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Astronauts Wanted at The Tank, one of many exciting indie shows running this month. Photo by Kat duPont Vecchio.
Catch a new play from a Pulitzer finalist, a rare Tennessee Williams revival, the annual New York City Fringe 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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Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford Street between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Previews begin March 28. Opens April 3. Closes April 27. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
The venerable Irondale Ensemble Project, which has been mounting innovative indie theatre for more than 40 years, presents a rare revival of The Notebook of Trigorin, a late-career play by Tennessee Williams, his decidedly Americanized take on Anton Chekhov's classic The Seagull. For this production, longtime ensemble members who appeared in the company's 1997 revival of The Seagull return to this exploration of love, ambition and artistic struggle in new roles alongside younger actors, celebrating the enduring power of performance and echoing the play's themes.
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Various locations
Begins April 2. Closes April 20. Several New York City Fringe offerings are available to TDF members. Log in and search for NYC Fringe Festival.
FRIGID New York presents its annual New York City Fringe featuring more than 60 eclectic shows over three weeks at five venues: Under St. Marks and Wild Project in the East Village, the Chain Theatre's two stages in Midtown West and The Rat NYC in Dumbo. Highlights include The 40-Year-Old Ballerino (April 12 and 20) about a middle-aged man replacing his addictions with dance; A Crucible: A Puritanical Celebration of Witches and Turkeys (April 12, 14 and 19), a comedic riff on Arthur Miller's classic; How to Give Up on Your Dreams (April 11, 13 and 20) about a failed Broadway baby; The Phantom of the Opera's Friend (April 12, 16, 18 and 19) in which the villain's BFF tells all; and the self-explanatory JAWS: the Musical! (April 12 and 19). If you can't attend in person, many shows are also live-streaming to at-home audiences. Be sure to browse the jam-packed schedule to see what piques your interest.
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The Tank, 312 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins April 3. Closes April 27. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $11 tickets.
Heloise Wilson wrote and appears in this lyrical multimedia work inspired by the defunct Mars One project as three volunteers set off on a one-way mission to the Red Planet that tests their limits as individuals and astronauts.
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A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin April 4. Opens April 9. Closes April 26. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $18 tickets.
A super NYC story, Marco Antonio Rodriguez's Domino Effect centers on four friends from different generations connecting and clashing at the domino table on a sweltering summer night in Washington Heights. This world premiere is presented by the Lin-Manuel Miranda-supported People's Theatre Project, LatinX Playwrights Circle and Boundless Theatre Company.
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The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue near Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Begins April 8. Closes April 26.
Throughout the month, Brooklyn's experimental theatre mecca The Brick presents evenings jam-packed with genre-defying shorts from up-and-coming indie artists. Prepare to be amazed, enlightened and mystified.
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Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in the East Village
Begins April 10. Closes April 27. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $11 tickets.
As protests against the current regime rage around the country, playwright Roberto Monticello and director Lissa Moira tell a historical tale of resistance inspired by true stories from World War II. In Café Resistance, it's 1939 and Germany has invaded France but the licentious ladies of The Blue Parrot Café bordello refuse to collaborate. Even when the Nazis take over the Parisian establishment for the enjoyment of their troops, the women who work there find inventive ways to fight back.
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The Bushwick Starr, 419 Eldert Street between Covert and Halsey Streets in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Previews begin April 15. Opens April 19. Closes May 3.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury—whose play Public Obscenities won critical raves, multiple Obie Awards and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize—is behind Rheology, a bold world premiere written, directed and starring Chowdhury and his real-life physicist mother, Bulbul Chakraborty. An expert in rheology, a science that examines the deformation and flow of matter, Chakraborty and Chowdhury take to the stage for a novel experiment that explores their bond and their differences.
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JACK, 20 Putnam Avenue between Grand and Downing Streets in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Begins April 16. Closes April 19. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $12 tickets.
Devised theatre company The Anthropologists debuts a new work exploring the unsung history of Black midwives. After a Black woman dies in childbirth, her journalist sister goes looking for the knowledge that could have saved her. A celebration of ancient wisdom and an exploration of the racism that leads to high rates of maternal mortality in the Black community. Note: axes, herbs and satchels: open the archives will also be performed in Washington Heights and the South Bronx in May.
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LOFT393, 393 Broadway between Walker and White Streets in Tribeca
Previews begin April 16. Opens April 18. Closes April 27.
As a biracial woman who's careered from career to career, writer-performer Narie Foster has never felt like she belonged. That's why she's spent her life trying to blend in to every situation. She shares her tale of mutability in 1 in a Chameleon, a well-reviewed solo comedy and Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit, now playing in her hometown of NYC.
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Asylum NYC, 123 East 24th Street between Park Avenue South and Lexington Avenues in Gramercy
Begins April 17. Closes May 24. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
You've probably heard of Naked Boys Singing. What about naked boys doing tricks? That's the gimmick of The Naked Magicians, a ribald romp from Australia featuring a pair of ripped and rip-roaring illusionists. These guys don't have anything up their sleeves because all they're wearing are top hats! Must be 18 or older to attend.
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La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Previews begin April 18. Opens April 21. Closes May 4. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Director Robert Lyons and playwright-performer Daniel Irizarry used to collaborate frequently at the dearly departed New Ohio Theatre, which closed in 2023. The experimental duo returns to the downtown indie theatre scene with Class Dismissed, an interactive experience (alcohol, snacks, sing-alongs and even a book swap are promised!) set at a grad school where the teachers and the students are going off the rails. Come prepared to participate!
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Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street between Lafayette Street and Bowery in Noho
Previews begin April 24. Opens May 1. Closes May 17. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
A new pitch-black comedy by Adam Szymkowicz (the Clown Bar series, Marian or the True Tale of Robin Hood), Fat Cat Killers focuses on a pair of cooperate drones who get laid off and abduct the CEO to exact revenge. Fearsomely funny and eerily timely! Szymkowicz's frequent collaborator Andrew Block directs and Trump Lear creator David Carl stars.
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The Tank, 312 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins April 25. Closes May 18.
Northwestern MFA alum Kallan Dana penned this surreal sounding story about a young woman obsessed with Patti Smith who starts to lose her grip on reality. Described as a coming-of-age story about theatre, friendship and grief, this new play explores the abyss between who we are as adolescents and adults.
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Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street in Soho
Begins April 25. Closes May 3. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $13 tickets.
Inspired by intersecting health and romantic crises, Linnea Bond's autobiographical solo show asks whether life is worth living (spoiler alert: it is!). A hit at multiple Fringe festivals, Heart Ripped Out Twice and So Can You! is billed as a comedy about pain that balances outrageous entertainment with insight.
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