Upcoming Indie Theater – April 2
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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WOYZECK
Venue: Box of Moonlight
Dates: Now to April 4
Woyzeck tells the story of a young solider who signs up for medical experiments to make enough money to support his child out of wedlock. Our inaugural show. This is a new version devised by the cast and creative team.
Mercury Fur
Venue: Gene Frankel Theatre
Dates: Now to April 5
Set in a post-apocalyptic world overtaken by chaos, the play follows two brothers navigating survival in a society where hallucinogenic butterflies have replaced drugs and morality has collapsed. To survive, they organize rituals for wealthy clients who want to experience their darkest and most abnormal fantasies.
Antigone in Analysis
Venue: La MaMa ETC
Dates: Now to April 5
Obie and NYIT award-winning Peculiar Works Project returns to La MaMa ETC’s Downstairs Theater for the world premiere of Antigone in Analysis, written by Barbara Barclay and directed by Ralph Lewis. The Chorus is reimagined as a metaphysical salon of timeless pholosopher who put Jocasta on the throne. Their meddling erupts in a mother-daughter showdown that interrogates patriarchal storytelling through a feminist lens. And there is no battle more fiercely fought than that between a daughter and her mother.
PLAN C
Venue: The Tank
Dates: Now to April 12
In PLAN C, Hook & Eye Theater’s darkly funny, time-collapsing caper of resistance, resourcefulness, and rebellion, 17th-century espionage collides with a modern small-town shop. 1620 Brussels - imperial postmistress Alexandrine Von Taxis moves more than mail through the empire’s hands during The Thirty Years’ War. Present-day West Virginia - Charley Gibson runs her family’s hardware store, where lockers hide more than tools. Using movement, original music, and ensemble-driven storytelling PLAN C theatrically flips between two eras to create a madcap theatrical experience that reflects the complexities of the present moment.
The Infinite Wrench
Venue: Brooklyn Improv (The Lab)
Dates: April 3 and 4
The Infinite Wrench is the NY Neo-Futurists' ever-changing attempt to perform 30 original plays in about an hour. Over 1,000 weeks and 7,500 plays and counting!
The NY Neo-Futurists continue to craft new & vibrant work in The Infinite Wrench at The Second City. Dive into a bold and unpredictable fusion of theater, storytelling, and sport with the New York Neo-Futurists every Friday and Saturday. For each show, the Neos take on the challenge of performing 30 original plays in roughly an hour. Through their unconventional storytelling, they deliver quick, powerful slices of life—crafted from the ensemble's own experiences—at times funny, profound, elegant, gross, topical, irrelevant, or even downright absurd. Every show is different, and with new plays every week, they have created over 7,500 new plays!
Glenn Blurton’s Clown Clar
Venue: Francis Kite Club
Date: April 4
A theatrical variety show dedicated to artistic clowning, presented as a cohesive staged world rather than a loose lineup. This edition is a special showcase of musical clowning, featuring newly devised acts by Anni Rossi, Borbo, Edward Pankov, Kuzu Daddy, Matt Proctor, Joe the Swan, Kill Moves Nate. This show will be hosted by a trio of clowns, in character the entire time: Glenn Blurton, Front Row Phil, and Lindsey Weaving. The show blends playful onstage interaction with original work developed specifically to present the intersection of clowning and musical performance.
Notes on Collagen
Venue: Under St. Marks Theater (NYC Fringe Festival)
Dates: April 4, 11, 13, and 16
Notes on Collagen is a sharp, comic solo show that unpacks aging, beauty standards, and the immigrant experience through the lens of a woman negotiating her face, her visa status, and her value in America. With wit, vulnerability, and biting satire, Fabiana Mattedi explores the quiet panic of collagen loss alongside the bureaucratic absurdities of legal permanence—asking what it costs, financially and spiritually, to remain “desirable” and “valid.” At once hilarious and unsettling, Notes on Collagen Blends storytelling, physical comedy, and cultural critique, the piece exposes the beauty industry’s unspoken commandments while revealing the intimate fears beneath them.
Midnight Cowboy Radio
Venue: A.R.T. New York Theatres- Mezzanine
Date: April 5
It’s Labor Day in Kentucky, 2022! Midnight Cowboy Radio follows a late-night conservative radio talk show host, giving local callers unfounded life-advice on the air, while arranging an illegal abortion off the air. And, always, entertaining y’all for those long drives home!
