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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A Night With Mr. Wonderful
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Date: November 13
Learn more and get tickets: mrwonderful.eventbrite.com
Experience the unforgettable journey of Sammy Davis Jr. in A Night With Mr. Wonderful, a dynamic variety show capturing the icon at the height of his global fame. Set against the vibrant 1960s and 1970s, this production fuses spectacular live performances of hits like Mr. Bojangles with the gripping story of Davis’s evolution from superstar to a fierce activist fighting racial inequality. Beyond the glamour, it reveals the intense personal and professional struggles he faced navigating a white-dominated industry. Driven by themes of resilience and the unifying power of music, this vibrant celebration is a must-see for anyone who loves history, legendary songs, and stellar live theater.
Ivy Day
Venue: AMT Theatre
Date: November 13
Learn more and get tickets: https://linktr.ee/circlefestival
They’re the most prestigious universities in America: The Ivy League. And all of them release their admissions decisions on the same day. High school senior Andrea would rather open her results alone, but her friends have other plans. As the six students count down the minutes until they receive the results that will change their lives, hidden biases and petty rivalries quickly bubble to the surface, revealing the pressures and prejudices driving their desire to get into America’s elite universities. Originally premiered Off-West End at The Hope Theatre in London, nominated for Best New Play at the 2025 Standing Ovation Awards (★★★★.5, London Pub Theatres Magazine).
Sin Fronteras Launch Weekend at The Tank
Venue: The Tank
Dates: November 13 & 14
Learn more and get tickets: https://sinfronteras.nyc/tickets
Sin Fronteras launches at The Tank with two evenings of theatre in English and Spanish with bilingual supertitles. On Friday, November 13 at 9:30 PM, Monologue Showcase Part I brings together five voices from partner theatres. On Saturday, November 14, the Blind Dates Showcase presents short original works inspired by solitude at 9:30 PM, followed by Monologue Showcase Part II at 10 PM. An optional Launch Party from 7–9 PM on Saturday offers conversation, networking, a DJ set, and the festival presentation.
The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Venue: HB Playwrights Theatre
Dates: November 13 & 14
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/judithelsterproductions/2480541
Jackie, fresh out of prison and newly sober, thinks he’s finally getting his life back on track, until he finds another man’s hat in his girlfriend’s apartment. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s darkly hilarious New York story about love, loyalty, addiction and one very suspicious hat received six Tony Award nominations, including Best Play. This independent production marks the directorial debut of Judith Elster, with a cast all trained at HB Studio. Three performances only at HB Playwrights Theatre in the West Village.
Faust Syndrome
Venue: Episcopal Actors' Guild
Dates: Now through November 15
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/faust-syndrome
What would you give to right the world's wrongs? Your soul? Join us for Theater in Asylum's contemporary retelling of the infamous myth, following three activists who join a long line of Fausts, trading their souls for infernal power.
Ivy and the Poison
Venue: AMT
Dates: Now through November 15
Learn more and get tickets: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/rj-theatre-company/ivy-and-the-poison-ndash-circle-theater-festival
Ivy and the Poison is an original emo-punk rock opera that blends the raw energy of a live concert with the confessional intimacy of theater. When a love triangle at a New York artists' residency leads Ivy to fall for her supposed soulmate, their whirlwind romance spirals into a psychological nightmare. Armed with ten original emo-punk songs, Ivy hijacks her industry showcase to expose him, turning the opportunity of a lifetime into a spectacularly public meltdown. Inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the show explores the seductive power of illusion, the psychology of manipulation, and what happens when the person who seemed to understand you better than anyone turns out to be a stranger.
BOMBASTIA (or, Blood Upon the Risers)
Venue: Zoopraxic
Dates: November 13-15, 19-22
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bombastia-or-blood-upon-the-risers-tickets-2002464188292?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
BOMBASTIA is a style-bending, post-modern morality play that asks what’s left in a world where “everything’s wrong and you’re wrong for being any part of it…” In a war-torn, near-future New York, Sam, a young poet, questions the provisional government which has taken over the city. On the precipice, Sam must conform or fight, and all the while the enemy draws nearer.
