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Ingrid Hansen in Epidermis Circus, which is playing at Soho Playhouse this month. Photo by Hélène Cyr.
Catch a rare revival of 'Orson's Shadow,' a political play directed by Estelle Parsons, a spicy puppet cabaret and more
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Adventurous audiences know that some of the biggest theatrical thrills are found on NYC's smallest stages. These shows are also great for theatregoers on a budget. In fact, TDF members can see dozens of Off-Off Broadway productions for as little as $11! Not a TDF member? Consider joining our Go Off-Off and Beyond program, which gives you access to discount tickets to indie theatre, music and dance performances for a one-time fee of five bucks.
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The Tank, 312 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins March 8. Closes March 25.
A tantalizing one-act presented by indie incubator The Tank, Micharne Cloughley's out-there comedy explores grief through the eyes of a pregnant but dying robot and its ailing human companion. As they prepare for a baby and a future without them, they scoff at Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' shortsightedness.
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Gallery Players, 199 14th Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Begins March 9. Closes March 24. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Brooklyn's intrepid Gallery Players revives August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning play centering on Troy Maxson, a middle-aged, blue-collar Black man in 1950s Pittsburgh struggling to come to terms with life's disappointments.
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The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street between Avenues A and B in the East Village
Begins March 12. Closes March 24.
Thirdwing presents an encore run of Cameron Darwin Bossert's well-received drama about the 1941 Disney animators' strike. Less a historical drama than an examination of the things we do for love and not enough money, the play stars Bossert as visionary taskmaster Walt Disney and Zachary Speigel as Goofy creator Art Babbitt, who wants to unionize his fellow workers.
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La MaMa's The Club, 74A East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins March 14. Closes March 24. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
A new solo show from inimitable playwright-performer Justin Elizabeth Sayre, My Beatnik Youth centers on Jay, a teenager fixated on the Beat Generation. After a drunken car crash, Jay is placed in the psych ward to contemplate their behavior, face their demons and determine why Jack Kerouac and their ilk loom so large for them. Can't make it in person? The matinee on Sunday, March 17 is being live-streamed on HowlRound for free.
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The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street between Smith Street and Boerum Place in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Previews begin March 14. Opens March 15. Closes March 30. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Obie winner Jodie Markell stars as disgraced filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in this darkly comic cabaret, as the Nazi propagandist tries to reframe her life and legacy. Brave New World Repertory Theatre presents Gil Kofman's unconventional solo show about a controversial artist.
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Various locations
Begins March 14. Closes March 30. Several EstroGenius offerings are available to TDF members. Log in and search for EstroGenius.
The 23-year-old EstroGenius Festival—NYC's longest-running fest showcasing the work of women, nonbinary, trans and gender-nonconforming artists—takes place over three weeks at four venues: Under St. Marks, La MaMa, Brooklyn Art Haus and the cell. The lineup includes experimental plays, eclectic dance performances, spoken word, performance art and music. You'll find anything and everything here... save for men!
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Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in the East Village
Begins March 14. Closes March 31. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $12 tickets.
Don't miss this rare revival of Tony nominee Austin Pendleton's award-winning backstage drama about Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright and Vivien Leigh clashing during a 1960 production of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. Inspired by true events, Orson's Shadow is directed by Pendleton himself and delves into the agony and the ego of making art.
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La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins March 14. Closes March 31. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Oscar winner and five-time Tony nominee Estelle Parsons directs Kate Taney Billingsley's intensely personal play about a modern-day descendant of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney—who penned the heinous Dred Scott decision of 1857—apologizing to one of Scott's descendants for the Taney family's racist legacy. Although the meeting is fictional, the history is real: the playwright is a descendant of Roger B. Taney and has been working on this piece for a while. This latest iteration includes a series of talkback with descendants of both families.
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Teatro Círculo, 64 East 4th Street between Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins March 15. Closes March 31. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
The venerable Teatro Círculo celebrates its 30th anniversary with the world premiere of Lío, a drama by Puerto Rican playwright Ian Robles that explores colonialism and national identity. It's 1898 and Puerto Rico is being invaded by US troops. When one soldier gets left behind, a young Puerto Rican fisherman tries to help him, not understanding the nightmare he'll soon be trapped in. Performed in Spanish with English subtitles.
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HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue at Dominick Street in Soho
Begins March 16. Closes March 30.
Matt Cox, who cast quite the spell with his popular Harry Potter parody Puffs, has a new comedy about magic and mayhem set during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. While persecution and hysteria aren't usually funny, we suspect Cox will find ways to make us laugh at this horrible history.
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The Flea, 20 Thomas Street between Broadway and Church Street in Tribeca
Previews begin March 19. Opens March 23. Closes May 5.
Slave Play scribe Jeremy O. Harris awarded Jesús I. Valles' BATHHOUSE.PPTX the 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize along with heaps of praise, calling it "one of the most exciting speculative fictions I've encountered in years." The piece follows a queer Latine student whose PowerPoint presentation on cleanliness soon transforms into a bathhouse at the end of time. An exploration of LGBTQ history, longing and grief, this genre-defying play also imagines the future of queer culture. Obie winner Chay Yew directs.
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Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street in Soho
Begins March 20. Closes March 24. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Ingrid Hansen's day job is working as a puppeteer for Jim Henson Company's Fraggle Rock. But this risqué puppet variety show is for grown-ups only. Watch as Hansen creates a live puppet film, conjuring outré vignettes in the palm of her hand and projecting them onto a screen while sporting eye-popping costumes by RuPaul's Drag Race winner Jimbo. If you've got a kid, note that there are family-friendly matinees.
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The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue near Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Previews begin March 21. Closes April 6.
Experimental troupe Meta-Phys Ed. is behind this devised theatre piece that digs into Hannah Arendt's controversial saying as the performers explore how everyday folks become war criminals in this neo-noir courtroom drama.
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American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins March 21. Closes April 14. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Randomly Specific Theatre explores the hot-button topic of political correctness in Matt Morillo's cheeky new play about an ex-cop/progressive activist/sex addict whose autobiographical screenplay pisses off pretty much everyone in his life. For adults only due to sexual references and nudity.
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The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster Street between Grand and Broome Streets in Soho
Begins March 27. Closes May 4. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $27 tickets.
Pioneering experimental theatre collective The Wooster Group reimagines Richard Foreman's 1988 work about a POTUS receiving otherworldly messages for the 21st century, giving this avant-garde play with music a brand-new relevance. Wooster Group vets Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk codirect.
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La MaMa's The Club, 74A East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins March 29. Closes April 7.
Beloved and bawdy solo performer Marga Gomez, dubbed "the lesbian Lenny Bruce" by Robin Williams, stars in her 14th one-woman show, enticingly titled Swimming With Lesbians. She plays multiple outrageous characters in this buoyant comedy set aboard a cruisy cruise ship.
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