LIPSTICK
Venue: Chain Theatre (NYC Fringe)
Dates: April 5, 7, 16, and 19
Haunted by his mother’s reflection, a man fights to be seen while questioning his own existence. Blending live music, magical realism, and immersive theatre, LIPSTICK is a cathartic ritual that transforms vulnerability into spectacle.
Based on a story by acclaimed Peruvian writer Linda Morales Caballero and performed by award-winning actor Edu Díaz (A Drag Is Born).
I Am Nobody
Venue: The Magnet Theater
Dates: April 6, 13, 20, 27 and May 4, 11
From Tony Award-winner Greg Kotis (Urinetown, The End of All Flesh) comes a tuneful 21st century parable about humankind’s subordination to myriad technological devices that somehow feels even timelier now than it did when the Covid-19 pandemic forced its extremely premature closure in March of 2020. "This modern world is tearing us apart, still we could not survive in any other place or time."
Last Request
Venue: LATEA Theater, at The Clemente
Dates: April 9 - 26
Set in a pre-war apartment building in the 1950s the Bronx, LAST REQUEST by Pedro Petri, is a dark comedy that tests morality, dignity, fidelity and the scourge of greed. A young, an old and blind couple are the characters of this play in which building residents discover a lifeless gentleman in the middle of the lobby as a series of tragic-comic situations develop, testing their humanity.
Knock Twice Comedy Show
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Date: April 10
Knock Twice Comedy Show is a secret stand-up experience tucked away inside Port Authority’s Hidden Jewel Box Theater. Married couple Vicky Kuperman and Max Cohen host this speakeasy-style night of laughs delivers sharp jokes and surprise guests, featuring NYC's funniest comics. It’s the kind of show you only find if you know where to knock—literally.
Macbeth
Venue: The Polonsky Shakespeare Center @ 262 Ashland Place
Date: April 13
Join Apocalyptic Artists & Red Bull Theater for a one-night-only public performance of their 2026 NYC School Tour of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Directed by Alice Renier and featuring performances by Blaize Adler-Ivanbrook, Diana Coates, Kaileela Hobby, Đavid Lee Huỳnh, Sina Pooresmaeil, Nick Shea, Kea Trevett and Chad Pierre Van.
The Love Show at The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Date: April 18
Join us for a heartfelt and intimate night of dance, song, and theater. Laugh, cry, and experience an unforgettable evening of whimsy. The Love Show NYC, a globe trotting theater dance company of 20+ years, invites you to experience an evening of emotion in their whimsical home, The Hidden Jewel Box Theater, a secret speakeasy nestled in the world’s busiest bus terminal.
Back Float: A Very Hard of Hearing, Deaf-ish, Bluegrass-Forward Solo Show
Venue: Emerging Artists Theatre - Spark Theatre Festival / TADA
Date: April 22
Back Float is a daring, deeply human solo show about an actor and musician navigating hearing loss. Blending folk music, auditory soundscape, spoken English and ASL, the piece lives in the charged in-between: between sound and silence, labels and lived experience, isolation and belonging. Intimate, inventive, and witty, Back Float charts one woman’s unapologetic reclamation of sound, memory, and identity.
Richard lll: A Twisted Fairytale
Venue: American Theater of Actors- John Cullum Theater
Dates: April 22-26
Once upon a time…when the Villains ruled the kingdom…and tried to destroy each other… Enter the kingdom of Disneare…where King William Disneare has been violently overthrown by a collection of infamous fairytale villains, meanwhile the malevolent hunchback Richard III plots the downfall of his wicked family in a relentless quest to capture the throne. Epiphany Shakespeare invites you to witness a spellbinding tale where Shakespeare’s greatest villain plots, betrays and battles against your favorite characters from Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Peter Pan, Beauty & the Beast, and many more!
Twelfth Night
Venue: El Barrio's ArtSpace PS109
Dates: April 23 - May 3
Completing Tier5’s ShakesQueer Comedy trilogy (after A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2024, Much Ado About Nothing in 2025), we’re taking Shakespeare's romantic comedy about gender bending mistaken identities and turning it up to 11. Come fall in love at El Barrio: join us for a night of laughter, romance, and rock ‘n’ roll.
Overeager
Venue: Brooklyn Art Haus
Date: April 29
Enchanted by promises of success and sisterhood, a lonely college dropout joins a pyramid scheme, only to realize that the desperate longing for her deceased mother has shaped every relationship in her life.