First and Last
Venue: ARTX
Dates: Now through November 22
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.openvariationstheater.com/first-and-last
2003, Washington Heights. Morris, a cash-strapped real estate agent, is showing a decrepit rental to Maeve, an artist’s assistant desperate for a place to live. Amid broken elevators, feuding neighbors, and the ghost of a dead kitten, a routine apartment showing becomes more than they both bargained for. Offbeat and heartfelt, FIRST AND LAST is about the people who enter our lives, if only for a chapter, and the strange way memory edits life down to its most vivid arrivals and departures.
Fool For Love by Sam Shephard
Venue: Studio 17 in Chelsea
Dates: November 13-15, 20-22
Learn more and get tickets: https://luma.com/h8n6yacd
Shepherd Collective is a New York City-based theater and film collective dedicated to empowering emerging artists to create opportunities for themselves and one another through collaboration, creative expression, and meaningful work. Its debut production, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, is a gripping exploration of love, obsession, and jealousy, set in a motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert and brought to life at Studio 17 in Chelsea.
Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn)
Venue: The Old Stone House
Dates: November 12-15, 19, 20, & 22
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-play-fourth-avenue-brooklyn-tickets-1989959455299
A new American play about an old American story. It follows a park ranger and lifelong Fourth Avenue resident who has lost his childhood home to the development reshaping the neighborhood, and who decides to take matters into his own hands. As the buildings go up, the people change.
The Infinite Wrench
Venue: Asylum NYC (123.E 24th St)
Dates: November 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28
Learn more and get tickets: nynf.org/tiw
The Infinite Wrench is a barrage of 30 short plays the cast attempts to perform within a single hour in a race against the clock. Each play offers something different, be it funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or even a dance or a song. All are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers. With new plays every week, The Infinite Wrench is the Neo-Futurists’ ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance and speak to audiences, including those unreached or unmoved by traditional theater.
Boy Santos
Venue: Theatre for The New City
Dates: Now through November 29
Learn more and get tickets: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/boy-santos/
An older Puerto Rican man, Charlie Santos, forced to walk home after a train malfunction, encounters a dangling red door, hanging precipitously from the entrance of an abandoned building, that immediately reawakens memories of his impoverished childhood in Spanish Harlem, 1962.
Impressive, Sincerely (A New Play)
Venue: P&T Knitwear Bookstore
Dates: Now through December 6
Learn more and get tickets: impressivesincerelyplay.com
Staged in a real bookstore, IMPRESSIVE, SINCERELY is a sharp, deadpan comedy about an American author who travels to a small German town where her failed debut novel has become inexplicably popular. Through a series of author events, she begins to suspect her translator of manipulating her conversations and of authoring a shockingly unfaithful translation. Tickets start at $20.
Pearl Necklace
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Date: November 14
Learn more and get tickets: pearlnecklace.eventbrite.com
Pearl Necklace is a dirty comedy dripping in burlesque glamour, vintage decadence, and a touch of film noir. Telling stories from her glamorous—and not-so-glamorous—life, Natalie Perlin brings a comedy that’s sharp and wicked, yet unexpectedly sweet and melancholy, finding humor in the timeless, titillating absurdity of being a woman in the modern world. Definitely not for pearl clutchers. After all, Pearl Necklace is more than just jewelry.
Thai Theatre Showcase 2026
Venue: Open Jar Studios
Dates: November 14 & 15
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thaitheatrefoundation/2470618
Presented by Thai Theatre Foundation, Thai Theatre Showcase 2026 is a two-day festival featuring six readings of new theatrical works in development by Thai and Thai-American artists and their collaborators, taking place November 14–15 at Open Jar Studios in New York City. Through development grants of up to $3,000 per project and production support, the Showcase creates opportunities for playwrights, actors, directors, and other theatre artists to develop and share new stories. The festival concludes on Sunday, November 15 at 6 PM with a Closing Celebration + Snippet Showcase featuring short performances, Thai food, drinks, and a community gathering. Admission is free with reservation.
The Undercity
Venue: La MaMa
Dates: November 14-16
Learn more and get tickets: https://lamama.org/the-undercity/
Set in the great rat metropolis beneath our feet—a 1970s New York-inspired neon-lit underworld—the show follows Rat Girl, as she uncovers a vast conspiracy that threatens the fate of her world.
