VILLAGE HALLOWEEN COSTUME BALL

Friday, October 31, 2025
Outdoor attractions (Free) 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Indoor attractions ($20) 6:30 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 — To celebrate the spookiest night of the year with art, music, and community spirit, Theater for the New City (TNC), 155 First Ave., will host its annual Village Halloween Costume Ball on Friday, October 31.  A large outdoor festivity will be held from 2:30 PM to 6:30 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 from 6:30 PM to midnight with nonstop performances, ballroom dancing (to Art Lillard’s Heavenly Swing Band and MisterPablo, a Latin Dance band), an aerial dance concert (by Constellation Moving Company), and dining in a pop-up restaurant (The Witch’s Cauldron) where for $7, guests can savor gourmet dishes donated by local restaurants.  The evening culminates in a costume judging with prizes from 11:00 PM to midnight.  Admission is free for the outdoor program and $20 for the indoor festivities. Costumes or formal wear are requested.

On every Halloween since 1976, 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. It is also interesting to note that TNC originated the Village Halloween Parade as part of its annual Halloween Ball. 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 festival’s second year, TNC won an Obie for this parade.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
(as of October 4)

PART 1 – OUTDOOR EVENTS
3:00 – 6:30 PM
ADMISSION FREE

Attractions:
Variety performances by Bond Street Theater, Joe Bendik,  Carol Tendava (Belly Dance), Arley Trice, Lily James Roberts, Vadim Astrakhan, George Bellici,  Star 69, London Fog, Matthew Mendoza and others. Emceed by Mary Tierney and Rocco Nicholas.
Children’s Costume Contest emceed by T. Scott Lilly and judged by Crystal Field, Terry Lee King and Emily Pezzella. Winners will receive prizes.
Giveaway Table with gifts and racks of clothing.
The Red and Black Masque: an annual Medieval ritual ensemble theater piece which is performed by torchlight with audience participation. (6:00-6:20)

At 7:00 PM, 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
6:30 – Midnight
ADMISSION $20

CABARET PERFORMANCES (6:30 PM to 11:00 PM, Community Theater))
A succession of live, 10-minute performances staged in the Community Theater. Performing artists will be, among others, Richard West, Inma Heredia, Lei Zhou (directed by Mark Marcante), John Grimaldi, Hollie Harper, TNC’s Street Theater Ensemble, Carol Tendava (Belly Dance), Peter Dizzoza, JC’s Rat Cabaret, Alessandra Belloni, Wise Guise, Emilio Garcia and Fairy Tale Marionettes. There will be playlets including works by Stephan Morrow, Toby Armor and Joan Kane, and an excerpt of “Sartre and Simone” by William Cane, among others.   At 9:30, there will be a scream contest run by Lissa Moira. Melanie Maria Goodreaux and Crystal Field are emcees.

BALLROOM DANCING (8:00 PM to 11:00, Johnson Theater)
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 Constellation Moving Company, performing high over our heads in exciting new challenges to eye and ear (9:30 – 10:00)
Mr. Pablo’s Latin Dance Band, a five-piece fusion band with vocalist, mixing Salsa, Samba and Flamenco with Rock, Reggae and Funk (10:00 – 11:00)

DINING IN THE WITCHES’ CAULDRON (6:30 to 11:00 PM, Cino Theater)
Downtown’s most sensational Halloween cafe, featuring a variety of American and international delicacies at peoples’ prices ($4 buys you entree and dessert).  Holiday dishes are contributed by neighboring East Village restaurants, some with celebrity chefs. Beginning at 7:00 PM, you can gobble couscous from a coffin lid while enjoying spine-tingling performances by performance artists, songwriters, poets and variety artists, including Smokey Stevens, WillieAnn Gissendanner, Pamela Enz, Miguel Loyola, Mimi Block & Rome Neal, ZeroBoy, Sylvain Leroux, Lili Barsha, George Belleci, Marilyn Horan, Sarah Lilly, Ellen Steir, Peter Welch, and The Head Peddlers. There will also be an excerpt from “Dune the Dunsical” (written and directed by Blake Du Bois and TJ Canlon) and a short play from the Mary Tierney Acting Workshop.

