Upcoming Indie Theater – March 12
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 preview image is from JACK, which is available for rentals.
ExtraO1dinary Aliens!
Location: JACK
Dates: March 12-14
Corneliu is an immigrant from Romania who is in love with Kay, a U.S. Citizen. Linh is Kay's best friend who might have let her student visa lapse?! David has dreams of opening up his restaurant with his cousin Enoc. ExtraO1dinary Aliens! is a love story centered on immigrants and the ones who love them. How can love defy the dehumanizing machinations of the US Immigration system? What makes someone leave everything they've ever known to journey to a foreign land? What makes someone stay despite the hostile environment? What is the promise of the American dream and can it ever be a reality?
Moonshiner
Location: Adult Film
Dates: March 12-14
A dreamy mix of Sam Shepard and Sofia Coppola. As the annual wildfires rage along the border of Los Angeles, four women contemplate their futures and wage emotional battles from the rooftop of a stucco apartment building.
Out of the Woods
Location: The Tank NYC
Dates: March 9, 10, 13, and 14
A playful, imaginative, and cheeky romp into the world of BDSM and how it was the catalyst for a healing journey.
Schubert was a Rice Queen
Location: Theaterlab
Dates: March 13 and 15
Vienna, 1828. Composer Franz Schubert is dying, but not without throwing one last party. Re-introducing himself as an Aquarius, tea-spiller, and musical genius, he recollects the life of an artist in post-Napoleonic Vienna under Metternich, where anything erotic, foreign, or new is treated as a political threat. Souvenirs from the Orient become portals to imagined queer histories through piano performance, puppetry, and scandalous reminiscence, recasting Schubert as history’s unwritten rice queen.
The Infinite Wrench
Location: Downtown Art and The Second City
Dates: March 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 Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Location: Port Richmond Library
Date: March 14
Experience a live adaptation of "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter," by Erika L. Sánchez , an award-winning bestseller about a young woman coming to terms with the death of her sister while struggling to find herself amid the pressures of growing up “perfect” in a Mexican family. Literature to Life is a performance-based literacy organization that presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American literary classics. Now, in partnership with NYPL, Literature to Life brings "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L . Sánchez to the stage at Port Richmond Library.
Hadid
Location: Under St Marks
Dates: March 15
Helena Hadid, the normal-looking sister of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, is forced to confront jealousy, ambition, and the complicated nature of sibling bonds as she navigates building her own identity apart from her hyper-famous family.
Split Bill: I have my grandfather's nose/Between Skin
Location: Arts on Site
Dates: March 15
Racoco Productions and JC Project present a shared evening of dance, sensation, and memory. Racoco’s "I have my grandfather's nose" conjures our grandparents from objects they’ve left behind, through Racoco’s signature blend of dance, music, theater, things, the tender, and the absurd. JC Project’s Between Skin investigates the tension that emerges through contrast: softness and resistance, containment and expansion, asking how bodies negotiate force and what is revealed through the ever-changing exchange of energy.
A Spanglish Affair Open Mic
Location: Frigid NYC
Date: March 16
We are excited to provide a safe space for artists to explore and share their art in front of a live audience. If there's something you've always wanted to do, this is a space for you to do it!
While our company focuses on Spanish and Spanglish content, this is not a requirement for your piece—if you're someone with art to share, this space is for you.
Here are some ideas for types of performers we're looking for: singers, dancers, performance art, burlesque, actors, visual artists, clowning, spoken word, poetry.
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!
We have 8 available spots which will be filled first-come first-served basis.
Antigone in Analysis
Location: La MaMa ETC
Dates: March 20 to April 5
Obie and NYIT award-winning Peculiar Works Project returns to La MaMa ETC’s Downstairs Theater for the world premiere of Antigone in Analysis, written by Barbara Barclay and directed by Ralph Lewis. This contemporary makeover reimagines the classical myth as a feminist fever dream of Greek storytelling trapped in a philosophical nightmare. The Chorus is centered in a metaphysical salon where Jocasta never committed suicide. Their meddling erupts in a mother-daughter throwdown that interrogates patriarchal storytelling through a feminist lens. And there is no battle more fiercely fought than that between a daughter and her mother.
The Vagina Monologues
Location: Vino Theatre
Dates: March 20 and 21
We live in a world that teaches people — especially women — that vaginas are something to hide, soften, sanitize, or feel ashamed of. A world that labels bodies as too much, too loud, too graphic, too offensive. This production refuses that silence. Galen Mae Productions’ interpretation of The Vagina Monologues is not interested in neatness, politeness, or comfort. It is interested in pressure. In repetition. In saying the word again and again until it stops being shocking—and then continuing until it becomes powerful. Until it becomes ordinary. Until it becomes beautiful. Until it becomes dangerous again.
