Upcoming Indie Theater – January 8
We share upcoming indie theater shows/productions happening in New York City. These are submitted by members of the IndieSpace community.
Do you have an upcoming show to share? Use the Show/Production Sharing Form to share the details of your show/production with IndieSpace so that we can share with the community.
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Llontop
Location: Pregones Theater
Dates: January 9–18
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.
The Infinite Wrench
Location: The Second City
Dates: January 9, 10, 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!
Farewell My Fool
Location: Arts on Site
Date: January 11
Part fable, part manifesto, and part love letter to New York City’s working performers, JoyBoy da Clown spirals through an embarrassing audition that leads them to question their integrity and self esteem.
Based on true events, Farewell My Fool is a physical theater performance that utilizes clowning, humor, and audience participation to interrogate the legacy of exploitation in performance, the failures of ambition, respectability politics, and the power of self-realization.
Farewell my Fool originally debuted on June 12-14, 2025 at Triskleion Arts. This performance was made possible by Triskelion Artist In Residence Program and the Foundation For Contemporary Arts.
(No)Refunds
Location: Theaterlab
Dates: January 14-24
(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.
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.
"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.