Ellen Stewart News

Dancers Unlimited will present Edible Tales: Ho'oulu at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre as part of the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, exploring cultural heritage and food justice through community-collaborative performance.

Sun Kim Dance Theatre will perform Alien of Extraordinary at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre as part of the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival.

The Playwrights of the 2025 La MaMa Umbria International Master Playwrights Retreat have announced 'Under the Umbrian Sun,' an exclusive three-day Off-Off-Broadway reading series.

 La MaMa will The Censorship of Dreams, a new drama reflecting our future reality in a restarted world, written by Nora Sørena Casey. Arthur Makaryan directs a cast of four.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced the lineup for the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. La MaMa Moves! runs from April 9 through May 10, 2026.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. The festival, curated by Nicky Paraiso, features twelve productions across four venues, highlighting a blend of emerging and established dance artists.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present Krymov Lab NYC's UNCLE VANYA, scenes from country life, from March 28 to April 12, 2026, at The Ellen Stewart Theatre in New York.

The world premiere of Skysaver Production's FOOTNOTES, created, designed, and directed by Theodora Skipitares, with music and lyrics by Sxip Shirey begins tonight.

OBIE and NYIT Award-winning Peculiar Works Project returns to La MaMa ETC's Downstairs Theatre for the world premiere of Antigone in Analysis, written by Barbara Barclay and directed by Ralph Lewis, running March 20 - April 5, 2026.

La MaMa will present Jane Comfort and Company with a new world premiere and two landmark works, marking their first return in over eight years. The event, set for March 19-22, 2026, will feature a blend of dance and theater addressing America's cultural and political issues.

La MaMa will present the world premiere of FOOTNOTES, a multi-media puppetry show exploring the profound aspects of walking, from February 27 to March 15, 2026.

The full cast has been revealed for Compagnia de’ Colombari’s official Off-Broadway run of King Lear at La MaMa ETC at the Ellen Stewart Theatre.

La MaMa will present a thingNY production of MANO A MANO: an operatic monodrama, written, composed and performed by Paul Pinto. Learn more about the performance here!

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present the workshop production of The Thousand and One Nights, a reimagining of the  epic from Lebanese-American director and playwright Ghina Fawaz and Turkish dramaturg and artist Begüm 'Begsy' Inal.

Connecticut College will present preview performances of Stefanie Batten Bland’s Make Granny Great Again. The immersive dance-theatre work was developed through a campus residency and brings together professional artists and students.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present the workshop production of ألف ليلة وليلة (The Thousand and One Nights), a bold reimagining of the legendary epic from Lebanese-American director and playwright Ghina Fawaz and Turkish dramaturg and artist Begüm 'Begsy' Inal.

From December 3-14, 2025, FROM THE OTHER SIDE transforms La MaMa into a home for an incredible group of Balkan artists, on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 1PM.

La MaMa, in association with My Balkans, will present Things That Burn Easily, as part of From the Other Side. Performances will take place at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre.

La MaMa, in association with My Balkans, will present They Are All Gone, as part of From the Other Side. Performances will take place at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre.

Following a successful world premiere at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and a sold-out four-performance run in New York City summer of 2024, Compagnia de' Colombari's KING LEAR will return for its official Off-Broadway run at La MaMa ETC.