MONSTERS AND MIRACLES COSTUME PARADE (11:00 PM to Midnight, Johnson Theater)
This annual costume contest will be accompanied on piano by Peter Dizzoza.  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 Irrelevant,” “Most 1984,” “Most Woke,” “Most Fake News,” “Most Stephen Miller,” “Most Unvaccinated,” and “Most Likely to be Extinct.” Judged by Terry Lee King, Joe Battista, Crystal Field, Andy P. Travis, Phillip Hackett, Lissa Moira, David Willinger and Jenne Vath
VAUDEVILLE PERFORMANCES IN THE WOMB ROOM (8:00 to 11:00 PM, Cabaret Theater)

Performers include  Star ’69, Larry Litt & Eleanor Heartney, Bina Sherif, Sue Horowitz, New Yiddish Rep, Joe Bendik, Claude Solnik, Breaking the Trust, Lei Zhou & Peter Dizzoza, Rocco Nicholas, Terry Lee King & Billy Little, Sam Wiek, Danielle Aziza, and others. (8:00 – 10:00)

LOBBY EVENTS (6:30 to 11:00 PM)
Performances by Middy Streeter, 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.

BACKGROUND
Since its beginning in 1976, TNC’s Halloween 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 and Alien Comic Tom Murrin. Each year, many acts, skits, sketches, and skadoodles go on to become the basis of larger theater works. It is also interesting to note that TNC originated the Village Halloween Parade as part of its annual Halloween Ball. 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 its second year, TNC won an Obie for this parade.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

AUGUST STRINDBERG REP IN

THE WORLD PREMIERE OF A NEWLY TRANSLATED PLAY BY AUGUST STRINDBERG

First Warning!

a comedy, translated and directed by Robert Greer

October 2 – October 12, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $18, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 45 minutes
CINO THEATER

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

Theater for the New City will present August Strindberg Rep in the English-language premiere of Strindberg’s little-known “First Warning” (1892),  translated and directed by Robert Greer. The play, Strindberg’s only comedy, explores his fascination with love, jealousy, and the battle of the sexes through a farcical exploration of a stormy marital quarrel.

“First Warning,” a semi-autobiographical marital comedy, has never before been produced in English. It offers audiences a glimpse of Strindberg as a provocateur, challenging morality and social convention, and as a craftsman experimenting with new theatrical forms.  It offers a surprising glimpse of Strindberg in a lighter, satirical mood. Known worldwide for the searing naturalism of “Miss Julie” and “The Father,” Strindberg here turns his attention to the follies of marriage, jealousy, and vanity with a comic touch.

In the play, Axel and Olga have been married for fifteen stormy years. For a winter holiday, they have rented rooms in a house in Germany owned by a baroness and her bratty young daughter, Rosa.  Axel–tormented by jealousy–resolves for the umpteenth time to leave Olga. Amid a few rounds of arguments and confessions during his packing, she softens toward him, especially after the offer of a great gift is revealed in the second half of the play.

Strindberg subtitled the play “A Comedy.” It centered on Axel’s jealousy toward his much younger wife, her friends, and the gossip surrounding them. Instead of spiraling into murder or despair (as in “The Father”), the situation resolves with irony and reconciliation. The object of the “warning” is Axel’s vanity and insecurity, with Strindberg commenting on generational differences in marriage, the male ego and bourgeois morality. The irksome, nettling young Rosa often serves as the voice of insight and warning in the comedy. She observes the tensions, betrayals, and hidden resentments of the adults around her and interprets them for the audience. Thus she embodies the “warning” of the play’s title: that the sins and failures of parents will resonate in the lives of their children. Strindberg tells us that the children can do something about it.

As a parody of contemporary artistic forms and late Victorian mores, “First Warning” is oddly parallel to “The Importance of Being Earnest.”  The two plays premiered the same year at a time when the world first began to appreciate a woman’s possible enjoyment of sexual delight.

PRODUCTION HISTORY OF “FIRST WARNING”
The play relates an actual incident from Strindberg’s first marriage, to which he makes reference in his novel “A Fool’s Confession” (written between 1887 and 1888).  Originally titled “Första varningen” in Swedish, it had its world premiere at Residenztheater, Berlin, January 22, 1893, where it was a huge success. It had been accepted but never performed at Sweden’s Royal Theatre (Dramaten) in 1892. The actors boycotted the play after the first reading because they found Rosa’s role immoral. Reviewers thought the same when the play was published by Bonniers in the collection Dramatik in 1893. They were shocked by the erotically experienced and open-hearted Rosa. The play premiered at the Residenztheater in Berlin, on January 22, 1893, under the title “Herbstzeichen” (Signs of Autumn). It was printed in both Germany and Sweden that same year.

In Svenska Dagbladet, Hjalmar Sandberg wrote that Rosa was a peculiar role, that her approachability became comical, but also that she seemed too daring yet childish for the stage of development “represented by her nineteen years.” Gustav Fröding expressed a different opinion in Karlstads-Tidningen, describing Rosa as “an eccentric, pompous youngster, portrayed with admirable certainty and truth.”

