Thinking Theater NYC

Three Can Keep a Secret Written by Gregory Crafts Directed by Richard Piatt Presented by Theatre Unleashed and FRIGID New York at the wild project 195 E 3rd St., Manhattan, NYC April 15-19, 2025 Sonny (Ryan Dylan Wargnier) and Moose (Gregory Crafts). From 2024 Hollywood Fringe production. Photo by Matt Kamimura, Choice looms large in crime comedy Three Can Keep a Secret , from Los Angeles-based theater artist Gregory Crafts and one of 63 shows at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival , which runs through April 20th across four venues in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. With some "bad decisions" by one of the characters having set the plot in motion, not only must the rest of the characters reckon with a consequent series of choices and repercussions, but the audience too must decide at several points which path the show takes. For the characters, much of this decision-making reveals that they may not know those close to them as well as they thought, while for the audience, i...

The Coronation of Queen Jaguar Created and performed by Christine Stoddard and Aaron Gold Featuring Adriana Ascencio, Jada Bennett, Nate Brown, Jeffrey Copeland, Andie Fuentes, Dylan Manning, Rob Penty, and Michal Serpe A Quail Bell production presented by Theater for the New City , Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director, at Theater for the New City 155 First Ave., Manhattan, NYC September 6-14, 2024 Christine Stoddard and Aaron Gold Have you ever wanted to witness a coronation, but without standing in line for hours in the rain like our friends across the Atlantic have recently done? If so, then you're in luck: Christine Stoddard and Aaron Gold's deftly comedic The Coronation of Queen Jaguar positions audience members as titled guests at the eponymous investiture, using the ceremony as an umbrella under which to stage a series of improvisation-and-interaction-heavy segments that meld character-based satire and audience participation into a gratifyingly distinctive expe...

  Photo courtesy Killy Dwyer WHAT: Sour Grapes Prods Presents A Killer Killy Dwyer production of  Doggotainment  as part of the Down To Clown Online Theater Festival . Written by Killy Dwyer, directed by Bricken Sparicano, DP: Craig Schober WHEN:  May 29th 5pm EST 2pm PST and June 2nd at 8:30 EST 5:30 PST WHERE:  Show is LIVE on Zoom! Tickets: $15 Created and performed by bi-coastal “Mock$tar” musician & performance artist Killy Dwyer and directed by ward-winning performer and Assistant Director of Live Interpretation for the Wildlife Conservation Society Bricken Sparacino,  Doggotainment  makes those pet Zoom bombings that anyone who has been working from home is familiar with all part of the show.  Get a new leash on life and let Killy and Tucker The Wonderpupper be your pack leaders for a power hour of pupper related Doggotainment,  with songs like “I Wanna Smell Your Butt,” “Boop The Snoot,” and “Dog In A Basket,” along...

  Image courtesy of Nichole Mottershead Chaos Theory begins as a lecture about chaos theory that quickly devolves into a series of interactive games inspired by the science of chaos theory, reality dating shows, middle school crushes, and the butterfly effect to end all butterfly effects: COVID-19. The audience is guided by mathematical scientist, Dr. Genevieve Saoch, whose personal life hilariously interferes with her ability to be objective about her research as a Chaologist. Through a series of participatory experiments, audience members are invited to embrace their inner chaos agent. Chaos Theory  is a NY Times recommended comedy show and winner of the Immersion Nation Best Social Immersion Award 2019. After a robust run as a live show pre-COVID-19 at Caveat, Here Arts and others, the digital adaptation premiered May 1st, 2020, in partnership with Caveat, NYC and now comes from NYC to Curious for a special two-week digital run Feb. 25th through March 7. Writer and perfor...

Image courtesy Kampfire PR  Presenting original work from six award-winning playwrights--Ben Bonnema ( The Apple Boys ) , November Christine, Matt Schatz ( UNTITLED a New Musical Comedy about Serious Drama , The Burdens ), Jahn Sood ( The Disappearing Man , We Were an Island ), Elyne Quan, and Natalie Ann Valentine-- Artistic Stamp will produce a season of interactive experiences that take audience members on unique journeys via handwritten correspondence. The audience becomes a character in the story, reacting and replying to the letters received and playing a role in deciding the outcome. All of this takes place during a seven-letter narrative arc that plays out over the course of September to December. In a time when theatergoers can’t venture out, Artistic Stamp brings the plays home. “Almost overnight we experienced the disappearance of live theater; the art form to which we’ve devoted our entire professional lives,” said West Hyler ( Cirque Du Soleil Paramour , Big Apple Cir...

A Cocktail Party Social Experiment Created and Hosted by Wil Petre Assisted by Lane Halperin and Clinton Edward Sponsored by Barking Irons and presented at Chelsea Music Hall 407 W. 15th St., Manhattan, NYC Upcoming dates: February 17, March 16, and April 13, 2020 For notification of future dates, sign up here Photo by Karen May Down a flight of stairs below street level, under the red lights and a languorously rotating disco ball and amid the gentle clink of ice on glass within Chelsea Music Hall, individuals incongruously clad in white lab coats collect volunteers for an experiment. Eventually, those running the experiment gather its subjects and explain their hypothesis and methodology. Shortly after, they take their first cocktail order. A Cocktail Party Social Experiment , created and hosted by Wil Petre and co-hosted by Lane Halperin, aims to have a group of strangers get to know each other in a meaningful way (while the eight strangers who volunteer to particip...