Thinking Theater NYC

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...

Interstate Written by Amina Henry Directed by Cat Miller Presented by Dixon Place and That OId Hillside at Dixon Place 161A Chrystie Street, Manhattan, NYC December 4-20, 2025 Being a parent can be hard. So can being an adolescent. The collision of these truths propels Amina Henry's tightly constructed new play, Interstate , which pays equally multifaceted attention to both a mother and her children as they wrestle with finding happiness, each other, and themselves during a cross-country road trip to see America (a nation that proactively works to make being a parent more difficult). The journey that Interstate takes the audience on is deeply funny as often as it's incontestably poignant, all of which is only intensified by small irruptions of strangeness along the way. Flight attendant Red (Amy Hargreaves), the mother of our protagonist family, touches on a different meaning of strangeness in the play's opening scene, when, as part of discussing her anxieties about rai...