Upcoming Indie Theater – February 12
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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Love Is Queer Play Festival
Location: The Center
Date: February 12
"Love Is Queer" is Village Playwrights' annual Ten-Minute Play Festival featuring winning playwrights!
A Hot Mess’s Guide to Becoming a Better You! (In Just Two Acts!)
Location: The Vino Theatre
Dates: Feb 12-14
Self proclaimed “Recovering Hot Mess”, Eve, has lived her life caught in a constant cycle of failed self improvement attempts that only lead her back to where she started. And after the walk of shame from hell… she creates the unconventional guide for messy girls in pursuit of a rebrand. Yet as she journeys on the quest to clean up her act, her subconscious, personified as a chaotic ensemble of ex flings, influencers, hippies, frat bros, artists & Doctor Freud, we question whether her resilience is motivated by self love or self hatred.
Cimino's Defeat
Location: Torn Page
Dates: Now through February 14
After gaining acclaim and recognition with his film The Deer Hunter, director Michael Cimino rose to fame and power within the flourishing New Hollywood system. With his new found success came megalomania, and Cimino's following film Heaven's Gate was rife with production troubles and ultimately flopped. This commercial and critical failure resulted in the end of Hollywood's director driven era and the beginning of commercial, studio driven filmmaking. Witness the seeds of this cinema apocalypse in an intimate, behind the scenes style in Cimino's Defeat.
Get Rhythm
Location: Arts On Site
Date: February 13
A collection of works rooted in the music that raises us and the people who pass it on. Featuring performances by emerging choreographers and musicians, the evening explores how sound and shared experience shape the way we move.
The Infinite Wrench
Location: The Second City
Dates: February 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, and 28
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!
"Show Up, Kids!"
Location: Shapeshifter Lab
Dates: February 14, 21, 28
This acclaimed, long-running, interactive musical show for kids 3-10 years old puts a wildly comedic twist on the traditional kids’ show. When the main attraction doesn’t show up, the host enlists the help of the kids (and their grownups) to control everything from plot to props, characters to costumes, and settings to sound in a one-of-a-kind, 45-minute laughfest.
"Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn)"
Location: Speyer Hall
Date: February 20
"Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn)" is a searing and tender new play that delves fearlessly into the dark heart of real estate development in its power to reshape both the city and the souls of its inhabitants. As the buildings go up, the people change.
FLEUR
Location: Blunt Theatrical Company
Dates: February 21 and 28
FLEUR is a high concept immersive cabaret, and a seance for community, through the art and practice of creation.
Episodes
Location: Arts On Site
Date: February 22
"Episodes" will feature a collection of new and returning works including an excerpt of “Rocket Man” which premiered in August of 2025. These works focus on connection and the relationships we build with ourselves and others.
Brandon Coleman is a NYC-based choreographer, educator and performer whose work blends virtuosic physicality with cinematic storytelling. Across both narrative and non-linear works, his choreography explores ambition, isolation, and the human desire for connection with a sense of curiosity, nostalgia, and play.
Wayfaring Strangers
Location: The PIT
Dates: February 22
After January's Snowpocalypse forced us to cancel our first engagement of 2026, Theater of the Apes is delighted to present what is by default the first The Wayfaring Strangers improvised bluegrass musical of 2026. With opening act Goat Party!
El Odio de un Pais/ The Hate of a Country
Location: Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre (304 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036)
Dates: February 27 and 28
La Lucha Arts Presents: Workshop Reading: EL ODIO DE UN PAIS/ The Hate of a Country (part of the Latin is American play cycle) by Raquel Almazan EL ODIO DE UN PAIS/ The Hate of a Country, explores the conditions of women through the dramatization of violence contrasted with the actions of healing and solidarity within female communities. An autobiographical and biographical series of scenes that explore the mainstream history of Costa Rica from the perspective of family lineage.
Fail Risk Play Reading
Location: Court Square Theater
Date: February 28
Inspired by the playwright's experience living with two rare diseases, and taking place on Rare Disease Day, join us for a reading of Fail Risk. Fail Risk is a bold, unflinching new play about love, chronic illness, and survival. Following Peyton and Alex through the first five years of their marriage and the onset of a mysterious illness, it confronts guilt, burnout, and medical trauma while rejecting the “love conquers all” cliché. Centering the messy realities of illness, the play highlights the importance of trauma-informed medical care and the vital role of those who truly “get it” in surviving chronic illness.
The Love Show NYC
Location: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Date: February 28
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. Tucked away in a secret corner of the Theater District, The Hidden Jewel Box is a space like none other, a bohemian haven mixing decorative elements drawing from Rococo paintings, Victorian boudoirs, 1970s discotheques and Grimm fairy tales.
KPC's Pathway to Wellness through Movement: I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE...
Location: Brooklyn Heights Public Library, Multipurpose room
Date: March 7
KPC’s Pathway to Wellness through Movement: I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE... is an essential resource for people dealing with substance use and mental health complexities, and their loved ones. I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE... is a dance musical that centers a person with substance use disorder and their siblings as they face this family disorder together. KPC's Pathway to Wellness through Movement workshops start with emotionally guided movement exercises inspiring physical expression, followed by the performance of I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE... by the Performing Artists of KPC, culminating in a talkback between the artists and audience.
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Location: Port Richmond Library
Date: March 14
Experience a live adaptation of "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter," by Erika L. Sánchez , an award-winning bestseller about a young woman coming to terms with the death of her sister while struggling to find herself amid the pressures of growing up “perfect” in a Mexican family. Literature to Life is a performance-based literacy organization that presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American literary classics. Now, in partnership with NYPL, Literature to Life brings "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L . Sánchez to the stage at Port Richmond Library.