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The Steel Man

59E59 TheatresTheater B$54 (incl. a $4 fee) | 59E59 Members: $40

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Inspired by a true story, The Steel Man follows Jake Gellert as he struggles to escape from the shadow of his larger-than-life father, Leo, a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor. While Leo remains consumed by the past and a desire to avenge the family he lost, Jake searches for a way to forge his own identity and…

Starstuff

59E59 TheatresTheater C$42 (incl. a $2 fee) | 59E59 Members: $30

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Through a series of spectacular falls, a young woman named Star plunges into a cosmic quest for self discovery. This highly visual, expressionist production freefalls from the top of a mountain to the depths of the DMV in a playful exploration of our shared humanity.

Kate, Allie and the '86 Mets

Asylum NYC$49

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Long Island, 1986. Grace and Dorothy, two recently divorced moms, each with two young kids, inspired by the HIT sitcom “Kate and Allie”, move in together as best friends to solve the many challenges of single motherhood. Throughout the following decades, they build a loving, strong partnership and family. Told…

A Tale of Two Titties

Brooklyn Art Haus

24 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211Maps ↗ to Brooklyn Art Haus

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It was the breast of times, it was the thirst of times...

Nerd Nite

Caveat$16 advance, $26 door, $21 premium

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Nerd Nite NYC likes big, well, all butts and we cannot lie. November’s Nerd Nite NYC is all about sitting, as we’ll feature three fun-yet-informative presentations about the history of deck chairs, the 2nd gaming console war and the chairs that got the gamers through it, and recent and breakable world records – one…

One Man Funeral

Caveat$25 advance, $35 door, $30 premium, $10 livestream

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TikTok and Instagram sensation Noah Castillero brings his solo sh- ahem.. funeral.. to “life”, in an absurdist performance that fuses sketch comedy and campy cabaret. Known for his celebrity impressions online, Noah now invites a live audience to experience the mayhem. The year is 2031, and Noah has tragically passed…

Arias with a Twist

HERE Arts Center

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Joey Arias and Basil Twist’s legendary musical extravaganza returns to its original home for a strictly limited engagement.

The Kick Inside

HERE Arts Center

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Alenka is struggling to communicate in a strange world much like ours, where language is diluted by algorithms, feelings, and animal impulses. Her cousin Frankie is coming to visit and won’t stop sending her reels. And her house is starting to voice its opinions out loud. In The Kick Inside, The Million Underscores_…

Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)

La MaMa Experimental Theatre ClubEllen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa

66 E 4th Street, New York, NY 10003Maps ↗ to La MaMa

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Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars) is an expression of the self-healing journey First Peoples take in reconciling the grief of loss from injustice crossing multiple lifetimes.

The Greatest Story Ever

La MaMa Experimental Theatre ClubThe Club at La MaMa

74 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003Maps ↗ to La MaMa — The Club & Community Arts Space

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A stolen spaceship. A taxi driver. A distant star. Paul Budraitis returns to La MaMa for an intimate, surprising performance where everyone in the room is part of the story.

All My R(el)ations

La MaMa Experimental Theatre ClubThe Downstairs at La MaMa

66 E 4th Street, New York, NY 10003Maps ↗ to La MaMa

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All My R(el)ations celebrates a return to community. Aanmitaagzi’s multi-disciplinary dance theatre project looks at who we are in the face of adversity.

Pageant Presents: Memorial for Uncle Bread by Matt Shalzi and Millie Kapp

PAGEANT

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Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive

Performance Space New York

150 First Ave, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10009Maps ↗ to Performance Space New York

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Transformed Woman Haudenosaunee artist Aiyyana Maracle wonders in her essay Performance Art and the Native artist: An rEvolutionary Mix?, “As intriguing as

Soon

St. Luke'sThe Loft at St. Luke's Theatre

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Soon A New Musical by Nick Blaemire Presented by Out of the Box Theatrics in association with Bella Vita Entertainment and Red Horse LLC What do you do with the time you have left? While twenty-something Charlie waits for the end of the world, Jonah waits for her to start living. But before time runs out, Charlie…

I Can Steal Your Mother

The BrickBrick Theater$25 – $50

579 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211Maps ↗ to The Brick Theater

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The Brick presents I Can Steal Your Mother written, performed, and illustrated by Max Wittert playing October 30-November 15, 2026 at The Brick Theater running time 65 minutes tickets $25-50 I Can Steal Your Mother is a fully-illustrated comedy hour from artist and comedian Max Wittert. Composed of over 1,200…

La Toma de Caronte

The ClementeTeatro LATEA$15

107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002Maps ↗ to Teatro LATEA

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Log-Line: While pursuing his family\'s captors, an ex-Navy Seal is forced to confront his own demons from the past through mystical visions, only to discover that the real threat is himself.

