Youre Beautiful tells the story of the sculptor Pygmalion (Dan Danger) who...

Leonora Goosling, the innkeeper of the Mother Goose Inn and Suites, stops at nothing to record her guests tales and their happy endings. She is...

A magical night featuring gifted professional & student aerial, circus, theater & dance artists. A fun, inspiring, original & sometimes shocking evening where artists pull...

What If We Never Fell Apart is a series of short, two person plays, that explores what its like to suddenly be in contact with...

#Branded is an experimental work that explores human behavior in the Age of Information. An infusion of pop music, dance, language, and anything that trends,...

Puppets, objects, projections and six performers have movement conversations with air, space, and discretionary boundaries inspired by folk tales and the natural world. Desperate distinctions...

Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary dance choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug...

I CANT SLEEP is a collection of dance theater and aerial pieces exploring the repetitions that drive and stagnate us: the short-circuiting and every day...

Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme Survival, featuring Beau Dobson and Dancers...

The OBIE Award-winning Little Theatrea more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media, more-or-less curated by William Burke, Katie Rose McLaughlin, Shannon Sindelar...

Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region, is a new opera for folk and classical singers that follows...

LAVA presents a new work, Equinox/Solstice, that has emerged from a year of residencies around the solstices and equinoxes, among the trees, along the river,...

The idea of Tin Pan Alley 2 is from the legendary birthplace of numerous American Standards in the early 20th century. The concert series mission...

I am ready. The time has come for me to begin, to conjure an active solo journey- an origin story inspired by multiple origin stories....

A young gay couple tries to fix what is left between them after a tragic incident at the Stonewall Inn. As they try to move...

People would try to use the structureless groups out of a blind belief that no other means could possibly be anything but oppressive. Jo FreemanAfter...

Your dads going to love this Facebook album, she said. This was confusing: Dad had been dead for a year, and he didnt have a...

In this solo dramedy, science nerd Jennifer Joy mashes up chaos theory with a Trump-voting farm wife, a liberal rural politician, an Evangelical homeschooling mom,...

Shes hot, rich, and f*cking powerful. Shes making millions selling her line of shoes, Jareds voice is as soothing as ASMR, and her kids keep...

Ever get that feeling that your heart is a gaping hole leading to a floor of abysmal darkness? No floor at all. Ever had a...

Thanks for coming to THE SWITCH, a new solo show adaptation of the 2003 Jamie Lee Curtis vehicle FREAKY FRIDAY. Cant wait to hear your...

Matts moving to LA in his 2002 Subaru! And Alex is coming with him! Hit the road with these zany besties, as they travel across...

Sarah is obsessed with Margaret of Anjou, and she doesnt quite know why. In theres a shewolf, she sets out to get this fifteenth-century Queen...

Les Museums is a play about Ingrid, a woman who ventures on dates through many of NYCs museums....

Tin Pan Alley 2 is a live mini-concert showcasing new original musical theatre works.The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during and after the show....

Sex in Mechanicalville is a dystopian musical conceived by performance artist Sally Horowitz. Drawing from Greek tragedy, the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the...

Its 2007. Pink Ugg boots are in, and juicy tracksuits areeven more in. Best friends Wallis and Zoe gear up for the biggest events of...

We are in 2078 Acirema where we have made unimaginable strides in technological achievement at the expense of individuality and free-will. The majority of the...

Comic Performances and Picture Show. Hosted by R. Sikoryak, Featuring: Marcellus Hall Jeff Lewonczyk A. T. Pratt Lauren Weinstein and more!...

'round up the usual suspects... "Casablanca on the Hudson" a fiery call to arms in support of those brave angels amongst us who remain through-out...

The true story of Judyth Vary Baker a teen science super-star recruited by the U.S. Government during the height of the Cold War in 1962...

Dan Danger returns to the stage in a solo ballet of the classic Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice. Through dance and projection, comedy and heart,...

As a part of the 2019 APAP Conference, TWEED TheaterWorks and Dixon Place will present the 2nd Annual FULL DISCLOSURE, an evening of song, theater...

Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a...

PATIENT LOVER FRIEND, has been lifetimes in the making, is about living, loving and dying in the early days of the AIDS epidemic....

Choreographers create…on 1 condition: they must abide by the same crazy rule! For this edition of O1C, choreographers must incorporate traffic cones into their work....

