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...

The Oldest Profession Written and performed by Kaytlin Bailey Directed by Katherine Wilkinson Presented by Old Pros at The PIT Loft 154 W 29th St, Manhattan, NYC January 4 and February 8, 2025 Kaytlin Bailey at Unicorn Bar, Kingston, NY. Photo by Sam Liebert At one point in Kaytlin Bailey's solo show The Oldest Profession , she asserts the importance of changing the story of and around sex work to enacting meaningful change for sex workers, whose contemporary stigmatization and persecution continues a shameful, millennia-long tradition in Western heteropatriarchal cultures. Storytelling is itself an extremely old profession, and scholar Kirsten Pullen has pointed out both that the "trope of the actress/whore pervades histories" of sex work ( Actresses and Whores , 2005, p. 2) and that some women have used the "dual tradition of [the 'prostitute' as] victim and radical to carve a space for female agency" (p. 1). The Oldest Profession could be seen as ta...