Indie Theater Thursday – April 17
It’s Indie Theater Thursday!
We’ll be sharing upcoming indie theater shows/productions happening in New York City. These are submitted by members of the IndieSpace community.
Do you have an upcoming show to share? Us the Show/Production Sharing Form to share the details of your show/production with IndieSpace so that we can share with the community.
Quacks & Whacks: A Cancer Comedy
Location: The Chain Theatre
Date: April 20 at 3:40pm
Absurdist humor, clowning, puppetry, music, and animation bring to life the very real struggles and triumphs of navigating the three-ring circus that is the American HealthCare system. Cancer cells sing, dance, and hike through a middle school teacher's body as gravel cravings, horny doctors, and gargantuan insurance cards threaten to destroy her.
The Episodic Theatre Project Season 2 presents: Don’t Turn Around Now
Location: Frigid New York/Under St. Marks
Dates: April 24, May 1, May 8, May 15, and May 22 at 7pm
Join the Episodic Theatre Project for five binge-worthy episodes of “Don’t Turn Around Now,” our Season 2 show. Over the course of five weeks, the mysteries of Knife’s Point will unfold in a series of self-contained plays with one central, suspense-filled arc.
Within the walls of Knife’s Point’s popular diner, secrets are brewing faster than a pot of Maxwell House. If charismatic millionaire Manny has their way, a new Arts District on Main Street will become the next big arts hub, overrun with artists, deep-pocketed tourists, and magazine features (plus murder plots). While locals are excited that their sleepy town will soon be revived, a few characters from Manny’s past will stop at nothing to prevent the Arts District plans from coming to fruition. Can Knife’s Point withstand the burden of secrets, pot-stirring, and small-town backstabbing? Only time—and five tea-spilling episodes—will tell.
Goldilocks Has Questions
Location: A.R.T./NY Mezzanine Theatre
Date: April 25 at 9:30pm
Would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear?
An evening of two short plays written by Alyson Schacherer (The Goldilocks Effect) and Carrie Keating (The Bear, Every Time).
A woman, reflecting on her dissolving marriage, spends a weekend alone at a nudist club. While hiking, she finds herself lost and facing three bears. Another woman is asked, “Would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear?” and ends up face-to-face with her answer.
frikiNation
Location: Brooklyn Art Haus
Dates: April 26 at 7:30pm and April 27 at 2:00pm
frikiNation, is a historical, bilingual, Cuban, punk rock, jukebox musical written by Krystal Ortiz and featuring music and lyrics by EsKoria.
frikiNation tells the true story of young punks in Cuba in the early 1990s who took extreme measures to rig the communist system in their favor. In an attempt to access a higher quality of life within the government-sanctioned HIV sanitariums, punks across the island started injecting themselves with HIV-positive blood. Using a 2003 album by Cuban punk band EsKoria, frikiNation tells this powerful history by following a pregnant rebel, her new skeptical lover, and a band of misfit friends as they fight to survive and create music in a society that pushes them to the margins. With the help of Maria, a cultural programs director determined to educate and protect them, they navigate love, freedom, and a dangerous plan to secure a better life—no matter the cost.
This is a developmental staged concert reading for Carnegie Hall's Nuestros Sonidos Festival, in partnership with The Movement Theatre Company and The Sol Project, with support from Musical Theatre Factory, and National Queer Theater.
The End of All Flesh
Location: The Magnet Theater
Dates: May 5, May 19, June 2, June 9, June 16, and June 23. All shows at 6:30pm
The End of All Flesh is a rollicking, post-apocalyptic, cautionary bluegrass tale by Greg Kotis (Tony Award-winning co-author of Urinetown.) Join Ma, Pa, Boy, and Girl atop a distant mountain, where they sing about environmental collapse, changing gender norms, Hobbes, Rousseau, ancient Greece, questionable survivalist practices, and a glimpse of what’s to come.