Thinking Theater NYC

Blue Gum, Brooklyn , a new play written and directed by Laurie Rose Savage, a finalist in Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest, is making its world premiere in a limited Off-Off Broadway engagement October 9–25, 2026, at Matthew Corozine Studio Theater in Manhattan. Running for nine performances, this family drama is set against the economic pressures of a changing Brooklyn, exploring how old resentments, familial obligations and unspoken expectations shape the bonds between sisters. As competing narratives and buried secrets emerge during a family dinner, each woman must face the complicated economies of family: who gives, who takes, who stays, who leaves, what we owe one another, and what we hold for ourselves. Produced by KMD Productions, a Texas- and New York City-based production company, in association with New York City- and Miami-based Matthew Corozine Studio Theater, the production explores suppressed emotion, family dynamics, avoidance, and the ways...

What happens when the person you love most needs you, but the words you need to save them don’t fully belong to you? IATI Theater, a New York-based, not-for-profit performing arts organization established in 1968 and dedicated to performing and promoting contemporary Latino heritage, presents Nora Coss’s Fifty fun facts sobre Olivia [mi madre] , a moving bilingual memory play exploring caregiving, language, cultural identity, and the complicated ways we come to understand the people we love. In Fifty fun facts sobre Olivia [mi madre] , fourteen-year-old Emilio is more comfortable speaking English than Spanish, while his mother, Olivia, wants him to remain connected to his Mexican roots through language. When Olivia becomes seriously ill and Emilio must help care for her in Mexico, that difference takes on new urgency. Suddenly, he must navigate doctors, paperwork, and caregiving in a language he does not fully command. In the process, mother and son begin finding new ways to unders...

The Metamorphosis of Barry Schleckman is a story of survival. It’s a story for every kid who’s ever had to do it on their own. It’s for the resilient ones, the ones who make it, the ones who somehow, finally, find their way. Maybe it’s for you. This re-imagining of Franz Kafka's famed novella -- about an ordinary person who one day awakens as a giant insect -- explores the terribly human struggle for identity, the journey from seeing ourselves as others see us to accepting ourselves as we are. Now set within an American Jewish family in 1959, The Metamorphosis of Barry Schleckman expands on the original, adding comic Kafka elements and a few surprising twists. Conceived for the stage, this radio play was produced in an effort to prove that -- even in an era of jukebox musicals and commercially-safe spectacle -- audiences still hunger for theatre that asks difficult questions, and for musicals that leave them, in some small and beautiful way, transformed. Watch the trailer here: Th...

Ectoplasm Written and directed by Sara Fellini Presented by spit&vigor at spit&vigor tiny baby blackbox theatre 115 MacDougal Street - 3C. Manhattan, NYC September 24-October 31, 2026 L to R, facing forward: Jesse Metz, Sara Fellini, Fedrico Mosttert. Photo by Giancarlo Osaben. In his book Haunted Media (Duke UP, 2000), Jeffrey Sconce observes that "the Spiritualist movement provided one of the first and most important forums for women's voices to enter the public sphere," which of course rapidly made it "a target of attack by the male-dominated paradigm of 'scientific rationalism'" (p. 12). Spiritualism's intersections with reformist politics, including women's suffrage, doubtless did little to mitigate such attacks. Sconce also notes that Spiritualism, which took hold in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century and involved contacting the dead at séances led by mediums who were most often women, was from the first bound up wit...

In the first fully curated Fall season from SoHo Playhouse, the New York venue is presenting eight main house shows from the worlds of international theater and comedy, with US artists performing alongside comedians, devisers and theater-makers from Europe. With returning favorites including Xhloe and Natasha, Recent Cutbacks and Awkward Prods, the voices new to the theater include British comedian Elf Lyons in her US debut and former SNL writer Drew Michael in his Off-Broadway debut. The shows have been selected from independent experimental devisers and creators from the USA who present their work internationally, and those from international festivals coming the USA. Also for the first time, SoHo Playhouse will be introducing a subscription package for audiences to see shows at a discounted rate, with exclusive access to selected tickets. A $230 subscription for a six-show package will save audiences up to 25%. As well as main house events, the venue has programmed four shows for th...

The Secret Circus Musical In the first dedicated youth season from SoHo Playhouse, the New York venue is launching SoHo Playhouse Jr. to bring top-tier children's theater and performing arts education to Lower Manhattan. Having kicked off the season with a free community Open House for guests of all ages on September 19th that combined live entertainment, hands-on activities, and community connection, including guided tours of the venue to explored its historic spaces while learning secrets of the stage, the historic venue is presenting an all-ages lineup of shows featuring international acts, world-class puppet theater, and new works. With global circus sensation The Secret Circus Musical leading the season alongside world-renowned acts like Doktor Kaboom and a new musical adaptation of Storytime Chess by Broadway writer Rebekah Melocik ( How to Dance in Ohio ), the season showcases local puppet companies WonderSpark Puppets and Yanniv Franks alongside new works by playwright N...