Thinking Theater NYC

Debajo del árbol de almendras Written and directed by Luis Caballero Presented by Teatro Círculo 64 East 4th Street, Manhattan, NYC January 16-25, 2026 Presented in Spanish and English with supertitles The cast of Debajo del árbol de almendras . Courtesy of Teatro Círculo   The furor–and legal consequences –surrounding the unauthorized felling in 2023 of England's Sycamore Gap Tree points to the psychological significance that such natural landmarks can hold for people. Many of us could probably point to similar examples in our own lives, especially in our childhoods, even if their importance is individual rather than national. For Puerto Rican playwright and director Luis Caballero, "an immense …[,] breathtaking, majestic" almond tree that stood outside his parents' home when he was growing up, close enough that "its branches touched the balcony of the house," occupies such a position. This tree, Caballero has said, acted as both "friend" and witn...

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...

Juxtapose | A Theatrical Shadow Box Collaboratively devised by Happenstance Theater Directed by Mark Jaster and Sabrina Selma Mandell Presented by Happenstance Theater at 59E59 Theaters 59 E 59th St., Manhattan, NYC January 7-25, 2026 L to R: Sarah Olmsted Thomas, Gwen Grastof, Mark Jaster, Alex Vernon, Sabrina Mandell in Juxtapose . Photo by Leah Huete. Humans have tended to imagine going to the stars rather than the stars coming to them. Happenstance Theater's Juxtapose | A Theatrical Shadow Box , which rarely trades in the expected, provides a delightfully imaginative exception, featuring a star in human form who crashes through the roof of a rooming house during a dark time for the world. That time is constructed ambiguously–a lot of the music and costuming, for example, evokes the first half of the twentieth century, while a radio snippet about the increase is severe weather events is as contemporary as it gets–and that elasticity holds clear thematic importance as Juxtapose...

  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...