Upcoming Indie Theater – January 31
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 Trash Garden
Location: UNDER St Marks
Dates: January 31
Living in a wasteland of garbage, Atlas and Evelyn play games and reinvent theater to cope being being the last people on Earth. Come see resident playwright Padraig Bond 's benefit production of The Trash Garden, Best Play Winner at the 2024 NYC Fringe at FRIGID! The Trash Team is gearing up to perform at Adelaide International Festival Fringe in Australia this March, and you can support them by attending this show!
Always Young The Musical
Location: Theater For The New City
Dates: January 31 and February 1
Always Young is a heart-warming, magical reflection on British school days in the eighties. Discover the possible stories behind the characters we all remember from school. An insightful and thought provoking look at how our school experiences and parenting influenced who we are today.
A show for adults about our memories. A nostalgic yet disconcerting reality check, that uses music, and tall tales to deliver powerful messages.
20 Original musical numbers accentuate the stories with genre bending sounds and styles that traverse musical history. Honky-Tonk Piano meets Contemporary Rock with feelgood Broadway and Vaudevillian style numbers.
The Infinite Wrench
Location: The Second City
Dates: January 31, February 6, 7, 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!
I want to hold onto something beautiful and empty
Location: The Brick (Exponential)
Dates: Now through 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.
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.
"Show Up, Kids!"
Location: Shapeshifter Lab
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.