Thinking Theater NYC

Photo by Ellie Gravitte. Following a celebrated, sold-out run at the Pier 40 Picnic House in 2025, Stairwell Theater’s The Comedy of Errors returns to New York City by popular demand. Transferring this summer to the Battery Park Showbox Stage, Stairwell's production will run September 17-27, bringing its crowd-pleasing story of twins, mistaken identities, and miraculous reunions featuring a 4-part jazz band and an ensemble cast of 15 performers. Stairwell Theater has been awarded a 2026 Manhattan Arts Grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) in support of the remount. The grant will fund hundreds of FREE tickets for New York audiences. Directed by Sam Gibbs, Founding Artistic Director of Stairwell Theater, the production continues the company's decade-long commitment to creating immersive classical theater in surprising spaces. "One of the greatest joys of site-specific theater is letting the story feed the setting and the setting feed the story," says ...

Far Away Written by Caryl Churchill Directed by Sam Gibbs Presented by Stairwell Theater at Box of Moonlight 17 Saratoga Ave, Brooklyn, NYC November 6-23, 2025 L to R: Joel Watson, Avalina Ortiz, Maude Mitchell, Rebecca Tyree Gibbs. Photo by Ellie Gravitte. Caryl Churchill's 2000 play Far Away , which marries the haunting and the absurd in evoking the conflict-riven reality that its characters inhabit, has previously received perhaps only one in-person professional production in New York City, receiving its American premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2002. Now, Stairwell Theater has brought Far Away to Brooklyn's Box of Moonlight, a converted warehouse space in Bushwick, giving audiences a chance to see a rarely staged work from an inimitable playwright in an immersive, site-specific staging. Making superb use of this immersiveness, Stairwell's marvelous production delivers a memorable experience of a play that has lost none of its power and prescience over the ...