Reign of Smoke and Lust (Seduced by the Shadow King’s Son)
Venue: 28th Street Theatre (TADA)
Dates: November 14 & 19
Learn more and get tickets: https://linktr.ee/reignofsmokeandlust
For lovers of Starkid, the Maasverse, and Twilight, for the tumblr fangirls, for anyone who attended a midnight book release, and especially for folks who like their smut as sincere as they do silly comes a brand-new original musical parody lovingly inspired by the Romantasy genre with a pop-punk score.
Fertile Ground
Venue: Green Space
Date: November 15
Learn more and get tickets: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/Sy1OrIUyioyh0DGnSGMcJA
Welcome to our 2026-2027 Season of Fertile Ground! Fertile Ground is a monthly new works series for emerging choreographers and experimenting, established professionals. Six artists present a work-in-progress and receive audience-driven feedback in a post-performance discussion (with wine!) moderated by Artistic Director, Valerie Green. With your constructive input you can help artists cultivate and grow their work!
My Mobster
Venue: The Tank
Dates: November 15, 19, 21, and 23
Learn more and get tickets: mymobsterplay.com
The year is 2003, and Joy Nash (Dietland, Twin Peaks: The Return) contemplates losing her virginity to a charming, enigmatic criminal from France. Free from her hyper-religious past, she's ready to stop living her life from the sidelines! As Joy gets tangled deeper in the mobster's web of half-truths, she finds herself in a plot straight out of a romance novel - her specialty as an audiobook narrator. The future may be scary (and thrilling) but that's the ultimate fantasy, isn't it?
The Wayfaring Strangers
Venue: The Pit
Dates: November 15 and December 13
Learn more and get tickets: https://tinyurl.com/waystrangeape
Join The Wayfaring Strangers at The PIT on October 11 at 7pm for an improvised bluegrass musical, featuring brand spankin’ new lyrics to old-timey standards, played on traditional instruments like banjo, guitar, stand up bass, washboard, triangle and jug.
The Second Global Indigenous and First Nations Playwrights and Composers Event
Venue: The Dramatists Guild Foundation
Dates: November 16 & 17
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.allyartists.org/the-global-indigenous-collective/indigenous-and-first-nations-playwrights-and-composers-event
To showcase and celebrate the work of Native American, Austronesian, Global Indigenous, Aboriginal and First Nations playwrights and composers, fostering collaboration, networking, and exposure within the theatrical community of New York City through presentations of finished and work-in-progress plays, written stories, musicals, songs and musical compositions.
Losing Your Bag
Venue: Le Skyroom atvL'Alliance New York
Dates: November 19–21
Learn more and get tickets: https://lallianceny.org/event/losing-your-bag/
Making its English-language premiere, this one-woman piece is a collaboration between renowned French playwright Pascal Rambert and actress Pauline Chalamet. The play follows a young woman with a Master’s degree, who is—temporarily—a window cleaner. Over the course of the performance, she expresses her anger at social stratification and grapples with loneliness, in a world divided between “people who succeed and people who are nothing.”
Hula Hoop
Venue: Teatro LATEA
Dates: November 19, 21, & 22
Learn more and get tickets: https://innovationtickets.com/product/hula-hoop/
Two best friends navigate a teen pregnancy — they're in their twenties. One of them has maladaptive daydream disorder. They like to hula hoop. The piece sits at the intersection of girlhood and reality.
Show Up, Kids!
Venue: The Rat
Dates: November 21 & 28
Learn more and get tickets: https://showup-theshow.com/
This interactive show for kids 3-10 years old puts a wildly comedic twist on the traditional kids’ show. When the main attraction is a no-show, hapless host Bebe gets the kids (and their grownups) to help create a comedy show on the spot by choosing plot, props, characters, costumes, and settings - resulting in a wildly unpredictable, one-of-a-kind, 45-minute laughfest. Now in its 8th year!
Romeo x Juliet
Venue: East Village Basement
Dates: November 27-29
Learn more and get tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/romeo-x-juliet
New Orange Theatre Company returns to their beloved stomping ground, East Village Basement, to interrogate the greatest Romance of our time with their full-bodied blend of macabre irreverence. It's a comedy, it's a tragedy, it's a seance, it's a night of karaoke. It's an adaptation as profane as it is sacred. You'll only know for sure if you're there.
