VILLAGE HALLOWEEN COSTUME BALL

Saturday, October 31, 2026
Outdoor attractions (Free) 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Indoor attractions ($20) 7:00 PM to Midnight
Costume or Formal Wear are requested.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Halloween spot from 1010 WINS:

NEW YORK — Fifty Halloweens after it began, Theater for the New City’s Village Halloween Costume Ball is still conjuring up the unexpected. On October 31, TNC will celebrate the 50th incarnation of its famously eccentric East Village tradition with an extravaganza of theater, music, dance, aerial performance, cabaret, food and flamboyant costumes. A large outdoor festivity will be held from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM outside the Theater on East Tenth Street between First and Second Avenues (or if it rains, in a big tent), featuring performances and a costume competition for kids. The celebration moves inside into TNC’s four-theater complex from 7:00 PM to midnight . There will be nonstop performances (by Austin Pendleton and over 40 others), ballroom dancing (to Art Lillard’s Heavenly Swing Band and MisterPablo, a Latin Dance band), an aerial dance concert (by Caytha Jentin), and dining in a pop-up restaurant (The Witch’s Cauldron) where for $5, guests can savor a complete dinner donated by local restaurants.  The evening culminates in a costume judging with prizes at midnight.  Admission is free for the outdoor program and $20 for the indoor festivities. Costumes or formal wear are required.

On every Halloween since 1974, TNC has transformed its theater complex and surrounding streets into a carnival of the unexpected, where neighborhood families, artists, and revelers come together for an evening of spirited fun, live music, and avant-garde theater. This extravaganza has been a point of origin for many of the City’s most original entertainers. Six full-length plays have grown out of playlets written for the fest and it is probable that the theatrical movement in Performance Art began there. It has been a launching pad for such formative artists as Paul Zaloom, Alice Farley, Bloolips, The Red Mole, Penny Arcade, Basil Twist, Alien Comic Tom Murrin, Zero Boy, Charles Busch, Eduardo Machado, Moises Kaufman, Maria Irene Fornes and Phoebe Legere. Each year, many acts, skits, sketches, and skadoodles go on to become the basis of larger theater works.

The world-famous Village Halloween Parade began in 1974 as a production of Theater For The New City in collaboration with block associations of the West Village.  The procession wound its way through the Village from TNC’s second home at the corner of Jane and West Streets to Washington Square Park. In the Parade’s second year, 1975, TNC won an Obie for the production. When organization of the parade was formally handed to the local block association in 1976, the event had forked into two parts:  an informal parade of puppets for Greenwich Village children and a late-night dress-up ball for grownup villagers.  Crystal Field wrote in 2001 in New York Theatre Wire, “We had planned to have a later night Ball for adults (Gretel Cummings’ idea, as I recall) — a Village Halloween Costume Ball– so that when the little ones slept, the adults could go dancing and partying in an indoor, more sophisticated set up. The ball has endured. We now serve a thousand to two thousand people with our four-theater ‘Village Halloween Costume Ball.'”

In 2020, due to the Covid shutdown, TNC maintained its Halloween tradition by presenting the entire event virtually. In 2021, it was mounted entirely outdoors.  In 2022 TNC recaptured the event’s intensity and traditional magic by bringing it back inside.  The decision was made to count 2020 as a “year uncounted” and to celebrate 2026 as the festival’s fiftieth incarnation.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
(as of October 1)

PART 1 – OUTDOOR EVENTS

3:00 – 7:00 PM

ADMISSION FREE

Attractions will include:
Variety performances by Carol Tandava, Arley Trice, George Belleci, Joe Bendik, and musical group Star ’69.
Child Costume and others. Emceed by Mary Tierney.
Children’s Costume Contest  judged by Crystal Field, T. Scott Lilly and Terry Lee King. Winners will receive prizes.
The Red and Black Masque: an annual Medieval ritual ensemble theater piece which is performed by torchlight with audience participation. (7:00)

At 7:00, the celebration goes inside the four-theater complex for food, fun, and exciting new theater works, culminating with a costume contest at 11:00 PM whose winners will each receive a bottle of Moet & Chandon Champagne and a year’s free pass to TNC.

