Thinking Theater NYC

Foosball , by playwright Sean Czarnecki and directed by Claire Siebers, will play at Arts On Site (12 St Marks Pl New York, NY 10003) from July 16 through August 1. Previews begin July 16 for a July 18th opening, and tickets ($30) are available for purchase here . Caught between small-town Michigan drama and an abusive father, JJ Janson has to navigate an impossible love triangle on his 16th birthday. Foosball begs the question: Can we overcome our trauma or do we learn to live with our wounds? The cast includes Will Ehren, Alice Jokela, Gideon Klapow, Anthony ‘Ant’ LoGrande, Forrest Malloy, Mia Vallet. Playwright Sean Czarnecki is based in New York. As a journalist, he covers leveraged finance. Foosball , his debut play, was a quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition 2024, advanced to the second round of the 2025 Austin Film Festival in the Stage Play category, and won the Scriptwriters & Co International Festival 2025’s best full-length play award. Foosball ...

cityscrape Written by Sophie McIntosh Directed by Nina Goodheart Presented by Good Apples Collective and Gillian Fu at Arts on Site 12 St. Marks Place, Studio 3R, Manhattan, NYC (masks required) May 18-28, 2023 Mia Fowler and Simone Policano. Photo courtesy of Good Apples Collective After last summer's widely praised macbitches (you can read our review here ) delved into the female-friend-group machinations surrounding a university production of Macbeth , playwright Sophie McIntosh returns to themes around the perils, power, and pleasures of women's friendship among the under-30 creative class with her new play, cityscrape . cityscrape marks the engrossing debut production from McIntosh and director Nina Goodheart's Good Apples Collective, which aims to " empower emerging [queer and gender-marginalized] artists to … revolt against oppressive hierarchies ." In part, cityscrape itself dramatizes the difficulties of scraping by as an emerging artist, at the same t...

She Remembers her Amnesia Written and performed by Janis Brenner Presented at Arts on Site 12 St. Mark's Place, Manhattan, NYC November 9-10, 2022 Janis Brenner. Photo by Julie Lemberger. Lighting by Mitchell Bogard. Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Membrane” accosts the audience in the opening number of Janis Brenner’s solo show She Remembers her Amnesia , and we know we are in for a ride. Sashaying playfully around the stage, Brenner strums a cardboard guitar with avid skill and sings about the time that, as a member of a panel of artists in 2017, she experienced prolonged amnesia, even as she continued speaking with others. As she describes how she began to wake up from her disorientation, she breaks playfully into a Talking Heads voice: “How did I get here!?” Indeed, how did she get here? The immediate aftermath of this dramatic episode of extended memory loss in 2017 saw Brenner wading through her own whirling existential questions as well as inscrutable medical-speak offered by ...