Upcoming Indie Theater – March 20
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 Seagull
Venue: The Secret Theatre
Dates: March 20 and 21
This is not your Mother’s Chekhov. In her Russian Horror Story series, Emily Ann Banks’ The Seagull is a bold, contemporary reimagining of Chekhov’s classic. It’s 70% adaptation, 30% original thrill ride. A darkly funny, visceral exploration of art, love and the violence of creation. In this version, art devours its creators and muses alike, leaving behind a haunting question: what’s left when the performance ends?
The Infinite Wrench
Venue: Downtown Art and The Second City
Dates: March 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!
Antigone in Analysis
Venue: 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
Venue: 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.
PLAN C
Venue: The Tank
Date: Now to April 12
In PLAN C, Hook & Eye Theater’s darkly funny, time-collapsing caper of resistance, resourcefulness, and rebellion, 17th-century espionage collides with a modern small-town shop. 1620 Brussels - imperial postmistress Alexandrine Von Taxis moves more than mail through the empire’s hands during The Thirty Years’ War. Present-day West Virginia - Charley Gibson runs her family’s hardware store, where lockers hide more than tools. Using movement, original music, and ensemble-driven storytelling PLAN C theatrically flips between two eras to create a madcap theatrical experience that reflects the complexities of the present moment.
Seinfeld’s Garden
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Date: March 21
A standup show about plants. Join Ashley Bez as she digs into her double life as a gardener and a standup comedian in this hilarious one woman show.
Dealbreaker: A sex positive solo show
Venue: 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
Venue: 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_
Venue: 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
Venue: 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.
WOYZECK
Venue: Box of Moonlight
Dates: March 26-April 4
Woyzeck tells the story of a young solider who signs up for medical experiments to make enough money to support his child out of wedlock. Our inaugural show. This is a new version devised by the cast and creative team.
Notes on Collagen
Venue: 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
Venue: 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."
Knock Twice Comedy Show
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Date: April 10
Knock Twice Comedy Show is a secret stand-up experience tucked away inside Port Authority’s Hidden Jewel Box Theater. Married couple Vicky Kuperman and Max Cohen host this speakeasy-style night of laughs delivers sharp jokes and surprise guests, featuring NYC's funniest comics. It’s the kind of show you only find if you know where to knock—literally.
Macbeth
Venue: 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.
The Love Show at The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Date: April 18
Join us for a heartfelt and intimate night of dance, song, and theater. Laugh, cry, and experience an unforgettable evening of whimsy. The Love Show NYC, a globe trotting theater dance company of 20+ years, invites you to experience an evening of emotion in their whimsical home, The Hidden Jewel Box Theater, a secret speakeasy nestled in the world’s busiest bus terminal.
Back Float: A Very Hard of Hearing, Deaf-ish, Bluegrass-Forward Solo Show
Venue: 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
Venue: 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!