Thinking Theater NYC

I Am Nobody Music and libretto by Greg Kotis Directed by Avery Rose Pedell Music direction and vocal arrangements by Stephen Anthony Elkins Presented by Theater of the Apes and Monday Night Musicals at The Magnet at The Magnet 254 W 29th St, Manhattan, NYC April 6-May 11, 2026 L to R: Ayun Halliday, Madeline Glave, Piatt Pund (rear), Emilio Cuesta, Greg Kotis. Photo credit: @sambrinkleypics Who among us hasn't felt at least some ambivalence about the amount of time that we spend with various screens, not to mention how those screens are shaping the world? As waitress and unsigned musician Naomi ( Madeline Glave ) says at the beginning of I Am Nobody , a comic play with music from Greg Kotis, "It's been a hard couple of years," and the world is "in a weird place." If this sentiment was true when the Covid-19 pandemic prematurely ended the original run of Kotis's guitar-driven musical in March 2020, it is arguably even more true now. With the world in at...

Officer Scott , the cult favorite comedy with music, returns to Brooklyn Art Haus for a string of shows confirmed for spring. Created and performed by Sloan Brettholtz and co-written and directed by Bailey Nassetta, the outrageous solo show blends absurd humor, audience participation, and raw vulnerability into a wildly original theatrical experience. Officer Scott follows a deeply committed NYPD officer who is offered the one thing he has always wanted: a sanctioned partner. The catch is that he must successfully deliver a D.A.R.E presentation to an auditorium full of fourth graders. When the presentation spirals out of control and Scott falls for a substitute teacher, his faith in the system begins to fracture. Rejected by his precinct and abandoned by the institution he devoted his life to, Scott is forced to confront who he is beyond the badge. Guided by a giant butterfly conjured from his rage, Scott embarks on a surreal, drug induced Christmas Carol- style journey where Jesus, h...

The Greatest Hits Down Route 66 Written by Michael Aguirre Musical arrangements by Grace Yukich and Jennifer C. Dauphinais Directed by Sarah Norris Presented by New Light Theater Project in association with Calliope Stage and NewYorkRep at 59E59 Theaters 59 E 59th St., Manhattan, NYC January 13-February 18, 2024 L to R front: Erika Rolfsrud, Kristoffer Cusick, Joél Acosta. L to R rear: Kleo Mitrokostas, Martin Ortiz, Andy Evan Cohen. Photo by Hunter Canning Late in The Greatest Hits Down Route 66 , a new play with music from playwright Michael Aguirre, one of the characters brings up the philosophical truism that a person can never step in the same river twice, an observation that applies not only to individual and collective histories but also to performing a song. Just as with live theater, each live performance of a song constitutes a discrete, transitory text (and historical moment); and in the case of folk music, the genre from which the play's titular hits are drawn, it is...