There was a Swedish premiere tour with Julia Håkansson/Olof Hillberg in 1907. When Första varningen was finally staged, it was at Strindberg’s Intima Teatern in Stockholm on September 14, 1910. By now Strindberg was a renowned playwright. Several reviewers were as fascinated by Rosa as Fröding had been seventeen years earlier.

In 1913, “Första varningen” was staged again at the Intima Teatern as a prelude to Strindberg’s “Creditors.” Interest was also drawn in this production to the role of “the teenage Rosa, whose precocious love life is laid out for dissection.” (G.B., Svenska Dagbladet)  In 1948, “Första varningen” was staged together with Strindberg’s “Mother Love” on Radio Theatre. The reviewer in Stockholms Tidning was impressed. Maj-Britt Nilsson played Rosa “ruthlessly and juicy.” There was nothing left of the 1890s ingenue, which was completely dated in 1948. Ingemar Bergman was in charge of the direction. Radio Theatre reprised “The First Warning” in 1960, again under Bergman’s direction with Gunnar Björnstrand and Eva Dahlbeck in the lead roles.

Research by Robert Greer has detected no previous English language production of this play.  His adaptation sets the play in Switzerland in 1953. He writes, “The play has a once-upon-a-time quality and its characters that of a comic fairytale, reminiscent of an elaborate Swiss clock.”

CAST
Natalie Menna plays Olga
Mike Roche plays Axel
Holly O’Brien plays Rosa
Anne Stockton plays the Baroness

PRODUCTION
Lighting design is by Alexander Bartenieff
Costume design is by Billy Little
Stage Manager is Jose Ruiz

Natalie Menna has appeared at TNC in lead roles in six Strindberg Rep productions: Julie in “Miss Julie,” Hedda in “Hedda Gabler,” Elise in “Pelican/Isle of the Dead,” Laura in “The Father,” Tekla in “Creditors” and Alice  in “Dance of Death, Parts 1 & 2,” all in new translations by Robert Greer. Last season at TNC, she played Vivien Leigh in “Orson’s Shadow,” written and directed by Austin Pendleton. She is also a playwright; TNC has presented her plays “Hiroshi Me-Me-Me,” “Zen A.M.” and “Occasionally Nothing.”   (www.NatalieMenna.com)

Mike Roche has appeared at TNC in Strindberg Rep productions of Miss Julie” (as Jean), “Hedda Gabler ” (as Judge  Brack) and “Creditors”  (as Gustav). Other credits include “Occasionally Nothing” by Natalie Menna (TNC), “The Hook” by Arthur Miller (American premiere at Brave New World Rep), “Night Over Taos” (INTAR, dir. Estelle Parsons), and “Billy the Kid” (Flea Theatre, dir. Jim Simpson). He is a member of Godlight Theatre Company (2010 Drama Desk Award). (www.MikeRoche.net)

Holly O’Brien has appeared at TNC in Strindberg Rep productions of “Miss Julie” (as Christine, the cook), “Hiroshi-Me, Me, Me”  and “Occasionally Nothing” by Natalie Menna. She played Belle in “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” and Goldie in “Two By Two,” directed by Martin Charnin. Other regional credits include “Norma Jean Enlightened,” “The Teffetas,” “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” “The Iceman Cometh,” “The Fantastiks” and “Noises Off.” She sang Glinda in a “Wicked” Broadway concert with the Rockland County Choral Society. (www.HollyEOBrien.com)

Anne Stockton has written and performed two solo shows that were directed by Austin Pendleton “The Speed Queen” (based on the novel of the same name by Stewart O’Nan) was performed at NJ Rep, United Solo Festival and  Midtown International Theater Festival (Outstanding Performance in  a Solo Show).   “I Won’t Be In On Monday” was presented at Off the Wall Theater and United Solo Festival  (Best One-Woman Drama). She has appeared OOB at HERE, Playwrights Horizons and Cubiculo among others, and has appeared on-camera in CBS’s “Blue Bloods” (co-star) and the films “Silent Partner” (co-star) and “But” (lead), among others. In her “day job,” she is an MD/Psychiatrist and has been an actor/trainer for the NYPD Hostage Negotiation Team and Emergency Service Unit.

