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Scammed Into Love
By: Briana Bartenieff
Directed By: Briana Bartenieff
April 3 – April 27
APR 3 - APR 27; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets $25 tickets, $15 Students and Seniors
Thursdays Pay What You Can
Run Time: 2 hours with intermission
COMMUNITY SPACE

A new musical “Scammed Into Love”. Following Lorelei, who runs a romance scam company.

Café Resistance
By: Roberto Monticello
Directed By: Lissa Moira
April 10 – April 27
APR 10 - APR 27; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets: $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 2 hours 10 minutes including intermission
JOHNSON THEATER

Set in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1939, Café Resistance tells the story of the Blue Parrot, a cabaret that becomes a sanctuary for Jews and resistance fighters. the women who work there-local and foreign-use their performances to hide their true identities and resist the Nazi regime. Inspired by real events, this gripping play highlights the power of defiance in the face of oppression.

THE ROAD AHEAD
By: Barbara Kahn
Directed By: Barbara Kahn
April 10 – April 27
APR 10 - APR 27; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets $20 tickets, $15 Students and Seniors
Run Time: 75 minutes
CINO THEATER

THE ROAD AHEAD was inspired by Rod Serling’s classic television series “The Twilight Zone.” A married couple on a nighttime journey is transported by a GPS gone amok to a mysterious destination in place and time...


Coming Soon

TNC’s New City, New Blood Reading Series: REMEMBERING DANICA
By: CHIMA CHIKAZUNGA
Directed By: CHIMA CHIKAZUNGA
April 21
Monday, April 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM

FREE
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION

Chelsea embarks on a journey to fulfill a dying former lover’s last wish.

Rome Neal’s Banana Puddin’ Jazz 2025-04-21
April 21
Monday, April 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Tickets: $20 General Admission

That’s (Not) All She Wrote…
Directed By: Carol Mark
April 25 – April 27
April 25, 26, 27; FRI, SAT at 8:00 PM, SUN at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20 tickets, $15 Students and Seniors
Run Time: 90 minutes
CABARET THEATER

This play-within-a-play format celebrates women playwrights "of a certain age" whose voices scold, plead, and explode as they let you know, in no uncertain terms, what is on their minds.

Four Evangelists Walk into a Fog
By: Douglas Lackey
Directed By: Mark Harborth
May 1 – May 18
MAY 1 - MAY 18; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets $20 tickets, $15 Students and Seniors
Run Time: 1 hour 15 minutes plus intermission

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote four differing gospels and created Christianity. These four evangelists actually never met, but they do--as members of a comedic literary synod

Chagall In New York
By: David McDonald
Directed By: David McDonald
May 1 – May 18
MAY 1 - MAY 18; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets $25 tickets, $15 Students and Seniors
Thursdays Pay What You Can
Run Time: 2 hours
CINO THEATER

What happens when you've lost all hope and the one thing that can get it back -- your own creativity -- has deserted you as well? "Chagall In New York" is the story of hope and redemption that begins with a profound loss -- that of Marc Chagall's wife Bella, the woman who floats with him in so many paintings.

The Generator Sessions
May 1 – May 11
MAY 1 - MAY 11; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

Tickets $20 tickets, $15 Students and Seniors

TNC’s New City, New Blood Reading Series: MILAGROS, SANTA AND THE LIGHT
By: Y. Rodriguez
Directed By: Y. Rodriguez
May 5
Monday, May 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM

FREE
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION

A young woman and her daughter witness a miracle that would set their world free but are doomed to pay the consequences for freedom.

TNC’s New City, New Blood Reading Series: The Big Finish
By: Vinnie Nardiello
Directed By: Jake Hart
May 12
Monday, May 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM

FREE
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION

The Big Finish is both humorous and philosophical, examining how much we owe to the people we love and if the process of death is about our own desires or the comfort of the ones we leave behind.

TapEx 2025
May 19
Monday, May 19, 2025 at 7 PM

Lower East Side Festival of the Arts 2025
May 23 – May 25
Memorial Day Weekend. MAY 23, 24, 25 2025 - 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 30th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts.