Now Playing at La MaMa Theatres
And Then We Were No More – September 19-November 2
A searing and provocative world premiere by actor/writer Tim Blake Nelson, directed by Mark Wing-Davey. In a not-too-distant future, a reluctant attorney is charged to represent a prisoner deemed beyond rehabilitation. In the ensuing trial and in the face of a machine that eliminates the pain of execution we are forced to ask – How do you seek mercy in a world that has eliminated justice?
The (Un)Double – October 9-19
Socratic dialogue, psychiatric intake exam, dance/movement, and literary adaptation—The (Un)Double, inspired by Dostoevsky’s The Double—dissects the violence of narrative.
Company: The Useless Room, based in Los Angeles, CA, run by Gema Galiana (Spain) and Anthony Nikolchev (USA). Recently featured at the 2025 Venice Biennale Teatro.
Tawasol – October 10-12
AT CAPACITY October 10-12, 2025 The Downstairs66 East 4th StreetNew York, NY 10003 Tickets: Free Running Time: 2 hrs This is a free La MaMa event. See Program Reservations are required. Limit 2 reservations per person. Tickets available at the door By Members of El-Funoun Dance Troupe “I feel that each Palestinian needs to have an artistic family they belong to parallel to their own biological one, I choose El-Funoun Dance Troupe as my artistic, mental and spiritual family.”—Ziad Khaddash Photo by Ameen Saib ABOUT Experience the vibrant heritage of Palestinian dance in a powerful two-hour event with the renowned El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe. Merging dynamic dance, storytelling, and audience participation, this performance offers an intimate window into the lives and legacies of El-Funoun’s dancers. Through the voices and movements of five performers, stories of long-time members unfold, tracing cultural roots across generations, from parent to child. More
EXPERIMENTS READING: spit like an oil slick – October 13
spit like an oil slick is a fractured meditation on everything that enters and leaves your body — over the hours of 3-10 a.m. in some well-sullied club bathroom. There’s our lovely HOST, so nauseated she’s punching a hole straight through our dear, dear COWBOY. He’s an irregular regular that BABY is being a baby, but they’re having a good time, aren’t they? Are they? Where did lonely, lonely TOILET come from? It’s been a long night-to-morning, but it’s not time to go home.
Stages of Change: Theater Practices for Healing and Engagement – October 10-13
What can I do NOW? Some of the world’s most renowned practitioners of methodologies for community engagement, healing and addressing conflict will share their methods with you.
Drop Dead…Gorgeous – October 17-November 2
Tamar Rogoff is a New York based experimental choreographer, filmmaker, and teacher. Her work, often community-based and site specific, explores the outer limits of how people negotiate extreme circumstances.
La MaMa Kids: Awaken The Rhythms Of Nature – October 18-19
La MaMa Kids: The Sweet Tales of Piloncillo and Tejocote
/ Adventures in the Mexican Candy Factory.
An endearing puppet show about brotherhood, friendship, and sweet treats.
Pagbabalik ng Musikero – October 18
Join us on a cultural journey and prepare to perform the award-winning plays, original songs, and Tagalog poems of Dr. Nonilon V. Queano.
Read and perform excerpts from Dr. Nonilon V. Queano’s acclaimed plays and poetry sing his original musical compositions
Get On That Horse And Ride! Care Cafe- October 21
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’.
Creatures – October 23-November 2
Creatures is a two-week inhabitation of 74 E 4th St. with installations, performances, workshops, and conversations about beings from across cultures as prophets of compassion amidst ecological precarity.
Stages of Change: Theater Practices for Healing and Engagement – November 3
What can I do NOW? Some of the world’s most renowned practitioners of methodologies for community engagement, healing and addressing conflict will share their methods with you.
Ready For Company and Other Family Tales – November 6-23
Ready For Company and Other Family Tales: a one-woman show of family and legacy. Stories, music, longings, a Jewish-Japanese-American family tree – and cake.
ArtsLink Assembly 2025: Defending Each Other – November 6-7
Building Collective Support for Artists in the U.S. Amid Persecution, Crisis, and Conflict
The Reflections of Native Voices Festival: The Feast of Ghosts – November 6-9
Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna/ Rappahannock Nations) is an author, playwright, director, producer, cultural artist, educator, and human rights activist.
Jump Start -November 13-16
Puppet artists get a chance to showcase their works in progress in the La MaMa Puppet Series. Featuring works-in-progress from Deniz Khateri, Leah Ogawa, Sarah Finn, Amanda Card, William PK Carter.
Experiments: The Stones of Life – November 17
The Stones of Life is a courtroom drama set in 1972 Honolulu.
La Commedia Divina – (The Divine Comedy) – November 20-22
Teatro Patologico was founded in 1992 by the founder and creator Dario D’Ambrosi. The comapny has been involved in a unique and universal work, of finding a connection between theater and mental illness.
Osni the Flare – November 20-23
Osni the Flare is a puppet ballet set to an original album. Through use of rod, shadow, light, and body puppetry, Osni dances a luminous blaze into being.
La MaMa Kids: You Have Arrived – November 22-23
La MaMa Kids: The Sweet Tales of Piloncillo and Tejocote
/ Adventures in the Mexican Candy Factory.
An endearing puppet show about brotherhood, friendship, and sweet treats.
Silent Green – December 4-7
Enter the wild wonder of Silent Green—a spellbinding mix of music, dance, and puppetry that pulses with nature’s heartbeat. Feel, move, reconnect, and awaken.
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.
From the Other Side – December 4-14
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.
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.
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.
La MaMa Kids: Winter Wonderland Performance – December 13
La MaMa Kids: The Sweet Tales of Piloncillo and Tejocote
/ Adventures in the Mexican Candy Factory.
An endearing puppet show about brotherhood, friendship, and sweet treats.
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.
Christmas In Nickyland – December 22-23
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.
La MaMa Kids: Don Quixote Takes New York – January 10-11
La MaMa Kids: The Sweet Tales of Piloncillo and Tejocote
/ Adventures in the Mexican Candy Factory.
An endearing puppet show about brotherhood, friendship, and sweet treats.
