Thinking Theater NYC

Replaced! Written and directed by Jess Lauricello Presented by The Brick in association with Laurizzary at Brick Aux 628 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NYC December 10-13, 2025 Nearly everyone, at some point, feels the absolute difference of the Other–perhaps because we can only ever know a fraction of another's self, perhaps because someone's worldview diverges so radically from our own that it seems impossible to comprehend. But whatever the reason, other people can sometimes seem like aliens, especially when so many of them spend so much of their time in the closed-off thrall of one screen or another. Sometimes, one may even feel like an unknowable stranger to oneself. A new production of Replaced! , the first play that Laurizzary Co-Artistic Director Jess Lauricello ever wrote, literalizes–albeit, to an extent, ambiguously–such feelings with an invigoratingly surreal body-snatching narrative that centers one young woman's fraught relationships with herself, her media-...

Actionplay has announced its upcoming performance, Actionplay Voices Choir Holiday Gala (Winter Spectacular!) & Cha-Chingle Jingle Mingle! , taking place on Thursday, December 11 at 7 p.m. at Judson Memorial Church in the East Village. The celebrated neurodiverse Actionplay Choir, featuring singers ages 15 to 61, will present a full concert of festive holiday songs. This gala performance will raise funds for the Voices Choir, Actionplay's new disability-inclusive choir, who recently performed at Night of Too Many Stars. Guest performers include Anita Hollander, an acclaimed actress, singer, and composer whose 50-year career spans Carnegie Hall and Off-Broadway. She is the creator of the award-winning musical Still Standing and serves as the National Chair of the SAG-AFTRA Performers with Disabilities Committee. The guest lineup also includes Lisa Stephen Friday, a dynamic musician, composer, and writer known for her acclaimed one-woman musical Trans Am (Keegan Theatre, Joe’s ...

Everything is Here Written by Peggy Stafford Directed by Meghan Finn Choreography by Lisa Fagan Presented by The Tank in collaboration with New Georges at  59E59 59 E 59 St., Manhattan, NYC December 3-20, 2025 L to R: Petronia Paley, Jan Leslie Harding, Mia Katigbak. Photo by Mari Eimas-Dietrich.  Early in Everything is Here , from Brooklyn-based playwright, screenwriter, and educator Peggy Stafford, one woman says to another of the latter's potential age-gap romance that age is just a number. The fact that the speaker here is a resident in an assisted-living facility talking with her nurse, though, raises the question of the limits of this maxim. Focused on a trio of the facility's residents, alongside a couple of its staff, Everything is Here contemplates the realities of aging, including through its own characters rehearsing scenes from A Streetcar Named Desire , with laugh-out-loud humor, a well-earned pathos tinged with melancholy, and a few fitting dashes of absurdity...

Interstate Written by Amina Henry Directed by Cat Miller Presented by Dixon Place and That OId Hillside at Dixon Place 161A Chrystie Street, Manhattan, NYC December 4-20, 2025 Marvelyn Ramirez, Amy Hargreaves and Willow Wilhelm. Photo by Taryn Kamauu. Being a parent can be hard. So can being an adolescent. The collision of these truths propels Amina Henry's tightly constructed new play, Interstate , which pays equally multifaceted attention to both a mother and her children as they wrestle with finding happiness, each other, and themselves during a cross-country road trip to see America (a nation that proactively works to make being a parent more difficult). The journey that Interstate takes the audience on is deeply funny as often as it's incontestably poignant, all of which is only intensified by small irruptions of strangeness along the way. Flight attendant Red (Amy Hargreaves), the mother of our protagonist family, touches on a different meaning of strangeness in the p...

The Wizard of Oz Written by Robert K. Benson Directed by Madeline Wall Presented by NYC Panto at Parkside Lounge 317 E. Houston, Manhattan, NYC November 22-December 20, 2025 Diego Velázquez, Jonathan Nathaniel Dingle-El, Lily Ali-Oshatz, Regan Sims, Matthew Mastromatteo, Rachel McPhee, David Hernandez III, Stephanie Marrow, Blake Williams. Photo by Michael Russell.   With Thanksgiving now in the rearview, we're once again officially in the holiday season, with all of the overcrowded trains, office parties, and throngs of tourists that come with it. Happily, it also brings the return of NYC Panto, an annual spot of unadulterated joy whether you're a seasonal skeptic or Santa superfan. Panto, a British holiday tradition, typically offers a comedic riff on a well-known folktale or fairy tale with stock characters such as the Hero and Villain and call-and-response elements, and NYC Panto follows up last year's hilarious take on "Jack and the Beanstalk" (you can read ...

What If They Ate The Baby? Written, performed, and directed by Natasha Roland and Xhloe Rice Co-Produced by SoHo Playhouse at Soho Playhouse 15 Vandam St., Manhattan, NYC November 19-December 22, 2025 Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland. Photo by Molly White. Serial Edinburgh Fringe Festival First Award winners and current SoHo Playhouse artists in residence Xhloe and Natasha, having won last winter's SoHo Playhouse International Fringe Encore Theater Series Overall Excellence Award for A Letter to Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First (read our review here ), return to the SoHo's stage as the year draws to a close with What If They Ate The Baby? First performed at Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, What If They Ate The Baby? puts on full display the exhilarating fusion of clowning, physical theater, and the absurd for which the multidisciplinary duo is known. Experimenting with form and absurdism in ways that recall playwrights such Edward Albee and Caryl Churchill, this exc...