Theater for the New City
Past Events
Theater for the New City has hosted many events in the past. There are 96 listings stored in the HistoryGuide database for this property.
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| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Crossing Paths in Washington Square. Washington Square Park was where the disparate Village residents and visitors converged, sharing the greenery and fountain, espe… (Performance - Theater) 212-254-1109. |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Timmy the Great. Timmy the Great is a new madcap musical based on the children's book King Timmy the Great by Sandra Hochman and Tad Danielak. B… (Kids Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Welcome Home Sonny T. In a neighborhood torn by gun violence between black and Mexican youth, a prominent black minister, haunted by the ghosts of his… (Performance - Theater) 212-254-1109. |
| Every Sun Every Wed Every Thu More... | Sotto Voce. A dream play in which a passionate, Jewish-Cuban young man (Saquiel) sets out to recover memories of the S.S. St. Louis which, i… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Versailles. "Versailles" by Richard Ploetz is a dark and winding tale of a 28-year old single mother and "party girl" fighting against despe… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Daylight Precision. Daylight Precision by Douglas Lackey takes us back to World War II and into the great moral controversies involving strategic bo… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | 155 Thru the Roof. The play follows the epic adventures of Lily Field, director of Theater for the New Syzygy, as she moves through the Fourth Dime… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Charlotte's Song. "Charlotte's Song" by Nancy Ferragallo is a performance-based experimental work that explores a daughter's reality of growing up… (Performance) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | The Story of Yu-Huan. A bilingual drama in two acts, written and directed by Joanna Chan, with dance on the celebrated beauty whose hanging death mark… (Performance - Theater) 516- 5150630. |
| Every Sun Every Fri Every Sat | "L'Amfiparnaso" by Orazio Vecchi. The piece is a madrigal comedy from 1594 that sets a commedia dell' arte scenario in the late 16th-century madrigal style. It mi… (Arts - Concert - Classical / Symphony) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "Extreme Whether". "Extreme Whether," a new "eco-drama" written and directed by Karen Malpede, centers on an embattled American climate scientist l… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Six Passionate Women. Nino, an Italian film maker with a strong resemblance to Federico Fellini, is in an artistic crisis. Every new work is, for him… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "My Wife in a Chador". Claudio Angelini has written a seriocomedy, "My Wife in a Chador," in which a Pulitzer Prize nominated author resembling Norman… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "The Winter of April". A Police Thriller partly inspired by the Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island in 2010, compares the fate of murdered sex workers w… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "Two by Tavel". As a tribute to the memory of director Harvey Tavel, Theater for the New City will present "Two by Tavel," a double-header of "K… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Tue Every Wed More... | "A Hard Rain". Set in 1969 Greenwich Village in the sweltering few days before the Stonewall riots. A drag queen and former soldier named Ruby,… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "Body of Words". "Body of Words" by Vincent Sessa is set in a rented bungalow on a deserted stretch of beach on a summer night into morning. Two… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "Rosario and the Gypsies" by Eduardo Machado. The distinguished Cuban-American playwright Eduardo Machado has created a touchstone piece by taking a one-act play with music,… (Performance - Musical) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri More... | "The Magic Garden, or, The Princess Who Grew Antlers,". An ensemble creation that is cheerfully concocted from Czech fairy tales in which antlers appear. Featuring four performers, mar… (Kids Theater) 212-254-1109. |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "When Black Boys Die" written by William Electric Black. A new drama about a teenage girl's journey as she tries to understand the madness of gun violence that has killed her brother an… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | OId Flame. "Old Flame," a new play by Richard Ploetz, weighs the force of an old romance against the strength of a 50-year marriage, examin… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Casterbridge. Based on Thomas Hardy's classic Victorian novel, "The Mayor of Casterbridge." Ne'er-do-well Michael Henchard, when drunk, organi… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Maximum Security. This is the U.S. premiere of a new play by Piedad Bonnett, the internationally acclaimed Colombian poet, essayist, novelist and… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "Wives" and "The Academy" by Mario Fratti. The two plays illustrate the changing nature of the battle of the sexes between the postwar period and now. The two-part evening… (Performance - Theater) 212-254-1109. |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Heather