Thinking Theater NYC

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...

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 ...

Doing a Bradbury Written by Annabel McConnachie Directed by Zoé Zifer Presented at The Tank 312 West 36th Street, Manhattan, NYC November 14, 2025  Annabel McConnachie. Photo by Callee Egan (@calwithcamera) It's just a statistical fact that most athletes who compete in the Olympic Games will be losers, setting up a tension between the achievement of making it to such an elite level and what could be seen as the failure of not medaling. A similar situation exists in any sports championship, but the personal investment demanded of many Olympic athletes (NBA players aren't generally working day jobs and spending their own money on training to get to the finals) and the lack of tangible rewards even for most of the winners, including the underdogs that audiences profess to love, can only intensify any such tension. A fascinating embodiment of this collision among different varieties of success and failure, Australian speedskater Steven Bradbury provides the subject of Doing a Brad...

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...