Upcoming Indie Theater – June 19
Each week, we share upcoming indie theater shows and productions in New York City. These are submitted by members of the IndieSpace community.
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Dispatch 06.19.26: Homegoing/Homecoming
Venue: JACK
Date: June 19
Dispatch 06.19.26.: Homegoing / Homecoming is an intimate live podcast event by The Parsnip Ship and JACK gathering Black diaspora artists to explore the art of sending and receiving messages across time and space through original theatrical works and live music, recorded live before an intimate audience.
Come for the show. Stay for the Homecoming: food, drinks, and community to close out the night together.
"Uncle Vanya" - Free Performances in Battery Park
Venue: Castle Clinton National Monument
Dates: June 19-21
Lower Manhattan’s Shakespeare Downtown celebrates its 10th season of free performances with Geoffrey Horne’s translation of “Uncle Vanya” - Anton Chekhov’s timeless tragicomedy of longing, frustration, and fading dreams; performed within the open-air stone walls of Castle Clinton National Monument June 11–21, 2026. Free tickets are available at the door beginning at 5:45 p.m. on the day of each performance.
Fear & Wonder
Venue: Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre / A.R.T. New York Theatres
Dates: From now through June 27
Forced to share a room at a conservative Christian summer camp, picture-perfect Ryan and cynical rebel Jabez expect nothing but a week of forced prayers. Instead, their late-night debates spark a magnetic, dangerous attraction that threatens everything they know. When the real world crashes in, will the fear of losing it all tear them apart, or will they risk everything to make something wonderful?
Vigilia
Venue: Hybrid Movement Lab
Dates: June 20
VIGILIA - A Summer Solstice Celebration is an experimental performance art event by Hybrid Movement Company.
It is scheduled for Sat, 21 Jun 2025, 8:00 PM to Sun, 22 Jun 2025, 2:00 AM EDT at Hybrid Movement Creative Lab in Brooklyn, New York.
I AM GOING TO DIE (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes)
Venue: The Rat NYC
Date: June 21
Lousy Cupcake (as we colloquially call it) is highly improvisational and experimental as it explores death from two perspectives -- that of a person who knows they are going to die and that of a person who’s lost a dear friend and must now process their grief. The play consists of a structured script with built in opportunities for improv and audience interaction. Every night as the figure greets the audience, the actor builds a new and unique character based on audience suggestions. This character is born, lives, and eventually dies all while regaling the audience with hysterical and heart-wrenching stories. Lousy Cupcake seeks to open up conversations about the societally taboo topic of death and grief -- especially for those actively processing their own mortality and/or the death of a loved one.
The Wayfaring Strangers, improvised bluegrass musical
Venue: The PIT Loft
Dates: June 21
Join The Wayfaring Strangers at The PIT on Fathers Day, June 21 at 7pm for an improvised bluegrass musical, featuring brand spankin’ new lyrics to old-timey standards, played on traditional instruments like banjo, guitar, fiddle, stand up bass, washboard, harmonica and jug.
Better than a tie or some aftershave in a novelty bottle!
The Internet's Boyfriend
Venue: The Tank
Dates: June 22
Actor Kiran Ramesh has just regained Twitter’s attention with his new romance movie Snow Song. When he gets an email from Marley Park, a journalist best known for their candid marathon interviews with Hollywood giants, he’s met with a proposal: a one-hour interview every day, for a full calendar year. Sparks fly between interviewer and interviewee, and the two must tread the line between personal and professional as their 365 days together come to pass.
Sugar Sugar! Performance Series
Venue: Domino Park
Dates: June 17, 18, 24, and 25
Returning to Domino Park for its second edition, Sugar Sugar! will transform Domino Square’s waterfront amphitheater into a festive open-air stage for free, experimental performances. The series runs June 3 to 25, 2026, presenting performances on Wednesday and Thursday evenings each week. Over the four-week run, some of the city’s most exciting artists working across dance, puppetry, clowning, theater, performance art, and music will premiere ambitious, site-responsive works—many artists presenting large-scale performance outdoors for the first time. This year’s program features new work by New York artists Amando Houser and Pussypaws Puppetry; Julia Antinozzi and Isa Spector; HOLE PICS; and Malcolm-x Betts and Kat Sotelo. Three of the four performance weeks were conceived as pairings, with each curator shaping different weeks, inviting unexpected connections or illuminating shared artistic sensibilities, alongside one week devoted to the queer art collective HOLE PICS.
UNLABELED
Venue: Culturelab LIC
Date: June 25
Inspired by Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, UNLABELED is an evening of original stories, performances, music, and lived experiences exploring identity, the body, race, gender, sexuality, culture, faith, family, disability, survival, healing, and everything in between. 7:00 PM Doors 7:30 - 9:00 PM Event Originally created in the Hunter College Women and Gender Studies Department in 2020, the project was postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic before it had the opportunity to be fully realized in person.
Five years later, this long-awaited project finally comes to life on stage. Featuring a diverse lineup of artists, performers, writers, musicians, and storytellers, UNLABELED creates space for honest, personal, and often vulnerable reflections on what shapes us, challenges us, and connects us.