Smiley for President. In a story strikingly similar to the daily headlines, Heather Smiley for President follows a female Democratic candidate as she… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Dealers of Souls: This Theater Is (Not) For Sale. Theater for the New City to present American premiere of "Dealers of Souls" by Italian playwright Alberto Bassetti Mystical pla… (Performance - Musical) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "ALLEN WILDER 2.0". S director of softcore porn returns from Hollywood to his dead parents' house in Levittown, LI to sort through his belongings an… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "Almost Mata Hari - Lovers, Letters and Killers". Assuming the character of the exotic dancer and WWI spy, actress Eva Dorrepaal explores Mata Hari's entanglements with men, disc… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Fri Every Sat | Thunderbird American Indian Dancers' Dance Concert and Pow-Wow. There will be dances, stories and traditional music from the Iroquois and Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest and Great P… (Festivals - Cultural) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | The Sorcerers. A modern Strindbergian play - xenophobia and racism among Europeans are portrayed as sorcery targeting an African wife by her ne… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "Or Current Resident". Part of our shared experience as Americans today is how we strain under the weight of the tech sector. Millionaires are made ove… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "Subway Story (a shooting)". The piece is the final installment of William Electric Black's five-play GUNPLAYS Series, which has dramatized the epidemic of g… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | "One Drop". A family drama with music by Andrea J. Fulton, brings to life the politics of a young mixed-race man's "passing" for white in po… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Arendt-Heidegger: A Love Story. Arendt-Heidegger: A Love Story dramatizes the troubling, lifelong affair between Zionist Hannah Arendt and Nazi sympathizing phi… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Citizens of the Gray or the Dark Thing that Sleeps Inside Me. Playwright/director Elia Schneider's newest work, "Citizens of the Gray or the Dark Thing that Sleeps Inside Me," deals with the… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Betty and the Belrays. Girl groups are now an iconic part of the history of the recording industry in America. In a brief, shining period between the p… (Performance - Musical) 212-475-0108. |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Catapult!. A male plumber and a female woodworker take the the art world by storm in this comedy by Matthew James Fitzgerald. (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | ColorStruck. Donald E. Lacy Jr. in the New York debut of his one man show, "ColorStruck" The play was born in California's Bay Area and has b… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | Zen A.M.. The play is a story of laughable characters straining to act rationally when faced with difficult decisions of artistic integrit… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Thu Every Fri | The Whites - written and directed by William Electric Black. Watch the Caucasian family of Harris & Rasheeda White contend with gun violence, school segregation & the aftermath of prison. T… (Performance - Theater) |
| Every Sun Every Wed Every Thu More... | August Strindberg's "Dance of Death, Parts One and Two". August Strindberg's "Dance of Death, Parts One and Two" will be performed in English onstage together for the very first time, n… (Performance - Theater) |
| 02/13/06 | 3rd Annual Love n' Courage Benefit. Benefiting the Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program with a portion of the tickets benefiting Southern Rep, th… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) 212-254-1109. |
| 10/23/08 10/24/08 | Nobody Suspects a Butterfly. A two-night benefit, remounted performance of the acclaimed multimedia play Nobody Suspects a Butterfly. The story centers on a… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) 212-795-7478. |
| 07/18/09 | Theater for Tykes!. Featuring Columbian folk dancers Pajarillo Pinta'o. After a dazzling performance the dancers will be engaging the children in a… (Kids Theater) 212-254-1109. |
| 01/16/14 01/17/14 01/18/14 More... | East Towards Home. A New York-born soul-seeker retraces Woody Guthrie's footsteps to understand the culture and history of the American Jewish radi… (Performance - Theater) 212-254-1109. |
| 06/16/14 | "44 Years" Benefit for TNC. To celebrate Theater for the New City's 44 years of innovative theater on the Lower East Side, Michael Luggio and New York Theat… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) |
| 06/23/14 | "Neighbors (an anti-romantic comedy)". "Neighbors" is a journey into the absurd situations experienced by two Italian immigrants in New York City. They have opposite… (Performance) 866-207-3465. |
| 08/02/14 | "EMERGENCY!!! or The World Takes A Selfie.". A rip-roaring outdoor musical comedy about a New York EMT worker on a workingman's grand tour of the world, who decides to tackl… (Performance - Theater) 211-254-1109. |
