Thinking Theater NYC

Laurizarry will present Replaced!, written and directed by Jess Lauricello, as part of the 2026 LimeFest at The Tank (312 W 36th St, New York, NY 10018) on Wednesday, August 12 at 9:30pm. The Tank’s LimeFest invites new works by emerging artists and creative teams who identify as women, nonbinary or gender non-conforming to make way for more gender parity in the performing arts. Tickets are $20-$30 and are available for advance purchase at thetanknyc.org . The performance will run approximately 60 minutes. A surrealist sci-fi tragicomedy following a young woman identified only as a Daughter (played  by Zoe Mintz) who returns to her hometown to find that everyone in it has been replaced by  aliens. Hailed as “ an invigoratingly surreal body-snatching narrative ” by Thinking Theater and  “a smart and earnest piece” with “a lot of fun physical absurdity” by Hi! Drama , Replaced! is  back for one night only at The Tank on August 12th. Come out and join ...

Syringe Written and directed by Francis Bogan Assistant Directors: Lauren Presley and Gabby Laurendine Producer: Eliza Spinna Presented at Chain Theatre 312 W. 36th St., 4th fl., Manhattan, NYC July 11-30, 2026 Art by Ryan Prehara. IG: @seminalspider  While most horror media ends with the survival–or not–of its protagonist(s), some, such as parts of the Scream franchise or Grady Hendrix's 2021 novel The Final Girl Support Group , considers what happens after that moment of survival. The one-act Syringe , from Brooklyn-based playwright Francis Bogan, joins this less typical strand of horror narrative with its darkly comic look at a group of friends who undergo a Saw -style ordeal. Deftly satirizing our era of true-crime proliferation and internet-driven self-commodification while asking what friendship should look like, Syringe is currently making its premiere at Chain Theatre's Summer One-Act Festival, running from July 9th through August 1st. Syringe is part of Block 18 in ...

What a World! What a World! Written by Eric Marlin Directed by Ilana Khanin Presented by The Tank 312 W 36th St., Manhattan, NYC July 9-August 2, 2026 Queen-Tiye Akamefula and Annie Hoeg. Photo by Maria Baranova. Film studies brought us the concept of the heterosexual male gaze as the default mode of looking in media, implicit in how the camera mediates between the image and audience, and the new play What a World! What a World! , uses an old movie to anchor its thinking about the gaze, both in (the) film and in the world. What a World! What a World! , by Eric Marlin, explores being seen, self-presentation, the inscription and interpretation of texts and bodies and bodies as texts, all in relation to queerness and camp. Making its world premiere at The Tank after previous workshopping at Ars Nova ANT Fest in 2019 and the Prelude Festival in 2023, What a World! What a World! stages a smart, surprising sixty-five minutes of slippery boundaries and contested perspective. Queen-Tiye Akame...

The cast of Crimes of the Heart . Courtesy of Kampfire PR.  This July, Red Door Productions will present its production of Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Crimes of the Heart , directed by Eve Bianco.  Crimes of the Heart  will play a limited engagement at Theater 154 (154 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014). Performances begin Wednesday, July 15 and continue through Sunday, July 26. Opening Night is Friday, July 17 (7:30 p.m.). ​ Tickets are $40 and available here . Crimes of the Heart  follows the three Magrath sisters as they reunite in their hometown of Hazlehurst, Mississippi after the youngest shoots her husband. The Magrath sisters are three women who've been dismissed, misunderstood, and written off, who survive anyway, entirely on their own terms. As Bianco says, “They are not victims; they are warriors, unapologetically rebelling against the forces that seek to define and confine them.”  In Henley's play, it's been a bad few days for the Mag...

This July, Forgotten Artist Productions is pleased to present the play When In God's Country, Hide In The Closet , written and directed by Michael Thomas Cain, as part of 2026 Spring/Summerfest at the New York Theater Festival (NYC). The theatre production features Mark Parsia as Francis/Frank, Charles Kramer as Honorè/Hank, and Ron Barba as Dr. Sonny Moore. When In God’s Country, Hide In The Closet follows Francis and Honoré while they are attempting to enjoy each other’s company in the Bible belt, but they're careful to hide at a corner table of a restaurant on a Monday night for social and professional reasons. What will be the fate of this gay couples love during a time and place that is not accepting? Forgotten Artist Productions is a full-service production company based in New York that has produced critically acclaimed plays and award-winning films such as Not Approved For Cancer Treatment (theatre and short film), Where Art Lives (theatre), 15 Minutes with Ellen (the...

Misterman Written by Enda Walsh Directed by Labhaoise Magee Presented by Origin Theatre Company at Theatre Row 410 W 42 St., Manhattan, NYC June 23-July 5, 2026 With a new production of Enda Walsh's Misterman , the newly renamed 2026 Origin Irish Theatre Festival (formerly Origin 1st Irish), under the new leadership of Artistic Director Labhaoise Magee and Executive Director Aidan Cleary, Origin Theatre Company returns to the show with which it made its debut 24 years ago, a play whose protagonist restages his own past. Misterman is the centerpiece of Origin's 2026 festival, which runs from June 16th through July 5th and features a concert, staged readings, and a gala in addition to the full production of Misterman , all celebrating Walsh, a transformational voice in contemporary Irish drama. Misterman was first performed in 1999 in Cork, with the playwright also performing, and returned in a revised version (now starring Cillian Murphy) in 2011 at the Galway Arts Festival,...