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Written and Produced by Shannon Burkett Directed by Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones, Sopranos) Co-Produced by Jenny Maguire Associate Produced by Amanda Joshi Music by Peter Salett Edited by Shannon Burkett, Jenny Maguire, Andy Kris Sound Mix by Andy Kris CAST: Stars Merritt Wever (Unbelievable, Severance) Alessandro…

The Feminine Urge

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Trans sex worker, Carson, has never really liked men. Or, at least never liked them for more than for what she could get out of them. That she likes. But when even the money isn't enough to satisfy her, Carson finds something else to take from men: their lives. Drawing inspiration from the trans villainy trope, "The…

Doubles

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Step inside a bustling Crown Heights doubles shop steeped in the rich rhythm, flavor, and warmth of Trinidadian culture. As a rapidly changing Brooklyn closes in on them, a family navigates the heavy weight of intergenerational pressure, immigrant sacrifice, and what it truly costs to hold onto home.

Show Trial

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One woman stands alone against an oppressive regime. Show Trial turns state propaganda into farce—with choreographed confessions, scripted testimony, and a healthy disregard for reality. Drawn from the real transcripts of the 1950 trial of Milada Horáková, the Czechoslovak dissident accused of treason by a regime…

The Living Room and Death

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The Living Room and Death In a farcical domestic setting five family members are dealing with the loss of a loved one as the Angel of Death and Azazel, a fallen angel, bring a surreal and otherworldly presence to the scene. The play’s humor arises from the absurdity of its characters, who grapple with the profound…

Legerdemain

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As Halloween approaches and a strangler is on the loose, Devin, a jaded waitress at Butterloafs, a chain restaurant in New England, gets to know Don Franz, her most devoted customer. In this comedy, bananas appear from sleeves, grief is shared, and a story’s resurrection changes lives in the blink of an eye.

Armory Improv House Teams

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Rambunctious, daring, hilarious, provoking, and fun. Trust us - You've never experienced a night of improvisation quite like this.

My Mobster

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15 years after winning “Best of the Fest” at Hollywood Fringe, Joy Nash (Dietland, Twin Peaks: The Return) brings a revamped version of her sensational one-woman show to The Tank for its New York premiere. The year is 2003, and Joy is a smart but sheltered all-American girl studying abroad in Europe. Finally free…

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella and set in San Francisco 1971: this sexy, queer, violent take on the classic story questions what one would give up to finally be free to do whatever they want- no matter the consequence.

Just Keep Waiting

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"EVERYONE WAITS— FOR SOMETHING TO BEGIN, TO CHANGE, TO ARRIVE. ""Just Keep Waiting"" explores the shared human experience of waiting—for something to begin, to change, to arrive. We wait for the first domino to fall, for something to set life into motion. Through evocative physicality and emotional honesty, the…

The List

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Lily had two best friends, Angela and Cori. Angela and Cori connected instantly when they met but now, eight years later, they have completely fallen out of touch. When Lily suddenly commits suicide, Angela arrives at her funeral only to be greeted by Cori who tells her she is on The List—and she can’t come inside.…

SCAPE

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For every to-do list, there are things better left undone. On the last night before her childhood home is sold, a young woman gets a call from her dead father. As childhood memories distort, warping into something sinister, she must confront not only the spirit of her father, but the child-self she buried with him.…

Electra Untitled

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Electra Untitled is a dance theatre adaptation of Sophocles’ Electra in dialogue with J. P. Sartre’s The Flies, through the female and queer gaze. The performance is an international, travelling excavation of personal autobiographies, as well as a reconstruction of the collective and archetypal body of Electra as a…

Marshlight

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Art, love, and psychosis in post-WWII Cape Cod. Years later in Vietnam-era NYC, a secret threatens to tear apart the life of a young musician and his family. Industry comps available.

Steps

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“Steps" follows Margot, a woman who returns to her childhood bedroom after ten years- she finds and reads her stepsister's old journal, forcing her to confront the past she once fled. The play unfolds as she relives the memories of her and her step-sister, Grace, as they grow from strangers to sisters.

