Indie Theater Thursday – May 01
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.
The Episodic Theatre Project Season 2 presents: Don’t Turn Around Now
Location: Frigid New York/Under St. Marks
Dates: April 24, May 1, May 8, May 15, and May 22 at 7pm
Join the Episodic Theatre Project for five binge-worthy episodes of “Don’t Turn Around Now,” our Season 2 show. Over the course of five weeks, the mysteries of Knife’s Point will unfold in a series of self-contained plays with one central, suspense-filled arc.
Within the walls of Knife’s Point’s popular diner, secrets are brewing faster than a pot of Maxwell House. If charismatic millionaire Manny has their way, a new Arts District on Main Street will become the next big arts hub, overrun with artists, deep-pocketed tourists, and magazine features (plus murder plots). While locals are excited that their sleepy town will soon be revived, a few characters from Manny’s past will stop at nothing to prevent the Arts District plans from coming to fruition. Can Knife’s Point withstand the burden of secrets, pot-stirring, and small-town backstabbing? Only time—and five tea-spilling episodes—will tell.
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY
Location: Multiple venues in New York
Dates: May 5 - 19
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY is a showcase of performances from Italy, presented in the five NYC boroughs with minimal tech and set design. All shows have English supertitles and are free admission to all, offering Italian theater to everyone in New York City!
The End of All Flesh
Location: The Magnet Theater
Dates: May 5, May 19, June 2, 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.
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
Those Who Remained
Location: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, The Club
Dates: May 8 - 10 at 7:30pm, May 11 at 3pm, May 15-17 at 7:30pm, and May 18 at 3pm
In this transformative multimedia solo show, Sophia Gutchinov explores the profound depths of love through a deeply personal lens of Indigenous ceremony and modern dating. Drawing from her unique Italian-Mongolian heritage, she weaves a narrative that bridges cultural divides, reflecting her background of a Buddhist father and Catholic mother.
The performance incorporates projections, comedy, and spoken word, creating an immersive experience that confronts personal roots and identity. Collaborating with artists from diverse backgrounds – including AAPI, Latin, Black, LGBTQ+, and Kalmyk tribal performers – Gutchinov examines her family’s complex history, including her grandparents’ escape from WWII, her parent’s nomadic journey to…New Jersey, and her recent journey to her father’s homeland, all viewed through an intersection of acting and neuroscience.
Tiresias Presents Quantum Physique
Location: Ars Nova Theater
Date: May 14 at 7pm
Featuring some of the most visionary performing artists in New York City, Tiresias Presents Mysteriosa is a fantasia of short new works promising untold mystery and magic. Step inside, stay for a spell, and unspool the secrets of Mysteriosa. With SYNEAD | TRISTAN ALLEN | MIZUHO KAPPA | GOD COMPLEX | & TIRESIAS (PUPPETRY, DRAG, MUSIC, & PERFORMANCE ART)
Tiresias Presents Quantum Physique
Location: The Chocolate Factory (70 Scott Ave)
Date: May 14, 10pm-4am
Tiresias Presents Quantum Physique is an experimental art rave loosely inspired by the mind-bending (and queer) science of quantum physics, featuring world-class butoh, techno, sound and performance art all night long.
dhoka/Betrayal/
Location: JACK
Dates: May 15-17 at 7:30pm; May 17 at 3:00pm
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.