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THEATERLAB

357 W 36th St, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10018

Upcoming Shows

SCHUBERT WAS A RICE QUEEN
SCHUBERT WAS A RICE QUEEN
Mar 13 – Mar 15, 2026

Theaterlab invites you to join Jeremy Rafal as he develops his never before seen work, Schubert Was a Rice QueenVienna, 1828. Composer Franz Schubert is dying,...



Review: NOT NOBODY at 59E59 Theaters-Thought Provoking


by Marina Kennedy - February 13, 2026

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

SAME/SAME/DIFFERENT
SAME/SAME/DIFFERENT
Dec 11 – Dec 14, 2025

From debut playwright Em Crowe, SAME/SAME/DIFFERENT asks, “Is anything really worse than the devil you know?” Following a personal tragedy, Elizabeth is granted a small moment...

(Tipping Point)
(Tipping Point)
Dec 13

(Tipping) Point explores Yoko’s continued collaboration with wearable arts, as an essential part of the performance. Since 2018, Yoko has worked with Aileyan Accessories, a multi-generational millinery...

WINTERFEST: Double-Bill of FULL CONTACT and X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM
WINTERFEST: Double-Bill of FULL CONTACT and X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM
Nov 20 – Dec 7, 2025

A double-bill run of two new solo performances featuring Asian American theatre artists, including the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of FULL CONTACT,...

Cuckoo
Cuckoo
Dec 5 – Dec 6, 2025

Two exes find each other stuck in a blank space outside time. Trapped with their pain in one another’s orbit, they must find their way...

BLOOD/SUCKER, a new horror-satire by Anamaria Guerzon
BLOOD/SUCKER, a new horror-satire by Anamaria Guerzon
Nov 24

A FREE, 90-minute staged reading of the new horror/satire BLOOD/SUCKER by Anamaria Guerzon (Scratchpad Series Playwright, The Playwrights Realm), directed by Nicholas Polonio (Assistant Director,...

Round the Block!™
Round the Block!™
Sep 26 – Nov 21, 2025

Thanks to a generous grant from the Foundation for Fairer Capitalism, Theaterlab’s ROUND THE BLOCK!™Celebrating Arts and Community in the Garment District: is back and...

The Lucky Ones
The Lucky Ones
Oct 24 – Nov 9, 2025

Vanessa faces illness while Janie discovers new love. Lifelong best friends, they’ve always shared everything—until life forces them apart in unexpected, heartbreaking directions.

Dint
Dint
Nov 7 – Nov 8, 2025

Is devotion healing or harmful? “Dint” is a contemporary dance work that investigates the boundaries of devotion in interpersonal relationships and in the individual person...

Primordial Sadness
Primordial Sadness
Jun 27 – Jun 28, 2025

Primordial Sadness is a dance - theater - song - constellation that will hug you hard. Its not a story, its a feeling with legs.

Like A Drawing
Like A Drawing
Nov 30

Theaterlab Presents Like a Drawing, a performance by Naoki Iwakawa that explores the essence of spontaneity and instant expression through the fusion of action painting and music,...

In The Eye of a Dream
In The Eye of a Dream
Nov 9 – Nov 19, 2023

The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble presents a new immersive production of Anna Sokolow’s tributes to painters Frida Kahlo and Rene Magritte. In “Frida,” an intimate portrait based on...

Come Here To Me
Come Here To Me
Nov 1 – Nov 5, 2023

Aoife, a young Irish woman, and Grace, her American roommate, travel together from their home in Dublin to London, pursued by a ghost. Set in...

Ghosts and the Body Theater
Ghosts and the Body Theater
Nov 3 – Nov 5, 2023

Ghosts and the Body Theater is a performative lecture by Dramaturg Jolene Noelle investigating the question: Why do so many hauntings occur in theatrical spaces? Examining live/unlive bodies...

The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard
Sep 7 – Sep 10, 2023

Presenting a new approach to Anton Chekhov’s last play The Cherry Orchard. The play revolves around an aristocratic Russian landowner who returns to her family...

Rose Kanj: Loving Me
Rose Kanj: Loving Me
Sep 6

Rose Kanj shares her personal journey of self-love in her autobiographical cabaret told through silly yet vulnerable anecdotes and the songs- familiar favorites and originals...

Bulletproof Unicorn
Bulletproof Unicorn
Mar 24

Fresh off the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and shows in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, TLab Shares hosts Stacie Burrows as she brings her new solo dark comedy BULLETPROOF...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Mar 13

White Rabbit Red RabbitWritten by Nassim SoleimanpourPerformed by Melina Moghadassian  Will you participate? Will you be manipulated? Will you listen? Will you really listen? With no rehearsals, no director, a different...

Chasing the Tides, or Exposure
Chasing the Tides, or Exposure
Dec 9 – Dec 18, 2022

In this tense one-woman show, combining text with physical theater, eerie images mix with an internal monologue as the writer/ performer Matilda Woods (writing under...

Let Me Cook For You: The Trilogy
Let Me Cook For You: The Trilogy
Sep 2 – Oct 2, 2022

An epic journey through food, fashion, and fable. It is an invitation to a meal that is life itself, an offering of personal history as...

GARDEN OF ALLA: The Alla Nazimova Story
GARDEN OF ALLA: The Alla Nazimova Story
Jun 17 – Jun 25, 2022

The 1920s was the time of flappers, flamboyance, and the face of Alla Nazimova! Garden of Alla, an original multimedia solo show, tells the story...

Sky of Darkness
Sky of Darkness
Jun 2 – Jun 12, 2022

Sky of Darkness is a documentary-style play that takes a somber look at neocolonialism, race, and the perils of personal choices in the face of...

Sky of Darkness
Sky of Darkness
Jun 2 – May 12, 2022

Sky of Darkness is a documentary-style play that takes a somber look at neocolonialism, race, and the perils of personal choices in the face of...

Talk to Me
Talk to Me
Jun 28 – Jun 30, 2019
THIRST & FOG
THIRST & FOG
Oct 18 – Oct 21, 2018

Tickets: $20 Three survivors. Two plays. One lifeboat. When three unlikely personalities find shelter on a lifeboat after a devastating shipwreck, they must do whatever...

Magdalena
Magdalena
Sep 12 – Sep 22, 2018

Theaterlab presents the world premiere of MAGDALENA, an intimate multimedia solo performance by the award-winning filmmaker and a Guggenheim Fellow Gabri Christa. This work is...

Love At Home
Love At Home
Nov 6 – Nov 9, 2013

The play follows two sisters from their early teens in the 1990's to their adulthood in the summer after Proposition 8 was passed, as they...

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