 

PART 2 – INDOOR EVENTS

7:00 – 11:00

ADMISSION $20

CABARET PERFORMANCES (7:00 PM to 11:00 PM)

A succession of live, 10-minute performances staged in the Community Theater. Performing artists will be, among others: Austin Pendleton, Richard West, Yip Harburg Rainbow Troupe, Stephan Morrow, John Grimaldi, Carol Tandava (Belly Dance), Michael Christian, TNC Street Theater Enemble, Inma Heredia, Peter Dizzoza, Alessandra Belloni, Emilio Garcia, Asher Cohen (“Egg Eats Chicken”), JC Augustin, Fairy Tale Marionette and Wise Guise.
Scripted works by Toby Armor (directed by Joan Kane), Briana Bartenieff, New Yidddish Rep and Stefan Morrow, among many others.
Scream contest hosted by Didi Champagne. (9:30 PM)
Emceed by Melanie Maria Goodreaux.

BALLROOM DANCING:
Art Lillard’s Heavenly Big Band, a 17 piece swing orchestra performing an extensive repertoire of songs from swing to samba to jazz ballad to Bossa Nova with a swinging singing soloist (8:00 – 9:30)
Aerial Dance with Caytha Jentin, performing high over our heads in exciting new challenges to eye and ear (9:30 – 9:45)
Mr. Pablo’s Latin Dance Band, a five-piece fusion band with vocalist, mixing Salsa, Samba and Flamenco with Rock, Reggae and Funk (9:45 – 11:00)

DINING IN THE WITCHES’ CAULDRON
Downtown’s most sensational Halloween cafe, featuring a variety of American and international delicacies at peoples’ prices ($5 for a full dinner).  Holiday dishes are contributed by neighboring East Village restaurants, some with celebrity chefs. You can gobble couscous from a coffin lid beginning at 7:00 pm while enjoying spine-tingling performances by performance artists, songwriters, poets and variety artists including: Mimi Block and Rome Neal, Smokey Stevens, Lei Zhou, Pamela Enz,  Zero Boy, Sylvain Leroux, George Belleci, Marilyn Horan, Sarah Lilly, Ellen Steir, The Head Peddlers and Elliot Crown (7:00 – 11:00).

MONSTERS AND MIRACLES COSTUME PARADE
The annual costume contest hosted by Crystal Field.  All costumed attendees are invited to march past a panel of celebrity judges. Winners receive one-year passes to TNC and a bottle of Moet & Chandon Champagne. Attendees will be judged in such categories as “Most Politically Relevant,” “Most Gluten Free,” “Most Uncompromised,” Most Non-AI,” “Most Visionary,” “Most Presidentially Honest,” “Most Oxygenated” and “Most Likely to be Extinct.” Judged by Melanie Maria Goodreaux, John Gilman, Sabura Rashid, Terry Lee King, Joe Battista, Crystal Field, Phillip Hackett and others.

VAUDEVILLE PERFORMANCES
Vaudeville in The Womb Room (Basement Cabaret Theater).  Performers include Star ’69 (band), Larry Litt & Eleanor Heartley, WillieAnn Gissendanner, Sue Horowitz , New Yiddish Rep, Joe Bendik, Claude Solnik, Lei Zhou, Rocco Nicholas, Terry Lee King/ Billie Little and Danielle Aziza (8:00 – 10:00).

LOBBY EVENTS
Performances by Cobu (all-women Taiko drum group), Hellsouls, flute-playing goblin Kahley Mitchell, tap dance with Laraine Goodman and The Mad Tappers, Fish Pond (casting for giveaway gifts), Fortune Teller Penny Diora (free readings), Champagne Bar served over a coffin with a live vampire inside.

