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Luis Feliciano (rear) and Kristen Hoffman (front) After winning Best Play in the 2024 NYC Fringe (you can read our review here ), The Trash Garden, written  and directed by Padraig Bond, will be presented by FRIGID New York as a fundraising performance on its way to the Adelaide Fringe Festival. The performance will be presented at UNDER St Marks (94 St Marks Pl, New York NY, 1009) on Saturday, January 31st at 7:00pm. Tickets are $18 on a sliding-scale and are available for advance purchase at www.frigid.nyc . The performance will run approximately 60 minutes. Padraig Bond (Playwright/Director) is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and producer from New York City. He is the author of The Climate Fables , rated 5 stars in the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Best Play winner at the 2024 New York City Fringe. He is currently a resident playwright at FRIGID New York and has worked at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the United States Congress, and at So...

  HERE Arts Center (Co-Directors Jesse Cameron Alick, Annalisa Dias, Lanxing Fu, and Lauren Miller) will partner with Under the Radar and Mayor Zohran Mandani as part of Under The Radar For All, a new ticketing initiative which will provide the opportunity for 1,500 New Yorkers to see select UTR performances at no charge, including the World Premiere of Dream Feed by The HawtPlates on January 14th, 15th and 16th at 8:30pm at HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013). Availability is limited. Sign up now at https://here.org/shows/dream-feed/ with the code UTRFREE to access free first come first serve tickets. "HERE has always been committed to economic access to our programs, with 10 tickets available for $10 for every single performance across our two theaters all year long,” said HERE Co-Director’s Lauren Miller and Jesse Cameron Alick. “We are thrilled to take part in Mayor Mamdani's first initiative to ensure that access extends to the arts across the city through...

Suzanne Bachner’s award-winning play Circle  returns to New York City for a limited preview engagement ahead of its August run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The acclaimed production previously enjoyed a five-month Off-Broadway run, extensive national performances, and a four-month, seven-city sold-out international tour. Longtime collaborators Anna Bridgforth and Bob Brader star in the two-hander. Circle  has garnered numerous honors, including “Most Daring Play” at the London International Fringe Festival and an OOBR Award for “Excellence in Theatre,” and was chosen as a “Hot Pick” at the Montreal Fringe Festival. Critical praise has been equally enthusiastic, with The New York Times calling the play “ingenious,” Backstage hailing it as “elegantly written and moving,” and the New York Post describing it as “witty, knowing, and compassionate.” SEX. POWER. INTIMACY. DESIRE. In this award-winning comedy, two actors portray eight interconnected characters in a fast, funny ...

This New Year, Red Door Productions’ Violet Levinson and Isabella Candillier join forces with Josh Cromwell to present an Edward Allan Baker showcase, Sitting Around Baker’s Table . Featuring two one-act plays by the award-winning playwright— A Dead Man’s Apartment and Face Divided —the production explores the chaotic, funny, and heartbreaking realities of the human experience. The showcase runs from Thursday, January 22, through Sunday, January 25, at Studio 17, with performances at 8:00 p.m. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available online via Eventbrite ( click here ) or through Instagram @red_doorproductions. Though wildly different in tone, both one-act plays examine the complexities of relationships under pressure. A Dead Man’s Apartment leans into hilarious farce, following a couple caught in a completely chaotic noontime affair, while Face Divided shifts to a stark emergency room, where a young couple is forced to confront a heartbreaking decision. L to R: Simon James Gibs...

The Oldest Profession Written and performed by Kaytlin Bailey Directed by Katherine Wilkinson Presented by Old Pros at The PIT Loft 154 W 29th St, Manhattan, NYC January 4 and February 8, 2025 Kaytlin Bailey at Unicorn Bar, Kingston, NY. Photo by Sam Liebert At one point in Kaytlin Bailey's solo show The Oldest Profession , she asserts the importance of changing the story of and around sex work to enacting meaningful change for sex workers, whose contemporary stigmatization and persecution continues a shameful, millennia-long tradition in Western heteropatriarchal cultures. Storytelling is itself an extremely old profession, and scholar Kirsten Pullen has pointed out both that the "trope of the actress/whore pervades histories" of sex work ( Actresses and Whores , 2005, p. 2) and that some women have used the "dual tradition of [the 'prostitute' as] victim and radical to carve a space for female agency" (p. 1). The Oldest Profession could be seen as ta...

Image Quilt Dance Theater has announced upcoming performances of Sketches from the Edge of Flamenco , a theatrical work written and directed by Omonike Akinyemi, two-time New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. The production premiered in December 2025 and continues its monthly run through March 24, 2026, with the next performance on Sunday, January 20, 2026 at 16 Cowries Space at Rodney’s, 1118 First Avenue, New York, NY. Blending live performance, flamenco, theater, film, and surreal humor, Sketches from the Edge of Flamenco unfolds through a series of emotionally charged vignettes exploring identity, power, desire, and cultural dissonance. Flamenco is treated not as tradition alone, but as a volatile, contemporary language. Food and drinks are available for purchase at the bar, creating an intimate, cabaret-style experience. The January 20, 2026 performance features live, on-stage performances by Omonike Akinyemi, Khalid Gambino, and Alexandre Lumbala. The sketches include: Rumba ...