Dealbreaker: A sex positive solo show
Location: The Stonewall Inn
Date: March 22
Dealbreaker is about dating with herpes, navigating stigma, and the path to healing. This show is for anyone who's ever feared they might die alone because of herpes or anything else.
Romeo & Juliet
Location: El Barrio's ArtSpace PS109
Dates: March 22 and 23
The Capulets and Montagues hate each other. No one is quite sure why, but they do. So, when Romeo (of the Montagues) and Juliet (of the Capulets) fall truly, madly, deeply in love- things are going to be a little wild. The greatest love story of all time: and we’re putting it together in a week. Our actors and creatives are being given one week of rehearsal to put together an (almost completely) staged pop-up production of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. You are invited to El Barrio for libations and love, as we raise money for our 2026 MainStage productions and New Play Reading Series.
KITTYGRRL_
Location: The Makers' Ensemble
Dates: March 25-29
KITTYGRRl_ is a one-woman play about an Instagram influencer whose private video is uploaded to Only Fans without her consent. The play tells a story of sex, trauma and the body that carries her through it all.
Overflow
Location: Arts on Site
Date: March 26
Overflow is an evening-length work that dives into the mind as perception begins to fracture. Through dance, physical theatre, and text, the piece swings between almost silly moments and deeply serious ones. Humor, chaos, and vulnerability collide as reality becomes increasingly unstable. It’s a strange and intimate look inside a mind pushed past its limits.
Notes on Collagen
Location: Under St. Marks Theater (NYC Fringe Festival)
Dates: April 4, 11, 13, and 16
Notes on Collagen is a sharp, comic solo show that unpacks aging, beauty standards, and the immigrant experience through the lens of a woman negotiating her face, her visa status, and her value in America. With wit, vulnerability, and biting satire, Fabiana Mattedi explores the quiet panic of collagen loss alongside the bureaucratic absurdities of legal permanence—asking what it costs, financially and spiritually, to remain “desirable” and “valid.” At once hilarious and unsettling, Notes on Collagen Blends storytelling, physical comedy, and cultural critique, the piece exposes the beauty industry’s unspoken commandments while revealing the intimate fears beneath them.
I Am Nobody
Location: The Magnet Theater
Dates: April 6, 13, 20, 27 and May 4, 11
From Tony Award-winner Greg Kotis (Urinetown, The End of All Flesh) comes a tuneful 21st century parable about humankind’s subordination to myriad technological devices that somehow feels even timelier now than it did when the Covid-19 pandemic forced its extremely premature closure in March of 2020. "This modern world is tearing us apart, still we could not survive in any other place or time."
Macbeth
Location: The Polonsky Shakespeare Center @ 262 Ashland Place
Date: April 13
Join Apocalyptic Artists & Red Bull Theater for a one-night-only public performance of their 2026 NYC School Tour of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Directed by Alice Renier and featuring performances by Blaize Adler-Ivanbrook, Diana Coates, Kaileela Hobby, Đavid Lee Huỳnh, Sina Pooresmaeil, Nick Shea, Kea Trevett and Chad Pierre Van.
Back Float: A Very Hard of Hearing, Deaf-ish, Bluegrass-Forward Solo Show
Location: Emerging Artists Theatre - Spark Theatre Festival / TADA
Date: April 22
Back Float is a daring, deeply human solo show about an actor and musician navigating hearing loss. Blending folk music, auditory soundscape, spoken English and ASL, the piece lives in the charged in-between: between sound and silence, labels and lived experience, isolation and belonging. Intimate, inventive, and witty, Back Float charts one woman’s unapologetic reclamation of sound, memory, and identity.
Richard lll: A Twisted Fairytale
Location: American Theater of Actors- John Cullum Theater
Dates: April 22-26
Once upon a time…when the Villains ruled the kingdom…and tried to destroy each other… Enter the kingdom of Disneare…where King William Disneare has been violently overthrown by a collection of infamous fairytale villains, meanwhile the malevolent hunchback Richard III plots the downfall of his wicked family in a relentless quest to capture the throne. Epiphany Shakespeare invites you to witness a spellbinding tale where Shakespeare’s greatest villain plots, betrays and battles against your favorite characters from Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Peter Pan, Beauty & the Beast, and many more!