Indie Theater Thursday – March 27
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 27 and 28 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.
Lists of Promise
Location: New Stage Theatre
Dates: 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.
Project Ritual Cabaret 2025
Location: Coney Island USA
Dates: 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.
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"
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.
Show Up, Kids! Interactive Family Comedy
Location: The Rat NYC
Dates: Saturdays at 2pm from April 5-26
This semi-improvised, interactive, musical show for kids 3-10 years old puts a wildly comedic twist on the traditional kids’ show.
When the main attraction doesn’t show up, the host enlists the help of the kids (and their grownups) to control everything from plot to props, characters to costumes, and settings to sound in a one-of-a-kind, 45-minute laughfest.
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.”
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.