Upcoming Indie Theater – February 28
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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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.
THE WOKE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD THE III: DYKE OF GLOUCESTER
Location: City Garage
Date: February 28
Richard Plantaganet is the Dyke of Gloucester, terrorzing near future Neo-England. Shakespeare's iconic villain is reimagined through a queer lens to explore a new perspective on Richard's psychology, relationships, and demise with intensity and momentum.
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.
Appetite
Location: The Makers’ Ensemble
Dates: February 28 and March 1
An eclectic gaggle of social media influencers congregates in the woods for an elusive and exclusive retreat where they compete for early access to upcoming trends. This year? They’re being asked to market the newest product in health and wellness: human meat. The team's ridiculous attempts to glamorize cannibalism offer a glimpse into the unsavory world of influencing. When do your career aspirations eclipse your personal values? Who do you become when you commodify your personality and your lived experience? And do we taste better grilled or air-fried?
The Infinite Wrench
Location: The Second City
Dates: February 28, March 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, and 21
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!
Sunday Matinee with Corn Mo
Location: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Date: March 1
Raconteur and troubadour Corn Mo brings his patented combination of original songs and delightful anecdotes to The Hidden Jewelbox Theater.
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.
ExtraO1dinary Aliens!
Location: JACK
Dates: March 7-14
Corneliu is an immigrant from Romania who is in love with Kay, a U.S. Citizen. Linh is Kay's best friend who might have let her student visa lapse?! David has dreams of opening up his restaurant with his cousin Enoc. ExtraO1dinary Aliens! is a love story centered on immigrants and the ones who love them. How can love defy the dehumanizing machinations of the US Immigration system? What makes someone leave everything they've ever known to journey to a foreign land? What makes someone stay despite the hostile environment? What is the promise of the American dream and can it ever be a reality?
Out of the Woods
Location: The Tank NYC
Dates: March 9, 10, 13, and 14
A playful, imaginative, and cheeky romp into the world of BDSM and how it was the catalyst for a healing journey.
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.
Hadid
Location: Under St Marks
Dates: March 15
Helena Hadid, the normal-looking sister of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, is forced to confront jealousy, ambition, and the complicated nature of sibling bonds as she navigates building her own identity apart from her hyper-famous family.
Split Bill: I have my grandfather's nose/Between Skin
Location: Arts on Site
Dates: March 15
Racoco Productions and JC Project present a shared evening of dance, sensation, and memory. Racoco’s "I have my grandfather's nose" conjures our grandparents from objects they’ve left behind, through Racoco’s signature blend of dance, music, theater, things, the tender, and the absurd. JC Project’s Between Skin investigates the tension that emerges through contrast: softness and resistance, containment and expansion, asking how bodies negotiate force and what is revealed through the ever-changing exchange of energy.
A Spanglish Affair Open Mic
Location: Frigid NYC
Date: March 16
We are excited to provide a safe space for artists to explore and share their art in front of a live audience. If there's something you've always wanted to do, this is a space for you to do it!
While our company focuses on Spanish and Spanglish content, this is not a requirement for your piece—if you're someone with art to share, this space is for you.
Here are some ideas for types of performers we're looking for: singers, dancers, performance art, burlesque, actors, visual artists, clowning, spoken word, poetry.
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!
We have 8 available spots which will be filled first-come first-served basis.
Antigone in Analysis
Location: La MaMa ETC
Dates: March 20 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. This contemporary makeover reimagines the classical myth as a feminist fever dream of Greek storytelling trapped in a philosophical nightmare. The Chorus is centered in a metaphysical salon where Jocasta never committed suicide. Their meddling erupts in a mother-daughter throwdown that interrogates patriarchal storytelling through a feminist lens. And there is no battle more fiercely fought than that between a daughter and her mother.
KITTYGRRL_
Location: Makers’ Space
Dates: March 25-29
KITTYGRRl_ is a one-woman play about an Instagram influencer whose private video is uploaded to Only Fans without her consent. The play tells a story of sex, trauma and the body that carries her through it all.
Notes on Collagen
Location: 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.
Macbeth
Location: 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.
Back Float: A Very Hard of Hearing, Deaf-ish, Bluegrass-Forward Solo Show
Location: 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.