Thinking Theater NYC

Playwright Chiara Arrigoni In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, New York City’s premiere festival of Italian theater happening in all five boroughs, will present a reading of the 2025 Hystrio Award Translation and Adaptation Mentorship Winner Chiara Arrigoni and her play Pelle on Friday, May 9 at 5:30pm at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo (24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011). The In Scena! Italian Theater Festival collaborates with the Hystrio Award – Scritture di Scena, one of the most prestigious theater awards in Italy, to mentor an Italian playwright on their play’s translation and adaptation. The winning playwright travels to New York to collaborate with a local playwright and a translator on the English adaptation of their play. During the 2025 edition of In Scena!, the Festival will welcome Chiara Arrigoni, the playwright selected with the play Pelle for the Hystrio Scritture di Scena. The writer will be mentored for a period over 15 days by Antoinette LaVecchia, an Italian Americ...

Three Can Keep a Secret Written by Gregory Crafts Directed by Richard Piatt Presented by Theatre Unleashed and FRIGID New York at the wild project 195 E 3rd St., Manhattan, NYC April 15-19, 2025 Sonny (Ryan Dylan Wargnier) and Moose (Gregory Crafts). From 2024 Hollywood Fringe production. Photo by Matt Kamimura, Choice looms large in crime comedy Three Can Keep a Secret , from Los Angeles-based theater artist Gregory Crafts and one of 63 shows at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival , which runs through April 20th across four venues in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. With some "bad decisions" by one of the characters having set the plot in motion, not only must the rest of the characters reckon with a consequent series of choices and repercussions, but the audience too must decide at several points which path the show takes. For the characters, much of this decision-making reveals that they may not know those close to them as well as they thought, while for the audience, i...

Home Rule Written by Liam Gibbons Directed by Francis Pacae-Nunez Presented by Dragon Events LLC and FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks 94 St Marks Place, Manhattan, NYC April 2-11, 2025 As a setting, wartime highlights divisions, and Liam Gibbons's dark comedy Home Rule , which takes place in 1920s Ireland during the War for Independence, uses its politically divided setting to examine divisions of sexuality, gender, religion, and family. With ghosts real and figurative, Home Rule takes a comedic look at identity and the disjunctions among internal experience, external self-presentation, and expectations around both. Home Rule 's humorous story of possession is one of 63 shows at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival , which runs through April 20th across four venues in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. Home Rule begins with Finn (Adriel Jovian) and Riley (Taegan Chirinos), a young couple from the small coastal town of Doagh, deciding to finally have sex with each other, lea...

The End of All Flesh Written by Greg Kotis Directed by Avery Rose Pedell Presented by Theater of the Apes and FRIGID New York at the wild project 195 E 3rd St., Manhattan, NYC April 2-20, 2025 Greg Kotis, Maithili Ginde, Sammy Pignalosa, and Ayun Halliday. Photo by Pam Rice.  As you may have noticed lately, the United States government seems set on accelerating, via a number of avenues, the climate apocalypse towards which humanity is already proceeding at quite a clip. Set in the postapocalyptic future that we seem so determined to bring about, The End of All Flesh , a brilliant bluegrass musical from Tony Award-winning co-author of Urinetown Greg Kotis, simultaneously trains our attention on the disastrous path that we're on and offers an hour of much needed relief from the current atmosphere of dread to which the show itself points. A must-see, The End of All Flesh is also one of 63 shows at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival , which runs through April 20th across four v...