Yet You're A Virgin (And So Am I)
Venue: FRIGID New York
Date: December 4
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.yetyoureavirgin.com/shows
From a young age, Queer kids are sold the idea, “It gets better.” But what happens when you're in college and are still gay, miserable, and annoying? Yet You're A Virgin (And So Am I) is a two-person comedy following co-dependent best friends, Kaden and Madeline, who have yet to get laid– contrary to the fantastical notion of gay adulthood Tumblr had promised them. Entrenched in internet culture and unwaveringly sex positive (at least in theory…), Yet You're A Virgin (And So Am I) is a love letter to gay/lesbian solidarity and the found family that comes with it.
Urtext
Venue: Mark Morris Dance Center
Dates: December 5 & 6
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.alisoncookbeattydance.org/event/urtext-2/
An in-progress showing of Urtext, a new stage work by composer Jonathan Howard Katz, with choreography by Alison Cook-Beatty. Urtext is a meditation on the primacy of violence, deception, and oppression within Western thought, presented as a work of vocal chamber music, dance, and theater. It uses three foundational utopian conceptions—from Plato’s Republic, Thomas More’s Utopia, and H. G. Wells’ A Modern Utopia—to examine the pristine image of an idealized society and uncover the troubling mechanisms that prop up the veneer. Blending lyricism, humor, virtuosity, and musical and visual beauty, Urtext invites its audience to question basic assumptions about our shared history and the very nature of our pursuit of an ideal world. This work is in development, and these are in-process performances with staging and production elements yet to be added. But you’ll hear the full musical score and see much of the choreography. Tickets are pay-what-you-wish (suggested: $25–$35 per seat), and all funds raised will go towards the full realization of this project.
Jerboa Dance presents Delirium
Venue: The Hidden Jewel Box Theater
Dates: December 6 & 7
Learn more and get tickets: jerboa.eventbrite.com
Seattle-based Jerboa Dance is back in NYC at The Hidden Jewel Box Theater presenting Delirium – an exhilarating performance that explores the breadth of human experience through our signature athletic style. Bringing our Seattle audience’s greatest hits along with some new work we use humor and playfulness to journey you into the tantalizing worlds we have created. Reuniting spectacular dancers from our past including Chistina Johnson, Angela Harriell, and Renado Tozer and Jerboa mainstays Jaime Waliczek and Stella Kutz, you are in for a treat. Come take a break from the doldrums of reality and be entertained. This is more than a performance—it’s an unforgettable journey into worlds of imagination.
Santa's an A**hole
Venue: The Tank
Dates: December 9 - 20
Learn more and get tickets: https://thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/2026/12/9/santa-is-an-a0lamp
Christmas Eve at the Friend in Need suicide hotline. Urch and Jean are counting down the hours when Danny arrives — shot in the head, insisting he's fine, and pursued by a hired gunman (well really his best friend) Jacobo who was paid by gun lobbyists to finish the job. A man who survived a bullet is bad for business. Things escalate fast as Zaza, a lonely woman on Christmas looking for company, and maybe to flirt with Urch a little, finds herself in the middle of the chaos. A dark Christmas comedy about chosen family, love and how to survive in a late stage capitalism society.
Creation Story
Venue: Teatro Circulo
Dates: December 10 – January 3
Learn more and get tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/creation-story
Creation Story by Octavia Chavez-Richmond is a Chicanofuturist musical that blends myth, migration, and environmental collapse with rancheras, baladas, and desert-born sounds, following a writer and her unruly characters as they unravel the mysteries of creation, destruction, and cultural memory.
Fantasia
Venue: T2 @ Trends LIC
Date: December 11
Learn more and get tickets: https://buytickets.at/motherof/2460122
FANTASIA, NYC’s biggest party, comes to T2 @ Trends LIC on December 11th, 2026. Created by Ricky Bizzaro, presented by Mother Of, and featuring technical direction by William Owen Design, FANTASIA invites audiences into a room full of music and people ready to dance. Existing in the space between mediums, FANTASIA brings together film, movement, live performance, live camera, and live switching, with design handcrafted by a variety of exceptionally talented individuals. But at the end of the day, it’s best described as an experience, a celebration, and a party. At its heart lies one central question: WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SONG?