Indie Theater Thursday – April 24
It’s Indie Theater Thursday!
We share upcoming indie theater shows/productions happening in New York City. These are submitted by members of the IndieSpace community.
Do you have an upcoming show to share? Use the Show/Production Sharing Form to share the details of your show/production with IndieSpace so that we can share with the community.
Now Circa Then by Carly Mensch
Location: Morningside Theater Co. Space
Dates: April 24 to May 11 – Thu and Fri at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 5pm, and Sundays at 3pm, (no show May 8th).
Two young tenement museum re-enactors unlikely romance goes off the rails in this delightful, time-traveling comedy.
Featuring Anna Lei Negrin and Daniel Yaiullo and directed by Luke Hofmaier, this poignant comedy is set in a beloved tenement museum on New York’s Lower East Side.
Parish The Thought
Location: A.R.T/New York Theatres- Mezzanine Theater, 502 W 53rd St
Date: April 26, 930pm
A play about the vital importance of democracy, as practiced by the ladies of the newly elected parish council of a tiny Episcopal church (population: 127) located in the heart of the Philippine capital city Metro Manila (population: 13,484,862)
La Ópera Latinoamericana & Más
Location: El Barrio’s ArtSpace PS109
Date: May 7, 7pm
Belongó proudly presents La Ópera Latinoamericana & Más, a groundbreaking evening showcasing top opera talent from the Americas, with a repertoire that spans from opera classics to works by Latin American composers. This special concert will include excerpts from Arturo O’Farrill’s opera Lucero and will be conducted by Felipe Tristán.
Part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos series, this performance is a major milestone for Belongó, marking our first official foray into the world of Latin American opera. For the first time, we are not just presenting, but producing an opera performance that celebrates the richness of Latin classical traditions.
This concert is more than just music—it’s a testament to our expanding artistic vision, as we continue to uplift Afro Latin traditions across multiple genres. In collaboration with Carnegie Hall, this event highlights the powerful intersection of Latin music, history, and cultural identity.
✨ Don’t miss this historic performance celebrating the evolution of Latin American opera!
🎟️ FREE ADMISSION – RSVP Encouraged
dhoka/Betrayal/
Location: JACK
Dates: April 26 at 7:30pm and April 27 at 2:00pm
With a heady, erotic pulse, the sacred energy of fire bubbles over in dhoka/Betrayal/, an intimate dance-theater duet that entangles Hindu goddess Kali’s ultimate power with ethnonationalism. This fire is one that South-Asian artists and physical practitioners have harnessed since ancient times, acting as a reminder of one’s own power and as a tool of resistance. dhoka reclaims this heat to reimagine Kali’s mythology with the eroticism, androgyneity, gore, and epicness that often gets written out of post-colonial South-Asian art. With audiences peering into a fraught ritual between Kali and her follower, dhoka uses these aesthetics to trace the line between salvation and corruption, looking at how religion is used as a tool for propaganda in India. Letting the epic and human dance together, dhoka challenges a Hindu culture that is rapidly masculinizing itself to better fit a world of violence, invoking the feminine with one cathartic cry and a terrifying, bloodied tongue.