Now Playing
FAMILY – September 12-28
Experience this early play by Celine Song – a portrait of sibling entanglement and buried horrors that serves as a surreal parable of America’s psyche.
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?
Back to School Care Cafe – September 23
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’.
Experiments Reading: A Thousand Stonewalls – September 29
Experiments Play Reading Series 2025–2026 is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature with additional support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, The John Golden Fund, and The Shubert Foundation.
Give Me A Wild Fire – September 29
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.
Te Ao Mana / Tatou Festival September 30- October 5
TATOU FESTIVAL is NYC’s only Ta’ata Moana Nui (Pacific Islander) festival created by and for Pacific Islanders celebrating traditions and artistic innovation.
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
RSVP 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. Reservations are required. Limit 2 reservations per person. 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 than a performance, this is a living archive of
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
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
