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THEATRE & DANCE
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53 Events
In the Common Hour
Friday Apr 19
Through Saturday May 04 | 8PM
Theater
New Stage Performance Space, 36 West 106th Street
36 West 106th Street (basement), btw. Central Park West and Manhattan Ave.
"In the Common Hour" is a phantasmagoric multimedia performance inspired by Italo Calvino, the renowned Italian novelist...
Gestating Baby
Wednesday May 01
- Saturday May 04 | 8PM
Theater
The Brick Aux
628 Metropolitan Ave
Gestating Baby is a semi-regular series of split bill performances that presents new and unpredictable works across the ...
Fingers & Spoons
Thursday May 02
- Sunday Jun 02 | Thursdays - Saturdays at 7pm, Sundays at 2pm
Theater
SoHo Playhouse
15 Vandam St. New York
Playwright and performer Pascale Roger-McKeever takes us on an honest, gutsy, and funny journey through a wife and mothe...
Square Dance Open House
Thursday May 02
| 6:30
Free
Theater
P.S. 003
490 Hudson Street
Learning to square dance is an excellent way to socialize while getting some exercise and learning a fun style of moveme...
Velvet Soiree Burlesque Night at Broken Shaker New York
Thursday May 02
| 7pm
Free
Nightlife
Broken Shaker New York
23 Lexington Ave
This spring, Broken Shaker at Freehand New York is hosting Velvet Soirée, an exclusive burlesque show from Velvetina & F...
La Musica Deuxième
Thursday May 02
- Saturday May 18 | 7:30 p.m.
Theater
Drawing Room
247 West 30th Street, #9R
Blessed Unrest, New York City’s award-winning subversive physical theater ensemble for an adventurous audience, presents...
The Last Block Association
Thursday May 02
- Saturday May 11 | 7PM
Theater
Black Spectrum Theatre Company, Inc.
177th St. & Baisley Blvd.
Back by popular demand is The Last Block Association. This story captures, with realism and humor, the day-to-day drama ...
Me < We: a solo dance concert
Friday May 03
- Saturday May 04 | 7:30PM
Theater
University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street
MODArts Dance Collective's (MADC) definition of Me < We is to encourage and nurture our independent unique selves throug...
Quick + Dirty
Friday May 03
| 6PM
Free
Theater
Brick Aux
628 Metropolitan Ave
Quick + Dirty is a development series for short plays by new collaborators + a community of playwrights and directors + ...
My True Love
Friday May 03
- Sunday Jun 02 | 7pm Fri, Sat, Sun & 3pm Sat, Sun
Theater
Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Street
“My True Love!” is a wildly comedic and sharp-witted fairytale that breaks down the fairytale stereotypes of love. The s...
Bettye and the Jockettes Spinning Records at the Holiday Inn
Friday May 03
- Saturday May 18 | Varies
Theater
The Gene Frankel Theatre
475 West 57th Street
It’s July 3, 1956 and the jockettes of WHER, America’s first all-girl radio station in Memphis, Tennessee, are having on...
The Kingdom Dance Company
Saturday May 04
Free
Kids
Perelman Performing Arts Center | PAC NYC Lobby Stage
251 Fulton Street
Join The Kingdom Dance Company for an unforgettable interactive dance experience! In celebration of 50 years of hip-hop,...
Artist Afternoons
Saturday May 04
Theater
Artist Afternoons
623 st marks ave
Artist Afternoons is a multidisciplinary performance series inviting 3 artists a month to perform their work in a commun...
“If You’re a Man at Night…You Gotta Be a Man in the Morning” staged reading X reality TV show X pity party
Saturday May 04
| 7PM
Free
Theater
The Brick Aux
628 Metropolitan Avenue
In the wake of his cancelation after an unfortunate pissing-on-a-gas-station-in-Rio-and-lying-about-it debacle, a loomin...
Hope Against Hope at The NYC AIDS Memorial | May 4–5, 2024
Saturday May 04
- Sunday May 05
Theater
Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)
225 W 13th St
HOPE AGAINST HOPE is a two-day program catalyzed by artist Ines Doujak’s decades-spanning practice, and features words a...
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Flushing Town Hall announce the 2024 CrossCurrent Dance Festival
Sunday May 05
| 2p
Theater
Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company announces its participation in the 11th CrossCurrent Dance Festival, in collaboration with Flu...
Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea Launch Party
Tuesday May 07
Theater
Triad Theater
158 W. 72nd St. Second Floor
LTV Studios is excited to announce the spring launch party for Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea on Tuesday May 7th at...
Passing & Failing in Paradise by Tori Barron
Tuesday May 07
- Saturday May 18 | 7PM
Theater
Chain Studio Theatre
312 W. 36 St. 4th Floor
Passing & Failing in Paradise by Tori Barron, invites audiences into the joys, anxieties and absurdities of transition b...
Geraldine Realigned Drives from Gay Place to Gay Place and You’re in the Car Too
Wednesday May 08
- Saturday May 18 | 8PM
Theater
The Brick
628 Metropolitan Ave
Geraldine’s got a tune up and she’s back on the road! Following a sold-out run last year, the zippy and zany Geraldine R...
MASK4MASK, a new play by John Patterson
Wednesday May 08
| 7:00 p.m.
Free
Theater
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street
When country singer Grant Collins is publicly outed, he struggles to reinvent himself as a gay pop star. MASK4MASK explo...
Not Calm
Thursday May 09
- Sunday May 19
Theater
Brick Aux
628 Metropolitan Ave
Theater has long seemed to me — in common with much other art — a Biblia Pauperum, a Bible in pictures for those who can...
Bring Them Back, a meta dark comedy by David Willinger
Thursday May 09
- Sunday May 19 | 8:00 p.m.
Theater
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue
Screenwriter Paul is still sheltering in place long after the Covid threat, only sometimes visited by his schleppy older...
Dance Break with Hilary Campbell
Thursday May 09
| 7 PM
Theater
Starr Bar
214 Starr Street
Let's SWEAT! Let's MOVE! Let's DANCE! In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month cartoonist, comedian, and burlesque pef...
Jupiter's Journey to the Earth
Friday May 10
- Sunday May 12 | 7PM
Theater
Baryshnikov Arts Jerome Robbins Theater
450 West 37th Street
Baryshnikov Arts presents Jupiter’s Journey to the Earth, created by the little OPERA theatre of ny. The World Premiere ...
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Gabrielle Ruiz performs in The Randy Andys Spring Swing at The Green Room 42
Saturday May 11
Theater
The Green Room 42
570 10th Avenue
The Green Room 42 presents The Randy Andys Spring Swing featuring Gabrielle Ruiz (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Star Trek) on, Sa...
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Gabrielle Ruiz performs in The Randy Andys Spring Swing at The Green Room 42
Saturday May 11
Theater
The Green Room 42
570 10th Avenue
The Green Room 42 presents The Randy Andys Spring Swing featuring Gabrielle Ruiz (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Star Trek) on, Sa...
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