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From the Other Side, Balkan Showcase – December 3-14

From The Other Side, Reimagining Theatre from the Balkans, Edition 1.0, a unique undertaking , this showcase will consist of two theatre performances, staged readings, and conversations and discussions, and video presentations of five theatre productions, offering insights into the artistic and thematic performing arts landscape of the Balkans.

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Things That Burn Easily (Balkan Showcase) – December 11-14

Things That Burn Easily narrates a story of about family living on a modest piece of land affected by a catastrophe. Some of them believe that they have been wronged by irreparable injustice and that a system that will compensate for some of the consequences of it should exist.

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Protest Song – December 4-21

David Nellist stars in Protest Song by Tim Price—a raw, urgent, darkly funny portrait of a homeless man caught in the Occupy London movement.

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Oklahoma Samovar – December 5-21

Oklahoma Samovar celebrates the American immigrant experience by examining the shifting identity, traditions, and culture clashes that shape five generations of a Jewish family.

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Experiments: Carpal Tunnel – December 8

It’s the vaguely present day in the year 20XX and master-of-the-novel Manna Benes wants you to meet her at the Roxbury Motel. Is this the worst thing that ever happened to you? Or is that writer’s block? A passion play and a family play and a tragicomedy and a history play and a surrealist play and a transgressive novel and an ekphrastic poem and a children’s book and a meditation on dance and a dance on meditation and an instruction manual and a coupon book and a pornographic magazine and a holy text. And a love story.

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KALIKASAN: A Climate Justice Benefit Concert – December 10

A Climate Justice production of Association of Filipino Scientists in America and Kinding Sindaw Presented by La MaMa, ETC In response to Typhoons Tino and Uwan that devastated the Philippines in November 2025 Organized by Association of Filipino Scientists in America (AFSA) and Kinding Sindaw All proceeds benefit Alibyo Cebu – Ayuda Network

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Reading: Boys Don’t Wear Lipstick by Brian Belovitch – December 15

It’s the vaguely present day in the year 20XX and master-of-the-novel Manna Benes wants you to meet her at the Roxbury Motel. Is this the worst thing that ever happened to you? Or is that writer’s block? A passion play and a family play and a tragicomedy and a history play and a surrealist play and a transgressive novel and an ekphrastic poem and a children’s book and a meditation on dance and a dance on meditation and an instruction manual and a coupon book and a pornographic magazine and a holy text. And a love story.

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Looking for the Light Care Cafe- December 16

Care Café is a public or domestic place for people to gather – their wits, thoughts and comrades in action. It is a temporary venue for communitas, conversation and activity within a spoken and visible frame of ‘care’.

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Birth + Carnage – December 19-21

Birth + Carnage, a work by Marla Phelan, merges choreography and astrophysics– transforming computational simulations of stellar birth into visceral metaphor, digital landscape, and choreographic framework.

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Christmas In Nickyland – December 22-23

What does it mean to return in 2025 and come together once again to celebrate during this particular holiday season? We must find ways to work together to protect democracy, while continuing to work on ceasing the never-ending battles and wars that nations wage against each other. As the ever-changing world we live in continues to challenge us both as individuals and within our different communities, we can use this year-end holiday time to reflect, heal, find solace as we celebrate together. ‍Joy, hope and love to this world!

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The Ford/Hill Project – January 7-11

30 years apart, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford provoked a reckoning about who is given the power to shape the future of our country by telling the story of one of the most private moments of their lives in one of the most public settings imaginable. With an ensemble of four actors speaking from the verbatim transcripts of these pivotal hearings, these two women’s stories can be seen side by side in a new light in Waterwell’s illuminating production.

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The Rest Of Our Lives – January 7-17

Hopefully hopeful, The Rest of Our Lives is a joyful dose of dance, theatre, circus and games. A cabaret of life and near death. Two middle-aged lives in an eclectic, spontaneous, predictable and random decline. Jo is an old dancer, George an old clown. International artists with over 100 years of life experience between them, armed with a soundtrack of floor-fillers, a book of raffle tickets and a sprinkling of eco-friendly optimism. Joyful, celebratory and hilarious. The struggle is real. It’s the beginning of the end. But we’re still here.

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PRECIPICE – January 8 – 11

PRECIPICE sets an intimate story of a young woman’s struggle in the epic landscape of America’s mountain west. Like the land around her, her wild spirit is crushed by disregard. She escapes to the precipice and leaps, awakening mute in a wilderness in which she must fight to find her voice. The opera’s visual world is evoked by miniature dioramas and large-scale video. The score, inspired by American folk music, art song, and the sounds of nature, features seven singers, string quintet, piano and mandolin. By drawing parallels between environmental and emotional damage, PRECIPICE looks at how we are silenced and exiled, and how we find our way to connection, both with each other and the natural world.

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12 Last Songs – January 17

12 Last Songs is part live exhibition, part epic performance. It’s about work and how we spend our time. Making a living. Finding your passion. Watching the clock. From midday to midnight on Saturday, January 17, real workers from New York City will perform paid shifts on stage, in front of a live audience. There are no actors. A builder might build a wall, a hairdresser might cut someone’s hair, a chef might prepare a meal. We’ll find out what they do, and how they see themselves in the world…

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KING LEAR – January 23-February 8

Compagnia de’ Colombari’s KING LEAR is a primal, physical, and potent “paper crown” Lear that strips the Shakespearian classic to its essence. Coonrod utilizes her signature “multiplicity” to shift and deepen audiences’ connection with the characters.

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