Indie Theater Thursday – June 5
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.
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Without God As My Lover
Location: spit&vigor's Tiny Baby Blackbox
Dates: May 22 – June 8, Thursdays-Saturdays 7:30pm, Sundays 2:30pm
Use ticket code OUTLANDER for 25% off
Without God As My Lover is a 90-minute two-hander about Teresa – a former Catholic turned atheist – who digs for the truth of her estranged father's last days by playing a game of cat and mouse with the priest who took her father's final confession.
Come experience this passionate, hilarious, and poignant new play up close and personal in an intimate production staged in the round with just 20 seats per performance and find yourself investigating your own relationship to faith, religion, and father figures.
The Leg.
Location: Mitu580
Dates: Saturday, May 24 through Saturday, June 7, running Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8pm
The Leg is an ensemble-based physical theatre performance that uses Butoh, Bouffon and Puppetry to explore the links between spirituality, pain, pleasure and politics. Drawing from the writings of Foucault and Preciado, this devised hybrid movement piece combines laughter and danger to explore the idea that we are all political fiction alive.
Use discount code LEG15 for $15 tickets
The End of All Flesh
Location: The Magnet Theater
Dates: June 9, June 16, and June 23. All shows at 6:30pm
The End of All Flesh is a rollicking, post-apocalyptic, cautionary bluegrass tale by Greg Kotis (Tony Award-winning co-author of Urinetown.) Join Ma, Pa, Boy, and Girl atop a distant mountain, where they sing about environmental collapse, changing gender norms, Hobbes, Rousseau, ancient Greece, questionable survivalist practices, and a glimpse of what’s to come.
Audacious Owl Theatre Festival
Location: Chain Theatre, FL 4
Dates: June 10-13 at 7pm, June 14 at 2pm and 7pm, June 15 at 1pm and 6pm
This is a brand new festival committed to producing bold work that investigates what it means to be alive. There will be a wide variety of 10 minute and 1 act plays, so come on through!
RIP Jabari, you would've loved the Apple Dance
Location: Factory Series at the Chain Theatre
Dates: Wednesday, June 11 at 7pm and Saturday June 14 at 7pm
RIP Jabari You Would've Loved the Apple Dance follows Chiara and Elijah, two best friends and roommates who win a contest from Bridgit Mendler's new space company. Their prize? The chance to test and interact with an AI robot modeled after their late best friend, Jabari. As they navigate this surreal experience, they grapple with grief, memory, and the strange intersection of technology and loss.
What begins as a high-tech reunion becomes a heartfelt journey about holding on, letting go, and the enduring power of friendship.
AT the Barricades
Location: MITU580
Dates: June 12 - June 29
Use the code INDIE for 20% off your ticket purchase
“At the Barricades” is a source-based history play about the international troops fighting in the Spanish Civil War, co-written by the What Will the Neighbors Say? Co-Artistic Directors James Clements and Sam Hood Adrain. The drama follows six different characters from the United States, Spain and Scotland, brought together, despite their varied backgrounds, by a shared desire to fight against Franco’s fascist coup. We join them on the outskirts of Madrid in January 1937 and witness, over the course of a year, how their political loyalties, personal relationships and understanding of themselves are strengthened, challenged and irrevocably changed by the tragedy and the carnage around them. Developed through a partnership with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), this prescient new play asks the question: how far would you go to protect the freedoms of others?
The project was developed at the Brooklyn Art Haus with the support of the Brooklyn Arts Council, and through a year-long residency at NYU’s Espacio de Culturas at KJCC with Director Federica Borlenghi and Script Supervisor Skye Pallo Ross.
The show will run approximately 100 minutes with no intermission.
These Are the Rules
Location: Brooklyn Art Haus
Date: June 12, 14 & 15 at 7:30pm
‘These Are the Rules’ is a two-play theatrical experience exploring the quiet ruptures and explosive reckonings inside the homes & relationships we think we know best. Debuting for the first time on stage, ‘This World Is Mine’ & ‘Game Night’ examine how unspoken rules—familial, societal, and self-imposed—shape our lives in ways we may not always see. Intimate, sharp, and deeply human, this evening of theatre invites you to listen closely to what’s being said—and, perhaps more importantly, what isn’t.