| 08/30/14 | "Music is Free"- Robert Whaley. Robert Whaley is lead singer, songwriter and trumpeter of Comic Tales of Tragic Heartbreak. He previously fronted NYC rock lege… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 09/06/14 | "Music is Free"- Anastasia René Trio. Theater for the New City's "Dream Up Festival," now in its fifth year, has added a musical component. With Anastasia René (vocal… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 03/26/15 03/27/15 03/28/15 More... | "Martyrs Street". Martyrs Street," a realistic drama by Misha Shulman, is a gripping tale of two houses in the historical city of Hebron, in the O… (Performance - Theater) |
| 05/22/15 05/23/15 05/24/15 | Lower East Side Festival of the Arts. The performances come from groups and performers that reside on the Lower East Side, as well as performances of Work that is Eth… (Performance) |
| 08/30/15 08/31/15 09/01/15 More... | "Songs of the Harlem River: Forgotten One Acts From the Harlem Renaissance". The plays will be performed continuously without breaks, uniting what have long been distinct one-acts. Some of the poetry will… (Performance) |
| 08/30/15 08/31/15 09/03/15 More... | Daddy's Boy - Dream up Festival. "Daddy's Boy" by Cristian Avila begins in the boxing ring, with 17 year old national wrestling champion Milo facing off against… (Performance - Theater) |
| 08/30/15 09/01/15 09/02/15 More... | Ennui: An English Comedy with a French Title For An American Audience. Henrietta Steventon wrote "Ennui: An English Comedy with a French Title for an American Audience" to tackle everything from thea… (Performance - Theater) |
| 08/30/15 08/31/15 09/01/15 More... | The Accidental Kiss - Dream Up Festival. Written and directed by Chima Chikazunga, tells the story of two people struggling to find themselves. One is doing this through… (Performance - Theater) |
| 08/30/15 09/02/15 09/05/15 More... | Your Name on My Lips - Dream up Festival. "Your Name on My Lips," a musical written and composed by Eric Sirota and directed by Katharine Pettit, explores the way love ca… (Performance - Theater) |
| 08/31/15 09/02/15 09/04/15 More... | Medusa and The Oddity. In "Medusa" and "The Oddity" playwright William Hugel takes an impressionistic look at the stigma of mental illness and the decl… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/01/15 09/07/15 09/12/15 More... | "Artaud Artaud". When playwright Antonin Artaud's physical form is usurped by a double, he struggles to maintain control of his own individuality… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/01/15 09/02/15 09/03/15 More... | The (New) Trial. The play experiments with identity and power-relations, presenting a surreal look at the life of K, the chief attorney in an int… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/07/15 09/09/15 09/11/15 More... | Float - Dream up Festival. "Float" is a musical written by Peter Dizozza and directed by Francesse Maingrette. The piece originated from the turmoil and pe… (Performance - Musical) |
| 09/08/15 09/10/15 09/12/15 More... | Let It Come Down - Dream up Festival. A unique hybrid story that blends actual deposition transcripts from a malpractice case with fictionalized therapy scenes to mak… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/09/15 09/10/15 09/14/15 More... | NOMA - Dream up Festival. "NOMA" is a wordless movement piece with aerial dance directed by Sara Zepezauer, choreographed and designed by the Circus Solar… (Performance - Dance) |
| 09/09/15 09/10/15 09/11/15 More... | The Boom - Dream Up Festival. The backstage world of stand-up comics isn't so funny. Three comics, booked in a dilapidated comedy condo in Pittsburgh, reveal… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/10/15 09/11/15 09/12/15 More... | Sister's Keeper - Dream Up Festival. Three African American women grapple with friendship, sisterhood, love, life, faith and HIV in our modern world. The play is a r… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/11/15 09/13/15 09/18/15 More... | A Spectacular Night with the Stars. The year is 1960 and Hollywood's most famous film stars are in trouble. The empire of cinema has fallen and a new medium is risi… (Performance - Theater) 212-254-1109. |
| 09/12/15 09/16/15 09/17/15 More... | A Casual Gathering - Dream up Festival. A musical written by Daniel Schwartzman (book, music, lyrics) and directed by James Martinelli that explores the evolution of hu… (Performance - Musical) |
| 09/13/15 09/14/15 09/15/15 More... | Roof-Top Joy. "Roof-Top Joy" is a one-act comedic drama written by Andrea Fulton and directed by Jared Reinmuth about the way past and present… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/13/15 09/15/15 09/16/15 More... | 4 Wars - Dream Up Festival. Concrete Timbre, a composer-driven performance collective, provides an interdisciplinary journey back to four scenes in the year… (Performance) |
| 09/16/15 09/17/15 09/18/15 More... | The League of Extraordinary Blondes - Dream Up Festival. "The League of Extraordinary Blondes" features members of Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble (IRTE) in an action-packed… (Performance - Theater) |
| 10/12/15 | An Evening of Theater for the New City's History. Co-founder and Artistic Director Crystal Field will present the history of TNC with a lecture, slideshow and short film. She wil… (Community - Lecture) |
| 01/26/16 | Theater For the New City Appreciation Day & Bake Sale. There will be a benefit bake sale, performances by Kitty Lunn, Yip Harburg Foundation's Rainbow Troupe and the dance/percussion… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) |
