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Kristin Griffith and Brittany K. Allen in Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother? at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Photo by Valerie Terranova.
Catch a comedy about Jane Goodall, a history play about the Federal Theatre Project, dozens of disparate shows at the United Solo Festival 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 4. Closes March 23. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
After a well-received developmental run at the defunct New Ohio Theatre, Deadclass, Ohio receives a full-fledged production at The Tank. Loosely inspired by Tadeusz Kantor's landmark 1975 work The Dead Class as well as the deaths of co-director Mitchell Polonsky's Holocaust survivor grandparents, this devised multimedia piece weaves together recollections, images, voicemails and original text by Eliya Smith to explore the mutability of memory and the inevitability of mortality.
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The Flea, 20 Thomas Street between Broadway and Church Street in Tribeca
Previews begin March 5. Opens March 8. Closes March 22.
A babysitter and a struggling new mother bond over trauma and astrology in Kayla Eisenberg's world-premiere play. A drama infused with supernatural and horror elements, Lilith in Pisces examines an unlikely friendship between two women trying to reinvent their lives.
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Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Midtown West
Previews begin March 5. Opens March 13. Closes March 30. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $18 tickets.
Would you bring your mother along on your first big job? That's what Jane Goodall was forced to do in 1960 when the Tanzanian government insisted the 26-year-old English primatologist be accompanied by a chaperone if she wanted to observe chimpanzees in the wild. Michael Walek's new, history-inspired comedy explores the early years of Goodall's research with her mama in tow as they interact with apes and humans in a volatile environment.
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Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in the East Village
Begins March 6. Closes March 23. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $11 tickets.
Tom Diriwachter's new drama centers on a young man trying to rescue his parents from a Graceland road trip disaster. Loosely inspired by real events, Fog and Filthy Air finds the trio trapped in an Elvis-themed purgatory as they try to work through their family trauma and find their way back to each other.|
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Theaterlab, 357 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins March 6. Closes March 30. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
This one-woman play is based on the harrowing true story of four friends—including Gitta Mallasz, who posed as a Nazi officer—responsible for saving more than 100 Jewish women and children in Hungary during the Holocaust. Based on the book Talking with Angels, transcribed by Mallasz from conversations with her friend Hanna Dallos, this solo show was adapted by and stars Shelley Mitchell.
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Culture Lab LIC, 5-25 46th Avenue near 5th Street in Long Island City, Queens
Begins March 6. Closes March 30. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $13 tickets.
New Perspectives Theatre Company explores the history of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) in this new multimedia production. The show weaves together the development and achievements of the FTP, which was part of the WPA during the Great Depression; the story of its national director Hallie Flanagan; and how the conservative House Committee on Un-American Activities brought the groundbreaking project down. Considering the current attacks on arts and culture in our country, this tale is sure to resonate and infuriate.
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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 7. Closes March 23.
Set at a funeral where a little kid's exuberance interrupts the mourning, Metamorphoses (or How to Stop Your Child from Ruining Your Great Uncle’s Funeral) is a dark comedy with puppets exploring grief, mortality and why living is even more important in the shadow of death. Written and directed by Dmitry Krymov, the show is supported by the prestigious Jim Henson Foundation.
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Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street in Soho
Previews begin March 12. Opens March 15. Closes April 2. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $15 tickets.
Self-taught singer and storyteller J.S. Streible is behind the solo musical Gloaming, Nowhere, which fuses poetry, tales and tunes for a fantastical Appalachian portrait influenced by art as disparate as Samuel Beckett, Brothers Grimm and the Tim Burton movie Big Fish. Truly a singular experience.
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The Flea, 20 Thomas Street between Broadway and Church Street in Tribeca
Begins March 13. Closes April 7.
In this profoundly personal solo show, queer Pakistani-American playwright-performer Adil Mansoor shares his journey of familial love as he and his conservative Quranic scholar mother collaborate on translating Antigone into Urdu. As they try to find the best way to tell Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy in their native tongue, they also attempt to find common ground and reconnect despite their very different perspectives on faith, culture and identity. After multiple acclaimed out-of-town engagements, Amm(i)gone—a portmanteau of “ammi” (“mother” in Urdu) and the Greek heroine Antigone—comes to NYC courtesy of PlayCo, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, The Flea and Kelly Strayhorn Theater.
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HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue at Dominick Street in Soho
Previews begin March 18. Opens March 19. Closes March 25.
During the pandemic shutdown, Joshua William Gelb's wildly innovative Theater in Quarantine live-streamed original productions from a closet-turned-studio in his East Village apartment, winning him many fans and an Obie Award. For his latest hybrid work, Gelb stuffs himself in a small rectangular box, mirroring the way we experience the world through our screens, and invites in-person audiences to observe him from all uncomfortable angles. A meditation on our codependent relationship with technology, this 45-minute show will also be live-streamed online.
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Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Dyer Avenues in Midtown West
Begins March 18. Closes April 20. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account and search for United Solo Festival to purchase $15 tickets to select shows.
Since 2010, the world's latest solo theatre fest has showcased a wide array of one-person shows every spring, usually for just one night each. This edition's highlights include the comedy Foes of a Minimum Wage Guard (March 26) written and performed by a real-life security guard; The Samurai’s Wife (March 28) chronicling a Japanese woman's tale of transformation; The Ādat (habit) (April 1) about how catfishing impacts a young Sikh-American's life; I Get No Respect: Tales of a Failed Foreign Policy Pundit (April 4) by a foreign policy expert who moonlights as a stand-up comic; and Thomas Ellenson's Well, Life Sucks (April 12), a comedy about the writer-performer's experiences with cerebral palsy.
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The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue near Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Begins March 20. Closes March 29. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $12 tickets.
Clad only in a bathrobe, Jewish-British writer and street performer Nick Cassenbaum shares amusing true stories about identity, home and culture against the backdrop of Canning Town Schvitz, East London's sole remaining bath house. Enjoy some shtick while you sweat!
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Fort Washington Collegiate Church, 729 West 181st Street between Fort Washington Avenue and Magaw Place in Washington Heights
Begins March 26. Closes April 12. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase $12 tickets.
UP Theater Company, one of the few troupes based in Northern Manhattan, presents the world premiere of Frank Pagliaro's drama Bread of Life, an examination of religious fanaticism centering on the distraught wife and son abandoned by Peter the Apostle when he went to follow Jesus. Leslie Kincaid Burby directs.
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The Tank, 312 West 36th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown West
Begins March 27. April 19.
In Johnny G. Lloyd's time-hopping romp about chosen family, two wildly different BFFs who share a birthday vow to always party together. But nothing stays the same as we age. A multi-decade musing on race, class and who we go through life with.
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artXnyc, 409 West 14th Street between Ninth Avenue and Washington Street in Chelsea March 27-29 and May 1-17.
Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, 249 Huron Street between Provost Street and McGuiness Boulevard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn April 3-5.
Millennial storyteller Matthew Gasda, whose plays Dimes Square and Zoomers have been hits with his generation, tackles the pitfalls of an open relationship in Soonest Mended. Two married writers think they're above jealousy and decide they're ready for some extracurricular love. But their romantic adventures have unanticipated consequences. Gasda also directs.
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