Upcoming Indie Theater – April 11
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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Phryne, Queen of Athens
Venue: Stag & Lion Theatre Co
Date: April 11
Phryne, Queen of Athens is a striking and inventive character study of the most influential courtesan of Ancient Greece. Best known for her famous trial, the illustrious priestess of Aphrodite captivated the denizens of Athens with her beauty, wit, and devotion to the vulnerable. The show features live orchestrations of original music, dance, and a predominately female-production team, Phryne, Queen of Athens is a show you won’t want to miss.
Notes on Collagen
Venue: Under St. Marks Theater (NYC Fringe Festival)
Dates: April 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.
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.
ÉTUDE
Venue: The Tank
Dates: Now through April 18
"If Thornton Wilder wrote Gruesome Playground Injuries..." When two soulmates, happily existing in the eternal realm, learn that they will be separated on earth, not even born in the same time or place, they become terrified that they will lose their connection forever. As both are reincarnated in various guises and in varied relationships to each other over the next three hundred years they are forced to test if true (not necessarily romantic) love and eternal connection can survive the trials of the human experience.
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.
Mother.
Venue: The Rat
Dates: April 12 and 19
Mother. is a treatise on the nouns we associate with the word, in the many forms they take. Five artists explore themes of adoption, birth, admiration, nurture, and abandonment through both light humor and painful truth, as told by five queer artists.
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.
I Am Nobody
Venue: The Magnet Theater
Dates: April 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."
LIPSTICK
Venue: Chain Theatre (NYC Fringe)
Dates: April 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).
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.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Venue: Studio 17
Dates: April 30 - May 17
A transformative reimagining of Dale Wasserman’s classic play. By stripping away traditional 1960s gender dynamics—including a female Randle P. McMurphy—this production exposes the universal struggle: the crushing weight of institutional authority against the fluidity of the human spirit. In this ward, the "Combine" seeks to mechanize identity itself, and the patients find power through diverse perspectives and a shared fight for freedom.
The Vengeance Room
Venue: El Barrio's ArtSpace PS109
Dates: April 23 - May 3
5 strangers stricken with amnesia find themselves trapped in a claustrophobic room with 4 weapons sitting on a table: a baseball bat, a sword, a knife and a pistol. Each person discovers this horrific sight, and now must interact with each other and their own fears, as the realization of the Vengeance Room comes into sight: 5 people, 4 weapons…only one way out.
BRICKGIRL
Venue: Brooklyn Art Haus
Dates: May 7-17
There's a rumor going around that if you hate someone enough, BRICKGIRL will kill them. She's skinless, soaked in blood, and howling in pain. She shows up, beats someone to death with a brick, then disappears. No one knows the rules. We all want her to kill the right people. Everyone wants her to kill someone. When there's nowhere else to turn, when no one can help you and nothing gets better, there's BRICKGIRL.
The Life and Times of Daisy Forbes
Venue: La Mama
Dates: May 21-24
The Life and Times of Daisy Forbes is a long-form lip-sync illustrating a show girl, our last show girl who is at a distinct crossroads in her life. A crossroads where she is forced to make the decision of whether or not to continue pushing the rock up the hill as a performer and human being in this world. Via TV interviews, trashy pop, obscure musical theater scores and film scenes, Daisy channels these voices as a means of excavating the choices she has made, the feeling of abandonment and the uncertain future ahead.