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Be Bold! Productions Unveils Selection For 14th Annual LUV SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL


by A.A. Cristi - January 22, 2026

Be Bold! Productions has revealed the selected works for its 14th Annual LUV Short Play and Musical Festival. The festival centers on love in its many forms and will feature fifteen original short plays presented over three weeks at Players Theatre. ...

SHELTER IN PLACE Begins At Sgouros Theater In January


by A.A. Cristi - November 25, 2025

A new comedy set against an approaching Gulf Coast hurricane will make its world premiere in the East Village this winter. Shelter in Place, written by Henry Feldman and directed by Joan Kane, begins a limited engagement January 8–25 at the Sgouros Theater....

THE DIVINE DATING GAME to be Presented at The Players Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 24, 2025

The Divine Dating Game by Sam Gordon and Madelynne Whitt will be presented at The Players Theatre...

WELCOME TO OUR EXORCISM Wins Week Three SPF BOO 2025 Short Play Festival


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 22, 2025

Week 3 concluded Be Bold! Productions 14th annual Players Theatre Short Play Festival BOO at the Players Theatre in the West Village. Five spooky and spoofy short plays thrilled audiences with frightful folly and chilling characters. Learn more!...

APOCALIPSTICK - Punk Rock Zombie Play With Music is Coming to The Players Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 17, 2025

apocaLIPSTICK, a new play by Seth Barnes with additional music by Elena Cramer, will be presented at the Players Theatre. Learn more about the performances here. ...

DYLAN’S MEETING Wins Week Two of SPF BOO 2025 Short Play Festival


by A.A. Cristi - October 15, 2025

Week Two of Be Bold! Production’s 14th annual Players Theatre Short Play Festival: BOO wrapped last weekend in the West Village, featuring five chilling new short plays. Riley Fee’s DYLAN’S MEETING, directed by Meghan Martin, was selected as the audience favorite....

Week 1 of Be Bold! Productions' 14th annual Short Play Festival BOO Opens


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 08, 2025

Week 1 of Be Bold! Productions' 14th annual Short Play Festival BOO opened last weekend at the Players Theatre in the West Village. Learn more about the festival here!...

Photos: HUCKA World Premiere Opens at The Players Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - September 11, 2025

Silver Glass Productions will present the world premiere of HUCKA, written and directed by Suzanne Willett, now running through September 21 at The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street in New York City. Inspired by Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, HUCKA will examine the idea of safe...

The 14th Annual Players Theatre BOO Short Play Festival Announced


by A.A. Cristi - September 09, 2025

Be Bold! Productions will celebrate the Halloween season with the 14th Annual BOO Short Play and Music Festival at the Players Theatre in the West Village. Running October 2–19, 2025, the festival will showcase fifteen original short plays chosen from playwright submissions....

spit&vigor Will Present PARLIAMENT OF FOOLS Comedy Special


by A.A. Cristi - September 08, 2025

spit&vigor will present Parliament of Fools, a one-night-only comedy special from Friendo and Murder Bird, on September 25 at 8pm. The site-specific event takes place at spit&vigor’s tiny baby black box theater (115 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012)....

Past Shows

apocaLIPSTICK
apocaLIPSTICK
11/6 - 11/23/2025


APOCALIPSTICK - A PUNK ROCK ZOMBIE PLAY WITH MUSIC GOES UP AT THE PLAYERS THEATRE THIS NOVEMBER.   A STORY ABOUT BLOOD, GUTS, AND UNREQUITED LOVE ...

Alan Turing & the Queen of the Night


A queer fantasy. A new musical. A gay genius meets Mozart's Magic Flute, unleashing wonder.

Lateral Move sketch comedy


Get ready for a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud ride through the absurdities of modern life and politics! Lateral Move is a bold sketch comedy show that spotlights ...

¡SOMEONE EXTRAORDINARIX!
¡SOMEONE EXTRAORDINARIX!
5/1 - 5/18/2025


It's present-day Manhattan, and Chilean immigrant Mona is coming up on her Visa deadline. As she tries to stay employed, auditioning, and in the country, ...

Fresh Out the Box


Fresh Out the Box is a live Off-Broadway sketch comedy show running for its sixth year in NYC.  Get ready for a whirlwind of absurdity! ...

Agatha Christie's The Hollow
Agatha Christie's The Hollow
4/13 - 4/21/2024


Love is a Killer! Agatha Christie at her best.

Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Macbeth
2/2 - 3/1/2024


The ambitious Macbeths ruthlessly seek power after a trio of witches prophesize they will one day rule the frontier in this Western spin on Shakespeare’s ...

