“'Terrible is the temptation to do good!' warns Bertolt Brecht’s amiable narrator. But good is all that Grusha, the simple kitchen maid, knows. And so, in the midst of a revolution, she cannot help but come to the aid of a poor defenseless infant. Their subsequent misadventures across her war-torn country become the heart of Brecht’s playful parable, which calls into question our basic assumptions of right in a world that has gone wrong." - CSC
"White Noise depicts a philosophical artist who travels to Detroit for an exhibit, where he is hosted by an aging, bickering couple who are wealthy, stingy and tormented...The play's backdrop, a ten-panel collage, is based on a 13th century Sufi tract, "Conference of Birds" by Attar." - Theater for the New City
A month-long festival that highlights innovative ways to use sound design in theater. Performances include an interpretation of Dante's Inferno, Beckett's rarely-produced radio plays, and the true story of "the Ugliest Woman in the World," a play performed entirely in the dark. Multiple shows a day.
"A classic of queer Puerto Rican literature, Manuel Ramos Otero's'The Story of the Woman of the Sea' follows the winding story of the narrator and his lover, Angelo, in 1970's New York. The men try to re-imagine the city, their relationship, and their existence through the tale of a woman, Palmira Parés, a poet whose life in many ways parallels that of la maestra poeta Julia de Burgos." - CVS Center
A multimedia play based on Sontag's diaries, which date back to her teen years and were edited by her son.
A month-long theater festival featuring "cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video-gaming and performance." Shows include Dot, A Video Game with No Winner, in which "synchronized sounds and images, played by a “game console” built and programmed by the artist, and controlled by retro videogame joysticks" tell a story, and That Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy, which is "inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock," and "has bittersweet fun with end of the world." - Brick Theater. Showtimes vary; see schedule.
Part of Paths to Pier 42, which places art installations along part of the Lower East Side’s abandoned waterfront, this one-night-only play uses masks and puppetry to explain why New York’s water comes from the Catskills.
A theater troupe takes over the open pavement in the Municipal Parking Lot on the corner of Ludlow and Broome for their second free show of the summer, Richard III.
For the kickoff of Summer Street Theater Tour, which has been bringing free outdoor theater to low-income communities since the 1970s, TNC will close down the block in front of its building on East 10th Street for the premiere of “Sanitation,” with a BBQ to follow. Passersby will be able to pull up a lawn chair or milk crate to watch 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.
As part of the Summer Street Theater Tour, which has been bringing free outdoor theater to low-income communities since the 1970s, any passersby will be able to pull up a lawn chair or milk crate in Tompkins Square Park to watch "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.