Riven
Location: Sure We Can
Date: June 12 at 7pm, June 13 at 7pm, June 14 at 2pm & 7pm, June 15 at 2pm & at 7pm
June 19 at 7pm, June 20 at 7pm, June 21 at 7pm, June 22 at 2pm & 7pm
June 26 at 7pm, June 27 at 7pm
Riven is A site-specific docu-fiction play about waste pickers.
Taking place at Sure We Can, a recycling center in Brooklyn, Riven follows Alessandra and Melina: two black women from the global south working at a waste picking cooperative - a place where recycled materials are sorted and people are rescued from neglect.
Once Upon a Time in NYC
Location: Reverie Room
Date: JJune 12, 14 & 15 at 7:30pm
Award-nominated creators Shared Manifest Entertainment debut their first live theatrical production, Once Upon a Time in NYC, on June 13th at 7 PM at Reverie Room (163 W 72nd Street, NYC). Tickets are $15 plus a $10 snack and drink cover.
In celebration of New York City's 400th anniversary, six original 10-minute plays reimagine classic fairytales with a distinctly New York twist, including subway wonderlands, drag queen fairy godmothers, and the city’s ruthless housing market.
Directed by Jessica Thompson and produced by Jackie Jorgenson, the cast features Tehilah Keturah, Sami Binder, Nick Gangone, Airen Guevara, Abigail Espinal, and Anthony Castellano in multiple lively roles.
Joyful Noise
Location: Riverside Theater
Dates: June 13 at 7pm and June 15 at 2:30pm and 6pm
Use ticket code, ARTISTSAREGREAT for $10 off regular admission
Photo by Ismael Fernandez
Join General Mischief for this playful and uplifting performance featuring new collaborations with L.A.-based percussion ensemble TAIKOPROJECT, Oakland-based composer Donna Viscuso, plus the debut a brand new commission by Hodi Maputo Afro Swing in Mozambique.
These are family-friendly performances, and feature live music by percussionist Pablo Eluchans and flutist Zara Lawler, plus the debut of the moving “In Tandem” and the hilarious sendup “On/Off”.
Don’t miss this delightful show! Run time is 75 minutes, no intermission.
MORE Opera Juneteenth Jubilee 2025
Location: Bronx Music Hall, 438 East 163rd Street, Bronx, NY
Date: June 19 at 2pm
MORE Opera Juneteenth Jubilee 2025 is a free, family-friendly concert celebrating the 125th anniversary of the first performance of the anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and paying tribute to its composers, the Johnson Brothers with arrangements of their art songs, spirituals, and folk music, and an historical narrative in Spanish and English exploring their lives and the music and cultural traditions of Juneteenth.
The program features MORE Opera soloists and an inter-generational chorus conducted by Cheryl Warfield at Bronx Music Hall, 438 East 163rd Street at 2pm on June 19, 2025.
Fish in the Tank
Location: The Tank
Dates: June 25 at 7pm
How do we navigate intimate relationships that are both defined and confined by institutional walls? How do we seek closure when unfolding past trauma feels like tearing up an old wound? Should we protect our loved ones at all costs, even if it means hurting others?
Fish in the Tank is a one-act play exploring these haunting questions through an intimate and turbulent coming-of-age journey of two queer characters, Echo and Rae, set on the rooftop of an all-girls boarding school. The play begins when they see each other for the first time in six years, after an unspoken incident completely altered the course of their lives.
In an institution ruled by fear, surveillance, and control, the two girls embark on a quest for intimacy, truth, and freedom. But how can they truly escape – through love, death, or something beyond?
I AM A DANCER 2020
Location: New York Live Arts
Dates: June 26 at 7pm, June 27 at 7pm, and June 28 at 2pm & 7pm
Felice Lesser’s “live documentary” I AM A DANCER 2020, a real-time journey into the effects of the pandemic on the dance world, will be given its World Premiere at 7:00pm on Thursday, June 26th at New York Live Arts. I Am a Dancer 2020, which will have four performances through June 28, marks the 50th Anniversary of Felice Lesser Dance Theater. The work combines live dance, projected video, and filmed interviews to depict how dance workers navigated the COVID-19 pandemic.
The live cast for I AM A DANCER 2020 includes Mackenzie Allen, Justice Jackson, Amina Konaté, Kristin Licata (who starred in the original 2006 cast of I AM A DANCER), and Héloïse Ponsonnet. Among those seen on video are Melanie Adam (a principal dancer from the original 1975-76 company), Stephanie (Lyon) Albanese (FLDT’s principal dancer from 1989-2000), and Andrea Kron.