Thinking Theater NYC

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 ...

  Celine Dirkes as Jane Gibson. Photo by Jordan Cohen Thinkery & Verse ’s  Thou Shalt Not,  a site-specific play about the Hall-Mills double homicide, will begin a return engagement on September 14th, recognizing the 100th anniversary of the crime. Thou Shalt Not , written by J. M. Meyer, Karen Alvarado, and Tommi Byrne, and directed by Karen Alvarado and J. M. Meyer, will play a limited engagement in the Assembly Hall at the Church of Saint John the Evangelist (189 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901), the church most closely associated with the crime 100 years ago, as the home of the religious community that enabled and then covered up the homicides. Performances will continue through Saturday, October 8, and tickets are already selling out quickly.  For those not versed in early 20th-century true crime, what is the Hall-Mills double homicide? In 1922, near the banks of the Raritan River, a small-city priest and a choir singer were slaughtered in the mo...

  The newly-minted Spokehouse Productions has announced announce its premiere production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet  (co-produced by Marissa Ferrara and Joey Nasta), opening in early November at the Upper East Side’s House of the Redeemer. Hamlet  is helmed by director Amanda Whiteley, Spokehouse’s founder and Artistic Director, who marks her return to the House of the Redeemer after staging Romeo and Juliet  in its courtyard this past summer. Spokehouse Productions is a new theater company, associated with the House of the Redeemer, that is dedicated to site-specific theatre that reimagines and revitalizes new and classic works. Spokehouse reimagines Hamlet as a two-hour, site-specific piece presented in the library of the House of the Redeemer and featuring a gender-inclusive cast. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, this production's Hamlet grapples with purpose, appearances, and secrecy as he contemplates his duty as a son and heir. Performances run Nove...

Stewart Walker, Sue Kim, and Cassandra Nwokah - Photo by Jeremy Varne. What: The Catastrophe Club , a site-specific world-premiere production set 500 years into the future Where: An undisclosed location in the East Village When: October 18 – November 22 Sea Dog Theater follows up its award-winning 2018 season with the World Premiere of Devin Burnam’s site-specific play The Catastrophe Club . The recently opened production runs October 18 – November 22 and is directed by longtime Sea Dog collaborator Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy. The company’s 2018 season received seven New York Innovative Theater Awards (NYIT) Nominations and received the NYIT Award for Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director for their production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea , by John Patrick Shanley. In The Catastrophe Club, "The world as we know it has ended. Public gatherings in the future are illegal because of the risk of diseases (or so they say). 500 years in the future, after the floods...