Robert Greer (translator/director) is Artistic Director of August Strindberg Rep, which is a resident company of TNC. He has staged twenty Strindberg productions with the company to-date as well as English-language premières of contemporary Scandinavian playwrights, including Denmark’s Stig Dalager; Sweden’s Kristina Lugn, Marianne Goldman, Helena Sigander, Cecilia Sidenbladh, Hans Hederberg, Oravsky and Larsen, and Margareta Garpe; and Norway’s Edvard Rønning. He has also directed classics by Henrik Ibsen, Victoria Benedictsson, Laura Kieler, Anne Charlotte Leffler, and Amalie Skram. His productions have been presented at the Strindberg Museum and Strindberg Festival, Stockholm; Edinburgh and NY Fringe Festivals; Barnard College, Columbia University, Rutgers, and UCLA; Miranda, Pulse and Theater Row Theaters, La MaMa, Manhattan Theatre Source, Tribeca Lab, Synchronicity, TSI, and BargeMusic in NY; and The Duplex in LA. He has directed plays by Mario Fratti, Sartre and Corneille here in New York. He is a member of SDC, AEA and Swedish Translators in North America.

August Strindberg Repertory Theatre, under the direction of Robert Greer, is committed to productions of Nordic plays in new translations and interpretations that illuminate the works for today’s American audience. That is why TNC has taken this repertory into its family. Mr. Greer writes, “Strindberg Rep is deeply grateful to Crystal Field for having made us a resident company. Ms. Field’s support of new plays (and plays newly translated) has been a godsend to us. Her knowledge and experience of theater is a beacon guiding us and her unflagging devotion to the art of the drama and its artists is a role model for leaders of all cultural institutions.” (https://Strindbergrep.com)

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM?

November 28 – December 14, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 1 hour 35 minutes, No intermission
CABARET THEATER

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

CONTENT WARNING
“This show deals with some very dark imagery and topics. There is a content/trigger warning for blood, needles, transphobia, talk of suicide, death, violence, and gore.”

WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM? is a one-act horror dramedy set in  2048 on the banks of Lake Michigan in her wild upper peninsula. Harper, a transmasc med student, returns to the campsite they spent their childhood summers protected in, alongside best friend Olive and her new girlfriend Gray.

Drought, wildfires, and food scarcity have ravaged the rest of the country but the grass at camp remains green, guarded by the gnarled eye of an ancient elm tree. However, when a power threatens to choke out the paradise, the three young queer people must wrestle with themselves and each other to preserve it.

CAST
TBA

PRODUCTION
TBA

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Dune! The Dunesical

(The Unauthorized 4D “Muad’Dib” Experience) – Part 1

Extended from its run in Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival 2025. Back by popular demand!

September 24 – September 28, 2025
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20
Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
JOHNSON THEATER

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

Made with a sincere love for Frank Herbert’s epic book series (or, well, actually the movies), Dune! The Dunesical (The Unauthorized 4D “Muad’Dib” Experience) – Part 1 is a parody musical for everyone from musical theater fans and Dune-heads to musical cynics and Dune haters. Written by one Letterboxd-obsessed man and one brave woman, Dune! The Dunesical mixes campy musical theater, raunchy fanfic, and confusing hardcore sci-fi no one actually understands into one endlessly hilarious experience.

CAST
Tasha Berol
TJ Canlon
Blake Du Bois
Tanner Hodson
Lauren Horgan
Kenny Lee
Katherine McKinney
Willy Nelson
Danny Ritz
Robbie Shields
Morgan Smith

PRODUCTION
Written and Directed by Blake Du Bois and TJ Canlon
Additional Material by Eli Neslund
Choreographed by TJ Canlon
Associate Choreographed by Yasmyn Sumiyoshi
Fight Choreography by Tasha Berol
Music Directed by Andrew David Sotomayor and Colin Hodgkin
Stage Managed by Olive Schettino

BIOS
Blake Du Bois is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a BFA in Musical Theater from The Boston Conservatory. In school Blake’s passion for theater expanded into both directing and writing. With New Ground Theater Company he made his directorial debut with Dahmer: A Musical and produced his first play What Love Is Not. Credits: Metamorphosis…With Puppets! (Edinburgh Fringe 2024), RENT (Theater Aspen), vocalist with Norwegian Cruise Lines, West Side Story (Reagle Music Theatre) His Story (orig. Judas), and American Idiot (Boston Center for the Arts).

TJ Canlon is a choreographer and theater artist based in NYC. She holds a BFA from The Boston Conservatory in Dance. She began writing in college and made her debut as choreographer and co-writer with New Ground Theater Company’s Dahmer: A Musical. She decided with co-writers Blake and Eli to take their collaborations to the big leagues. Choreography credits include Dahmer: A New Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher, Lollapalooza, and most recently with a new work in 2023 at Bridge for Dance NYC. Performance Credits: Theater: Stranger Things: Immersive Experience (NYC cast), Another Rose (Virgin Voyages), American Idiot (Boston Center for the Arts). Film/TV: I am Legend, The Sopranos (HBO).

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