Thinking Theater NYC

Connoly Written by Stefan Diethelm Directed by Delaney “Lanes” May Presented by Theater for the New City , Executive Director, Crystal Field 155 1st Ave, Manhattan, NYC November 6–23, 2025 Nikki Neuberger and Abby Messina. Photo by Frank Rodriguez. Set in an inpatient mental health facility, Connoly tells the story of a teenage girl recovering, or struggling to recover, from a suicide attempt. The world around her is small but charged. Dingo, her older sister, arrives with love that keeps slipping into worry. Natalya, the nurse who manages the ward with firm precision and quiet warmth, becomes an unlikely anchor. And Georgie, a companion who hovers between memory, invention, and apparition, shadows every step Connoly takes. Their collective presence forms a shifting constellation through which Connoly must learn how to move again, one uncertain, halting half choice at a time. Together they build a livable routine, then watch it buckle under the weight of panic, longing, and the imposs...

HAVEN Boxing and local dance company Danse Theatre Surreality will present October performances of Shadowboxing in Blue  on Saturday, October 4, 11, 18, and 25th, 2025 at HAVEN Boxing (65 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206). The performance on the 18th will be a Spanish-English bilingual show. Tickets are $10 and are available at https://bit.ly/shadowboxing_october . Lauren Hlubny and Kyra Hauck, Artistic Directors of Danse Theatre Surreality (DTS), active in NYC and Paris, invite audiences to experience the world premiere of Shadowboxing in Blue . This innovative, multidimensional work, conceived and directed by Hlubny, takes place in a boxing gym and merges dance, theater, poetry, and live music with the intensity of combat training to examine the inner struggles we all face, including confronting deep depression and what it takes to keep going and exploring resilience, identity, and emotional growth. Paired with a boxing therapy workshop, Shadowboxing is more than ...

#SoSadSoSexy Written and created by Emily Cordes, Alison Leaf, and Kendra Augustin With additional contributions by Simha Toledano and Jes Davis Directed by Simha Toledano Presented by  Tapestry Collective in Association with The Tank at The Tank 312 W 36th St., Manhattan, NYC and via livestream March 24 and 26, 2022 Front: Lucy Prescott (Uma Paranjpe) is treated by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot (Charles Kennedy IV). Photo by Ezra Goh. The title of #SoSadSoSexy , a new devised play staged by Tapestry Collective, points to a process of voyeuristic objectification: in a patriarchal culture such as ours, women's suffering, especially in connection with mental health, is aestheticized as tragically beautiful, but a woman's meeting the dominant standards of beauty is a precondition both for that sense of tragedy and for its commodification. That commodification allows our heteropatriarchal culture to distance itself from culpability by consuming in a repackaged form the very suffering t...