THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Connoly

November 6 – November 23, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 2 hours with one intermission
COMMUNITY SPACE

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

“Connoly” follows a teenage girl who is placed in an in-patient mental health facility after surviving an attempt on her own life. Together with her overwhelmed older sister Dingo, and supported by her possibly imaginary, possibly spectral best friend Georgie and strict-yet-caring nurse Natalya, she attempts to navigate her recovery, all the while struggling to see a way forward.
”Connoly” is a tragedy of youth, touching on themes of mental health, family and the preciousness of life itself.

Featuring:
Nikki Neuberger as Connoly
Abby Messina as Dingo
Emily Kendall Cohen as Georgie
Alessia Seclì as Natalya
Alaina Bozarth as Swing Connoly/Georgie
Madi Daning as Swing Dingo/Natalya

Creative Team:
Co-Producers: Stefan Diethelm, Delaney “Lanes” May, Bradly Valenzuela
Stage Manager: Matthew Seepersad
Lighting Design: Cody Hom
Sound Design: Cody Hom
PR: Andrea Alton

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Walter Corwin’s

The New Normal

September 18 – October 5, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $15, Students & Seniors $10
Run Time: 1 hour
CABARET THEATER

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

The New Normal by Walter Corwin: six short plays, each with two characters, playing a variety of personalities. The quirky heartfelt dialogues explore the person-to-person effects of America’s sharp veer to the right. A doctor attempts to console her patient while navigating his deep misogyny; two supremely unqualified individuals are out in charge of a university; the playwright argues with his wife, and Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty hold out a shred of hope. Life continues under a dark cloud.

CAST
Kerney McAllister
Cole Ortiz-Mackes

PRODUCTION
Writer – Walter Corwin
Director – Forrest Gillespie
Music – Bobbie Johnston
Light Design – Lynell Perry

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

A Rome Neal Banana Puddin’ Jazz Production

TIME FLIES

Monday, September 29, 2025 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

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THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

One Woman And Her Dog

“WORLD PREMIERE”

October 9 – October 26, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM
No Show October 25th

Tickets $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
COMMUNITY SPACE

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

Diogeneia a Homeless Woman and Her Human Looking Dog Cerberus live in Times Square, Defiant, Humorous, and a Mystery to Many a Philosophical Statement that is timeless and so Relevant to the times we are living in are they really Homeless? or could they be timeless Messengers who look at the world with a wink of an Eye. A bold Statement They Make about The Timeless Power Of Women.

CAST
Zoe Anastassiou*
Alexandra Laliberte
Joel Bernstein*
Maude Elizabeth Burke*
John Barilla*

*Actors Appearing Courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

PRODUCTION
Writer – William Lyons
Director – Joe John Battista
Musical Director – Ron Raymond
Percussion – Zianni Orange
Lighting – Brian Park
Production Manager – Roslyn Mckay

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Stories for Future Ancestors Part 2: OTHER WORLDS

by Constellation Moving Company

October 9 – October 12, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 90 minutes, plus one intermission
JOHNSON THEATER

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

Astronaut Sunita Williams was stuck on the International Space Station for nine months in 2024. Astronaut Kalpana Chawla was lost in the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003. Could the mysterious radio transmissions Suni is picking up while waiting for transport possibly be from Kalpana? Could they be a conversation on which she’s inadvertently eavesdropping, between aliens, AIs, and marine mammals? Could other worlds like the ones imagined by utopian speculative fiction ever exist on earth?

Mashing together (as we do) inspiration from NASA, Star Trek, Star Wars, Vandana Singh, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson and more, CONSTELLATION MOVING COMPANY returns with a new aerial-theater collage about the imagination of alternatives.

You will be invited to move with us, and talk with us–about the world as it is and could be.