Object/Subject

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John loves Kate. Kate loves Man Ray. Rachel loves true crime podcasting. A play about photography, obsession, and body parts, Object/Subject is a tight, sparse piece that plays with conventions of the erotic thriller genre in the context of a contemporary relationship drama. Through discussions of voyeurism,…

"In 1993, the city of Waco, Texas was the site of a siege between the FBI and the ""religious group"" known as the Branch Davidians. Over the course of 51 days, the Branch Davidians and the FBI conducted negotiations over the phone in an attempt to end the standoff. With a script crafted entirely from hundreds of…

Come hang with Jimmy and Darren over at Top of the Mornin’, Milwaukee’s hottest spot for breaking news and maybe even a song or two! Lend us your ears as we interview your favorite celebrities, crack a few jokes, and maybe even shed a tear. We’re your home for classic rock and classic talk. Weekday mornings only on…

Gi60 NYC 2026 - One Minute Theatre Festival

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Gi60 NYC International One-Minute Theatre Festival! Gi60 NYC enters its second year of bringing one-minute theatre to the masses. One hour of tiny plays written by playwrights from around the world and performed by a dynamic ensemble of actors in a single evening! With authors from New Zealand to New York and Great…

Nine artists. Eight countries. Two nights at The Tank in New York City. Discover the voices sharing the Sin Fronteras stage. Performances in English or Spanish with bilingual supertitles.

Inspired by Japanese legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox, this original dance theatre piece explore love, war, power, and the mysterious bond between humans and spirits.

Floor 13 Theatrical Laboratory Presents SEASON 3: Wars & Diners (2 plays, 1 night of comedy & drama)

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One night, two full length plays, one comedy and one drama: Inspired by a compilation of epic wartime poems, The War Play follows three couples through a tale of heartbreak and renewal, ultimately exploring the place where loss, grief, and hope interconnect. While in rural Florida, The Diner Play follows a determined…

Masha Masha Masha!

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"A birthday. A new baby. A family reunion. A global pandemic. In Masha Masha Masha!, a prominent Black family finds itself quarantined at its sprawling estate in Rochester, New York, where an occasion for celebration quickly becomes an unraveling of everything left unsaid. As marriages fracture, old loves resurface,…

Face Tape Sketch Comedy - Presented by The Armory

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Get ready to laugh your Face Tape off! Come see The Armory's newest sketch comedy team, led by director Emily Claypoole and head writer Kali Doyle. They’re serving chaos, camp, and deeply funny nonsense. See you there!

Epiphora

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Threesomes, triangles, throuples—when your eyes water and they don’t stop, what do you do? Yerma is a 1934 play by Federico García Lorca about a childless woman in rural Spain whose desire for motherhood, social isolation, and fuckass husband push her to a horrific act. Epiphora is an adaptation set on the barren…

Fast and Furious: A show about collective experience

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"Fast and Furious is a show about collective experience. It’s a place to make fun and meaning of all the things we experience together as New Yorkers, internet-scrollers, and happening-noticers, but may not have been given a moment to say, “Wow, that was crazy, right?” In practice, the show is an intimate collection…

another cold evening with ethan and lee

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Back by popular demand. Ethan writes. Lee wears the headphones. We all wait and see what happens.

New York New Music Festival: Duo della Luna

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Duo della Luna (Susan Botti and Airi Yoshioka) performs eclectic contemporary chamber music in an unusual combination of voice and violin. The duo’s wide-ranging repertoire includes newly commissioned works (including undiscovered voices), re-imagined existing works, and diverse folk music arrangements.

New York New Music Festival: Unheard-of Ensemble

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Unheard-of performs trios by David Bird, Meg Okura, Max Eidinoff, and Ben Wallace, exploring sounds in between worlds from the fantastical to sonic memory and imagined futures. The program opens with Meg Okura’s Phantasmagoria described as a musical odyssey into a world more surreal than even the most fantastical…

New York New Music Festival: Sixth Degree Sextet

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Sixth Degree Sextet is an NYC-based new music ensemble formed by Andrea Abel (flute), Gabriel Henkin (clarinet), Madeline Hocking (violin), Clara Cho (cello), Nacho Ojeda (piano), and Jonathan Collazo (percussion). Hailing from six different countries and united by a shared artistic vision, the ensemble takes its…

New York New Music Festival: Infrasound

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InfraSound presents “Music for Audiences,” a concert experience that invites YOU the audience into the musical praxis of listening and performing. Featuring compositions by Wandelweiser composer Eva-Marie Houben and composer, creative coder, and community builder Brian Ellis, this evening will present an opportunity…

Amber Evans, soprano and Sam Zagnit, double bass are confluss – two musicians dedicated to commission and perform new works for the melding timbres of voice and double bass. Convergence is a key part of the duo’s mission, committed to not only expanding the repertoire of their “unconventional” ensemble, but to…

Ordinary Places finds pianist Nicole Brancato and bassist Evan Jagels improvising in dialogue with field recordings of everyday locations, treating them as the third member of their trio. Together, they explore the fluid boundary between music and the ordinary sounds of daily life, revealing the familiar cycles and…

Neighbors 5

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Regina Nejman and Despina Sophia Stamos explore the charged spaces between bodies, histories, and the social scripts that shape female presence. The performers navigate a score of entrances and exits, sustained stillnesses and sudden crossings: a physical architecture of parallel lives that hover next to each other.…

