La MaMa Moves! 2026. Celebrating the 21st Annual Dance Festival
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.
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 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 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.
N.Y.C. SEWER MADE IN INDIA is a young woman’s journey told through dance, play, poetry, and sound.
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!
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 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
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.
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 […]
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 unit
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.
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
Each year, La MaMa’s Squirts gathers the most exciting voices from New York City’s queer performance world, across the generations.
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.
Loco7’s Studies in Puppet Form Workshop Showcase — a 10-week series with older adults and members of the Sirovich Center for Balanced Living
