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 81–90
FeaturedTo Life
The Rosen family, battered and blessed, celebrates life as their hearts lie gasping on the floor. Broadway's Loni Ackerman, who starred as Eva Peron in Evita and sang Memory in Cats, plays the matriarch of the Rosen family in a death-defying traumedy revealing family secrets...
REVOLUTIONARY
Theater for the New City, Crystal Field (Artistic Director) presents, in the Dream Up Festival: REVOLUTIONARY a sci-fi, acoustic rock musical about a conscious revolution as seen through the eyes of a group of young homeless musicians. The show takes place in New York City in...
Birds of Paradise
Daniel Pavacic, Marisa Gold, Peter Tarantino and Abigail Grizzle star in this play by Claude Solnik, directed by Jim Keeler, about a pivotal time in American history. A happy family who runs a store and the family's best friend struggle to retain normalcy and happiness during...
FeaturedAUNT JACK
Norman's been a little distant lately. After breaking up with his long-time boyfriend, Norman Sable-Church moves clear across the country, leaving his fathers, George and Jack, in a tizzy. Months later, with George, a prominent gay activist and historian, suddenly takes ill...
Generations of Pride
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY, Crystal Field Executive Director, proudly presents Generations of Pride, an evening of speakers and performances reflecting LGBT history pre-Stonewall, the Stonewall Rebellion, and forward to today. Monday June 24 at 7pm. Admission is FREE. This event...
Where Do All the Ghosts Go?
Five ghosts who faced adversity in life will be homeless when the historic NYC building they inhabit is demolished. Sarah Bernhardt, baptized Catholic, faced antisemitism in the 19th century for her Jewish heritage; Elizabeth Keckley, former slave and companion of Mrs.Lincoln...
THUNDERBIRD AMERICAN INDIAN DANCERS' 44th ANNUAL DANCE CONCERT AND POW-WOW
A Pow-Wow is more than just a spectator event: it is a joyous reunion for native peoples nationwide and an opportunity for the non-Indian community to voyage into the philosophy and beauty of Native culture. Highlights will include storytelling, a Hoop Dance, a Grass Dance and...
Beltsville/Rockville, Part 1: Rise of the Goatman
In this pseudo-Southern Gothic dark comedy, a vibrant group of teens from two very different suburban neighborhoods clash over class differences, drugs, and sex and the existence of the legendary Goatman in1986. Cut to 2013, and the adolescent kids of those very same teens are...
The Bohemians
The Bohemians is a comedy about a couple who move into the elegant-sounding Waldorf Towers, which has seen better days. Their parents immediately go to extreme measures to get them to move, creating comic and some dramatic consequences for the couple, the families and the...
WARS OF THE ROSES: HENRY VI & RICHARD III
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Tony nominated theatre luminary Austin Pendleton’s WARS OF THE ROSES: HENRY VI & RICHARD III, his adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest villain, Richard III, returns for three nights only, December 3rd, 4th and 5th at Theater for The New City (155 First...
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