Thinking Theater NYC

Labyrinth Written by Julieta Timossi Adapted and translated by Isabel Criado and Martina Demaio Directed by Zoé Zifer Presented at The Newtown Stage at the Hellenic Cultural Center 25-02 Newtown Ave, Astoria, Queens, NYC March 20-22, 2026 Martina Demaio, Juan C. Ortiz, and Isabel Criado. Photo by Ramathillai Photography. The mythological Labyrinth has a clear monster stalking its passageways, but when it comes to the maze of human love and attraction, who is in the right and wrong becomes less cut and dried. The title of the play Labyrinth recently produced at The Newtown Stage refers to a night club in the play's New York City (perhaps the actual club Labyrinth in Manhattan), but it also functions as a metaphor for the romantic lives of its trio of characters and hints at the polyvocal structure of the narrative. Labyrinth is a new adaptation of Julieta Timossi’s Argentinian play, translated into English by Isabel Criado and Martina Demaio and featuring an all-immigrant Latinx ...

How To Eat an Orange Written by Catherine Filloux Based on the writing of Claudia Bernardi Directed by Elena Araoz Presented by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club at The Downstairs at La MaMa 66 E 4th St., Manhattan, NYC May 30-June 16, 2024 Paula Pizzi. Photo by Steven Pisano How To Eat an Orange , making its world premiere at La MaMa, does in fact include a real orange as a prop, and its multifarious symbolizations–evoking at different points cultural specificity, family history, matriarchal inheritance, and even a skull–are representative of the play's boundary-blurring, non-linear presentation of memory. The memories in question belong to visual artist, educator, and activist Claudia Bernardi , who lived through several years of her native Argentina's military junta, which held power from 1976 to 1983, before departing her country and eventually settling in the United States. How To Eat an Orange , from Catherine Filloux, a French Algerian American award-winning playwright,...

Under the direction of José Ignacio Vivero, the cast of Third Wing at a recent rehearsal. Photo by MVO After two years of virtual events (and three years in total away from live performance) due to the coronavirus pandemic, NYC-based Latino indie theater company LaMicro Theater returns to the in-person stage with a production of Third Wing (or The Story of an Absurd Attempt) , an award-winning play from renowned Argentine actor and playwright Claudio Tolcachir. Written originally in Spanish, under the title Tercer Cuerpo , the play was translated into English by Jean Graham-Jones, and it will be presented in English. The play takes place in a decrepit public office, a couple’s home, a bar, and a medical office. It’s about the lives of five people, all bounded by loneliness, estrangement, and the need for love. Five people who all want to fall in love; five people who are unable to cope. Meanwhile, they go on living, working, trying. In spite of everything, every day, they want to ...

  RIIIchard Written by Norman Briski Filmmaking by Frank Fantini; stage lighting by Miguel Ángel Valderrama Presented by Teatro Latea via live streaming December 17-19, 2020 In the popular imagination, Richard III has become synonymous with villainy, a hunchbacked, scheming child murderer. The Richard of Argentine actor, director, and playwright Norman Briski, however, is not the monster of Sir Thomas More and later, and most influentially, William Shakespeare. Briski's stripped-down short play RIIIchard offers a Richard who diverges from these traditional portrayals and whose ambition is not merely self-directed. Richard (Bruno Giraldi), holding a drink, begins the play with some of the familiar lines about the winter and discontent but quickly departs from his Bardic forbear, holding forth in a liberal admixture of Spanish and English dialogue that continues throughout the performance. Eventually, the camera pulls out to frame Richard between two women (Josefina Lausirica and V...