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  HERE Arts Center (Co-Directors Jesse Cameron Alick, Annalisa Dias, Lanxing Fu, and Lauren Miller) will partner with Under the Radar and Mayor Zohran Mandani as part of Under The Radar For All, a new ticketing initiative which will provide the opportunity for 1,500 New Yorkers to see select UTR performances at no charge, including the World Premiere of Dream Feed by The HawtPlates on January 14th, 15th and 16th at 8:30pm at HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013). Availability is limited. Sign up now at https://here.org/shows/dream-feed/ with the code UTRFREE to access free first come first serve tickets. "HERE has always been committed to economic access to our programs, with 10 tickets available for $10 for every single performance across our two theaters all year long,” said HERE Co-Director’s Lauren Miller and Jesse Cameron Alick. “We are thrilled to take part in Mayor Mamdani's first initiative to ensure that access extends to the arts across the city through...

Suzanne Bachner’s award-winning play Circle  returns to New York City for a limited preview engagement ahead of its August run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The acclaimed production previously enjoyed a five-month Off-Broadway run, extensive national performances, and a four-month, seven-city sold-out international tour. Longtime collaborators Anna Bridgforth and Bob Brader star in the two-hander. Circle  has garnered numerous honors, including “Most Daring Play” at the London International Fringe Festival and an OOBR Award for “Excellence in Theatre,” and was chosen as a “Hot Pick” at the Montreal Fringe Festival. Critical praise has been equally enthusiastic, with The New York Times calling the play “ingenious,” Backstage hailing it as “elegantly written and moving,” and the New York Post describing it as “witty, knowing, and compassionate.” SEX. POWER. INTIMACY. DESIRE. In this award-winning comedy, two actors portray eight interconnected characters in a fast, funny ...

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...