What We're Seeing: Cold War Choir Practice

Our friends in Clubbed Thumb and Page 73 are teaming up for a brand new production of Cold War Choir Practice by Ro Reddick and directed by Fault Line Artistic Associate (and recent Tony nominee!) Knud Adams. Cold War Choir Practice is being presented as part of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks. Be sure to head downtown and catch this show!

June 19 - July 1, 2025
wild project
195 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009

A Little About The Show

In Cold War Choir Practice, a prominent Black conservative brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays, setting long simmering tensions with his estranged family to boil. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults —underscored by the Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.

Cast:

• Alana Raquel Bowers 

• Will Cobbs

• Nina Grollman

• Andy Lucien 

• Grace McLean

• Lizan Mitchell

• Mallory Portnoy 

• Suzzy Roche

Creative:

• Book, Music, and Lyrics by Ro Reddick

• Directed by Knud Adams

• Music Director: Ellen Winter 

• Sets: Afsoon Pajoufar

• Costumes: Brenda Abbandandolo

• Lights: Masha Tsimring 

• Sound: Kathy Ruvuna 

• Movement: Baye & Asa

• Production Stage Manager: Christina Woolard

What We're Seeing: The Barbarians

The Barbarians, a play by Jerry Lieblich and developed as part of our Irons in the Fire program in 2018, is receiving its world premiere at La MaMa this month! We cannot wait to see this play in all its glory. The Barbarians is unlike any script we’ve ever heard and we’re beyond humbled to have played a part in this piece’s development.

February 14 – March 2, 2025
Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

A Little About The Show

The Barbarians is an imaginative, word-drunk romp through that strangeness, a play about a description of a play about a group of scientists gumming up the linkage between language and political power (much to Madam President Fake President’s chagrin). The Barbarians nestles in the valley between the word and the world, the declaration of war and the war itself — what if the President declared a war, but the words wouldn’t work?

Cast:

• Chloe Claudel

• Jess Barbagallo

• Anne Gridley

• Jennifer Ikeda

• Steve Mellor

• Naren Weiss

Creative:

• Created by Jerry Lieblich 

• Directed by Paul Lazar

• Executive Producer: Keith Gilbert

• Production Stage Manage: Carter White

• Scenic Designer: Amy Rubin

• Costume Designer: Suzanne Bocanegra

• Lighting Designer: Joe Levasseur

• Sound Designer: Johnny Gasper

• Video Designer: CultureHub

What We're Seeing: Deep Blue Sound

After this spring's sold-out run of GRIEF HOTEL, our friends at the beloved downtown theater company Clubbed Thumb return to the Public's Shiva Theater with their Obie Award-winning DEEP BLUE SOUND for a limited engagement.

February 25 - March 29, 2025
The Public Theater - Shiva Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003

A Little About The Show

On an island in the Pacific Northwest, the community gathers to address the disappearance of the local orca pod.  Friendships fray, tumors grow, new love blooms, wood is chopped, poems are written. The seasons change. Will the whales ever return?

Cast:

• Crystal Finn

• Jan Leslie Harding

• Mia Katigbak

• Maryann Plunkett

• Armando Riesco

• Danny Wolohan

Creative:

• Written by Abe Koogler  

• Directed by Arin Arbus 

• Scenic Designer: dots

• Costume Designer: Emily Rebholz

• Lighting Designer: Isabella Byrd

• Sound Designer: Mikaal Sulaiman

What We're Seeing: The Voices in Your Head

Artistic Associate Ryan Dobrin (backstroke boys) is directing a brand new play with Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective this month. Tickets are extremely limited though, so act fast!

September 9 - October 6, 2024
St. Lydia’s
304 Bond Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

A Little About The Show

Over an hour-long meeting, eight New Yorkers of varying backgrounds exchange stories, escape the ridicule of the outside world, and build an oasis, even as individual needs test its stability. Staged for an audience of 20 each night at a cozy, storefront church, The Voices in Your Head offers an intimate, singular experience, and a haven for weird joy.

