Upcoming Indie Theater – June 4
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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Find A Good Husband
Venue: The Bernie Wohl Center Theater
Dates: June 4-6
Created by Yvonne Huatin Chow | 周化炜, Find A Good Husband is a tribute to Yvonne’s paternal grandfather, Mike Kuo-Min Chow (Yeh Yeh), inspired by a message he wrote in his final birthday card to her. Blending live narration, Hip-Hop/Street Dance, and Asian folklore, this dance theater work explores love, lineage, and cultural duty through a queer lens.
HardLove
Venue: SoHo PlayHouse
Date: June 4-6
Following its sold-out 2025 run at NYC’s legendary SoHo Playhouse, the critically acclaimed dark comedy "HardLove" extends for the third time from May 1-June 6. In “HardLove,” a volatile late-night encounter fueled by booze and magnetic attraction forces two strangers to confront their fears, desires, and the fragile lines between connection and destruction. Featuring Miray Beşli and Chandler Stephenson. Directed by Jee Duman.
Dragoness
Venue: Inspiration Point
Dates: June 4 - 7
Dragoness is a high-octane, satirical commentary on race and creating art under capitalism, Dragoness interrogates the ethics of reinventing identity in order to satisfy the expectations of those in power. Presented in tandem with the play will be a gallery exhibition titled “Misalignment” at Fashion Moda Modern. The show invites artists to respond to paradoxes, splits, and contradictions. The work confronts internalized oppression, betrayal—of language, land, lineage—and the uneasy desire to pass, belong, or ascend.
The Naked Woman
Venue: Theatre 154
Dates: Now through June 14
The Naked Woman is a gripping, darkly comic drama about love, morality, and blind devotion. It unfolds over a winter holiday in an Upstate New York country house, where a family of Soviet immigrants gathers to celebrate Misha (Ilia Volok), a man who has built a life on achievement, intelligence, and survival, until a single moment shatters the illusion… As the incident seeps into the house, the lively family gathering turns into a Chekhovian moral reckoning.
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Sugar Sugar! Performance Series
Venue: Domino Park
Dates: June 4, 10, 11, 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.
The Vengeance Room
Venue: Under St Marks
Date: June 5
5 people. 4 weapons. Only one way out. Who will survive the Vengeance Room?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Venue: Purgatory BK
Date: June 6
Ghost Light Theatre Company invites you to our upcoming RHPS fundraiser shadowcast to support our 2026 season. Don’t miss our raffle featuring fantastic prizes—each entry helps support the stories we can’t wait to share on stage. Come join us at Purgatory, grab a drink, and enjoy the show! 💋 We hope to see you there!
“Planet of the Grapes” - An Epic, Tabletop, Sci-Fi Adventure
Venue: The Rat
Dates: June 6 & 7
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.
A Conversation with Hungarian Theatre Artists: Theatre from the Streets After Regime Change
Venue: New Perspectives Theatre Company/Gilder-Coigney International Theatre Forum
Date: June 8
Join New Perspectives Theatre Company’s Gilder-Coigney International Theatre Forum for a live international panel bringing together artists from the second round of Theatre From The Streets to reflect on the years since the original project, the evolving landscape of Hungarian theatre, and the role of artists in times of political and social change. Originally created during Viktor Orbán’s rule in Hungary, Theatre From The Streets documented urgent conversations around censorship, artistic resistance, nationalism, identity, and survival within the arts. Now, following Hungary’s recent election cycle, this panel revisits those conversations with the artists who lived them. What has changed? What has remained the same? And how might shifts in Hungary resonate with artists and activists across the globe?
Fear & Wonder
Venue: Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre / A.R.T. New York Theatres
Dates: June 8-27
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?
LAST NIGHT EVER with Mary MacK
Venue: The Vino Theater
Dates: June 11 & 12
A live sketch comedy special hosted by stand-up comedian Mary MacKeen! Years in the future, the nefarious GovCorp has decided it's time to shut down television forever. But first they'll have to convince Americans they don't like TV-- By creating the worst late night show that's ever been produced. Can our lovable host turn things around and make this show a winner? Probably not.
An Iliad
Venue: Gallery 198
Dates: June 11-14
Intimate and bracingly timely, An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare reimagines Homer’s epic through the eyes of The Poet, a timeless storyteller compelled to recount the tale of the Trojan War again and again until humanity can finally overcome its appetite for violence and destruction. In a performance of both substance and stamina, Heather Lee Echeverria takes on The Poet and Adult Film company member Stephee Bonifacio plays the Muse. Together, they trace the devastation of war and the corrosive force of rage, all while reminding us of our own humanity and how easily we can lose sight of it.
"Uncle Vanya" - Free Performances in Battery Park
Venue: Castle Clinton National Monument
Dates: June 11-14 and 18-21
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.
He Hates Me!
Venue: The Tank
Dates: June 15-17
He Hates Me! is a comedy about overwhelming guilt. You know when you feel like you did something wrong? And you can’t stop thinking about it? So you become obsessed with making it right? But you never really can? And that makes you only want to try harder to fix it? But in the process of rectifying you kind of… make everything much, much worse? This play dives headfirst into that cycle: a chaotic tornado of a fractured friend group, the weight of the past, and the uncomfortable truth that not everyone is going to like you.
The Wayfaring Strangers
Venue: The PIT Loft
Dates: June 21
Join The Wayfaring Strangers for an improvised bluegrass musical featuring brand spankin’ new lyrics to old-timey standards, played on traditional instruments like banjo, stand up bass, guitar, fiddle, washboard, egg shakers and jug. With opening acts Goat Party (April), SLOP (May) and Unheard Of (June).
¡Pueblo Harlem! Celebrating Latino Culture
Venue: The Riverside Church
Dates: 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.