THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CRYSTAL FIELD
PRESENTS
DREAM UP FESTIVAL 2024
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY SETS ITS TWELFTH DREAM UP FESTIVAL
Annual feast of adventurous theater will play August 25 to September 15.
All events at THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions
August 25 to September 15, 2024
For Dream Up Festival tickets, go to: https://WWW.DREAMUPFESTIVAL.ORG/SHOWS – $15-$20
For additional info, call the TNC box office at 212-254-1109.
NEW YORK, July 26 — From August 25 to September 15, 2024, Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, will resume its twelfth Dream Up Festival, a feast of adventurous theater. The annual event is an ultimate new works festival, dedicated to the joy of discovering new authors and edgy, innovative performances.
The Festival is helmed by the theater’s Literary Manager, Michael Scott-Price. This year it offers 16 plays, 12 of which are world premieres and one of which is an American premiere. Audiences will savor the excitement, awe, passion, challenge and intrigue of new plays from around the country.
Theater for the New City has consistently been the most inexpensive theater of its caliber and it continues its commitment to affordable tickets with this festival. Dream Up Festival tickets are $15-$20 for all participating productions.
The festival does not seek out traditional scripts that are presented in a traditional way. It selects works that push new ideas to the forefront, challenge audience expectations and make us question our understanding of how art illuminates the world around us.
Theater for the New City (TNC) maintains a distinctive commitment to high artistic values and community service. In an effort to make theater accessible to all, TNC presents an assortment of distinct, exceptional events each year, including the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which celebrates the artistic and cultural diversity of TNC’s Lower East Side community; an annual Village Halloween Ball and an annual summer Street Theater tour that presents a free, live, original musical in thirteen neighborhoods in all five boroughs. Most of these are free of charge to the public.
Go to https://www.dreamupfestival.org/shows.html for more information and full schedule
LIST OF PRODUCTIONS
“Adulting for Idiots” written and performed by Nikki MacCallum, directed by Kelvin Moon Loh
“Apocalypse Truck The musical” written by Kyle Giller, directed, choreographed and designed by Sarah Cosgrove
“Attorney-Client” written by Alex Ladd, directed by Pat Golden
“Babel, Babel, Babel” written and directed by Søs Banke
“Cafe Munich” written by Anwar N. Suleiman, directed by Barbara Schofield Suleiman
“Colder by the Water” written by Bri Madden-Olivares
“The Coming Storm-the legacy of Nazism endures” written and directed by Stephan Morrow
“The Coronation of Queen Jaguar” by Christine Stoddard (writer/director/designer) and Aaron Gold (assistant writer/director/designer)
“If Words Could Talk” written by Jenn Amelia Martin, directed by Stephanie Stowers
“Leaving Kiev: Coming Full Circle” by Mila Levine, directed by Lissa Moira
“Matt, James, and Ben In Lord Finnington Bus In The Positively Puzzling Case of The Purloined Pelvis: At Vicar’s Gate” written by James Sweeney and Matt Tanzosh; directed and designed by James Sweeney, Matt Tanzosh and Ben Fletcher
“Pulling It All Into The Current” written by Letta Neely, created by Greg Allen and Letta Neely, directed by Greg Allen
“roller rink death kink sex cult” written by Skylar J. Beirne
“Tongs and Bones Shakespeare: Tempestuous Amusements, Interludes, Noises, and Drollery” written by Bob Shuman, directed by Frank Farrell
“The Void” directed by Kristen Keim, written by Jonathan G Galvez, fight and movement director Emily Anne Davis
“The Waiting Room” written by Vel Grande, directed by Dennis Oliveira