Through monologues, spoken word, music, movement, and personal testimony, the evening celebrates the complexity of human experience while uplifting voices that are too often unheard. Curated and produced by Penelope Deen. Presented by UNLABELED and Culture Lab LIC as part of Pride Month 2026.
¡Pueblo Harlem! Celebrating Latino Culture
Venue: The Riverside Church
Date: June 26
Belongó invites you to the 12th annual ¡Pueblo Harlem! - Celebrating Latino Culture, a day-long music festival in Harlem that brings together community, culture, and live performance at the iconic Riverside Church in West Harlem. A whole-day affair for families and the Harlem community, Pueblo Harlem welcomes audiences of all ages to experience a vibrant celebration of music, movement, and cultural exchange.
THE LOVE SHOW at The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Dates: June 26 & 27
The Love Show, a globe trotting theater dance company of 20+ years invites you to experience an evening of emotion in their whimsical home. Join us for a heartfelt and intimate night of dance, song, and theater. Laugh, cry, and experience an unforgettable evening of whimsy.
ChuanFest 2026 - An AAPI Contemporary Performance Festival
Venue: 122 Community Theater (East Village) and 3AM Theater (Astoria, Queens)
Dates: July 9-12
ChuanFest is an AAPI interdisciplinary performance festival organized by the award-winning in-version ensemble. The Festival, spanning four days (July 9th-July 12th), has 6 main shows, alongside an interactive installation, a prelude poetry workshop, and a community gathering with food making, across 2 venues in East Village and Astoria, Queens.
EdFest
Venue: Brooklyn Art Haus
Dates: July 14-19
Duces Wild presents EdFest: a festival of Edinburgh Fringe previews 14-19 July 2026 @ Brooklyn Art Haus Six days. Fifteen shows bound for Edinburgh Fringe. Catch the next Fringe breakout star before they even get to Scotland. Featuring drag, clown, theatre, comedy, storytelling, dance, music, and immersive shows, there's something for everyone. Revolution! Microsoft Paint! Grief! Emoji! Starry Night! Love! Spies! Fame! Tickets start at $20. Use code HAGGIS to save when you buy tickets to more than one show in the festival.
Crimes of the Heart
Venue: 154 Christopher Street
Dates: June 15-26
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, directed by Eve Bianco | Presented by Red Door Productions
It's been a bad week for the Magrath sisters. The eldest is turning thirty alone. The middle one has come home from Hollywood with broken dreams. The youngest has just shot her husband. Set over a few extraordinary days in a kitchen in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, Crimes of the Heart is Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sisters, secrets, survival, and the particular madness of family love. Devastating and hilarious in equal measure, often in the same breath. Red Door Productions brings this Southern tragicomedy to New York City for a limited two-week run at 154 Theater on Christopher Street.
Woyzeck
Venue: Modern Sweater
Dates: July 15 – August 8
Adult Film will present Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, translated by the late and storied American actor, John Christopher Jones, directed by international director Seth Bockley (2666, Gilgamesh) Summer of Blood!! Woyzeck will be the inaugural production at Modern Sweater, a former sweater factory in the heart of the independent arts capital of New York, Ridgewood. Joining the Adult Film company members is Randall Jaynes, who served as a Blue Man and the Senior Artistic Director with Blue Man Group for over two decades. Woyzeck will present a site-specific exploration of class conflict and madness. A rock musical devising lyrics from 1830s Germany. A horror story through a humanist lens.
“Planet of the Grapes” - An Epic, Tabletop, Sci-Fi Adventure
Venue: Under St. Marks
Dates: July 16-19
Award-winning lockdown hit “Planet of the Grapes” transports audiences to a futuristic world where talking grapes reign supreme and humans are rendered speechless. Directed by Michole Biancosino, this fast-paced comedic homage blends the charm of Victorian toy theater with the sci-fi spectacle of the 1968 classic “Planet of the Apes,” creating an interactive, immersive, all-ages adventure packed into a juicy 60 minutes. Produced by Project Y Theatre, SparkDog Productions Inc., and PM2 Entertainment.
Foosball
Venue: Arts On Site
Dates: July 16 - August 1
Caught between small-town Michigan drama and an abusive father, JJ Janson has to navigate an impossible love triangle on his 16th birthday. Foosball begs the question: Can we overcome our trauma or do we learn to live with our wounds? That's Pure Michigan, baby!
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theatre
Dates: July 24-26
Shakespeare’s famous comedy features messy love triangles, mischievous magic, and a person with a donkey’s head. Four Athenian lovers flee into a magical forest only to be caught in the middle of the fairy king and queen's argument. Puck, the mischievous trickster, meddles with their feelings towards one another; meanwhile, a group of actors is preparing a play for the Athenian king's wedding day. What could go wrong?
THE BRIDE: A Kill Bill Ballet
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Dates: July 31 – August 2
The Love Show's iconic tribute to Kill Bill, The Bride returns with a vengeance, tearing into the Theater District with grit, wit, sex, and action that won't quit. From director/choreographer Angela Harriell and her prolific dance theater company, The Love Show NYC, comes an homage to Quentin Tarantino’s classic film cycle about revenge, honor, and redemption. A cult classic reimagined through evocative dance and live song, The Bride: A Kill Bill Ballet is a wildly entertaining ride. It's sexy, wacky, beautiful, and weird.