Now Playing at La MaMa Theatres
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2026 | Apr 9-May 10
La MaMa Moves! 2026. Celebrating the 21st Annual Dance Festival
The Door Slams, A Glass Trembles | April 24 – May 10
The dining room of a sanatorium in the Alps. The deck of a ship on it’s way to Egypt. A country home in the Northeast. An uprooted family. An accidental death. Time elongates, compresses, becomes disjointed, and layers events past, present and imagined.
Combining richly textured music-theater with striking visual imagery, Talking Band’s elegant, eloquent, profound performance work has for fifty years been a cornerstone of New York City’s avant-guard theater community. Recipient of 18 OBIE awards including Life Time Achievement awards for its founders Ellen Maddow, Tina Shepard, and Paul Zimet.
Iteration IV (for Allen) | April 30-May 1
Iteration IV (for Allen), from Findlay//Sandsmark, is a continuation and derivative of their recent
series of iterative projects, parsing and re-imagining elements to find new
connection points and resonating waves.
The Censorship of Dreams | May 1-May 17
In a world stripped of memory and ruled by constant surveillance, dreams are the last remnants of the past. They become a dangerous currency for those who struggle to survive.
The Censorship of Dreams welcomes you to a world where civilization has Restarted and brain-computer technologies shape truth.
Arte Makar Productions, led by Armenian director Arthur Makaryan, creates visually striking, interdisciplinary performances that blend theater, technology, and political inquiry. Rooted in international collaboration, the company explores themes of memory, control, and resistance through immersive storytelling. Makaryan’s work spans Europe, the US, Middle East, and South America, bridging experimental forms with urgent social questions to provoke, unsettle, and inspire.
Memory Generation | May 2-10
A new interactive, experiential theater work that explores the challenges, moments of humor, and unexpected losses and victories that arise when dementia impacts individuals, families, and communities.
Memory Generation is part of the first year of Pink Fang (formerly Ping Chong and Company), a home for daring experimentation, expanding the boundaries of theater and nurturing creative communities of care.
CROSSROADS: Pioneers Go East Collective, Anabella Lenzu, Miranda Brown, and Noa Rui-Piin Weiss | May 8-9
Crossroads Series is a series championing radical Queer voices. Four new short works from
Pioneers Go East Collective’s series empowering multigenerational LGBTQ+ and feminist
artists in dialogue with their communities.
CROSSROADS: Sugar Vendil, Pioneers Go East Collective, Alexa Grae and Symara Sarai | May 10
Crossroads Series is a series championing radical Queer voices. Four new short works from
Pioneers Go East Collective’s series empowering multigenerational LGBTQ+ and feminist
artists in dialogue with their communities.
POETRY ELECTRIC | May 11
N.Y.C. SEWER MADE IN INDIA is a young woman’s journey told through dance, play, poetry, and sound.
McManus: Fall of a Tyrant | May 14-17
A Nitwit son, A Revolutionary Daughter, Not-too-butch-for-primetime Generals, A Put-upon Wife, Exhausted Servants, Air-filled-Lovers, and Mad-As-Hell-Citizenry threaten to tear down the palace of McManus (King of all he surveys in-his-boxer-shorts). Randy Neale’s McManus: Fall of a Tyrant is a scathingly funny socio-political satire hell bent on “giving” (as the kids say) some catharsis to those damn beleaguered lefties!
Take Me To Dollywood | May 14-31
Take Me to Dollywood offers a full-length collage of scenes and experiments with a queer southern twang. On a porch in the south, A faceless Dolly Parton haunts the stage as characters find themselves on the edge of relationships, sexuality, and reality. A woman has eaten her hand, a sexy gummy bear awaits certain death, two men meet for a hook-up, a boss rummages through his employees’ desks, and the playwright details his sex life.
A Walk in a May Meadow Care Café | May 19
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’.
The Life and Times of Daisy Forbes | May 21-24
The Life and Times of Daisy Forbes is a long-form lip-sync illustrating a show girl, our last show girl who is at a distinct crossroads in her life. A crossroads where she is forced to make the decision of whether or not to continue pushing the rock up the hill as a performer and human being in this world. Via TV interviews, trashy pop, obscure musical theater scores and film scenes, Daisy channels these voices as a means of excavating the choices she has made, the feeling of abandonment and the uncertain future ahead.
Stages of Change | May 22 – 24
Join us for an immersive weekend exploring how theatre can foster community engagement, deepen empathy, and open pathways for dialogue across difference. Learn directly from leading practitioners whose work bridges performance, social practice, and civic life.
Experiments Reading: Credentials. | May 25
RSVP Monday, May 25, 7:30pmFREE EVENTRSVP Required Community Arts Space74 East 4th StreetNew York, NY 10003 Written by Jack McCleland ABOUT Just another day at the office. Bill Grimes is ready. He’s the new guy. First day on the job. He’s the man with the credentials. Just what is needed. Now, all he needs to do, is find out what he’s been hired to do and extricate himself from an out of control office romance and avoid committing suicide. bio Jack McCleland (Playwright): The Good Life was produced by both the Quaigh Theater and The Image Theater (NYC) and was the recipient of the Summer Solstice Theatre Conference Award. His one-act Hardball was a 2016 Heideman Award finalist at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Both his one-acts Dark and Connections were shortlisted for the Wexford (Ireland) Literary Arts Festival Award. Dark was produced by Theatre 3 (Port Jefferson, NY)
Lucky FM 2 | May 27-31
Riding on the huge success of Lucky FM at La MaMa E.T.C. last season, Slant returns to The Club to dig deeper into the liminal space between past and present with Lucky FM 2. Through the underground radio station’s telethon portal, Slant journeys through AANHPI histories with bamboo flutes, drums, and guitars telling stories of the Japanese American concentration camps, the International Hotel, Vincent Chin, and today. Performed viscerally through music, dance, drama, and humor, Slant finds unity amidst chaos in a celebration of community.
At this table… | May 28
At this table… invites online and in-person audiences into a reflection on aging—the joy, pain, politics, care, creativity, and possibility. The event will feature a “three-course meal” made up of performances, conversation, and web-based interactions.
Coffeehouse Chronicles #183: An Afternoon with Agosto Machado | May 30
Curated by Michal Gamily &
Kim Ima
La MaMa Kids: Mary Had A Little Lamb and Also A Substitute Teacher | May 30 -31
Mary and her little lamb are the best of friends—they do everything together. That is until one day, a substitute teacher with an extremely strict “no lambs in school” policy arrives, forcing Mary and her little lamb to spend an entire day apart for the first time ever. Using live music, puppetry and interactive storytelling, Mary Had A Little Lamb And Also A Substitute Teacher is a high energy, laugh filled adventure that reminds us that, while making new friends can be scary, it can also be quite a lot of fun.
La MaMa’s Squirts | June 4-7
Each year, La MaMa’s Squirts gathers the most exciting voices from New York City’s queer performance world, across the generations.
luzAzul | June 4-7
Experience luzAzul an immersive opera designed especially for babies and their caregivers. This enchanting show will have you exploring the magic of symmetry, emotions, and connection through a blend of music, dance, and interactive elements.
The Game of Bluff | June 10 – 11
In New York, four migrant artists turn their biography of dislocation into a creative act,
rewriting the city map according to their own language, culture and memories.
The Visit | June 18
Loco7’s Studies in Puppet Form Workshop Showcase —
a 10-week series with older adults
and members of the Sirovich Center for Balanced Living
