Crystal Field News

Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 200 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers for its 30th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts.

Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons is returning to Theater for the New City as the honoree at its annual Love and Courage gala to raise money to present the work of emerging playwrights.

TO FEED THE ROSES is about an older couple whose past secrets get in the way of their falling in love again. This romantic 'dramedy' is written by Amy Losi and directed by Laurie Rae Waugh.

Theater for the New City will present Tilted Axes: Circle With No Center from October 2–5, 2025. Created by composer Patrick Grant, the immersive performance features mobile electric guitars, percussion, and choreography, blending concert, dance, and theater into a living ritual of sound and movement.

Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival will present the New York premiere of Bill Rogers’ Breaking the Trust September 2–7, directed by Gerald vanHeerden. The dark comedy follows four sisters whose family secrets erupt after their brother’s unexpected $4 million estate divides them.

“One in Twenty-Five,” a new play that dramatizes one of the most consequential moments in American scientific history will receive its world premiere at Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival 2025. Learn more!

Undesirable Secrets, the searing and unforgettable solo play based on the life of Mexican American WWII medic and Holocaust survivor Anthony C. Acevedo, will make its New York City premiere this August. Learn more.

Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company will open its 2025 annual tour with 'Home Sweet Home, or A Life In New York'. Learn more here!

From June 19 to July 6, Theater for the New City will present the world premiere of 'A House Full of Flies,' written and directed by WillieAnn Gissendanner. The play is a meditation on family, identity, religion and the corrosive legacy of racism and repression.

Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 200 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers for its 30th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts. Learn more!

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote four differing gospels and created Christianity. These four evangelists actually never met, but they do--as members of a comedic literary synod --in 'Four Evangelists Walk into a Fog' by Douglas Lackey. The results are hilarious and profound. Theater for the New City (TNC), which has been Lackey's theatrical home since 2003, will present the work's premiere run May 1 to 18, directed by Mark Harborth.

Theater for the New City (TNC), which has been Douglas Lackey's theatrical home since 2003, will present the premiere of Four Evangelists Walk into a Fog from May 1 to 18, directed by Mark Harborth.

Plays and movies about Alzheimer's Disease tend to focus on the patient. However 'Remembrance,' a new play by Patricia Goodson, centers on their caregivers. 

'Remembrance,' a new play by Patricia Goodson, centers on their caregivers. A product of Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program, the production will run this spring. Learn more.

Theater for the New City Executive Artistic Director Crystal Field to present Fog and Filthy Air, a new drama inspired by real life events written by Tom Diriwachter about family, fog, and a road trip gone horribly wrong.

Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program will be beneficiary of the theater's 22nd annual 'Love 'n Courage' benefit Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South.

Theater for the New City will present its 50th annual Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Pow Wow and Dance Concert from January 10 to 19, 2025.

Theater for the New City will present a new show in conjunction with Ottawa playwrights Becky McKercher and Sarah Thuswaldner: 'Shelley and Lovelace Never Met,' the conversation that never happened.

'The Giggling Granny,' a solo play written for Marilyn Chris by Marsha Lee Sheiness, will be presented by Theater for the New City, in January. Learn more here!

The groundbreaking Jewish comedy satirist Leah Forster, who boasts a fast-growing social media following over 100,000 strong, stars in her first solo stage show, “That's Yentatainment!” which opens tonight at Theater for the New City.