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RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR, a new play from The Hearth running Off-Off Broadway this month. Photo by Travis Emery Hackett.
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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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Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street in Soho
Previews begin December 3. Opens December 4. Closes December 21. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
After rave reviews at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and LA's Netflix is a Joke Fest, stand-up Janine Harouni returns to her hometown with this hilarious and heartfelt solo show about identity and impending motherhood. Raised on Staten Island but now based in London, she shares entertaining insights about her immigrant family history as she embarks on her own family journey. The late Adam Brace, who directed Alex Edelman's smash Just for Us, helped Harouni birth this personal and poignant project.
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59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street between Madison and Park Avenues in Midtown East
Begins December 4. Closes December 22. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Told in playful rhyming verse, Christian Hege's one-man play presents an alternate origin story for Santa. A young injured Civil War soldier named Alexander "Sander" Klaus tries to build a life for himself in 1880s NYC. But it isn't until he starts making toys that he can leave the trauma of his past behind. A holiday fairy tale for grown-ups.
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Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, 304 West 47th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin December 4. Opens December 11. Closes December 29. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Acclaimed Latine company Pregones / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater presents the world premiere of the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo), a history-inspired fantasia about two Puerto Rican freedom fighters in the 1950s whose train ride from NYC to DC to assassinate President Truman keeps getting interrupted by famous figures from their homeland's rich but fraught past, present and future. An examination of culture, colonialism and revolution.
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Chain Theatre, 312 West 36th between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin December 5. Opens December 6. Closes December 21. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
A love story in which the participants are never together center stage. Instead, their romance is explored through their relationships with their respective friends and family, including an eccentric BFF, an estranged father and an agoraphobic mother. Bathsheba Doran's intriguing play is a reminder that couples always exist within a larger community.
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La MaMa's The Club, 74A East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins December 5. Closes December 15. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
In this solo show, George Emilio Sanchez explores his own indigenous/Ecuadorian family while parsing the 200-plus-year history of US Supreme Court decisions that destroyed the tribal sovereignty of Native nations. Sanchez earned a masters in legal studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma in order to write and perform this piece, which is complemented by evocative photographs by Patty Ortiz.
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The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets in the West Village
Begins December 5. Closes December 22. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Sarah Groustra's new play centers on John, who intends to demolish the butcher shop he inherited from his deadbeat dad. But he unexpectedly comes up against a meat monster who won't go without a fight. A surreal dark comedy about heritage and home.
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A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin December 6. Opens December 9. Closes December 22. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $13 tickets.
The Hearth, one of NYC's premiere theatre companies dedicated to telling stories by and about women, presents RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR, a new play by Kallan Dana about a father-daughter road trip across America that delves into their murky, intertwined pasts. Sarah Blush directs this wild journey about how we all travel with trauma.
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Chelsea Factory, 547 West 26th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Chelsea
Begins December 10. Closes December 15. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Raquel Almazán's powerful and poetic La Paloma Prisoner weaves the true stories of imprisoned Colombian women with the mythical tale of La Paloma, who was said to avenge abused women in Bogotá. The playwright developed this piece over a decade while working with individuals and communities impacted by incarceration, and this work is part of her Latin is America bilingual play cycle. The cast includes talented TDF staffer Gladys Pérez!
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La MaMa's The Downstairs, 66 East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Begins December 12. Closes December 22. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Written, directed and performed by Paul Budraitis, I Love That For You is a solo meditation on something we all have in common but usually don't like to dwell on: death. Budraitis used to think that way but, as the grandson of a gravedigger, he's always known there's no getting away from it. In this monologue play/community offering, he shares how talking about death can actually help us feel more alive and connected to those we love.
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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 December 13. Closes December 22.
It's been more than a decade since legendary 87-year-old avant-garde playwright Richard Foreman presented a new play, so Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey, which runs just two weekends, is quite the hot ticket. Produced and performed by the Brooklyn-based experimental ensemble Object Collection, which came out of Foreman's own Ontological-Hysteric Theater, it's the tale of Beautiful Madeline Harvey, who isn't sure she's real. So, what does that mean for her lover, Handsome Roger Vincent and the disaster they're heading toward? Like all of Foreman's work, this show is better experienced than explained!
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AMT Theater, 354 West 45th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins December 14. Closes December 20. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $13 tickets.
The world premiere of the Muhammad Ali musical may have just been canceled, but writer-director David Serero's one-man bio-play about the iconic boxer is going on. Zack Bazile, an actor and former track star, portrays the athlete and activist in this show tracing the ups and downs of his life and career.
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Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in the East Village
Begins December 19. Closes January 5, 2025. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $11 tickets.
Back in the early 20th century, Jewish-American banker and businessman Jacob Schiff tried to overthrow the Russian Czar from afar. A Shift of Opinion tells this true story in a fantastical way, as a cavalcade of historical figures, from Teddy Roosevelt to Leo Tolstoy, pop in and out in this exploration of anti-Semitism and immigration.
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