Thinking Theater NYC

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...

Men are Trash and I’m a Raccoon Created and performed by Felipe Luz Presented by My Black Job Productions and The Tank at The Tank 312 W 36th St., Manhattan, NYC November 21-22, 2025 Felipe Luz. Photo by Jason Albuquerque For some of us, certain musical artists play a fundamental role in our self-fashioning and can provide feelings of recognition and belonging even when those feelings are otherwise absent. For multi-hyphenate artist Felipe Luz (he/they)–or at least the version of himself presented in his solo show  Men are Trash and I’m a Raccoon –that musician is singer-songwriter Lana Del Ray. Early in this semi-autobiographical performance (Luz warns the audience that he is an unreliable narrator, even to himself, and that everything they will hear is fiction, but it is all true), he discusses how, when he was growing up in his native Brazil, Del Ray gave him both a picture of the American Dream and someone to relate to in his oft-broken-heartedness. Positioned somewhere betwee...

Blue Seal, Blue Sea (or, gay boy grieves death of gay-hating dad) Written and performed by Dante Fuoco Directed by Clara Wiest Presented at The Makers’ Space 13 Grattan St. #408, Brooklyn, NYC November 6-23, 2025 Dante Fuoco in Blue Seal, Blue Sea . Photo by Dev Hardikar. As understood by Michel Foucault, the archive is defined as the "system of discursivity": it is not a mere collection of documents but the underlying rules and conditions that determine what can be said, thought, and preserved as knowledge within a given historical period. Now add a fortuitous discovery of videotape head cleaner and the death of a deeply complicated, gay-hating father.  Dante Fuoco’s inspired one-man Blue Seal, Blue Sea treats the archive as a living medium, something that shifts and pulses according to who is brave enough to hold (or huff) it. This is brave, bold, important work, and Fuoco soars (and manages one hell of a plié). The action begins when F@gg’aught Flamé (Dante Fuoc...

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...