Upcoming Indie Theater – June 25
Each week, we share upcoming indie theater shows and productions 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.
For more coverage of indie theater in New York, please visit New York Theatre Review.
The preview image is from JACK, which is available for rentals.
Sugar Sugar! Performance Series
Venue: Domino Park
Date: June 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.
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?
¡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.
Omeed's Tapestries
Venue: American Theatre of Actors - Sargent Theater
Dates: June 29 - July 10
When an Iranian shopkeeper and his partner secretly plan to flee their homeland to live openly as a same-sex couple, a devout neighbor discovers their secret, placing their future—and their lives—in jeopardy. Inspired by more than three dozen firsthand accounts and interviews, Omeed's Tapestries is a powerful drama about love, courage, and the search for freedom.
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.
STALIN: The Musical
Venue: The Chain Theatre
Dates: July 14, 16, 19, and 22
In this bombastic, historically-questionable, and unapologetically campy comedy musical, history gets hijacked by glitter, groove, and revolution. From boyhood dreams in a Georgian village to a trip to the casino in the shadow of state terror, the show slaps Marxism in a sequined leotard and sends it pirouetting through history.
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!
The Silver Lining with Gianmarco Soresi
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theatre
Dates: July 21
Gianmarco Soresi is a New York-based stand-up comedian, actor, and creator known for his sharp societal observation and spry, energetic stage presence. Gianmarco effortlessly commands a room with his animated style, blending upbeat candor with dark comedic beats, which has garnered him critical acclaim from The New York Times, NPR, Esquire, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, ABC News, Billboard, and many more. He’s performed stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central, Don’t Tell, and was selected as a JFL New Face in 2022. He has amassed a dedicated following of millions across social media accounts and is the host of the popular podcast “The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi". Gianmarco released his first hour-long special, THIEF OF JOY, which reached over 1 million views in the first week and counting.
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.