This Season at La MaMa

A powerful two-hour journey of Palestinian dance, storytelling, and lineage with El-Funoun Dance Troupe, blending performance and audience participation in a celebration of cultural resilience.

A live non-verbal performance reimagining the genre paintings of 18th-century Korean painter Hyewon Shin Yun-bok through movement, live sound, and real-time visual art.

This short (50 minute), powerful poetic, terrifying, and funny political play is an expose of the “Epstein class” played out against the iconic mother-daughter myth of Persephone and Demeter.

Coffeehouse Chronicles is an educational performance series exploring the history of Off-Off Broadway. Part artist-portrait, part history lesson, and part community forum, Coffeehouse Chronicles take an intimate look at the development of downtown theatre, from the 1960s’ “Coffeehouse Theatres” through today.

BU Live: Back-to-School Edition follows young Brooklyn artists using music, movement, storytelling, and student voices to explore education, confidence, leadership, community, and possibility together onstage.

World-acclaimed award-winning Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo, will perform at La MaMa for the first time, accompanied by guitarist John Alevizakis.

A time-traveling genre-bending musical of one queer family’s journey in the face of unimaginable loss.

The truth is queerer than fiction in the first ever performance of overlooked trans icon Elizabeth Eden’s unpublished memoir, misrepresented by the blockbuster hit film Dog Day Afternoon.

Untold Wajda: Blokowisko (The Estate) A dance-theatre spectacle reviving Andrzej Wajda's lost film: a story of love in an oppressed society, told through live electronics, bold choreography and cinematic video.

Longtime Resident Company and a foundational force in Native American and feminist performance will present a series of performances and community events.

A stolen spaceship. A taxi driver. A distant star. Paul Budraitis returns to La MaMa for an intimate, surprising performance where everyone in the room is part of the story.

To The Playground is an ode to playgrounds and playground parents – a journey into the beauty, banality and anxieties of the longest shortest time.

Witness a groundbreaking moment in opera history where the first-ever female doctor to take stage in opera brings to life the story of Allegra. Set in the tension-filled days before a high-stakes trial, Allegra lets the audience of lawyers into the most vulnerable and difficult moments in her life and career as they navigate her pretrial discovery together.

Country/Convenience is a new experimental operetta, presented as a workshop performance. Set entirely during a graveyard shift at a rural gas station, a middle-aged queer woman stands alone at the register of the last outpost for miles — and over a single night, her inner life erupts into song.

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! Hosted & curated by Nicky Paraiso.