• Summer Street Theater Tour – Sanitation

    St. Mark's Church in the Bowery 131 E 10th St, East VIllage, NY, United States

    As part of Theater for the New City's Summer Street Theater Tour, which has been bringing free outdoor theater to low-income communities since the 1970s, any passersby can walk into St. Mark's Church to see "Sanitation," the eco-friendly musical about three Lower East Side sanitation workers who scrounge together their savings to take a cruise to the Caribbean, only to get sidetracked by Hurricane Sandy.

    Free
  • FAB! Festival

    Fourth Arts Block 61 East 4th Street, East Village, New York, NY, United States

    The tenth annual "one-day-only arts explosion" takes over a block of East 4th Street. Three stages (two outdoors and one inside the Fourth Arts Block space) will feature performances by local opera singers the Bowery Birds, a reading from The Bohemian Love Diaries by Slash Coleman, and a performance of Ink Spilled in Cursive, a fusion of painting and dancing inspired by the work of Spanish poet (and Bushwick mural inspiration) Federico Garcia Lorca.

    Free
  • The Quantum Eye at Theatre 80

    Theatre 80 80 St Marks Pl , East Village, NY, United States

    Mentalist Sam Eaton performs in this weekly magic and mentalism show that explores the limits of perception and deception.

    $51 – $81
  • Hotsy Totsy's 'Escape From the Planet of the Cherries'

    Slipper Room 167 Orchard St, Lower East Side, NY, United States

    The burlesque troupe that memorably riffed on The Big Lewbowski now turns its attention to "Escape From the Planet of the Apes."

    $10
  • Bushwick Burlesque

    Bizarre 12 Jefferson street, Bushwick, NY, United States

    Darlinda Just Darlinda and Scary Ben's burlesque troupe has paid tribute to everyone from Marina Abramovic to Sealo the Sealboy. We'd be understating it if we said never…

  • I'm Pretty Fucked Up

    Clubbed Thumb 195 Chrystie Street, New York

    Written by Brooklyn playwright and New Mexico native Ariel Stess, I’m Pretty Fucked Up is a play about three high school friends who skip class…

    $18
  • Shaken & Stirred Burlesque

    The Delancey 168 Delancey St, New York, United States

    Every Wednesday night, a rotating cast of NY's hottest burlesque stars take to the stage at The Delancey for a night of dancing and debauchery.

  • I'm Pretty Fucked Up

    Clubbed Thumb 195 Chrystie Street, New York

    Written by Brooklyn playwright and New Mexico native Ariel Stess, I’m Pretty Fucked Up is a play about three high school friends who skip class…

    $18
  • "King Kirby" at Comic Book Theater Fest

    Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    From the director: “’King Kirby’ is a play about the life of Jack Kirby, often called the ‘king of the comics,’ who had a career and…

  • "Bike Shop" Opening Night

    Theater for the New City

    The musical is “Bike Shop,” and it’s about—you guessed it—a bike shop. Liz Barkan plays Bobby, a bike messenger grappling with the heavy weight of having…

    $15