Evelyn follows the life of Evelyn McHale, who tragically took her life by jumping off the Empire State Building in 1947. Both heart wrenching and...

Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post....

Assigned with the super boring task of writing a novel for young girls, Louisa May Alcott finds herself in a state of writer’s block. That...

We’ve all been down that road. Relationship equals getting to know every bit, smell, attitude, smile, twitch… You name it. You want to love and...

World Famous beatboxer Chesney Snow presents his journey from a legacy of incarceration to fatherhood, homelessness to Harvard University, to ultimately starring in the musical...

Father Zod has been dead for 45 years, yet Dewdrop and Prism continue to haul his rotting carcass from show to show, competing for his...

Hugh Hefner wakes up one morning and realizes that his home doesn't feel like his home anymore. His kids seem to be keeping secrets from...

A two-legged kitten brings novice animal rescue workers to a run-down apartment complex, where a feral cat colony has grown to enormous proportions. Their good...

Tens Across the Boards is an homage to the women who continually inspire the artist formerly known as Dionne Slay. Throughout the decades these women...

Built off a decade of journal entries, acclaimed comedian Sam Morrison uses stand-up comedy, storytelling, and character and prop work to chronicle transformations of shame,...

Cruisical: A Lesbian Musical is an anachronistic musical comedy where six queer cis women—Mercedes de Acosta, Moms Mabley, Vita Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, and...

Cleo Berlin, presents her one-woman variety show, Cleo Berlin: LIVE! The offspring of a karaoke-diva Filipina and a mysterious German artist, Ms. Berlin , the...

Independently wealthy, highly medicated and always here to help, total bottom Glace Chase presents Neurotica: Brooklyn’s hit demented comedic cabaret featuring offbeat stories, eye-popping tunes...

In this comedic musical sketch show, you are lovingly invited into the life and mind of Ben Langhorst, a fat faggot. Through dramatizations of real...

When you’re down in the dumps and you summon your best friend back from the dead, you don’t always get what you expect....

On a journey where we all are given the chance to wrestle with the question ‘What makes me hard to love?’, a young, black, queer,...

Through clown, cabaret, burlesque, and audience participation, Eric Schmalenberger pulls some benevolent pranks, shares some trickster wisdom, displayed adorable blasphemy, and blurs, blow-dries, and breaks...

person[ing] by The Organism that Persons Using borrowed text, song, & movement, The Organism that Persons (The OtP) seeks to create new worlds from old...

Not for Resale is a play that explores queer identities, queer communities and, the implications of queerness in socially constructed spaces. A high-spirited, comedic, at...

Kris, Eyeball, Baby, and Lane are a quartet of techno heathens in Berlin. They try to keep the party bumpin despite queer loneliness, suicidal thoughts,...

Jesus and Judas are in love and everything is wonderful; until God intervenes. This divine intervention forces Jesus to abandon Judas and set off on...

Creating a Positive Work Environment: Strategies for Employee Well-being and EngagementIn the bustling landscape of modern workplaces, where deadlines loom large and expectations run high,...

NYC10 is a unique dance show that provides performance opportunities to 10 emerging dance companies to showcase their work and additionally receive feedback, reviews, and...

A series of new choreography that features all male dancers. Curated by Doug Post....

Inspired by the Dostoyevsky's novel Notes from the underground, The other’s shadow is a project across performance, video-installation, visual art, site specific and time-based media...

Concrete Boom: volume one is an evening of cutting-edge, devised visual theatre curated by Concrete Temple Theatre and includes excerpts of new work including puppetry...

Bob Sugarman’s story of repeated, horrific alien abductions was the inspiration for the 1994 blockbuster, Birds of Prey. Decades after the film, Bob is stumbling...

What do Death! Cher! Satan! & Kim Kardashian! Have in common? They’re all Starring in: The Hell 9000 Dance Party! An all new multimedia extravaganza...

‘RATED BLACK’ is a solo show that weaves together original poetry and music to navigate the thoughts, feelings, and issues of a young black man...

Winter in Eden is a lyrical re-imagining of the Garden of Eden. As the characters discover their sexuality and death, they bring on Eden’s first...

The Story of Tap: 20th Anniversary is a continuation of a series originally done at Dixon Place for six evenings in 1998 and 2005. It...