Cast:

• Christian Caro

• Marcia DeBonis

• Alex Gibson

• Tom Mezger

• Daphne Overbeck

• Jamila Sabares-Klemm

• Molly Samson

• Erin Treadway

• Jehan O. Young

Creative:

• Created by Grier Mathiot & Billy McEntee

• Directed by Ryan Dobrin

• Production Stage Manager: Debbie Holloway

• Movement Director: Carina Goebelbecker

What We're Seeing: Inspired By True Events

Our friend Ryan Spahn (Modern Rock) has written a marvelous new play called Inspired By True Events directed by Knud Adams (The Regulars, Modern Rock), starring Mallory Portnoy (God Save The Queer) and produced by Out of the Box Theatrics (home of our “(plays) In Previews.” workshop series) with Giselle Raphaela (backstroke boys) as ASM. Do not miss this extremely limited run!

July 10 - July 28, 2024
154 Christopher St, #1E
New York, NY 10014

A Little About The Show

In the green room of a community theater in Rochester, the Uptown Theater performers are getting ready to play to a full house after opening to rave reviews the night before. When their star actor arrives in a dangerously unhinged state, they must improvise on and off stage in ways they could not have imagined. By turns hilarious, harrowing, and horrifying, Inspired By True Events follows a tenacious group of show people who must determine at what cost the show must go on.

Inspired By True Events received development workshops with New York Stage & Film, The Vineyard Theatre and EST.

Cast:

• Jack DiFalco

• Lou Liberatore

• Mallory Portnoy

• Dana Scurlock

Creative:

• Written by Ryan Spahn

• Directed by Knud Adams

• Scenic Designer: Lindsay G. Fuori

• Costume Designer: Siena Zoë Allen

• Sound Designer: Peter Mills Weiss

• Lighting Designer: Paige Seber

• Prop Designer: Sean Frank

• Production Stage Manager: Jakob Plummer

• Assistant Stage Manager: Giselle Raphaela

What We're Seeing: cunnicularii

Our old friend and Artistic Associate Juan Arturo (The Oregon Trail, […] In The Time of Corona) is in a brand new play at the end of the month: cunnicularii by Sophie McIntosh. It only runs for 3 weekends so don’t wait until it’s too late!

June 28 - July 13, 2024
Alchemical Studios, Studio 1
50 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011

A Little About The Show

Mary is an expectant mother. Mary gives birth to a rabbit. Mary must adjust her expectations. A piercing fable about the wonder and brutality of motherhood, cunnicularii interrogates the crushing pressure new parents face and questions how much of ourselves we can truly give to our offspring.

Written by Sophie McIntosh, directed by Nina Goodheart, and produced by Good Apples Collective and Esmé Maria Ng, cunnicularii is an Equity Showcase and runs 90 minutes with no intermission. Content warnings for postpartum depression, grief, gore, body horror, and death. 

Cast:

• Jen Anaya

• Juan Arturo

• Benjamin Milliken

• Camille Umoff

Creative:

• Written by Sophie McIntosh

• Directed by Nina Goodheart

What We're Seeing: Stargazers

Page 73, one of our favorite companies in the city, has just opened up a brand new play and we are all sorts of excited. Do not miss Stargazers by Majkin Holmquist and directed by Colette Robert now playing downtown until May 10.

April 8 — May 10, 2024
Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St
New York, NY 10009

A Little About The Show

In Stargazers, a grieving mother contemplates selling her Kansas farm—guided, she says, by the ghost of her daughter. While her ex-husband and neighbors fight to keep the land, an East Coast developer hopes to build a progressive utopia that would alter the landscape forever.

Cast:

• Lizzy Brooks

• Baize Buzan 

• Andrew Garman

• Fernando Gonzalez

• Miles G. Jackson

• Keren Lugo

• Kelly McAndrew

Creative:

• Written by Majkin Holmquist

• Directed by Colette Robert

• Scenic Design: Lawrence E. Moten III

• Costume Design: Alicia J. Austin

• Lighting Design: Reza Behjat

• Sound Design: Tosin Olufolabi

• Props Design: Caitlyn Murphy

• Intimacy Director: Judi Lewis Ockler

• Casting: Taylor Williams, C.S.A.

• Technical Supervision: Beacon Theatrical

• Production Stage Manager: Kate Croasdale

• Assistant Stage Manager: Carolyn Reich

What We're Seeing: Fish

Keen Company and Working Theater are two of our favorite companies in the city and they are teaming up in March to present the World Premiere of Kia Corthron’s Fish, and frankly, we cannot wait!