HALLOWEEN DECOR
Murals painted by Olga Castillo, Gilma Diaz, Sean Finnerty and many others.

Theater for the New City (www.theaterforthenewcity.net) is located at 155 First Avenue, at the corner of East Tenth Street. Reservations are optional. The TNC box office number is (212) 254-1109.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Artistic Director, Crystal Field

Presents

How to Get to Heaven from the Crawfish Pond

November 5, 2026 – November 22, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – $25, Students & Seniors $15
Sundays: Pay-what-you-can
Run time: 2 hours
COMMUNITY SPACE THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Playwright and director, Melanie Maria Goodreaux returns to her longtime creative home, Theater for the New City (TNC), with the world premiere of HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM THE CRAWFISH POND, a darkly comic Louisiana love story about death, desire, family, faith, and the possibility of redemption.

The production marks a milestone for Goodreaux: 2026 is her 25th year of writing and directing plays. HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM THE CRAWFISH POND follows her recent TNC productions, including The Popes of Farragut Street, The White Blacks, and the AUDELCO-nominated Rita Is the Goat.

Crawfish farmer Earl Roussel has been dead for ten years when he suddenly wakes up in a “Purgatory” that happens to be his front yard. He longs for his beloved wife, Ruth, who is on her deathbed but escapes at night to see him so they can make love. Meanwhile, their estranged sons and daughter are at odds over money ‘stolen’ from the family, and a pair of nuns, who may be more con artists than women of God.

Set in Louisiana and infused with Goodreaux’s blend of magical realism, surreal comedy, spirituality, and poetry, HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM THE CRAWFISH POND asks what we owe the people we love before, and perhaps even after, death. As Earl and Ruth refuse to let something as inconvenient as mortality separate them, their children must confront old wounds, family secrets, and the question of whether reconciliation is still possible when time is running out.

The new play continues Goodreaux’s exploration of New Orleans and Louisiana culture, Black life, spirituality, family, and the complicated ways people search for love and redemption.

Written by Melanie Maria Goodreaux
Directed by Melanie Maria Goodreaux with Christopher Bello

CAST
Arlene A. McGruder
Alan Walls
Jasmyn Unique Tilford
Javán Robinson
Riyadh Rollins
Tabitha Bradley
Mary-Linda Greene

PRODUCTION
Set & Props: Lytza Colón, Gregory Paul
Lighting Design: Alex Bartenieff
Sound Design: Luke Santy, Boston Fielder/Urb Alt, Anthony Harper, Christopher Bello
Visuals/Projections: Anthony Harper/Christopher Bello
Casting: Mary-Linda Greene
Costumes: Billy Little
Graphics: Diane Sullivan, Christopher Bello
Producers: Mark Holloway, David Kahl, Anthony Harper, Bruce Morrow, Norah Lawlor

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Stream of Consciousness of Singing Birds

October 8, 2026 – October 25, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 75 minutes
CABARET THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

“Stream of Consciousness of Singing Birds” written and directed by Bina Sharif is one of the Ten Best Plays of 2025 (https://theaterscene.org/2025/12/a-2025-10-best-list/ ) See REVIEW here (https://theaterscene.org/2025/05/stream-of-consciousness-of-singing-birds)
“Stream of Consciousness of Singing Birds” was seen at a performed staged reading at Nazar Café in the East Village and chosen by Drama Desk member Darryl Reilly (chief editor of theaterscene.org). It is a poem play about the loneliness of injured birds and their songs regarding the exile of birds who are injured and cannot fly anymore and thus are in cages. The injured birds have been turned into poems or prose poems, monologues, and a song. “Stream of Consciousness of Singing Birds” is a metaphorical play of birds in exile.

