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Rubber
By: Vinnie Nardiello
Directed By: Kerri Ann Murphy
April 4 – April 21
APR 4 - APR 21; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $18, For Educators $15
Run Time: 1 hour 40 minutes with a short intermission
JOHNSON THEATER

In Rubber, the rubber room is closing, and Phil from the teacher’s union has arrived to process the cases of the last remaining teachers.

Issue #9
By: Briana Bartenieff
Directed By: Briana Bartenieff
April 4 – April 21
APR 4 - APR 21; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets:
Thursdays - Pay What You Can
Friday, Saturday, Sunday - General Admission $20
Students $15
Dramatist Members $15
Run Time: 2 hours with a 10 minute intermission.
COMMUNITY SPACE

A musical of a mother and daughter facing hardships as they deal with the societal pressures of women's beauty projected in 90’s teen magazines.

TRANSMISSION
Directed By: Luis Caballero
April 4 – April 21
APR 4 - APR 21; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $18, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 1 hour
CABARET THEATER

A groundbreaking story about the private parts of transgender womanhood.

TEXAS GOTHIC
By: Randy McHaney
Directed By: Paul Dederick
April 18 – April 28
APR 18 - APR 28; WED, THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $15 General, $10 Students and Seniors
Run Time: 1 hour 20 minutes, No intermission
CINO THEATER

The death of a teenage boy 20 years ago is center in this domestic drama of loss and suspicion.


Coming Soon

Until
By: ELIJAH VAZQUEZ
Directed By: TEA EINARSEN
April 25 – May 12
APR 25 - MAY 12; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $15
Run Time: 1 hour, no intermission
CABARET THEATER

A couple that promises themselves to each other until the end of time, finally reach the end of time. However, when face to face with the unknown they begin to question their identity, their past, and their grief for what could have been.

Alice by Heart
By: Steven Sater and Jessie Nelson
Directed By: Juliette Markman
April 26 – April 28
APR 26 - APR 28; FRI & SAT at 8 PM, SAT & SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: General $29.75 - Students $17.85
Run Time: 2 hours 30 minutes

This adaptation of Alice by Heart asks the question: can we ever truly escape our reality?

FRYBREAD QUEEN
By: CAROLYN DUNN
Directed By: VICKIE RAMIREZ
April 27 – May 12
APR 27 - MAY 12; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $18 General, $15 Students and Seniors
Run Time:
COMMUNITY SPACE

ROME NEAL IN CONCERT
April 29
Monday, April 29, 2024, 7 PM

Tickets: $18 General Admission

Open mic /Jam Session & Complementary Banana Puddin' for ALL

In Crocodile’s Lair
By: JC Augustin
Directed By: JC Augustin
May 2 – May 19
MAY 2 - MAY 19; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $18 General, $15 Students and Seniors
Run Time: 90 minutes, no intermission
CINO THEATER

Human enterprise threatens natural order in this dark comedy written and directed by JC Augustin.

BRING THEM BACK
By: David Willinger
Directed By: David Willinger
May 9 – May 19
MAY 9 - MAY 19; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $18 General, $15 Students and Seniors
Run Time: 90 minutes, no intermission
JOHNSON THEATER

In the meta dark comedy Bring Them Back, screenwriter Paul is still sheltering in place long after the Covid threat, only sometimes visited by his schleppy older family friend, Trudy.

The Briefest Year
By: Claude Solnik, Elizabeth Ruf and Karl Bateman
Directed By: Elizabeth Ruf
May 16 – May 19
MAY 16 - MAY 19; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $18 General, $15 Students and Seniors
Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes, No intermission
CABARET THEATER

A drummer and a fan, Charley and Bridget, get to know each other during and after a show at a Lower Manhattan venue, realizing that if they stay together a little more than a day, they will have been together a year.

Lower East Side Festival of the Arts 2024
May 24 – May 26
Memorial Day Weekend. MAY 24, 25, 26 2024 - Friday, Saturday, Sunday

FREE! FREE! FREE!

Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 200 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers for its 29th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts.

The Hungry Mind Buffet
May 30 – June 16
MAY 30 - JUN 16; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $18 General, $15 Students and Seniors

TapEx 2024
June 3
Monday, June 3, 2024, at 7:00 PM

Tickets: $25
Run Time:
CINO THEATER

“TapEx 24", a production which features today's great tap dancers and their choreography / improvography, and honors those who have contributed to the life, history, preservation and expansion of Tap Dance and the Jazz Arts.