Written and Directed by Maia Ramnath
Performed by Medea Exogiinos, Summer Lacy, Wendy Louie, Lisa Natoli, Maia Ramnath, Monika Ramnath
Choreography by the performers, organized by Maia Ramnath
Lighting Design by Jillian Garibaldi
Special musical guest Karen Poleshuck with Medea Exogiinos on October 11-12

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

DetoNation Rat Cabaret

A Subterranean Odyssey

October 9 – October 26, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 85 minutes, No intermission
CABARET THEATER

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

Detonation Rat Cabaret is a comedic musical odyssey through New York City’s rodent mitigation system. It follows an iconoclastic rat with substance control issues who rises to new professional heights, only to be brought down by the NYC Rat Czar. The show is influenced by Weimar Republic cabaret. Songs span from Hip-Hop, to Cumbia, to Chanson, Reggae and to glittery Bowie Glam Rock.

CAST
Lenin Alevante
JC Augustin
Elisa Blynn
Emilio Garcia
Mia Jurjunas
T. Scott Lilly
Lola Lukas
Leia Martin
Bry Payne
Sonny B. Svanidze
Samuel Wiek
Special Guest – Arley Hoops

PRODUCTION
Written and Directed by JC Augustin
Music by Vicente Coelho
Musical Director – T. Scott Lilly
Stage Manager – Lola Lukas
Scenic & Lighting Design – Marsh Shugart
Costume Design – Clara Chon
Production Manager – Miguel Loyola
Photography – Steven Love Menendez
Graphic Design – Carolina Botero, Eusebio Conde

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

KILLING MRS. CLAUS

A one act play written and directed by Peter Zachari

December 4 – December 21, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 85 minutes, No intermission
COMMUNITY SPACE

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

When an elf falls in love with Santa there is only one thing standing in his way: Killing Mrs. Claus.
Come join the madness in this new zany unhinged holiday comedy written and directed by Peter Zachari.

CAST
Robert Walker Jeffery
Brent Knobloch*
Patricia M. Lawrence
Alan Stuart*

*Equity Approved Showcase. Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

PRODUCTION
Writer – Peter Zachari
Director – Peter Zachari
Set and Props Design – Lytza Colón
Set Design Consultant – Mark Marcante
Lighting Design: Michael Clark Wonson
Costume Design – DW
Sound Design – Peter Zachari
Choreographer – Bernie Baldassaro
Graphic Design – Christopher Short
Stage Manager – Emily LaRosa
Assistant Stage Manager – Michelle Pomponio

Theater for the New City

Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

TNC’s New City, New Blood Reading Series:

Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash

by India Marin Stachyra

Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM

FREE

$5 Suggested Donation

To make a reservation name and # of tickets to tncdreamup@gmail.com

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

Former actress Kitty Ralph has lived most of her 73-year-old life in the shadows of her long-gone Hollywood starlet mother and bigshot producer father. One night, Arnold, an NYU graduate film student (and pupil of Kitty’s famous director ex-husband) arrives at her doorstep unannounced, forcing her to confront her true desires in what could be the last few months of her life.

CAST
KITTY – Christina Britton
ARNOLD – Josh Bloom

India Marin Stachyra (Writer & Director) is an actor, playwright, director, choreographer, photographer and graphic designer based in Manhattan. Theater for the New City credits include Rochelle in The White Blacks and NeNe in Rita is the Goat. On screen, you can watch her as ADA Shannon Duffy in the most recent season of Law & Order: SVU. Training: Sarah Lawrence College, British American Drama Academy, HB Studio. www.indiamarin.com

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence

Directed by Sarah Germain Lilly

Monday, October 6, 2025
Tickets: $20

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

Every hour in America, a child is shot. Gun violence silences voices — but in New York City, teens are taking the stage to speak out.
On October 6, Theater for the New City joins over 50 communities nationwide for ENOUGH!, presenting six urgent new plays by teen writers confronting gun violence.
Learn more: enoughplays.com/reading

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and young people in America and has stayed #1 since 2019. On October 6, 2025, young people from across the country will have a platform to
speak, and communities will have the space to listen and act on reducing the deaths and injuries from gun violence.

ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence is a nationwide initiative where teens write short plays confronting gun violence.