CAST
Kevin Mitchell Martin
Bina Sharif
Eric Blitz

Singing birds is Bina Sharif‘s 36 play. She is a Joseph Jefferson award nominee from Chicago’s Godman Theater, ten-time award winner, Jerome Foundation and NYSCA award twice as a playwright.
Her plays have been produced in NYC at TNC and in Pakistan, Canada, England and in many universities in the U.S.A.
Her play, my ancestor’s house is published in an anthology by Rutledge press and being taught in many universities. Her one woman show, Afghan woman was performed in more than 20 universities in the U.S.A.
She is a poet, performance artist and a visual artist. She is also a medical doctor and has an MPH degree from John Hopkins University.

Kevin Mitchell Martin is a trained, classical actor who has done Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe and many other roles off Broadway.

Eric Blitz (Musician) is a career drummer/performer and activist who has worked in the music and art scene in NYC and California.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Artistic Director, Crystal Field

Presents

A Rome Neal Banana Puddin’ Jazz Production

“TIME FLIES”

Rome’s Birthday Bash

Monday, September 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $20 General Admission

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

*Limited seating — don’t sleep on this one!*

Now in its more than two-decade run, Rome Neal’s Banana Puddin’ Jazz has become a beloved fixture of the downtown New York jazz scene — a series that pairs top-tier live jazz with Neal’s homemade banana pudding, served to the whole house. What began at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe as an outgrowth of Neal’s acclaimed one-man show “Monk” has grown into one of the city’s longest-running and most community-minded jazz showcases, having presented hundreds of musicians over the years. “TIME FLIES” continues that tradition as a joyful birthday celebration featuring an all-star band and, following the concert, an open jam session inviting musicians and guests in the audience to sit in.

Rome Neal will take the stage in concert alongside a celebrated lineup of jazz musicians:

– **André Chez Lewis** — Grammy Award-winning Pianist
– **Lonnie Plaxico** — Bass
– **Dwayne Cook Broadnax** — Drums
– **Patience Higgins** — Saxophone

Following the concert, the evening continues with an open jam session, inviting musicians and guests to join in the celebration.

About the Artists
Rome Neal is a veteran actor, director, producer, and jazz vocalist who has been a driving force in New York’s jazz and Black theater communities for decades. He first became immersed in jazz while researching his acclaimed one-man play “Monk” (by Laurence Holder), in which he portrays Thelonious Monk — a role that earned him and Holder an AUDELCO Award. That experience inspired Neal to found Rome Neal’s Banana Puddin’ Jazz, a jazz concert series distinguished by his signature complimentary homemade banana pudding, which he has hosted for more than 20 years, presenting hundreds of artists along the way. Over the years the series has featured jazz greats including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Randy Weston, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Amiri Baraka, Barry Harris, and Samara Joy, among many others. Neal received the 2022 AUDELCO Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to Black theater.

As a jazz vocalist, Neal has performed at Town Hall on Broadway, The Metropolitan Room, The Museum of the City of New York, Lenox Lounge, Joe’s Pub, St. Nick’s Pub, Minton’s Playhouse, Showman’s, 966 Jazz, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, Barclays Center, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and The Jazz Spot, and he has performed around town as lead vocalist for the Bill Lee Mo’ Better Quintet (led by Spike Lee’s father). He is the artist behind the CD “A Brighter Crooner,” and his live concert “All in the Puddin'” was recently released on DVD along with “Rome Neal’s Banana Puddin’ Jazz Jam… A Night to Remember.”

André Chez Lewis is a Grammy Award-winning pianist, music director, arranger, orchestrator, and instructor. He currently serves as music director and pianist for Dionne Warwick and is the keyboardist/organist for the Grammy-winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, with whom he shared in the 2026 Grammy Award for the album “I Will Not Be Moved.” A protégé of the late pianist Dr. Barry Harris, Lewis has worked on Broadway and off-Broadway productions and has appeared on screen as a pianist, including portraying Bob Dylan’s pianist Paul Griffin in the film “A Complete Unknown” and as a jazz pianist in the television series “Godfather of Harlem.” He holds a BFA in Jazz and Contemporary Music from The New School.

