Indie Theater Thursday – March 20
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.
View last week’s here: Indie Theater Thursday – March 13
Lists of Promise
Location: New Stage Theatre
Dates: March 20-22 at 8pm, March 23 at 3pm, March 27-29 at 8pm
In this extraordinary new work from Ildiko Nemeth, Lisa Giobbi, and the New Stage Theatre Company, classic theatre and ungrounded aerial movement elements combine in a powerful meditation on the history of women in the world.
Lists of Promise is inspired and informed by texts including When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone and “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf and original writing by Marie Glancy O’Shea. It invokes the lost goddesses of ancient civilizations as it explores what Woolf called the “accumulation of unrecorded life” – the immemorial anonymity of women who have “sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated with their creative force.”
In a series of scenes by turns beautiful, funny, and moving, a Contemporary Woman questions the expectations and judgments placed on women. Her journey across origin stories, past eras, and present crises is ultimately a quest to find a meaningful vision of hope.
Anti-Gone 俺抬杠?!
Location: Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre
Dates: March 21 at 7:30pm, March 22 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm, March 23 at 2:30pm.
In a Northern Chinese village in the 1980s, on the final day of a three-day burial ceremony, the mourning hall becomes a battleground.
Polynikes, the eldest son of the Oedipus family, lies in his casket, but his spirit lingers in the human world. His late brother Eteocles waits to escort him into the afterlife. Meanwhile, their surviving sisters are at odds. Antigone refuses to honor the brother she despises, and Ismene tries to keep her from causing more trouble. At the same time. Polynikes' young children attempt to force their way into the adult world with their own childishly almighty will.
What should have been a solemn funeral spirals into chaos.
Welcome to this sinkhole of a mourning hall.
二十世纪八十年代初的中国华北农村，一间灵堂静静伫立。
俄狄浦斯家族的长子老博刚刚去世，但为了未完成的革命大业，他的灵魂仍在人间徘徊。老博的亡弟老艾在棺木旁等待，想要阻止哥哥搞事，将哥哥带入轮回。同时，他们的两姐妹也在激烈对峙。姐姐老安杠精附体，拒绝悼念兄长，而妹妹老伊已经放下过往恩怨，试图阻止姐姐制造更多的麻烦。另一边，老博年幼的子女们试图闯入成人的世界，解决大人们的烦恼，建立新的秩序。
原本应当庄重肃穆的葬礼，就此陷入混乱。
在同一屋檐下长大的一家人如今不共戴天，爷爷俄狄浦斯多年前写下的家族大凶之命数，似乎正在一一应验。
The Infinite Wrench
Location: The Second City Black Box
Dates: Most Fridays and Saturdays at 9:30pm. Starting March 21 through August.
Join the NY Neo-Futurists for The Infinite Wrench at The Second City in Williamsburg! Dive into a bold and unpredictable fusion of theater, storytelling, and sport with the New York Neo-Futurists every Friday and Saturday. For each show the Neos take on the challenge of performing 30 original plays in roughly an hour.
Through their unconventional storytelling, they deliver quick, powerful slices of life—crafted from the ensemble's own experiences—that can be funny, profound, elegant, gross, topical, irrelevant, or downright absurd. Every show is different and with new plays every week they have created over 7,300 new plays!
Runtime: approx 85 min"
Raised Spirits Dance Performance
Location: Triskelion Arts
Dates: Saturday, March 22 & Sunday, March 23 at 7 PM
Come join us for an electrifying evening of dance at 106 Calyer St! Our talented performers will captivate you with their moves and leave you feeling inspired. Get ready to be amazed by the energy and passion on stage. Don't miss out on this unforgettable event that will raise your spirits!
Canaan Unremembered
Location: Court Square Theater
Dates: March 28-April 19; 8pm Thurs-Sat, 3pm Sun
Use code IndieFriends for $20 tickets
This poignant World Premiere explores the always personal, often turbulent journey of faith. After losing a difficult pregnancy, a young evangelical faces another tragedy when she suffers a stroke that not only removes all memory of the relationship with her husband but also removes all memory of the faith she has spent her life depending upon.
The play was developed as part of the Theatre East Writers Room and received a full workshop at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College in 2023.
Why Taylor Swift is Gay: A Presentation by Lilly Camp
Location: Open Jar Studios
Dates: March 31 - 7pm
Note: All Theatre [Untitled] Reading Series events are free for all to join
A playwright and self-proclaimed “Gaylor” takes us through a presentation on why they are convinced that Taylor Swift is gay (and leaving clues to out herself to queers), interspersing lecture, songs, and scenes of Taylor and her supposed relationships with three women.
But what begins as their exploration of Taylor’s career, public life, and possible secrets is interrupted by Taylor hijacking the presentation and staging moments with the playwright’s own ex-lovers, until the playwright is faced not with the truth about Taylor, but instead with the reality of why they so badly need her to be gay.
Bald Boy The Musical
Location: The Tank Theatre
Dates: April 26 at 3pm, April 27 at 3pm and 7pm, May 10 at 12pm (Sensory Sensitive performance), and May 11 at 12pm
What would you do to save the most important person in your life? Would you do anything? This is a story of a young boy who faces numerous challenges and travels to a country overseas in order to save his mother.
This show is for ages 5 and up and it is for everyone. It is an hour show with no intermission. Our May 10th performance is dedicated for sensory sensitive audiences.