This Year’s Plays:
o Holding Space by Abby Dougherty (Georgia)
o Oh Look, Another School Shooting! by Matias Finley (Wisconsin)
o Nobody Cares About Death by Ian Hodges (Florida)
o The Perfect Victim by Payton Aurora Jones (California)
o We Didn’t Have to Meet Here by Pace Rundlett (Mississippi)
o Under Wraps by Olivia Stanley (Texas)

They are six new works by teen writers ages 13–19, tackling themes like school shootings, suicide, officer-involved shootings, and domestic violence. They were submitted by young people all across
America and vetted by a distinguished team that includes playwrights Kate Hamill, James Ijames, Karen Zacarías, Broadway dramaturg Ken Cerniglia, author Jason Reynolds, and Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.

Our actors include Nia Weeks, T Scott Lilly, Skye Carrington, Eddie Moore, Phillip Gagliano. They bring their artistry, activism and experience to this project.
Director Sarah Germain Lilly has long been part of the Theater for the New City tribe and is inspired by this opportunity to spread peace and end gun violence. Sarah thanks Crystal Field and the Theater for the New City community for making this reading possible, and Gays Against Guns NY for supporting the readings and community talk back.
Led by its creator Michael Cotey and Joaquin Oliver Artistic Producer, the ENOUGH! initiative calls on teens to confront gun violence by creating new works of theatre that will spark critical conversations and inspire meaningful action in communities across the country.

“Produced by special arrangement with Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence, Michael Cotey, Joaquin Oliver Artistic Producer An anthology of the plays may be purchased from Playscripts at Playscripts.com“.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Tilted Axes: Circle With No Center

Music for Mobile Electric Guitars

October 2 – October 5, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

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

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

Circle With No Center transforms the stage into a dynamic landscape where musicians playing mobile electric guitars and percussion move in choreographed formations, weaving intricate sonic textures that blur the lines between concert, dance, and immersive theater. Created by composer and performer Patrick Grant, the work invites audiences to experience music as a living, breathing environment — part ritual, part procession, and entirely unlike anything else currently on the New York stage.

Produced by: Peppergreen Media
Music by: Patrick Grant & Tilted Axes composers
Choreography by: Christopher Caines
Recorded & sequenced elements produced by: Jeremy Nesse & Patrick Grant
Performed by: Angela Babin, Elisa Corona Aguilar, Gene Ardor, Jeremy Nesse, Jim Lee, John Ferrari, Patrick Grant, John Halo, and Vince Caiafa

More info TBA at: #tiltedaxes — @tiltedaxes — www.tiltedaxes.com

About Tilted Axes
Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars is an innovative performance ensemble that takes music off the stage and into unexpected places — streets, galleries, museums, and theaters. With amplified sound, choreography, and public engagement, Tilted Axes turns each performance into a unique, site-specific event.

Patrick Grant is a composer, performer, and producer living in New York City and creates audio for a wide range media and live performance. A native of Detroit, MI, he moved to NYC where he studied at the Juilliard School, worked on the production team for composer John Cage, and produced his first recordings in the studios of Philip Glass. For the stage he has created scores for theatrical visionaries The Living Theatre, Robert Wilson, and produced opening night spectacles for Obama portraitist Kehinde Wiley. He traveled to Bali three times to study the gamelan, work which manifested itself in his use of alternative tunings, ensembles with multiple keyboards, as Composer-in-Residence at Cornell University, and in his work with Robert Fripp & The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists. He is the creator of International Strange Music Day (August 24) since 1998 and the mobile electric guitar procession (Tilted Axes) since 2011. He is a 2021 and 2023 recipient of a Composer Commissions Award from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a two-time recipient (2020 & 2021) of a Creative Engagement Award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a multiple nominee of the Detroit Music Awards (2017-2019). He is a Post Production professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts Film & TV and helps produce the “How To Be A Better Human” podcast for TED & PRX. In 2023 he was a composer/judge for ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.