Lonnie Plaxico is a Chicago-born jazz double bassist and one of the most versatile sidemen of his generation. He turned professional at fourteen and moved to New York at twenty, quickly working alongside Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, and Hank Jones. Plaxico came to wider prominence through Wynton Marsalis’s group before joining Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (1983–86), recording twelve albums with the band, including the Grammy-winning “New York Scene.” He was a member of the M-Base collective alongside Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson, and Greg Osby, and has long served as musical director and bassist for Cassandra Wilson. His extensive credits also include Dizzy Gillespie, Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, David Murray, Branford Marsalis, and Alice Coltrane.

Dwayne “Cook” Broadnax is a Philadelphia-born drummer who has been a mainstay of the New York jazz scene for nearly four decades. Known for his powerful, in-the-pocket sound, he has performed with artists including Johnny Copeland, Little Jimmy Scott, and Bill Doggett, and leads his own groups at NYC jazz venues in addition to his extensive work as a sideman.

Patience Higgins is a New York-based saxophonist, flutist, and multi-reed specialist whose career spans jazz, gospel, R&B, and Broadway. He has performed and recorded with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Dee Dee Bridgewater (including her double Grammy-winning album “Dear Ella”), Barry Harris, Archie Shepp, and Sam and Dave, among many others. His Broadway credits include “The Wiz,” “Chicago,” “Dreamgirls,” “Avenue Q,” and “Motown: The Musical.” Higgins leads the long-running Sugar Hill Quartet, formerly the house band at Harlem’s Lenox Lounge and St. Nick’s Pub, and teaches at the New School and Jazzmobile.

Community Support
This performance is supported by a community of sponsors and partners, including John D. Smith, Stephen McKinley Henderson, the Jazz Foundation of America, Tracy Appleton, Dr. Mona Vaughn Scott, Sheryl Renee Productions, Malaika M. Scott MD, Assemblywoman Stefani Zinerman, Leila Lewis, Stephen Kornstein, Black Repertory Group Berkeley, Coombs Brooklyn Printing, and the Black Theatre Project (Documentary).

Those interested in becoming a Rome Neal Banana Puddin’ Jazz sponsor can learn more at **romeneal.com**.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Artistic Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Boy Santos

November 5, 2026 – November 29, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

No show November 26, Thanksgiving

Tickets – $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run time: Approx. 90-110 minutes, not including 10 min intermission.
JOHNSON THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

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. The memories are brought into focus by a Narrator and revolve around Charlie’s quest to discover the cause of his infant brother’s death. Tracing events that unfold about him on the stage, he relives the quaint, curious, downtrodden and sometimes tragic circumstances in which he and his older brother, Daniel, were abandoned by their heroin-addicted father, Hector, and raised by their single mother, Maria, who tried to make a decent life for them. Convinced that one particularly traumatizing incident experienced by his pregnant mother may have caused the death of his baby brother, Charlie is forced to retrace a series of events, backwards and forwards, all circumscribed by extreme poverty and dysfunction, that seem to blend innocence, guilt and crucial necessity into a fateful concoction of unavoidable reality. In the process of recovering his suppressed past, a poignant picture is painted of life in the worn-down tenements of Spanish Harlem of the early 60’s. The ways children played, the ways grownups interacted, the ways junkies insinuated themselves into every aspect of street and home life, are enacted on the stage in both general and stark detail. Charlie must come to terms with what his memories reveal and somehow make peace with a period in his life that answers old questions as it raises new ones.

CAST
Janelle Fuentes
Victoria Nieves
Charles Casano
Daniel Lugo
Inma Heredia
Christina Andrea Ramsey
Allison Patrick
Jeancarlos Aponte
Alex Burns
Lenin Alevante
Justin Rodriguez
Robert Saenz
Juan Villegas

PRODUCTION
Playwright – Juan Villegas
Director – Ian Gordon
Set Design – Lytza Colón
Scenic Artist – Mary Blanchard

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Artistic Director, Crystal Field

Presents

ASTORIA

November 5, 2026 – November 22, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run time: 90 minutes
CINO THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

During their weekly dinner conversations at his grandmother Helen’s apartment, Michael, a writer, chronicles the family history. But when Gram breaks her hip Michael must face facts: it is time to move her to a nursing home.