Arriving in a strange land, Dan Danger is met with success and opportunity only to have his world come crashing down. Through dance and video...

New York's hottest incubator for new dance. Choreographers ranging from experimental to commercial dance create new short works while following the same absurd rule. For...

Becca is taking a break from college to stay with her sister Haley in the newly gentrified neighborhood of Brooklyn. When she discovers her sister...

In Hit the Lights! Theater Co.’s new shadow play with music, ISLA (pronounced eese-luh) is a story about the harsh realities of political refugees, the...

Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme ‘‘Personal Reality’’ with Monteleone Dance...

You’re nearing 30, back living with your parents, struggling at your local theme park job, and buried in debt. This isn’t your fault. The system...

Set in present-day NYC, ‘’The Beautiful Ambiguous’’ tells the story of Rich, a college student desperately seeking love in all the wrong places. Exploring themes...

Somebody remembers a lost lover. Somebody searches for some food. Somebody gets lost in the night. Set over the course of one evening, nighthawks (an...

An incubator for exciting new dance, O1C brings New York’s most eclectic choreographers together to premiere short works….on 1 condition….. they must all abide by...

Cassandra, “The Songstress of Magic” invites you to experience her journey as a magician. Through jaw-dropping sleight-of-hand, innovative illusions, and musical vignettes of magic, Cassandra...

Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme ‘Culture & Space’ with Benjamin...

LOVE MAGIC RITUAL SPELL is a new play that explores magic, love, and female friendship in an evening of broken hearts and buried intentions. Join...

A group of socially conscious young people start a book club to study the work of the mysterious internet philosopher aleX. Their dedication to aleX...

Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post....

Rag-Time Germs of Love are dedicated to performing forgotten songs of the Rag-Time era. Their repertoire consists of a wide range of bizarre, rocking obscurities,...

Madame Pascal follows a fictionalized history of a Broadway star who longs for rock credibility; the friend who manages him; the addict who loves him;...

Having been fooled by the language and turned mad, King Lear finally understands the very meaning to Cordelia’s “love and be silent.” By deconstructing King...

Confined to rest and separated from her new-born child, a woman finds comfort within the yellow wallpaper that decorates her room. A multimedia staging of...

Chatter explores a very specific kind of solitude, the solitude of being in your 20s. Claire moves to New York. She knows that this supposed...

Using borrowed text, song, & movement, The Organism that Persons (The OtP) seeks to create new worlds from old ones and offer new perspectives on...

Inhibited Bites is a revelatory, darkly-comedic performance built from a collection of more than 1,000 index cards containing artist Neil Goldberg’s thoughts, observations, and reflections....

A timeless struggle for acceptance. A timely story of a woman’s power. The mystery. The history. An enduring icon of feminine strength back in the...

Best friends Jessica and Sam both carry scars that have never quite healed. Jessica struggles to forget a damaging relationship from her formative years in...

Jared and Ivanka Live deconstructs invisibilized structures of power and access. Beginning with image and surfaces and moving toward a more interior contemplation on American...

On the eve of the Winter Solstice, jaded and cynical New Yorker Jeremy Hays finds himself returning to his hometown, Piney Crest, after his beloved...

Michel de Montaigne once said, ‘To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be...

Lezzie with a ‘Z’ is a one-woman show and an homage to Liza Minnelli’s 1972 filmed theatrical production: Liza with a ‘Z’. Peppered with Reid’s...

Luscious Lips is a one-act reality drama exploring the motivation and impact of catcalling, male privilege, and the female experience. Jo, an up and coming...

Intimatics I-III investigates how government structures intimate interactions between individuals and among communities, and how intimate interactions might restructure government. Part I is a meditation on...

A dark soul. A dreadful menace. A deadly obsession. An epic story of the blue sea. All packed into one massive show. In a monomaniac...

I’m like a living comic book. I create drawings as receptacles for my anxiety; I get anxious that people won’t get it, so I have...

Mimi and Louise like Charlotte’s drugs…too much. Charlotte likes her toy boy Perry…too much. Charlotte is Mimi and Louise’s mother. A struggle for survival ensues...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series...

Choreographers working in all dance forms workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around the theme ‘Hope’ with Blythe E. Smith...

When David Bowie died, performing artist Soomi Kim was suddenly reminded of her own coming of age in the MTV generation and her adolescent desire...