Basia Bulat

The Public TheaterJoe's PubTickets are $42 (inclusive of advance phone/web service fee; door price).

425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003Maps ↗ to Joe's Pub

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Public TheaterNewman TheaterTickets are $149*

425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003Maps ↗ to Newman Theater

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Following a highly acclaimed production in London’s West End, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON makes its North American premiere at The Public this fall.

The Verge

The Public TheaterLuEsther HallTickets are $99*

425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003Maps ↗ to LuEsther Hall

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This fall, Fiasco Theater and The Public partner to celebrate a hidden American classic: THE VERGE by Susan Glaspell, Pulitzer Prize winner and founder of the Provincetown Players.

We'll See

The Public TheaterBarbaralee TheaterTickets are $99*

425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003Maps ↗ to Barbaralee Theater

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The latest in Richard Nelson’s The Rhinebeck Panorama, his acclaimed 12-play series about three families in Rhinebeck, New York, WE’LL SEE follows the Apple family on midterm election day, November 3, 2026.

James Tom is...Emotionally Repressed!, curated by Murray Hill

The Public TheaterJoe's PubTickets are $30 (inclusive of advance phone/web service fee; door price).

425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003Maps ↗ to Joe's Pub

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James Tom performs as part of the Joe’s Pub Vanguard Residency curated by Murray Hill.

Green Fairy

The Red RoomRed Room

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Join us Thursday, November 5th, for absinthe and cabaret in NYC! With special guest, Queenseñera! We’ll taste Absinthe Nouvelle from Xth Ward Distilling! Dress code: Vintage attire, lingerie, cocktail attire, semi-formal or formal, evening-wear, antique swimwear, and unmentionables (No t-shirts, baseball caps, or…

Legerdemain

The Tank

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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.

Show Trial

The Tank

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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…

My Mobster

The Tank

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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…

SCAPE

The Tank

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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.…

ASTORIA

Theater for the New City

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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…

Boy Santos

Theater for the New City

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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…

How to Get to Heaven from the Crawfish Pond

Theater for the New City

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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.

The Flowers of Forest Hills

Theater for the New City

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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…

BOOK EVENT: WHAT A NIGHTMARE by Rebekah Faubion

Twisted Spine BooksThe Twisted Spine

306 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211Maps ↗ to Twisted Spine Books

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Filled with terrifying bumps in the night, queer longing, and Texas hospitality. What happens when the quiet one finally seeks revenge?

Feet in the Forest Leave No Mark

Under St Marks

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Three camping trips, three foreign countries of the self. At ten, Dipti arrives at Girl Scout camp with the wrong bunkmate. At sixteen, she fakes her way through a week in the Adirondacks. At twenty-seven, she squats behind a church in East Sussex…into a patch of stinging nettles. In each case, the wilderness has the…

The Paris Syndrome

Under St Marks

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After the pandemic, Brad and his wife decide to venture out into the world with a trip to Paris, This is a gift to themselves for the 13th wedding anniversary and (in Brad's mind) for how well they handled the global catastrophe of Covid 19. The only problem being that when Brad is forced to confront the actual…

Dirty Magazine's Lingerie Skate (skate all night)

Xanadu$22.50

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Dirty Magazine's Lingerie Skate (skate all night) Dirty Magazine’s legendary Lingerie Skate returns bigger and badder than ever! People of all genders and expressions are invited to strut their sexy stuff in a safe and supportive space curated by New York’s premiere radical smut mag, with dancers, live entertainment,…

Books & Bites with Caroline Choe, Jimin Han, Patricia Park, and Hyeseung Song

Yu and Me Books

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Join us for a panel with Caroline Choe, Jimin Han, Patricia Park, and Hyeseung Song for a cozy night discussing food motivation in their books, along with some shared autumn eats by Caroline Choe!