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Theater for the New City

155 1st Ave
New York, NY PRESS RELEASE DRAFT

Theater for the New City is a theatre in Off-Off-Broadway.

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ASTORIA

ASTORIA

Nov 5 – Nov 22, 2026

A new family drama by Richard Ploetz explores themes of mortality, the fallibility of memory, and the meaning of home.

Boy Santos

Boy Santos

Nov 5 – Nov 29, 2026

Charlie Santos is visited by memories of his childhood in the tenements of Spanish Harlem, 1962. He sees the street games, the legal and illegal enterprises, the captives of heroin, the desperate poor and a traumatic event he believes caused the death of his infant brother. It...

How to Get to Heaven from the Crawfish Pond

How to Get to Heaven from the Crawfish Pond

Nov 5 – Nov 22, 2026

Playwright, director and poet Melanie Maria Goodreaux returns to her longtime creative home, Theater for the New City (TNC), with the world premiere of How to Get to Heaven from the Crawfish Pond, a darkly comic Louisiana love story about death, desire, family, faith and the...

The Flowers of Forest Hills

The Flowers of Forest Hills

Nov 5 – Nov 22, 2026

Set after World War II, “The Flowers of Forest Hills” follows a family who emigrates from Austria to Queens. We see three generations of women, including a girl, a mother and a grandmother (as part of a cast of seven characters) as they adapt to life in the United States. Family...

SantaCon The Play

SantaCon The Play

Dec 3 – Dec 20, 2026

New York City's annual SantaCon. Many residents consider it the worst day of the year. Who among us hasn't been going about their life on a brisk December morning only to realize, with slowly encroaching dread, that there are an unusually high number of Santas about? And in the...

Getting COMPLETE

Getting COMPLETE

Jan 14 – Jan 31, 2027

Getting COMPLETE... what happens when the bully grows up!

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Past Shows

123 total · showing 61–70

ROOM WITH STARS

ROOM WITH STARS

Jun 2 – Jun 19, 2022

Expelled from high school and arrested for antiwar activity, teenaged Samantha loses her college scholarship. Her mom despairs, and her Puerto Rican boyfriend actually wants to enlist. But her boyfriend's aunt, a volunteer at the Catholic Worker, offers real hope. This partly...

The Oracle

The Oracle

May 18 – May 22, 2022

Is knowledge power in corporate America? Or is some other less lofty commodity the secret ingredient to success and elevation to the C-Suite? When the CEO of a mega-corporation brings in a Harvard hotshot to challenge his longtime knowledge guru, nicknamed The Oracle, their...

Hamlet In Harlem

Hamlet In Harlem

Apr 7 – Apr 24, 2022

HAMLET IN HARLEMBy Alberto FerrerasA comedy of errors about a tragedy of errors: an all-Latino version of Hamlet that promises thrills, chills, offensive stereotypes and cultural appropriations.

The Unamerican

The Unamerican

Feb 24 – Mar 13, 2022

This new play about Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe and Elia Kazan follows their lives framed around Millers testimony before the House Unamerican Activities Committee or HUAC hearings. The show, premiering at Theater for the New City, tells the story of one of the great trios in...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

Mar 13

White Rabbit Red Rabbit by the Iranian author Nassim Soleimanpour: forbidden to leave his home country, he wrote a one-performer play as a letter that would travel the world in his place. With no rehearsals, no director, and a sealed script, White Rabbit Red Rabbit is a show in...

I Just Want to Tell Somebody

I Just Want to Tell Somebody

Jan 6 – Jan 23, 2022

Ronald "Smokey" Stevens earned a place on Broadway thanks to raw talent and his wits, becoming a prominent musical comedy performer in such productions as "Bubbling Brown Sugar," "Inacent Black," "Dreamgirls," his own musical, Rollin on the T.O.B.A.," and tours of "One Mo' Time"...

The Slave Who Love Caviar

The Slave Who Love Caviar

Dec 23 – Jan 9, 2022

Playwright Ishmael Reed uses satire to explore aspects of American culture and history overlooked by others. His "The Slave Who Loved Caviar" is a theatrical Investigation into the relationship between Jean-Michel Basquiat and the art world, challenging the notion that Basquiat...

The Voire Dire Project 5.0: Images in Sepia

The Voire Dire Project 5.0: Images in Sepia

Nov 4 – Nov 21, 2021

The Voire Dire Project 5.0: Images in Sepia Directed by Liz Amadio 3 Sepia Photographs/3 Plays/16 Artists/1 Integrative Experience Behind the Shadow by Liz Amadio#& Inspired by The Window by Mark Fernkas With Carmela Davis & Courtney Vinson An AEA Showcase production of: Clouds...

They Came to the Castle: Immigrants, a Tenor and Lola Montez

They Came to the Castle: Immigrants, a Tenor and Lola Montez

Nov 4 – Nov 21, 2021

A historical play set in the mid-19th century in a now landmarked building in Battery Park--the entry point to the United States prior the facility on Ellis Island. Newly-arrived travelers share their hopes and dreams, seeking love and success in a new land. An Irishman fleeing...

Village Halloween Costume Ball

Village Halloween Costume Ball

Oct 31

Theater for the New City (TNC) has presented its Village Halloween Costume Ball annually since 1976. With safety paramount this year, the fete will take place October 31 as an open-air celebration outside the theater, on East Tenth Street between First and Second Avenues. A...

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