Now Playing at La MaMa Theatres
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.
Experiments: All the Men We Might Have Been – November 25
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.
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.
The Rest Of Our Lives – January 7-17
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.
The Ford/Hill Project – January 7-11
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.
PRECIPICE – January 8 – 11
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.
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.
12 Last Songs – January 17
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.