The Raving Jaynes create highly physical, fully-improvised works of theater. In ‘Mad-Liberation,’ they unfold a unique story inspired by an audience-generated Mad Lib. Mixed among...

Hook & Eye Theater weaves together stories from America’s New Deal era with the modern day to create She-She-She, a magical abstraction of wilderness and...

A cast of misfit students have grown up idealizing the Battle of the Alamo and spent their afternoons in History Club re-enacting the heroics of...

In the latest installment of composer-performer Michael Harren’s multi-media performance, The Animal Show, Harren blends humor with candor to convey the importance of keeping all...

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Other Planet Hearts is an exploration of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince” and the notion of imperfect love, using elements of text, music, and...

The second installment of Night Witches, a new play. In the fall of 1941 after the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova, a...

Antrak Shayna Strype This Studs-Terkel-Wannabe journeys into the unknown buoyed by the grandeur of American landscapes, the fleeting intimacy of conversations with strangers, and a...

The Marooned Josh Rice The Marooned is an absurdist puppet theatre piece about a woman who is stranded on the roof of a submerged house...

An Absurdist Confrontational Tragicomedy of out-sized proportions where Lark and her friends perform a Gender Studies thesis on the roots of femaleWhy Live Shows Are...

Musician Patrick Breiner, Director Rowan Magee, and puppeteers Emmanuel Elpenord and Takemi Kitamura have been developing No 1 Chinese since 2015. There are more Chinese...

The Hero of Alexandria Tomas Del Valle A young inventor is resting before the next step of his journey when three Gods cross his path....

In this seminar, the complicated process of friendship–making will finally be demystified as we explain step by step such topics as; smiling, making eye contact,...

Jack Dogherty and the Soul Cages Inkfish Jack Dogherty, a fisherman and part time scavenger, longs to meet a merrow (merman). When he finally does,...

Like Ike and Tina, Bobby and Whitney, OJ and Nicole, All the Diamonds You Can Eat (ATDYCE) is a love story that never should have...

A young artist becomes romantically entangled with a family of disgraced English aristocrats, and his life is never the same. Part literary deconstruction, part orgiastic...

Inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s writings, sheep #1 is the adventure of a sheep in search of the meaning of life. The performance is in...

Almodovar’s work explores themes related to gender diversity and “sub-classes” conflicts, I would like to focus on my personal Queer-Puerto- Rican-Cha- Cha-Heels-Shaman identity as a...

Hello, World! I’m Rebeccah. I call myself a dancer. I mostly look like a dancer. But I don’t entirely fit. My outline’s all wrong. I’m...

Told in their own words, Village Voices is a series of interviews with real-life characters in New York’s West Village examining first hand accounts of...

Choreographers create…on one condition: they must abide by the same crazy rule!...

A true story based on the writings and letters of Reginald ‘Regy’ Brett and Charles ‘Chat’ Williamson, along with their classmates Elliot and Beak, during...

Habits. Relationships. Belief Systems. Memories – our histories walk among us. And to ignore them is to be haunted by them. Taja Lindley’s The Bag...

A documentary play composed of interviews with college students about their experiences with formal sex education both in and out of the classroom, Blanket Statement...

You’re the Puppet! is the next installment in a series from Post Election Therapy. What started as a multi-disciplinary, improvisational reaction from artists, dancers, musicians,...

15 years ago a there was a miracle: Marliss was diagnosed with terminal cancer, but she survived. Now, she has cancer again, and this time...

World Famous beatboxer Chesney Snow presents his journey from a legacy of incarceration to fatherhood, homelessness to Harvard University, to ultimately starring in the musical...

At the turn of the century in the heart of Coney Island, a strongman, a hotdog vendor, a rollercoaster track operator and an apple delivery...

Visual and performance artist David Mramor recently revisited Yellowstone National Park. A place that he worked ten years ago, the same year that he came...

Two kids play pretend, two teenagers experiment, and one college student downloads grindr. A coming of age story in three parts, NSA mashes together two...

The sibling bond is something that can be strong or fragile. When the beloved matriarch of three siblings starts to lose her graceful battle with...

The Story of the Orca’s Silver Tongue as Told by the Manager of the Only Taco Bell in Juno follows the epic tale of a...

She was a Great Dad is a jazz infused tale of love and secrecy inspired by the life of transgender Billy Tipton, who was born...

