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THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY

155 1st Avenue
New York, New York, NY 10003

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About the Theatre

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY is a unique Cultural Institution that has earned a nationwide reputation for its dedication to nurturing established and emerging playwrights who experiment with new forms and to presenting other experimental and developmental theaters with a very active program of Community Art Services and Festivals which continue to expand theater accessibility.

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Past Shows

A Healthy House
A Healthy House
6/2 - 6/19/2022


"A Healthy House" by Tom Diriwachter, directed by Jonathan Weber, is a wickedly funny play about a Staten Island family trying to preserve its run-down ...

Larry & Lucy
Larry & Lucy
3/30 - 4/17/2022


Larry is an alienated, haggard, semi-famous street muralist in his sixties who now barely supports his meager, one room Hollywood existence by driving for Uber ...

Sometime Child by Richard Bruce, directed by Stephan Morrow


A successful lawyer, John Stanley, is attacked and robbed by two high school dropouts. He wakes up in the hospital only to find that one ...

August Strindberg's Dance of Death, Parts One and Two


August Strindberg's "Dance of Death, Parts One and Two" will be performed in English onstage together for the very first time, newly translated and directed ...

Sometime Child: a Reclamation and a Redemption


"Sometime Child: a Reclamation and a Redemption" by Richard Bruce, directed by Eric Oleson.The tale of a unique relationship between a successful divorce lawyer and ...

Do Froyen (The Women)
Do Froyen (The Women)
1/22 - 1/30/2022


"Di Froyen" (The Women) is based on the play "Womens Minyan" by Naomi Ragen, adapted for NewYiddish Rep by Melissa Weisz and Malky Goldman. Director ...

Crazy Meshugga Hurricane Earthquake


This six-character play is the story of an unlikely connection that develops between a middle aged secular Jewish woman and a young Hasidic man struggling ...

A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa


For the delight of audiences aged 5 to 105, Theater for the New City presents Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre in "A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry ...

The Dark Outside
The Dark Outside
11/6 - 11/28/2021


Playwright Bernard Kops, now 95, is one of Europe's best-known and most admired playwrights. The late Michael Kustow, the Polish-born critic, scholar and philosopher of ...

The Lower East Side Festival of the Arts


Works by six cabaret artists will be performed in Theater for the New City's 25th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which will ...

The Open Gate
The Open Gate
10/11 - 10/27/2018


THE OPEN GATE will open on Sunday October 14th, for a limited engagement, through October 27th at Theater for the New City (155 First Avenue ...

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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (6/27 - 6/27)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in Rockland / Westchester Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
White Plains Performing Arts Center (4/12 - 5/5)
The Kite Runner in Rockland / Westchester The Kite Runner
Eisenhower Hall Theatre (5/5 - 5/5)
God of Carnage in Rockland / Westchester God of Carnage
Theatre on Main Street, Inc. (5/5 - 5/19)
Jesus Christ Superstar in Rockland / Westchester Jesus Christ Superstar
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