Thinking Theater NYC

Far Away Written by Caryl Churchill Directed by Sam Gibbs Presented by Stairwell Theater at Box of Moonlight 17 Saratoga Ave, Brooklyn, NYC November 6-23, 2025 L to R: Joel Watson, Avalina Ortiz, Maude Mitchell, Rebecca Tyree Gibbs. Photo by Ellie Gravitte. Caryl Churchill's 2000 play Far Away , which marries the haunting and the absurd in evoking the conflict-riven reality that its characters inhabit, has previously received perhaps only one in-person professional production in New York City, receiving its American premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2002. Now, Stairwell Theater has brought Far Away to Brooklyn's Box of Moonlight, a converted warehouse space in Bushwick, giving audiences a chance to see a rarely staged work from an inimitable playwright in an immersive, site-specific staging. Making superb use of this immersiveness, Stairwell's marvelous production delivers a memorable experience of a play that has lost none of its power and prescience over the ...

Laurizarry, an indie working-class Gen Z theatre company founded by Jess Lauricello, Jaixa Irizarry, and Pedro Vierre to create the next generation of weird and subversive theatre on a dime, will present REPLACED!  this December. Written and directed by Jess Lauricello, a NYC-based playwright, theatre director, actor, and tree-hugger who believes in you and aliens, as well as the Co-Artistic Director of Laurizarry, the production will be presented with The Brick at Brick Aux (628 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211) from Wednesday, December 10th through Saturday, December 13th at 7:00pm. Tickets are $15-$35 and are available for advance purchase at www.bricktheater.com . The performance will run approximately 60 minutes. Sometimes they come back… after a successful run in the New York Theater Festival. Replaced! is a surrealist sci-fi tragicomedy following a young woman identified only as a Daughter who returns to her hometown to find that everyone in it has been rep...

apocaLIPSTICK Written by Seth Barnes Directed by Jennie Hughes Presented by Seth Barnes, Elena Cramer, the Players Theatre Residency Program, and Forager Theatre Company at The Players Theatre 115 MacDougal St., Manhattan, NYC November 6-23, 2025 L to R: Fara Faidzan, Ben Bogdan, Kathleen Salazar, Jordan Jackson, Clayton Matthews, Elena Cramer, Michela Richards. Photo by Samori Etienne. Anyone who frequents metal or punk shows knows that when someone falls in the pit, you pick that person up. That communal etiquette does not, however, extend to zombies, as we see in the opening scene of apocaLIPSTICK , a new play from Seth Barnes set in a United States reshaped by the zombie apocalypse. Following two members of a punk band called The Dammit Janets on their cross-country search for their friend and third member, with whom they had lost contact, apocaLIPSTICK integrates live music and zombie-attack action into a narrative that, similarly to Forager's December 2024 production of Th...

The Game to Play , a new solo play by Iryna Scarola, will have a performance on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, at 7pm as part of this year's United Solo Festival at Theatre Row . In The Game to Play , a mother steps into a night where memory, spirit and loss collide – and discovers the life she thought ended is still unfolding. The Game to Play is an intimate thirty-minute solo piece that pulls the audience into a mother’s private night of reckoning. What begins as ordinary remembering becomes an unflinching look at love, meaning, and the stories we build to survive loss. This piece asks a single, disarming question: what changes when you look at your life from one step higher? The result is quiet, clear, and unexpectedly grounding. Scarola, a NYC-based actor, playwright, and filmmaker, says of The Game to Play , “This play doesn’t resolve anything. It simply holds a small space where the beauty and the ache of being human can exist together.” Her earlier version of this piece wo...

Connoly Written by Stefan Diethelm Directed by Delaney “Lanes” May Presented by Theater for the New City , Executive Director, Crystal Field 155 1st Ave, Manhattan, NYC November 6–23, 2025 Nikki Neuberger and Abby Messina. Photo by Frank Rodriguez. Set in an inpatient mental health facility, Connoly tells the story of a teenage girl recovering, or struggling to recover, from a suicide attempt. The world around her is small but charged. Dingo, her older sister, arrives with love that keeps slipping into worry. Natalya, the nurse who manages the ward with firm precision and quiet warmth, becomes an unlikely anchor. And Georgie, a companion who hovers between memory, invention, and apparition, shadows every step Connoly takes. Their collective presence forms a shifting constellation through which Connoly must learn how to move again, one uncertain, halting half choice at a time. Together they build a livable routine, then watch it buckle under the weight of panic, longing, and the imposs...

HardLove Adapted by Esin İleri and Miray Beşli from the original Turkish play by Anıl Can Beydilli Directed by Jee Duman Presented by Rue De Pera Films and Sonder Project at SoHo Playhouse 15 Vandam St, Manhattan, NYC November 6-December 12, 2025 Miray Beşli and Chandler Stephenson. Photo by Arron West What we refer to as sexual "chemistry" between two people points to an elusive, intangible, and dauntingly complex web of the mental, physical, and emotional. Turkish playwright Anıl Can Beydilli's HardLove , adapted by Esin İleri and Miray Beşli for a Turkish and American co-production that has returned to SoHo playhouse following a successful run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, immerses audiences deep in the messy hammering out of the boundaries and contours of desire between two characters seeking that "click" during one amorous night together. In this encounter, HardLove offers a boldly probing and thoroughly–sometimes darkly–funny look at a pair of compelling,...