Upcoming Indie Theater – January 15
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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The preview image is from the Chain Theatre, which is available for rentals.
Llontop
Location: Pregones Theater
Dates: Now through January 18
Anonymous Ensemble’s Llontop celebrates Andean culture and language and features the song-poems of Quechua poet Irma Alvarez-Ccoscco. The work is a three-part experience: an interactive installation of Peruvian heirlooms, a live-film performance for both in-person and virtual audiences, and a lively conversation with the artists about the work and Quechua empowerment.
Blue Bottle
Location: Teatro Latea
Dates: January 15, 17, and 18
Blue Bottle is a haunting new play about family, memory, and the scars of war. Trafalgar, a soldier broken by battle, returns to confront his brother Erkek and the lingering shadow of their younger sister, Justine. As dreams blur with reality and a mother’s letter resurfaces, the siblings are forced to reckon with love, betrayal, and the legacy of violence that binds them. At once lyrical and unsettling, Blue Bottle asks whether peace can be found when the past refuses to stay buried.
(No)Refunds
Location: Theaterlab
Dates: Now through January 24
(No) Refunds is a play about the real-world costs of being a working artist in our contemporary world, disguised as the most fun you’ve ever had at the theatre.
Once, The Musical
Location: The Little Victory Theatre
Dates: January 16-18 and 23-25
Once is a beautiful love story performed with live instruments.
The Infinite Wrench
Location: The Second City
Dates: January 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, and 31
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!
Cimino's Defeat
Location: Torn Page
Dates: January 20 – 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.
Godbird
Location: The Brick/Exponential Festival
Dates: January 21-24
Deb sees a dog. Hugo sees Deb. A bird sees it all.
PANICMOM
Location: The Brick Aux
Dates: January 22, 23, 24
PANICMOM is an unexpecting mother in a fever dream haunted by the Greek God Pan, who induces cycles of death and birth, forcing her to confront the depths in which she's internalized violence and stored it. Almost always, at the center of that depth is a child. The one we once were, the one we plan for, the one we fiercely protect and the one we silenced or sacrificed. Through the power of panic, we will explore the many lifetimes a single wound can echo through. It is also somehow, a surrealist clown show.
How to Make a Doll
Location: Brooklyn Art Haus
Date: January 25
Where do brain anatomy, dollmaking, depression, and healing overlap?
How to Make a Doll is an interdisciplinary solo performance by Marisa Caruso that blends memoir, research, and absurdity to explore mental health and the transformative power of creation. Digging through memory, medical texts, and a towering pile of socks, Caruso searches for meaning in the failures of family and Western medicine.
Video, puppetry, sound, and text collide in an experience where grief meets humor, science meets art, and when words fail, making something by hand becomes a last resort.
The Wayfaring Strangers
Location: The PIT
Date: January 25
Join The Wayfaring Strangers at The PIT for their first improvised bluegrass musical of 2026, featuring brand spankin’ new lyrics to old-timey standards, played on traditional instruments like banjo, guitar, fiddle, washboard, egg shakers and, uh, kazoo …
I want to hold onto something beautiful and empty
Location: The Brick (Exponential)
Dates: January 30 – February 7
One sexy office siren- performed by 4 performers - is trying to answer her daily email. As she hits reply all, she keeps being whisked away into more and more absurd worlds.
"Show Up, Kids!"
Location: The Rat
Dates: February 7, 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.
A Hot Mess’s Guide to Becoming a Better You! (In Just Two Acts!)
Location: The Vino Theatre
Dates: Feb 12-14. Industry Preview on Feb 11
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.