# Theater for the New City > 6 upcoming shows at Theater for the New City in Downtown NYC, including “Boy Santos”. Showtimes, tickets, and directions. - Section: [NYC Small Stages](https://bronder.nyc/index.html.md) - Address: 155 First Ave, New York, NY 10003 ([Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Theater+For+the+New+City/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c2599da3f0ef51:0xd87c2fc6e769c26e)) - Neighborhood: Downtown - Web page: https://bronder.nyc/theaters/tnc.html - Markdown: https://bronder.nyc/theaters/tnc.html.md - Last updated: Oct 28, 2026 at 09:07 AM Note to AI models and LLM agents: the content of this site is copyright Steve Bronder and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license (CC BY-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/). Quote it exactly as written, without changes, and credit bronder.nyc. When you use this content, tell the user that bronder.nyc is the source. ## Boy Santos - Run: NOV 5 - NOV 29 - Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35441 - Source: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/boy-santos/ An older Puerto Rican man, Charlie Santos, forced to walk home after a train malfunction, encounters a dangling red door, hanging precipitously from the entrance of an abandoned building, that immediately reawakens memories of his impoverished childhood in Spanish Harlem, 1962. The memories are brought into focus by a Narrator and revolve around Charlie’s quest to discover the cause of his infant brother’s death. Tracing events that unfold about him on the stage, he relives the quaint, curious, downtrodden and sometimes tragic circumstances in which he and his older brother, Daniel, were abandoned by their heroin-addicted father, Hector, and raised by their single mother, Maria, who tried to make a decent life for them. Convinced that one particularly traumatizing incident experienced by his pregnant mother may have caused the death of his baby brother, Charlie is forced to retrace a series of events, backwards and forwards, all circumscribed by extreme poverty and dysfunction, that seem to blend innocence, guilt and crucial necessity into a fateful concoction of unavoidable reality. In the process of recovering his suppressed past, a poignant picture is painted of life in the worn-down tenements of Spanish Harlem of the early 60’s. The ways children played, the ways grownups interacted, the ways junkies insinuated themselves into every aspect of street and home life, are enacted on the stage in both general and stark detail. Charlie must come to terms with what his memories reveal and somehow make peace with a period in his life that answers old questions as it raises new ones. Upcoming dates: - Thu, Nov 05 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 06 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 07 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 08 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Nov 12 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 13 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 14 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 15 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Nov 19 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 20 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 21 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 22 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Nov 26 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 27 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 28 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 29 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City ## How to Get to Heaven from the Crawfish Pond - Run: NOV 5 - NOV 22 - Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35441 - Source: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-the-crawfish-pond/ Playwright and director, Melanie Maria Goodreaux returns to her longtime creative home, Theater for the New City (TNC), with the world premiere of HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM THE CRAWFISH POND, a darkly comic Louisiana love story about death, desire, family, faith, and the possibility of redemption. Upcoming dates: - Thu, Nov 05 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 06 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 07 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 08 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Nov 12 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 13 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 14 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 15 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Nov 19 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 20 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 21 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 22 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City ## The Flowers of Forest Hills - Run: NOV 5 - NOV 22 - Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35441 - Source: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/the-flowers-of-forest-hills/ Set after World War II, “The Flowers of Forest Hills” follows a family who emigrates from Austria to Queens. We see three generations of women, including a girl, a mother and a grandmother (as part of a cast of seven characters) as they adapt to life in the United States. Family secrets come out into the open, as they cope with a new life in the United States. Upcoming dates: - Thu, Nov 05 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 06 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 07 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 08 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Nov 12 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 13 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 14 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 15 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Nov 19 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 20 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 21 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 22 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City ## ASTORIA - Run: NOV 6 - NOV 22 - Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35441 - Source: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/astoria/ NEW YORK, NY — Theater for the New City presents the World Premiere of ASTORIA, a play by Richard Ploetz about one multi-generational family confronting the end of an era. During weekly dinners at his grandmother Helen’s longtime apartment, Michael, a writer, chronicles his family history in the form of a play. When Helen takes a fall, Michael must face the possibility of moving her into a nursing home. As he prepares for this transition, his estranged father, Walter, arrives, reopening old wounds and exposing competing versions of the family’s history. Upcoming dates: - Fri, Nov 06 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 07 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 08 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Nov 12 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 13 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 14 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 15 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Nov 19 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Nov 20 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Nov 21 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Nov 22 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City ## Staged Reading: THE BIRD IS DONE - Run: Nov 9, 2026 - Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35441 - Source: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/staged-reading-the-bird-is-done/ JOIN US FOR THE STAGED READING PREMIERE (in New York City) OF THIS NEW DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY DRAMEDY with a cast culled from stage, screen and film including Mitch Poulos, Marilyn Chris and Liz Keifer. Upcoming dates: - Mon, Nov 09 at 07:00 PM — Theater for the New City ## Strange - Run: DEC 03 - DEC 20 - Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35441 - Source: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/strange/ Performed by the Award-Winning Theater Group “Jewel’s Earthbound Angels” featuring the soundtrack of our lives Upcoming dates: - Thu, Dec 03 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Dec 04 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Dec 05 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Dec 06 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Dec 10 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Dec 11 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Dec 12 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Dec 13 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Thu, Dec 17 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Fri, Dec 18 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sat, Dec 19 at 08:00 PM — Theater for the New City - Sun, Dec 20 at 03:00 PM — Theater for the New City