Upcoming Indie Theater – November 1
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 the Chain Theatre, which is available for rentals.
The Infinite Wrench
Location: The Second City and The Wild Project
Dates: Most Fridays and Saturdays in November
Use code HOT20 for $5 off General Admission
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!
"Show Up, Kids!"
Location: The Rat
Date: November 1, 15, 22, and 29
This acclaimed, long-running, interactive musical show for kids 3-10 years old puts a wildly comedic twist on the traditional kids’ show. When the main attraction doesn’t show up, the host enlists the help of the kids (and their grownups) to control everything from plot to props, characters to costumes, and settings to sound in a one-of-a-kind, 45-minute laughfest.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Location: Brooklyn Art Haus
Dates: Now – November 2
FRANKIEFAN ($10 off)
Kitchen Sink Theatre Company and Brooklyn Art Haus present the most tantalizing experience of The Rocky Horror Picture Show you've ever encountered! Step into the film with 360-degree projection mapping, a LIVE shadow cast, re-imagined costumes and choreography, all in our immersive Transylvaian oasis at Brooklyn Art Haus! Whether you're a veteran or a virgin of the LIVE Rocky Horror experience, this one promises to be perhaps the greatest pleasure you'll ever experience...
Radio Violence
Location: YA Mystery podcast (online)
Dates: October 31 through December 5
A missing pop star with a penchant for hidden messages. A 12 y/o superfan (+ Dad) follow the tracks. A 6-part YA mystery beginning Halloween, with 25 min episodes releasing weekly wherever you podcast and an accompanying EP with clues. Recorded live to bring the energy of live theatre to the audio drama world.
Señor Babyhead
Location: Under St. Marks (Frigid New York)
Date: November 1
In one hour of drag, clown, and desperation, Señor Babyhead presents his Día de Muertos Especial. It’s a journey across the Sonoran Desert in which Babyhead encounters artifacts, mirages, and spirits. Who is Señor Babyhead? Only Mexico’s most (washed up) famous sitcom star, desperate to stay relevant and avoid becoming an artifact, himself. It’s an hour of crooning, crawling, and implicating the audience in a dangerous game.
L’Alliance New York Announces By Heart in association with BAM 2025 Crossing The Line Festival
Location: L'Alliance New York
Dates: November 3 and 4
Returning to Crossing The Line after his directorial work on last year’s Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists, Tiago Rodrigues presents another internationally acclaimed performance—only this time, he’s directing his audience. Ten audience members come together onstage for an act of collective memorization, learning a Shakespearean sonnet by heart. The results are, according to a New York Times Critic’s Pick review, “miraculous … [a] communal act of translation,” performed while Rodrigues offers direction and commentary on the transformative personal and political dimensions of memorization.
All in your head
Location: Arts on Site
Date: November 6 and 7
This multimedia dance performance offers a series of solos and duets threaded together by visual art to form one continuous experience. All in your head draws on the ambiguity of perception in a time when we can barely agree on a shared reality. It attempts to create a shared reality—if only for an hour—where our experiences may differ, but we can agree: something happened here, and it was real. Or at least, it felt that way.
Now & Then
Location: Reverie Room
Date: November 7
Beloved opera, musical theatre, & pop songs with personal stories along the way
Escalation Time
Location: Studio 17
Date: November 7-23
Escalation Time is a new play about Zev (Scott Shepherd) and Kate (Francesca Root-Dodson), two married professors at Columbia University who always assumed they shared the same ethical framework. But after the events of October 7th, the couple unexpectedly finds themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. As each becomes involved in their respective campus protest movements, their disagreement threatens to engulf them—with devastating consequences.
EGGS: OR HOW MUCH DO I COST?
Location: Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research
Date: November 8
An absurdist play by Ally Ibach
Run time: 45 minutes
Set now or in the near future following the US Government creating a PSA for American citizens to embrace inflation (more specifically, the rising cost of eggs: one might say egg-flation), through creating a 1950's "Traditional" American Housewife style ad. Throughout this performance, a young over-anxious white woman is thrown on set, while slowly dealing with the creeping rise of authoritarianism and the dramatic irony of begging chickens to lay eggs for her husband. This play lives in the mediums physical comedy, farce, political satire, and clown!
Foes of a Minimum Wage Guard
Location: United Solo Festival at Theatre Row
Date: November 8
When a complacent retail guard is called in on his day off and abruptly reassigned to an undesirable position under the hostile supervision of a feared manager, he must confront not only the absurdity of corporate life but also his own untapped strength. Through a fast-paced mix of comedy, drama, and richly drawn characters, Harris delivers a performance that captures the hidden battles faced by countless workers in retail and service industries.
Directed with simplicity to keep the spotlight on storytelling and character work, Foes of a Minimum Wage Guard invites audiences to laugh, reflect, and maybe even see a little of themselves in the struggles onstage.
Presented at the United Solo Theatre Festival last Spring, this play offers a rare, authentic glimpse into the gritty, often hilarious world behind the cash registers and security doors.
Ice Factory, A Dramatic Stage Reading
Location: Ofrendafest/Queens Council on the Art Facility
Date: November 8 and 9
Learn more and get tickets: https://secure.givelively.org/event/satellite-collective-inc/a-dramatic-reading-of-ice-factory-written-by-soraya-sussman/a-stage-reading-of-ice-factory
Ice Factory is an intimate and raw portrait of people living during the height of the AIDS epidemic in New York City in the late 1990s. This nonfiction-drama explores the brutal realities of a community navigating loss, love, and refuge.
ICE FACTORY/FACTORIA DE HIELO has been awarded the 2025 Queens Community Arts Grant, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support our developmental dramatic reading.
Hamlet
Location: Stone Circle Theatre
Date: November 20-23
Use code "twenty" for $20 tickets
Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet’s father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet’s mother. Hamlet is considered among the most powerful and influential tragedies in the history of theater — a story worthy of endless creative revisiting and adaptation. It is widely considered one of the greatest plays of all time.
We Drift In And Out
Location: Latea Theater with The New York Theater Festival
Date: November 18, 21, and 22
Ella and Sebastian are caught in an infinite loop of meet-cutes. In a parallel, somewhat less glamorous timeline, Jess is a recently-dumped pizza place employee whose parents didn’t tell her they were visiting. As Jess reconnects with her family, these stories intertwine, weaving truths about grief, memory, and sisterhood.
Just Little Women
Location: The Vino Theater, Brooklyn, NYV
Date: November 20-23
Just LITTLE WOMEN reimagines Louisa May Alcott’s iconic story as a concert-play-musical hybrid, with the March sisters fronting a family rock band. Jo’s the bassist and main songwriter—too much, too intense, but all about the passion. Meg’s the lead singer and guitarist—center-stage and craving peace of mind in the crowd. Amy’s the second lead and electric guitarist—brilliant, underestimated, and plotting the life she deserves. And Beth—sweet Beth—anchors them on the piano, holding her chaotic sisters together with music, love, and quiet strength.