July finds five boys and five girls in the back of a moving U-Haul as they do basically nothing to investigate the recent murder of...

and after, we dreamt of purple is a play that takes place behind closed doors. We watch Charlie, Jesse, and Halle, as they navigate mental...

Three choreographers with three dances that explore escapism, transformation, history, and memory....

Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a...

With this unique collaboration between photographer, curator and community, we aim to show that a naked body is not an inherently sexual object. Grounded in...

The Contract Player explores the flashbulb and cigarette smoke of post-WWII Hollywood from the LGBTQ+ perspective. Roland Gray, the most successful leading man in the...

Incorporating documentary and narrative storytelling, this thirty minute play explores the lives of LGBT inhabitants of a conservative country off the Persian Gulf. This Place...

Godzilla is rampaging across NYC and only an army of ex-girlfriends can bring the beast to submission...

Three volunteers are on their way to Mars....

A brother and sister team up for a road trip across a futuristic America in the hopes of saving a community of artists from perishing...

Part comedy of manners, part millennial coming of age, (Projection) is a theatrical romp through the messy living room of your twenties....

Turning Page is a sophisticated, funny and deeply compelling solo show about legendary actress Geraldine Page whose sparkling career earned her a record-breaking eight Academy...

A new play about a robot from Phoenix, his comatose mother and their life changing journey to a retirement home in outer space!...

A mother and daughter seek refuge from the spectre of Hurricane Katrina in their Upper West Side apartment....

An interview with Charles Earthstein, from The Chicago News and M&M Publications and the one and only Jackie “Moms” Mabley, at Harlem’s World Famous Apollo...

Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a...

Six sex workers find a newborn in a trash can. They have a choice to make....

What happens when a forgotten past catches up with you?...

A woman single-mindedly pursues her physical image at the expense of her inner self. When that self desperately rises up to take control, no quarter...

Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a...

The Optimist tells the story of a man, sitting in a bar waiting for his long lost love to return. He holds tight to his...

Comics Performances and Picture Shows, Curated & Hosted by R. Sikoryak! Live readings and presentations of graphic novels, gag cartoons, and more. With voice actors...

Featuring Alex Borinsky, Mrs William Horsley (Matthew Thurber), Kristine Haruna Lee + Morgan Green, and Daaimah Mubashshir + Kat Yen The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a...

Ana and Simon, sibling-collaborators, set out in one final attempt to change the inevitable. The Itch is a film- play about sibling love, addiction, and...

Kimono My House is a band duo performing stripped down rock classics....

A magical night featuring gifted professional & student aerial, circus, theater & dance artists. A fun, inspiring, original & sometimes shocking evening where artists pull...

Drag personality Willi B. Wilde acts as emcee/hostess to a fresh lineup of artists for an unforgettable evening that is part talk show, part drag...

The Unwritten Law weaves a Black American family’s 100 year narrative with contemporary dance, live music, drama, visual projection and poetic storytelling detailing the family’s...

I.M. LOST! is a show based on interviews with clowns and the author/performer Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn’s experiences with clown training. Clowns fail again and again, but...

Greenland follows a family in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado who reunite after a devastating event changed their lives forever 10 years ago. The piece...

Inspired by Emily Brontë's 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights is set amidst the harsh English countryside, where passion consumes two lovers. The play  explores desire, destruction,...

A single art installation is a ticking backdrop for six new plays exploring various walks of American life in the face of the current policitcal...

A poetic and cultural journey exploring the rich lives of LGBTQ people. Featuring Skye Cabrera and Urayoán Noel...

In an age of unlimited power via keyboard and conflicting models of masculinity presented online, Joe doesn’t know how to assert himself in the world...

International Women Artists’ Salon presents a showcase of performance, literature, and video. Featured artists TBA....

9 GRAMS is the story of Maisha Yearwood's imprisonment in Bakirkoy Prison in Istanbul, Turkey in 2009. Maisha was living in Tel Aviv, Israel and...

Join host Emmy Laybourne, as she welcomes novelists to reveal stories from their lives at the winter installment of the critically acclaimed literary event SPINE...

Reno is an opinionated, radical feminist alternative voice who creates heavily improvised stream-of-consciousness topical monologues with incredible wit, political consciousness and common sense. Starting with...

Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a...

It’s been a while since Dean has come into contact with many people when his sister Ellie invites him to spend the night with her...

Conkrete Jungle returns with its annual choreographer showcase, assembling a fresh mix of emerging and established talents from NYC 's dance scene. All of last...

My grandmother was very clear when she told me at age 5, ‘‘Boys are assholes and I get the feeling you like them so be...

PANK and FOLDER magazines are teaming up to present a monthly poetry reading series in the lounge at Dixon Place. Each month, two poets will...

Daydreams is lurking in your daily life and pops up somewhere close to you. That could be your closest station or coffee shop or on...

Doris and Cleveland were dating until Doris took a job out of town for a year. Now with Doris back in town, they try to...

Jason did something bad. Jason lives with his unnerving grandfather. Jason is building an image-based message board on the internet with m00t, a man he...

A comic duet inspired by the work of surrealist painter James Ensor between two women who may be old friends or arch rivals or both....

“Major vocal talent… whose range shatters conventional boundaries” (NY Times) and “Best Downtown Performance Artist” (Village Voice) Joseph Keckler presents an evening that pulls together...

A feminist survival story that journeys through emotional and geologic landscapes while carrying a transmuting traveler from a bleak and blurry patriarchal present into a...

There’s a place in the back of your mind where dreams coalesce and memories linger, only to rise up later in moments of ecstasy and...

Join Dixon Place for a very special celebratory finale on Friday, December 30th, featuring 30 dance companies showcasing 3 minutes of work each, saluting the...

Washboard Jungle, the greatest post-modern jug band you’ve never heard of, lurched into existence in the dark recesses of ABC No Rio in 1989 and...

Gordon lives alone with a severe disability. Even though he believes himself to be one of 36 righteous people in the world, Gordon is being...

Acclaimed transgender performance artist, choreographer & story-teller Arrie Davidson helms the socially progressive company, KineticArchitecture Dance Theatre and their first evening-length work, Wonder/Through the Looking-Glass...

LOVE TRADE is an exploration of gender and cultural assumptions in upheaval. The piece uncovers a love tangle between the Western goddess Demeter—frozen in eternal...

The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media, more-or-less curated by Frank Boudreaux, Normandy Raven Sherwood, Katie Rose...

THE HUMMM explores the soundscape of Chekhov’s Three Sisters and selected short stories. Based on the belief that vibration carries meaning, the piece uses sound...

Myrtle Gordon is filming her new war movie—but she can’t nail the accent, and it’s driving her mad. Her son Vlad is a prolific vlogger...

An uncompromising theatrical experience that includes aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, trained rats, a Heavy Metal Magician, a cougar...

ABOUT THIS SHOW The Second Seed project is energized by the following questions: What seeds did our ancestors plant for us, which do we water,...

Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series page. PERFORMING COMPANIES...

Two independently created solo works exploring the experience of psychosis from different perspectives. Cleaning Out the Fridge grapples with the fear of becoming one’s parents,...

With “irrepressible energy and engaging presence” (NY Times), ground-breaking performer & one of the infamous NEA-4, John Fleck has been a prominent theatrical figure since...

Dodo, a human, arrives in the Siberian wilderness after a long barefoot journey across the Northern Hemisphere. So remorseful for their complicity in humankind’s ecological...

In November, Fast Forward’s theme is “Universal Relation.” As Arts NY Dance will present Oasis and MADArt Creative will present The Inner Reaches: An Early...

Angst in A Cappella is the story of a young black male and his love affair with music told through his interpretation of the Grunge...

Whether we are willing to accept it or not, the universe works in mysterious ways. Seen or unseen, there is a lot that goes on...

story of my eye is a vaudevillian meta-pageant; it’s a public access variety show; it’s a saturnalia of excessive grotesquery that dips into pseudo-sincerity; it’s...

BETWEEN US tells the story of Diego, a 20-something gay man struggling to find meaningful connections following the death of his long-term boyfriend. After a...

Justin ‘‘Wacky’’ Weber stars in an all-ages circus theater show that he wrote and designed about a boy who faces crisis then risks everything to...

Alexa Salamé has developed an original piece inspired by translations of the poetry of Sappho and created a work fully integrating the body and the...

Composer-performer Michael Harren’s multi-media performance, The Animal Show, blends humor with candor to convey the importance of keeping all animals safe from harm. Through stories...