March 19 — April 20, 2024
Theater Four in Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036

A Little About The Show

Between acting as guardian to her little brother and losing her best friend to the charter school on the upper floor, Tree is just trying her best to get through senior year at her underfunded public school. Ms. Harris, the new English teacher, has grown embittered over budget cuts and standardized testing – keeping every student afloat is proving easier said than done. When questions arise that no textbook can answer, both student and teacher will face their most challenging assignment to date. Kia Corthron's Fish is a frank, funny, and fearless new play about the everyday people who make up America’s education system.

Cast:

• Torée Alexandre

• Mikayla LaShae Bartholomew

• Josiah Gaffney

• Morgan Siobhan Green

• Rachel Leslie

• Margaret Odette

• Christopher B. Portley

Creative:

• Written by Kia Corthron

• Directed by Adrienne D. Williams

• Scenic Design: Jason Simms

• Costume Design: Mika Eubanks

• Lighting Design: Nic Vincent

• Sound Design: Michael Keck

• Props Design: Yudelka Heyer

• Dramaturg: Zachariah Ezer

• Production Stage Manager: Shane Schnetzler

What We're Seeing: The Cotillion

Artistic Associate Ryan Dobrin (backstroke boys) is producing a brand new play as a member of The Movement Theatre Company. Do not miss The Cotillion, written and directed by Colette Robert!

May 3 - May 27, 2023
Mezzanine Theater at A.R.T./New York Theatres
502 W 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

A Little About The Show

As six high-achieving debs interrupt their preparations to peek into the shimmering ballroom, The Harriet HollandSocial Club’s esteemed Madam President does her damnedest to ensure it all goes well. She needs no stumblestonight. No teary-eyed smudges, no unraveling lace, no unraveling ANYTHING. Because if she can’t control thesegirls, whatever will they think over at Table 4? Featuring an all-Black-women company and creative team, down to its three-piece band!

Cast:

• Caturah Brown

• Kayla Coleman

• Cherrye J. Davis

• Claire Fort

• Starr Kirkland

• Aigner Mizzelle

• Cristina Pitter

• Monique St. Cyr

• Portland Thomas

• Montria Walker

• Akyiaa Wilson

• Jehan O. Young

Creative:

• Written and Directed by Colette Robert

• Music and Lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney

• Additional Lyrics: Colette Robert

• Choreography: nicHi douglas

• Sets: Teresa L. Williams

• Costumes: Mika Eubanks

• Lights: Stacey Derosier

• Sound: Sadah Espii Proctor

• Hair + Wigs: Nikiya Mathis

• PSM: Gracie Carleton

• ASM: Keyana Hemphill

• Production Manager: Intuitive Production Mgmt

• Marketing Consultant: PennyMaria Jackson, ArtzVenture

• Press Rep: Matt Ross PR

• Make-up sponsored by M∙A∙C Cosmetics 

• Make-up Design: Fatima Thomas, M∙A∙C Senior Artist 

• Associate Director: Ibi Owolabi 

• Associate Choreographer: Nile Harris

What We're Seeing: Truckers

We got to catch Truckers at INTAR Theatre this past week starring our friends Yadira Correa (Democra) and Christine Bruno (Comfort Pet) and so should you!

February 25 - March 26, 2023
INTAR Theatre
500 W 52nd St (4th floor)
New York, NY 10019

A Little About The Show

Mayor, Lollipop, and Freckles don’t know when they’ll leave this truck stop with their unusual cargo, or where they’ll be directed to take it next, but what they DO know is that things are really starting to get weird tonight. Between unexpected guests, a strange rest stop clerk, and otherworldly energies, the less questions they ask the better. Right? Mariana Carreño’s darkly humorous new play expertly places madcap characters in a situation more bizarre than them in this World Premiere.

Cast:

• Christine Bruno

• Jesse Castellanos

• Jorge Chapa

• Yadira Correa

• Jacqueline Guillén

Creative:

• Written by Mariana Carreño King

• Directed by Alfredo Narciso

• Scenic Design: Raul Abrego

• Costume Design: Harry Nadal

• Lighting Design: Dalia Sevilla

• Sound Design: Jimmy Kavetas

• Production Manager: Alejandra Maldonado Morales

• Production Stage Manager: Traci Bargen

• Assistant Stage Manager: Joseph Distl

• Technical Director: Christopher J Cancel-Pomales