TEXAS ANNIE: The Legend of the Moan Ranger Book by Jenn Howd & Roz Mihalko; music by John Woods, Stephen Goers, Roz Mihalko, and Jenn Howd; lyrics by Roz Mihalko, Jenn Howd, and John Woods; based on the song "Texas Annie" by The Wet Spots (John Woods & Cass King) Directed by Maggie Perrino Presented by Jenn Howd and Maggie Perrino and FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks 94 St Marks Pl, Manhattan, NYC April 8-18, 2025 Matthew Graham, Hope Pauly, Brooks Hope, and Royce Louden. Photo by Maggie Perrino. UNDER St. Marks is abuzz thanks to the defiant musical joy of TEXAS ANNIE: The Legend of the Moan Ranger , one of 63 shows at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival , which runs through April 20th across four venues in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. Set in a state where one can legally own more guns than sex toys, TEXAS ANNIE is inspired by the very real Texas law that once outlawed the ownership of six or more sex toys. Though the law was ultimately overturned in federa...

Love in the Time of Piñatas Written and performed by Baruch Porras Hernandez Directed by Richard A. Mosqueda Presented by FRIGID New York at the wild project 195 E 3rd St., Manhattan, NYC April 8-13, 2025 Baruch Porras Hernandez. Photo by Robbie Sweeny. When Baruch Porras Hernandez first takes the stage in his sparkling solo show Love in the Time of Piñatas –one of 63 shows at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival , which runs through April 20th across four venues in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn–it is as one of the titular candy-filled papier-mâché containers (in a costume by Kipper Yanaga). As a piñata–something beautiful, Hernandez notes, in a world made to destroy pretty things–he leads the audience through a story of being being wrenched away from the life he'd known to be used at a little boy's birthday party, from which he escapes only to encounter abuse and finally achieve transcendence. The piñata's journey acts like a brief, fanciful version of the show as a wh...

Conceal Me What I Am Created and directed by Natalie Kane Presented by  FRIGID New York and  Ladies & Fools at The Chain Studio Theatre 312 W 36th St. 4th floor, Manhattan, NYC  April 4-19, 2025 Tia Cassmira, Chloe Chappa, and Maya Barbon. Photo by Natalie Kane. Taking its title from Viola’s famous declaration in Twelfth Night as she plans to cross dress, Conceal Me What I Am presents a charming tour through some of the most well- and lesser-known breeches roles in classical theatre. Interspersing scenes featuring various cross-dressing heroines with monologues about the history and function of this trope, the production is a charmingly acted tour of theater history. In the end, it raises more questions than it provides answers about the relationship between these roles and the exploration of gender in the plays in which they feature.  Conceal Me What I Am is one of 63 shows currently part of the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival , which runs through April 2...

Ingrid Kapteyn and Tony Bordonaro. Photo by Nir Arieli Welcome to Campfire invites the public to step inside a high-stakes clinical trial. Subject , a movement-driven psychological thriller, unfolds in a near-future NYC where Memredux Laboratories, a top-tier pharmaceutical corporation, is on the verge of developing the first-ever memory-erasing medication. As two test subjects undergo observation in real time, what begins as a drug trial unravels into an intimate reckoning with memory and loss. Co-created and performed by Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn—fresh off contracts with immersive behemoths Sleep No More and Life And Trust — Subject marks Welcome to Campfire’s first live New York City production since 2023. The performances find a fitting home at 3AM Theatre, an incubator for cross-disciplinary innovation near MoMA PS1 (920 35th Ave #3N, Astoria, NY 11106). Blurring the lines between dance, theater, and sci-fi, Subject has been hailed as “a terrifying, magnificently execute...

The Notebook of Trigorin Written by Tennessee Williams Directed by Jim Niesen Presented by Irondale Ensemble Project at The Space at Irondale 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn. NYC March 28-April 27, 2025 The Notebook of Trigorin . Photo courtesy of The PR Social As a twentieth-century American adaptation of a late nineteenth-century Russian play, Tennessee Williams's The Notebook of Trigorin already bridges places and times at significant removes from one another, and Irondale's new production enthralls while adding a few new lanes to that bridge. Williams's "free adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull ," as the play identifies itself, represented the achievement near the end of his life of, to borrow Allean Hale's phrasing, a "lifelong dream to interpret" this particular work by the Russian writer, of whom Williams had been an ardent fan since his early twenties. Hale's introduction to the 1997 New Directions edition of The Notebook o...