Indie Theater Thursday – March 13
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.
It CAN Happen Here! - Hallie Flanagan & the Federal Theatre
Location: Culture Lab LIC
Dates: March 13-28 - Thurs-Sun at 7:30pm; Mar 29 and 30 at 2:30pm
Use code INDIE for $5 discount
A co-production between NPTC and Culture Lab LIC, the play weaves together three strands of storyline: the achievements of the Federal Theatre Project; the ground-breaking work of its fearless leader, Hallie Flanagan; and the political forces that destroyed it.
An amazing team of designers and ensemble members will take the audience on a fast paced and stylized journey from HUAC hearings to Federal theatre performances, from Hallie's home life to labor strikes, from the beginnings of an impossible undertaking to a triumphant success to a devastating loss.
POTUS, or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Location: The Secret Theatre
Dates: March 14-23 - Fri/Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm, Thurs at 7:30pm
One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Selina Fillinger’s brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.
Project Ritual Cabaret 2025
Location: Coney Island USA
Dates: Fri 3/28 - 8pm; Sat 3/29 - 8pm; Sun 3/30 - 4pm
International Culture Lab (ICL) and Coney Island USA proudly present the 8th annual Coney Island Ritual Cabaret, featuring over 20 original acts of artistic resistance.
In response to last fall's presidential election results, ICL recognized that while many artists were initially stunned, they would soon seek platforms to express their voices. To that end, ICL once again returned to its origins as Thieves Theatre and its decades-long legacy of provocative performance.
Founded in 1980 and named in honor of French playwright and political activist Jean Genet, in 2024, ICL produced Genet's "The Balcony" at Ritual Cabaret. This year again, the company asked themselves in these challenging times … WWJD … What would Jean do — the author whose life and work embodied resistance against social norms, political structures, and artistic conventions.
New Life Hamlet Construction
Location: Double Dutch
Dates: April 9-11 at 8pm, April 12-13 at 4pm and 8pm
New Life Hamlet Construction is (loosely) a play that takes the form of a policy seminar gone off the rails.
It is a primer for the act of “complex seeing” in the following areas: counterinsurgency, rural development, generalized secrecy, unassailable lies, forestalled events, inappropriate attachments, living in the mall, and a 100 percent certified-Real Celestial Miracle, brought to you in sped-up time (click the gear icon on the right to adjust playback settings).
COMPANY
Location: The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center
Dates: April 18 - May 11; Thu, Fri, Sat at 7pm, Sun at 3pm
On the night of his “35th” birthday, Robert contemplates his singular life through his relationships with his married friends, his girlfriends, and his loneliness in their midst.
This show is Robert’s journey, through memories of his interplay with his friends, from the selfishness of bachelorhood to selflessness of true company.
From musical theatre's most renowned composer, Stephen Sondheim, Company is largely regarded as a trailblazer of the modern musical. Sondheim himself considered this to be a seminal work, when he finally found his musical “voice.”