ASTORIA
A new family drama by Richard Ploetz explores themes of mortality, the fallibility of memory, and the meaning of home.
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.
Upcoming Shows
Boy Santos
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
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
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
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... what happens when the bully grows up!
Articles
Tango and Havana Fiesta Brings Latin American Dance Traditions Together in Miami
Miami’s Flamingo Theater became the setting for Tango y Havana Fiesta: Music & Dance Celebration, a production conceived, directed and produced by Analía Farfan that brought together several traditions of Latin American and Hispanic music and dance.…
Emanuele Fiore Expands His Role as a Performer in Pinocchio Pop and Across New York's Dance Scene
For Emanuele Fiore, dance has increasingly become one part of a broader performance language that includes theater, music, and choreography. Since his work in the 2024 Off-Broadway production Sempreverde: Evergreen, Fiore has continued to take on increasingly prominent roles while working with dance…
Review: THE VESSEL at 59E59-An Excellent Thought-Provoking Production
'The Vessel' is A Through the Tollbooth Co. Production in association with Thrown Stone Theatre Company.…
Sofía Terceros Arce Joins the FIFA Club World Cup 2026 Opening Ceremony as Her Theater and Film Career Continues to Flourish
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Review: Brits Off-Broadway’s DAVID COPPERFIELD at 59E59 Theaters-A Gem
Here’s one play you don’t want to miss! 'David Copperfield' is now on stage at 59e59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off-Broadway 2026 festival of plays. …
ANIMALS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Opens at the United Nations With Art, Dance, and Environmental Advocacy
On May 20, World Bee Day, the United Nations became the setting for an ambitious interdisciplinary event that merged visual art, dance, environmental awareness, and international collaboration. The opening of Animals for Social Justice, a multimedia exhibition created by journalist and multimedia ar…
Review: NOT NOBODY at 59E59 Theaters-Thought Provoking
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
123 total · showing 91–100
Citizens of the Gray or the Dark Thing that Sleeps Inside Me
Playwright/director Elia Schneider is known for hauntingly visual productions that transcend language with strong imagery and a dreamlike fresco of movement and design. Her newest work, "Citizens of the Gray or the Dark Thing that Sleeps Inside Me," deals with the war of the...
Recovery
"Recovery," written by Anne Marilyn Lucas and directed by Stephan Morrow, is a drama of three young women, all lost in the pain of addiction, and their mothers. The play explores the experience of addiction from the perspective of two generations. Denial is portrayed as a...
Arendt-Heidegger: A Love Story
"Arendt-Heidegger: A Love Story" by Douglas Lacket, directed by Alexander Harrington, dramatizes the troubling, lifelong affair between Zionist Hannah Arendt and Nazi sympathizing philosopher Martin Heidegger. Hannah Arendt was a brilliant political theorist and a philosophical...
FeaturedSixteen: The Troublemaker Diaries
Is Sixteen old enough to be an adult? Hamza Zaman delves into the seminal age of Sixteen with "Sixteen: The Troublemaker Diaries". Sixteen is when all of life is seemingly a puzzle – the more so when you are arrested. Newly minted Dr. Neil Kalanathi joins the staff of a...
Apes at Play
A seasoned assassin is hired to wipe out an obscure fringe playwright. Yet as she moves closer to the kill, she uncovers an inexplicable link between herself and the target. Part detective story, part meta-noir, this Kafkaesque comedy takes us on a topsy-turvy quest that...
Grace is Good
At a time when me too moments are sparking conversation and debate, Grace is Good brings a new me too story to the stage. Theater for the New city has extended the show an additional week, keeping this story not just in the news, but on the stage. Grace is a new hire at an...
Fat Asses: The Musical
Take off those Spanx and get ready to let loose for FAT ASSES: THE MUSICAL. Theater for the New City, Crystal Field, Executive Director is thrilled to present the return of the revamped musical/comedy May 3-20, 2018. Playing to sold-out houses in 2013 the writers of the...
Around the World - one act plays set around the globe
Theater For the New City presents this one night only special event with one-act plays by Claude Solnik, Craig Pospisil and Robert Previto that take you on a trip around the nation and the world. See stories set in Manhattan, New Orleans; Vermont, Aphrodite's Rock, Cyprus; Paris...
"Subway Story (a shooting)"
Innumerable American children and teens are exposed to gun violence at home, in school, in their communities and in the media. In "Subway Story (A Shooting)," playwright/director William Electric Black means to elucidate the pressures that drive the epidemic in young people. The...
"Josh: The Black Babe Ruth"
The play dramatizes the life, loves and ultimately the tragic decline of Josh Gibson, who was perhaps the greatest slugger of the Negro leagues and who, some say, died of a broken heart in 1947, a short step from his prime as a player. The play, based on real events, shows...
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