12th Annual Players Theatre Short Play Festival - NYC


Beautiful, gritty, one-of-a kind—New York City is the greatest city in the world! In just a few short weeks, the Players Theatre Short Play and ...

The Chicago Improv Experience


The Chicago Improv Experience presents an evening of comedy “Chicago style” to The Big Apple. Performers and teachers from The Second City, iO Chicago, & ...

The Keepin' Cozy Show with Kitten Solloway


Welcome to The Keepin' Cozy Show, an improvised, one-night-only extravaganza starring "Hollywood's Most Available Ingenue" and "America's Favorite Open Wound": Kitten Solloway (Annie-Sage Whitehurst). Somewhere ...

That Just Happened
That Just Happened
8/20 - 4/1/2023


That Just Happened is a show for anyone thats ever felt like an outsider in New York City. Mary Corigliano (Writer, Director, and Producer) and ...

The Dog Show
The Dog Show
1/12 - 1/29/2023


To find the truth, you have to play the game. The Sparks Kennels are now empty, everyone scattered. When mother Pauline is institutionalized, the family ...

A Christmas Carol the Musical
A Christmas Carol the Musical
11/27 - 12/30/2022


Broadway heavy hitters, Alan Menken (Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical, Once on ...

I Mostly Blame Myself
I Mostly Blame Myself
12/3 - 12/5/2022


I Mostly Blame Myself is an NYC and LA based sketch comedy group founded by writer and director Nick Shanman. We perform our live shows ...

Untitled Monologues Chapter 2


I often sit on the train and watch the people around me. Wondering about the kinds of lives they've lived, the hardships, the good times, ...

Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
2/26 - 4/10/2022


February 26th April 10th, 2022Sat. at 3pm & 7pm / Sun at 11am & 2pmBeauty and the Beast, an original musical by Michael Sgouros and ...

After Happily Ever After
After Happily Ever After
3/5 - 3/22/2022


The end is just the beginning in this grown-up version of four famous fairy tales in which six actors play 47 characters whose problems have ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream


Magic. Romance. Farce. Deceit. validBodies arts project presents their identity-conscious production of Shakespeare's classic. ONE NIGHT ONLY: February 18th at 7pm. Tickets are 47% off ...

Cliffhanger
Cliffhanger
6/10 - 6/13/2021


A short play that explores sex and sexuality, desire and intimacy, while being on lockdown/quarantine. Playwright: Catalina Florina Florescu Cast: Nicki Kissil & Shelby Pickelny ...

Sharum
Sharum
7/11 - 7/27/2019


Sharum (stylized as SHARUM) is a documentary theatre piece that follows a Muslim family based in Queens, New York. The story follows the wedding of ...

All Shook Up
All Shook Up
12/6 - 12/23/2018


Take one great Shakespeare story (Twelfth Night) and every great Elvis Presley song and you have the makings of Rock ‘n’ Roll Musical Theatre heaven. ...

Players Theatre Short Play & Musical Festival


There is no place like New York! With a city this rich in culture, scandal and diversity, the possibilities for theatrical reenactment are endless. The ...

The TomKat Project
The TomKat Project
8/20 - 8/24/2013


Hailed as "Genius!" by the Chicago Tribune, this critically acclaimed supercouple chronicle features seven actors portraying over 50 celebrity characters in a mind-altering juggernaut of ...

Videos


No Roses in Off-Off-Broadway No Roses
Chain Theatre (2/10 - 2/17)
Stayin’ Alive – One Night of the Bee Gees in Off-Off-Broadway Stayin’ Alive – One Night of the Bee Gees
Cheyenne Civic Center (4/30 - 4/30)
Joe Bonamassa in Off-Off-Broadway Joe Bonamassa
Cheyenne Civic Center (8/19 - 8/19)
MDD’s Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change 2026 in Off-Off-Broadway MDD’s Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change 2026
Fourth Arts Block (FAB) First Floor Black Box Theater (2/11 - 2/11)
Egg, and How I Learned To Save Myself in Off-Off-Broadway Egg, and How I Learned To Save Myself
3AM Theatre (2/19 - 2/21)
I'm Not A Comedian... I'm Lenny Bruce in Off-Off-Broadway I'm Not A Comedian... I'm Lenny Bruce
Joe's Pub @ The Public Theater (2/2 - 2/4)
A Solo Show By Matt Pena in Off-Off-Broadway A Solo Show By Matt Pena
QED (2/5 - 2/5)
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