As Michael prepares Helen, Walter, his estranged father, shows up. They confront old issues. Otto, Helen’s bachelor neighbor, a Greek waiter, provides comic relief while Venus, Michael’s girlfriend, complicates the mix with her demands for a commitment.

ASTORIA takes place in Helen’s long-time apartment in Astoria Queens. There we also meet Mr. Kodura, her upstairs neighbor, in the midst of a mid-life crisis, and a young blind cellist who lives across the courtyard.

It’s the story of Michael’s seeking resolution to the traumas in his family’s history by shaping them into a play. Can he recreate the past with the present changing around him and demanding his intervention.

CAST
*David Leeper (Michael)
Mary Ruth Baggott (Venus/Blind Cellist)
ReW Starr (Helen)
*Steve Hauck (Walter)
Gary Ray Bugarcic (Otto/Mr. Kodura)
*AEA

PRODUCTION
Playwright: Richard Ploetz
Director: Mark Finley
Production Manager: Devorah Shubowitz
Stage Manager: Mathew Seepersad
Sound Design: Joshua J. Groth
Set Design: Mark Marcante and Lytza Colón
Light Design: Joshua J. Groth

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Artistic Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Getting COMPLETE

January 14, 2027 – January 31, 2027
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run time: 2 hours, 1 intermission
CINO THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

This is the story of what happens when the bully grows up. Jo was an angry, confused prankster who mercilessly tormented classmates, especially Danny. Now as an adult, Jo wants to take responsibility to get complete with the past. But after a lifetime of trauma, is Danny willing to let that happen?

NOTE: Mature audiences (13+) – language and adult situations.

Website:
https://marabellallc.com/getting-complete

Socials
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054296149935
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/gettingcomplete/

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Artistic Director, Crystal Field

Presents

THE INVISIBLES

October 8, 2026 – October 25, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run time: 1 hour 10 minutes
CINO THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Warning: Special effects lighting are present

The Invisibles is a story about how the different generations Gen Z, Millennials and Baby Boomers …within stereotypes…deal with their aging and their finances. Subjects that we so often tend to tread lightly on or not at all.

The grandmother is in a nursing home convalescing from a hip injury, ready now to resume her well-earned .. comfortable life.

The daughter, a corporate eager beaver and gymnastic fanatic, is always running, notably to the next Designer sale. She has no sense of her own culpability in maintaining her own wealth. She has lived a life of privilege…Mommy and Daddy have always been the bank, accommodating infinite withdrawals.

The granddaughter, is her sweet beautiful self, and wants to remain young forever at any cost. She just wants some body …somebody to finance her senior trip to Hawaii, where she will be happy to Instagram all collaborating photos of the trip to her thousands and thousands of friends on Instagram.

What happens when their lives collide and someone deletes the revenue? When someone gets greedy? What is the game plan when… it’s always about me; must become it is about us?

Questions that are all answered with a TNC Halloween shocking answer!!

CAST
Liz Bove – Oma
Amy Jo Ray – Antheia
Vaishnavi Murari – Indira
Rosie Allenson – Mom

PRODUCTION
Playwright – Pat GoodSon
Director – Amy Herzberg
Light Design – Alexander Bartenieff
Electrcian – Brian Park
Set Design – Lytza Colón
Stage Manager – Mathew Seepersad

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Artistic Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Present Tense

September 17, 2026 – October 4, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run time: 1 hour 15 minutes
CABARET THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Corwin uses a time before Trump’s election to satirically mock the present. Over the course of five short plays, the playwright reaches a crescendo of caricature.

CAST
Santos Aguilar
Cole Ortiz-Mackes
Laura Zarama

PRODUCTION
Light and Sound Design: Brian Park
Set Design: Will Corwin
Music: Bobbie Johnston