New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe. Featuring Sandra Kramerov, Mare Hieronimus, Vanessa Vargas + Nela Cote...

Barry is a forlorn Tom Waits impersonator with a water-stained floor and romance-induced insomnia. Andrea dreams of success as a museum educator while intermittently struggling...

This night of storytelling takes you way, way back to the pre-reality TV days of MTV in the ‘80s and early ‘90s when the network...

Michelle Levy summons the serendipitous elements that brought her to this very moment: a déja vu in a field; a religious craving; an overlooked report...

A magical night featuring gifted professional & student aerial, circus, theater & dance artists. A fun, inspiring, original & sometimes shocking evening where artists pull...

J CHEN PROJECT is a modern dance company based in NYC, that explores identity within the human experience through creation, performance, mentoring and inspiring young...

Join Burlesque Star World Famous *BOB* & Style Icon Dust Tea Shoulders at CAMPFIRE! Queer Storytime for tales of hilarity & heartbreak & a chance...

The beautiful Susanna is cornered by two elders of the town while bathing naked in her garden. They offer her an impossible choice: submit to...

Part revival, part salon, part spectacle, this monthly ‘service’ features performance, visual art, music, food, & literature, designed to inspire, invigorate & amaze the vibrant...

Sally Greenhouse, ”The Thinking Person’s Performance Artist” (The Boston Globe), returns to Dixon Place after overcoming paralysis, documenting her miraculous recovery from a broken neck...

BOB KATZ (‘‘You never know what he’ll do next’’)—known for his genre-bending Mango & Tragedy …& Beer shows, raucous lyrics, and love a certain tropical...

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers. Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford. Featuring Margo Jefferson...

A monthly improv show featuring local team Ski Legend and a revolving guest. It’s funny, it’s refreshing, it’s a good time – and the bar...

Historical re-enactment of mom's 90 minute monologue during car ride to LAX, during which son and husband, doze, not-listen. Mom chronicles her students, her recent...

Juniper Tree A devised adaptation of the Grimms’ fairy tale featuring an innovative fusion of puppetry and mask performance. It is the first installment of...

Soder and Mailka are our Elegant Lades who wheel the audience through cycles of birth, ruin and regeneration. The play tumbles forth as almost the...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Cartoonist R. Sikoryak has drawn the entire, unedited text of the iTunes Terms and Conditions as a graphic novel, in over 90...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Constellations is a multimedia theater piece that reflects and tracks the psychological and emotional development of a young black female. The one-woman...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Communitas, a creative think tank, anticipates a new cultural topography, offering a refraction of the times we are moving toward. We continue...

ABOUT THIS SHOW International Women Artists’ Salon presents a showcase of performance, literature, and video. Featured artists TBA. Get here early, we’ll be playing a...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Brad Baron’s full-length play Last Ditch Playlist is an ode to the memory of a unraveling gay romance. Aaron and Wes’ joy...

ABOUT THIS SHOW VAGABONDS is a comedy that reimagines the life of the eminent French writer Colette. In this alternative history, she chooses not to...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Through sound and humor, High Voltage transforms the Dixon Place Lounge into an electric cage. Join Marc Jablonski as he dissects the...

ABOUT THIS SHOW FOLKING-AWESOME shows that the American heartland- as based in NYC- will never be the same again. Come hear about all the classic...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Semi-celebrated American Mezzo Soprano Andréa Lloyd Webber (no relation) and her comrade in arms, musical portmantologist Yon Yonson, phD (unaccredited) can normally...

ABOUT THIS SHOW On June 1st, Conor James released his first EP: Charles St. He is proud to be presenting a 50-minute show at Dixon...

ABOUT THIS SHOW There are dozens of people named Kevin Ritter on Google. They have all sorts of careers and lives. In We Need To...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Having survived a near-fatal car crash, Rae needed to employ NYC’s Taxis to move her recovering body from place to place between...

ABOUT THIS SHOW An uncompromising theatrical experience that includes aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, trained rats, a Heavy Metal...

New Orleans, 1969. It’s almost show time for Miss Blanche, the most popular female impersonator in the Quarter. Only tonight, Blanche is unavoidably detained. Instead,...

Called ‘‘heart-healing musical theatre’’ by Joshua Barone of The New York Times, Boys Who Tricked Me is a song-cycle, party-game, sleepover-style musical. It was previously...