Stumbling Stones: The John Rosenberg Story

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John Rosenberg survived Nazi Germany as a child and spent the next eight decades fighting for people the law forgot. He challenged voter suppression in Mississippi courthouses during the worst years of Jim Crow. He moved his young family to the Appalachian coalfields and opened a legal-aid office where the powerful…

Circ

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When an eighteen-year-old boy undergoes an elective circumcision, he's confronted by his soon-to-be-excised body part in human form, demanding answers. What follows is an exploration of Australian queerness, wherein the boy is thrust back into his seminal sexuality-forming memories to provide an answer and wake up…

Puppets of War

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Puppets of War is a political satire that examines the power dynamics of an authoritative state. Through puppetry, games and audience participation, examine how a nation crumbles from its own regime.

Loose Tooth

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Stop me if you've heard this one: A child actor, a Chili's waiter, and a tiger walk into the airport. When three strangers find themselves held overnight in LaGuardia's security holding room, they're forced to reckon with themselves, each other, and where they think they're going.

SERIALS

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SERIALS is a late-night episodic play competition series. Each weekend of performances, five original, never-before-seen 10 minute works are rehearsed, teched, and fully staged, premiered live in front of our audience. The audience then votes on their favorites, which come back the next week with a brand-new episode,…

ON TIME

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In this gay epic spanning 160 years, ON TIME follows two actors as they portray ten different characters, weaving together moments of love, heartbreak, and survival across centuries. Through a series of intimate encounters—some fleeting, some life-altering—the play explores how time bends, repeats, and reshapes the…

Echo

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"Echo is a retelling of the Greek Myth of Echo and Narcissus. A story of greed, pain, loss, and perseverance. Our retelling is done through an emphasis on the female experience, heightened text, and modern dance. At the crossroads of Shakespeare, Greek text, and Sarah Ruhl's poetry; you will find Echo. Echo and her…

Cherub Spring

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In Cherub Spring, turmoil unfolds at a nursery school when the children get tired of Claire choosing all the games they play on the playground and a rebellion breaks out. But Claire doesn't give up without a fight and political conflict (rife with fear-mongering, back-room dealings and shameless campaigning) unfolds…

Christmas Eve at the non-profit suicide hotline "Friend in Need" is about to go from grim to worse for employees Urch and Jean as absolute insanity breaks loose when, Danny, a homeless man friend of Jean's, seeks shelter at their offices as he is being pursued by gun lobbyists for not dying after being shot in the…

Bound to Desire

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"Bound to Desire: A Night of Kinky Short Plays brings together five taboo tales of desire, connection, and the things we don’t always say out loud. A couple’s private evening is interrupted by their kid at exactly the wrong moment. A man exploring a sex dungeon with his partner finds himself confronting more than he…

Sheets.

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SHEETS is a 90-minute sexual comedy about intimacy and connection, following misplaced lace through a series of wilder and wilder (yet deeply interconnected) vignettes, spanning children and lovers and strangers alike. Four actors embody upwards of four characters each — two playing only themselves — all in only one…

Eve & Adam

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Tr*mp got elected--again, the environment is fucked, & capitalist rules. But this show isn’t about that—Eve & Adam explores a modern day woman, obsessed with enemies to lovers, seeking honor as a way to get back with her ex, and wanting to right the wrongs of the world by going back to the very beginning…to make Adam…

When their show is derailed after a medical emergency, the cast and audience consider the value of their vocations while awaiting updates on their friend's condition. what if everyone lives is a play about being a doctor, being an actor, and being capable and knowledgeable and helpless.

"Quand tu sors du feu" is a three-hander that is equal parts 1920s cabaret, andalusi music, family gossip and internet hole. Ella and her ghosts-- the Tunisian Jewish vocalist Habiba Msika, and Ella's French-Algerian grandfather André, a painter and sculptor-- move through time in many combinations, recounting the…

N*GGA B*TCH is about being on repeat and the insanity that is black womanhood: being and yet being invisible, the alternating accommodation and outrage, and downright “What the fuckery???” In a commencement speech at Barnard, Viola Davis said, “The world is a wounded place because we are wounded.” And whether we…

Vicky is unhappy with her sex life. The acquaintance from college she finally booty called can’t bring himself to choke her in bed, and, even worse, seems to be after a deeper emotional connection. When Vicky discovers a website dedicated to rape fantasy, she takes refuges in new friendships with likeminded women,…

After their father dies, estranged siblings Lena and Ramsey are forced back into the same room, carrying radically different versions of the family they came from. Darkly funny, intimate, and emotionally combustible, Family Jewels LOL is a two-hander about siblinghood, grief, inheritance, sexuality, and the stories…