My family first came to New York City in the late 1800’s from Virginia and bought a house in Brooklyn and raised four generations. This story is about my family blood flow that is here on this land of New York City.
La MaMa presents NORWAY NOW 2025, organized by PAHN – Performing Arts Hub Norway, in collaboration with The Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York.
As 1948 approaches, a Palestinian boy and his beloved neighbour, the village Rabbi, struggle to maintain their friendship in a village of Jews and Palestinians trying to go about life as usual – until it becomes impossible. This story shows the painful price of loyalty and betrayal while honoring the power of memory.
Moscow, 2022. Colliding with the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, a theater director’s staging of The Seagull is irrevocably compromised… but that’s just the beginning.
Three immigrants from different parts of Latin America share a small apartment in NYC. On their hidden rooftop, they discover the farewell letter from Antonio, a former tenant.
A Chinese New Year celebration.
H.T. Chen & Dancers, presenting two signature works,
Opening the Gate and Mott Street.
H.T. Chen & Dancers, presenting two signature works,
Opening the Gate and Mott Street.
The Great Zodiac Animal Race is back at La MaMa Kids and just in time to celebrate the Year of the Snake!
Returning to the room where he first came to La MaMa fifty years ago, Don Arrington and company perform a lifetime of his comic and moving tunes, celebrating the unique East Village characters he has inherited.
NO RESERVATION is about global goddesses who have been underground for centuries and now rise up, sensing the urgency of their presence ‘at the table’.
theater told verbatim by teens from Ukraine
Countries are made of laws, and laws are made of words. So are plays. How strange.
“I saw The Glass Menagerie and for the first time understood there were family secrets, family joys, and sorrows, just as in my own life.”
Join “bona fide fairy princess” Charlotte Lily Gaspard for enchanting original fairytales and songs by Midnight Radio Show! Shadow puppetry breathes life into these delightful short stories of adventure and friendship.
An immersive opera/play/Passover seder, based on the oldest known Jewish play, written in Alexandria in the second century BCE by Ezekiel the Tragedien.
The Magic of Light interweaves puppetry, language, music and poetry to illustrate the cultural and spiritual awakening of an artist in the 1870s in Ukraine.
A dark comic romp bursting with puppets, high anxiety, and dubious life lessons, Metamorphoses is a brand-new play crafted by Dmitry Krymov and his NYC Lab.
Above ground – not exactly a comedy, is a theater piece about aging and childhood memories.
Infinity is an intimate exploration of the searing complexities of love, change, parenting, and being parented.