An anthropomorphized tomato named Taissa, a barefoot Contessa, and the gaytriarchy walk into a bar, and drunkenly stumble out a few hours later with a...

In Unearthing, an ancient, genderqueer griot sits in a waist-high mound of dirt sourced from an unrecognized burial ground of enslaved Africans in New York...

‘‘Day after day we’d meet in the same field. Our relationship a complete secret. It wasn’t that it was considered ‘not cool’ that kept us...

If You Want to See the Devil utilizes unconventional storytelling; at times the performance may seem more like performance art than musical theater, at other...

3SISTERS, Or: If We Could Only Get to Greenwich Village is what would have happened if Anton Chekhov wrote his plays at a gay bar....

Set in the living room of a tiny NYC apartment during the hottest day in June, Double Penny explores sexual promiscuity in the modern era...

A gay, mentally-ill homeless man lives in an in-between place of the present and his abusive past. His reality is a Gothic playground of frightful...

Daring Duality: As Above so Below is a celebration of the broad spectrum of gender, culture, and sexuality. Queer performers of color will use burlesque,...

Value Fulfillment, or the only type of duration that exists in the universe, is a revelatory concept that instills deeper metaphysical meaning into a seemingly...

Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a...

CAN-D In the Club takes you on a trip to the future to question the present. The infamous SciFi rap duo CAN-D, Amy Khoshbin and...

Interested In begins directly after Parker, a young college student, comes out of the closet. Told through a series of vignettes, we follow his awkward...

New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe....

LAVA celebrates PRIDE with a glimpse of the bedrock building blocks of our freshest expression of feminist acrobatic dance. Our epic new work, which will...

Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth! explores themes of religious extremism, substance abuse and our contemporary worship of social media via allegorical tales concerning a junkie Persephone,...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Three Christs begins with a host, the unnamed, self-professed ‘‘Scientist,’’ setting the parameters of an experiment he will perform on three patients...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Join host Emmy Laybourne, as she welcomes novelists to reveal stories from their lives at the summer installment of the critically acclaimed...

TUESDAY, MAY 31 & THURSDAY, JUNE 2 AT 7:30PM ABOUT THIS SHOW Leaves of Grass – Uncut, a solo performance by Patrick Scully, summons the...

ABOUT THIS SHOW A night of musings on Women, Rock & Roll, Pedagogy, and Poesy written, directed, choreographed & composed by Jordan Martin featuring the...

ABOUT THIS SHOW An exploration of innocence & immediacy. Another Face in the Crowd is a nonverbal clown piece exploring the impulse that drives us...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work. For additional 2016 dates, visit the 8 in show series...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Experience a musically theatrical, non-linear, and surrealist setting of the poetry of Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes in Night, like velvet: in...

ABOUT THIS SHOW Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 – 35 min pieces on a shared bill...

Inheritance of War is a new theater piece tracking life-partners Gage & Patriot as they fight to survive in Northland, a dystopian post-WWIII city-state wrought...

A dark comedy about a gardener who is invited to be part of the house staff of a mansion. While inside, he gets more than...

ABOUT THIS SHOW An uncompromising theatrical experience that includes aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, trained rats, a Heavy Metal...

Part revival, part salon, part spectacle, this monthly ‘service’ features performance, visual art, music, food, & literature, designed to inspire, invigorate & amaze the vibrant...

Unicorns, ghosts & The 1996 Vista Grande Elementary School 5th Grade Spelling Bee Champion collide in NEWFAGS CAN’T TRIFORCE, a hypnotic ritual inspired by 4chan,...

NBC’s The Today Show beams the news onto millions of screens every morning: every hotel continental breakfast, every hospital waiting room, everyday. In the Internet...

DIXON PLACE & WATCHFACE PRESENT DIXONFACE/WATCHPLACE A Benefit to celebrate Dixon Place's 30th Anniversary & launch of Watchface Archives website! FRIDAY, APRIL 1 AT 7:30PM...

V. Ec Ryt Rit .V is a spine healing ritual-in-process. The layers of Diagonales’s play stem from the spinal powers of their scoliosis spine. Through...

Celebrate international women artists from history and the here and now on International Women’s Day. Hosted by Jenny D Green. Dozens of New York-based women...