| 04/20/16 04/21/16 04/22/16 | Wendy Osserman Dance Company Celebrates 40th Anniversary Season with Two World Premieres. Featuring the following pieces: Timed, Quick Time and Udjat. (Performance - Dance) |
| 05/06/16 05/07/16 05/08/16 More... | Midnight Kill. In "Midnight Kill," written and directed by K.K. Wong, a school campus in a Chinese rural village during the 1970's becomes a th… (Performance - Theater) 212-868-4444. |
| 08/06/16 | Election Selection, or You Bet!. The story follows three average American citizens who are brought on a journey through time and inspired to become political com… (Performance - Musical) |
| 09/03/17 09/04/17 09/05/17 More... | "Busker: The Musical". A unifying story around actual New York subway buskers who share their own biographies and perform their own material. It become… (Performance - Musical) |
| 09/05/17 09/06/17 09/07/17 More... | "Finishing the Suit". A tailor who mourns the loss of the two most important people in his life: his lover Jimmy and his most famous client, the Duke… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/26/17 09/28/17 09/29/17 More... | Up the Rabbit Hole. The story of a young man who, desperate to find answers to questions that consume his life as an adopted child, becomes obsessed… (Performance - Theater) |
| 10/31/08 10/31/13 10/31/14 More... | Halloween Costume Ball. Gather for dancing, dining, showing off costumes and viewing acts from the cutting-edge of Cabaret and Theater. Costume or forma… (Festivals - Holiday Event / Party) 212-254-1109. |
| 11/15/18 11/16/18 11/17/18 More... | Sam Sheperd's "Fool for Love". A woman named May occupies a stark, low-rent motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert. She is haunted by a frenetic rodeo cow… (Performance - Theater) 212-330-8171. |
| 08/25/19 08/26/19 08/27/19 More... | Two is a Prime Number. Two is a Prime Number tells the story of two female kickboxers as they fall in and out of love. Actors, Alex Taylor and Maia Bai… (Performance - Theater) |
| 08/29/09 08/28/19 08/30/19 More... | Still, Birth.. Still, Birth by Robyne Parrish and Coley Campany is a large cast play focusing on two women dealing with pregnancy loss, complic… (Performance - Theater) |
| 08/30/19 09/01/19 09/02/19 More... | Dangerous to Dance With by Bill Rogers. A paranoid playwright, a broken acrobat, a porn star, a neurotic farmer, & a plumber, who may be a hitman, meet in a secluded Mi… (Performance - Theater) |
| 08/31/19 09/01/19 09/02/19 More... | This is Like That. This is Like That is a one-person play that grapples with questions about language, identity, religion, and the stories we tell… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/02/19 09/03/19 09/04/19 More... | Whipped. Whipped is a black comedy/psychological thriller that satirizes how the ideal of government by the people, of the people and for… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/02/19 09/03/19 09/04/19 More... | Maker of Worlds. Martha, a deity, decides to destroy the world because there's no good left in it. One woman plays six characters in this play ab… (Performance - Theater) 212-260-8052. |
| 09/03/19 09/04/19 09/05/19 More... | Abdication!. Abdication! delivers a tongue-in-cheek three-episode anthology shining a light on social media, human interaction, and finally -… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/03/19 09/06/19 09/07/19 More... | Quilting the Sun. Quilting the Sun is the story of Harriet Powers (1837-1910), born a slave, whose quilts now hang in museums. It depicts rural li… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/04/19 09/06/19 09/08/19 More... | Lame Ducks (A psycho drama). This 70 minute psycho drama is a story of a distressed man Kyle that is trying to get over a past break up with his girlfriend T… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/05/19 09/07/19 09/08/19 More... | The Maternity Monologues. Written in the tradition of The Vagina Monologues, The Maternity Monologues is an episodic play featuring a unique chorus of voi… (Performance - Theater) |
| 09/08/19 09/09/19 09/11/19 More... | The Chaos Theory of Now. In this intelligent and entertaining solo performance, lesbian comedian and science maven Jennifer Joy Pawlitschek uses science'… (Performance - Theater) 800-838,3006. |
| 10/31/21 | Village Halloween Costume Ball. With safety paramount, the fete will take place as an open-air celebration outside the theater, on East Tenth Street between Fir… (Festivals - Holiday Event / Party) |
| 11/06/21 11/07/21 11/11/21 More... | The Dark Outside. A birthday celebration for a one-armed East London tailor, who is in a life crisis, brings home his three grown children. All ar… (Performance - Theater) |
| 01/12/22 01/13/22 01/14/22 More... | Crazy Meshugga Hurricane Earthquake. This six-character play is the story of an unlikely connection that develops between a middle aged secular Jewish woman and a yo… (Performance - Theater) |
| 01/22/22 01/23/22 01/26/22 More... | Di Froyen (The Women). This seven-character play is a story of a woman from the Hasidic community of Brooklyn who has fled an abusive marriage and, aft… (Performance - Theater) 212-254-1109. |
| 02/10/22 02/11/22 02/12/22 More... | Sometime Child: a Reclamation and a Redemption. The tale of a unique relationship between a successful divorce lawyer and two young, troubled but gifted "at risk" youths who ha… (Performance - Theater) 212-254-1109. |
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