Upcoming Shows
GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton. Recipient of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play.THE STORY A playground altercation between eleven-year-old...
GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton. Recipient of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play.THE STORY A playground altercation between eleven-year-old...
by Marina Kennedy - February 13, 2026
Brian Dykstra's Not Nobody at 59E59 Theaters explores justice and moral dilemmas as a former ethics professor becomes a person of interest after aiding a wounded officer....
Past Shows
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,...
ARIANNA WELLMONEY JOINS CAST OF ANNIKKA FAYE MOCCIOLA’S NO ROSES AT THE CHAIN THEATRE WINTER ONE-ACT FESTIVALNEW YORK, NY — Italian-born actor, playwright, and producer...
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...
Door opens to an empty rehearsal room in Memory Courtyard. They appear, singing in symphony. What kind of past…or future, summons them?
OUT/PLAY proudly kicks off its Season 3 with an homage to the creation of boundary-pushing legitimate queer NYC theatre with CAFFE CINO: ONE ACTS, October 8...
Emerging Artists Theatre will present A Leaf in the Wind, written by Jeffery Chen and directed by Wasif Sami. The workshop productions take place on...
A Test of Taste, a play by Kendra Jones, is set to return to New York City this month.Co-directed by Jones and Emily M. White,...
Petunia and Alistair Sullivan are snobby South Carolinian socialite siblings stuck flying to New York Fashion Week on a commercial flight. But to make matters...
“Dr. Silkfingers Will See You Now”, a new musical by Scarlett (Chenchen) Long, will premiere this July at Chain Theatre’s Summer 2025 One-Act Festival. Charlotte is...
Hang It Up written by Taina Carrion-Perez and directed by Edgar Alvarez will be playing in Program 13 at The Chain Theatre as a part of...
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 Festival...
"SPACE” - A mixtape by Kelechi Udenkwo. All songs written and produced by Kelechi UdenkwoArrangements and choreography by Emma Rose BrooksVocals by Aaliyah Alexis and Leon AlexanderExecutively Produced...
A must-see theatrical experience for fans of supernatural and horror genres, based on true events and histories.
Theatre Beyond Broadway proudly announces the highly anticipated revival of Hellish Delights, a gripping play by acclaimed playwright Scott C. Sickles under the direction of...
Theatre Beyond Broadway proudly announces the highly anticipated revival of Hellish Delights, a gripping play by acclaimed playwright Scott C. Sickles under the direction of...
Stand Up Comedian and MTA Token Booth Clerk debuts her solo show as part of the NYC Fringe Fest.
deegie, a powerhouse pop punk princess, takes a deep dive into her past relationships through her real diaries in the one-woman rock opera, EXES: The...
deegie, a powerhouse pop punk princess, takes a deep dive into her past relationships through her real diaries in the one-woman rock opera, EXES: The...
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....
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.
Can presentational artists separate pedestrian life and entertainment? We dissect and disrupt the performative nature of existence through risk and rejection of correctness.
LITTLE LINAWritten by Taina Carrion-PerezDirected by Gaia CooperStarring Katie Parkinson and Lucia RogersonSHOW DATES:February 16th @ 8pm, February 20th @ 6:30pm, March 1st @ 5pm**The March 1st performance will be...
Can the Wheel of Generational Trauma Ever Truly Stop Spinning?
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, but their...
A multimedia interpretation of a young woman's journey navigating an unexpected loss, and the ways in which we cope with grief and longing.
Playwright Edward Allan Baker dedicates this play to children born to seventeen-year-old mothers.
Olivia O tells the story of Olivia Ortiz, a 14 year undocumented migrant who is separated from her mother at the US-Mexican border. Facing the...
Olivia O tells the story of Olivia Ortiz, a 14 year undocumented migrant who is separated from her mother at the US-Mexican border. Facing the...
Celebrate books and freedom with a night of literary inspired sketch comedy by Model Majority. Get your tickets before they get banned.
Diana Son's play "Stop Kiss" is a poignant and thought-provoking exploration of love, identity, and the consequences of a single moment.
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....
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 the...
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...
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...
Their world embraces the concept of “what if” in the vast possibilities of a future within an expansive universe.
Experience the thrills and chills of WITCHLAND, a new scary, thrilling and funny play for adults.
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 over her broken engagement,...
Lily, a girl afraid of silence, learns that "being alive" isn't inherently the same as being "not dead."
In the Bronx, an immigrant Irish woman of the past visits a current Mexicanimmigrant family currently living in a historic mansion.
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...
This holiday season, The Pelican Players NYC are happy to present Sam Shepard’s TRUE WEST. The production, directed by Barrett Crowder, boasts a stellar cast of New...
Johnny Montenegro is an ICE agent accused of being a traitor to his race. After an ugly incident in the field gets him suspended from...
A story of a 17th Century woMAN who fights against all odds to validate his gender identity.
From Trapezoid Theatre Co., the team that brought you the surreal journey, EGG FRAME, comes a new, magical dramedy steeped in witchy history and folklore....
Hats Off Productions presents…The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis August 18 - September 2, 2023.Location: The Chain Theatre 312 W 36th Fl...
"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...
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...
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...
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 story of a man whose desire for absolute power poisoned his humanity and terrorized a nation.TEATRO CÍRCULO, one of the leading bilingual Latino theatre...
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 moves...
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....
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...
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...
In a chapel in the middle of the desert, two girls meet for the first time in years. Together, they must grapple with the grim...
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...
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...
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...
The House Where Nobody Lives is a heartfelt story of a man who returns to his childhood home in Buffalo, New York, to find it...
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...
Juan Ramirez, Jr.'s ONE ACT OF KINDNESS to be presented at the Chain Theater One Act Festival. Chain Theater One Act Festival presents the dark...
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...
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...
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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