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 111–120
Luigi and Langston
An evening of famous and new playwrights, Luigi and Langston presents a rarely performed one-act by Langston Hughes, a classic by Luigi Pirandello (presented as an influence on him), Michele Cannon's Harlem Slang inspired by the work of Zora Neale Hurston and Calico and Lennie...
Victoria Woodhull
“Victoria Woodhull,” a play by Claude Solnik, tells the story of the first woman to run for president in 1872 even before women had the right to vote. Donna Mejia directs this production about the nation’s first female presidential candidate, her struggles, successes and story...
Millennium Mom
Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director) Presents: Millennium Mom by Liz Amadio A Cosmic Orchid production of an Equity-Approved Showcase as part of The Dream Up Festival A latte-guzzling, stroller-toting, advanced-aged single mom cultivates her maternal...
"THE DEATH OF A BLACK MAN (A WALK BY
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY TO PRESENT "THE DEATH OF A BLACK MAN (A WALK BY)" BY WILLIAM ELECTRIC BLACK For Gun Awareness Month, an immersive theater experience geared to the Hip Hop Culture, blending rap, poetry, song and movement. WHERE AND WHEN: June 2 to 19, 2016 Theater for...
The Three-Mile Limit
The Three-Mile Limit dramatizes a voyage aboard a transatlantic ocean liner in 1927. Real-life and fictional characters reflect the diversity of the passengers and crew. Conflicts resulting from class and ethnic differences, race relations and sexual identity come to life in the...
The Caretaker of Corofin
Life is just fine in the picturesque Irish town of Corofin when an American tourist arrives. But when the caretaker of a few cottages dies suddenly, it's as if Eden has ended. After the American tourist becomes a suspect, townspeople take sides. Theater for the New City Exec...
Night by Charles L. Mee
The New Stage Theatre Company is proud to present the world premiere of Night, or Thyestes 2.0, a movement theatre piece written by Charles L. Mee and directed and designed by Ildiko Nemeth. Inspired by Seneca's Thyestes, the piece combines sections of the classic tale with an...
Devil Lay Me Down
Julian Carthy returns from prison to his father’s trailer on the Texas-Mexico border, hell-bent on carving a fresh life and finding his daughter. There he finds his father Marcus, living with Ro—his much younger live-in girlfriend. And when a spark of interest lights between...
SU-EN Butoh Dance Company
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