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Angel in the Ashes -or- Goodness Triumphant! – Mar 27-Apr 13
Goodness triumphs over greed in this melodrama based on Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola. An innocent maid, a compassionate prince, an angel from the throne of God…. and kazoos!

Swallows – Mar 28-Apr 6
Aging ‘90s heartthrob Brodie and his middle-aged girl band, The Swallows, are preparing to film a music video in their crumbling Valley McMansion when a buried secret threatens their fragile existence.


Sur – Mar 29-Apr 6
Adapted from the short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, Sur follows the secret expedition of nine women who, in 1909, travel to Antarctica and the South Pole. The Sur company – a collective of designers, performers, and on-stage crew – transforms the theater into a living breathing world of icebergs, glaciers, blizzards, and horizonless expanses.

No Time For Fools April Care Cafe – Apr 1
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’.

La MaMa Kids: Hula Dance Workshop – Apr 5
CultureHub collaborates with La MaMa Kids to create special distance connections between young people in New York City and out of state communities, giving kids and their families a window beyond their regular surroundings.

La MaMa Moves! 2025 – Apr 10-May 4
La MaMa Moves! 2025. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Dance Festival

Tides – Apr 10-13
John Jasperse Projects will premiere a new, evening-length work (as yet untitled) that is built around a collection of real-life, intergenerational mentor/protegé relationships that exist within the team of collaborators.

Love Alone Anthology Project – Apr 10-13
Choreographed by Keith A. Thompson, the Love Alone Anthology Project (world premiere) is inspired by the writings of AIDS activist & poet Paul Monette.

Shared Program: Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company / Pat Catterson
Shared program between Daniel Gwirtzman & Pat Catterson. e-Motion, a dance-theater collaboration between choreographer Daniel Gwirtzman and playwright Saviana Stănescu, explores AI, neuroscience, and what it means to be human in a digital age. Pat Catterson will present Tremor, a work for six dancers, and Then, a new solo.

Hunter College MFA / NYU Tisch MFA – Apr 18-20
Shared Program: Hunter College MFA in Dance: Francesca Dominguez’s The Nearly, Barely, Just. Maria Angela Talavera-Tejeda’s Por Debajo de la Rodilla / MFA in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research at NYU: marion spencer’s SYMPHONY. Xin Ying’s Paper Dragon: Five Elements Matrix

Class Dismissed – Apr 18-May 4
Your favorite professor slides into dementia; two grad-students hallucinate a manifesto; a privileged lit-prof performs poetry.

Experiments: Playwriting Fellowship Showcase – Apr 21
La MaMa Playwriting fellows showcase their work, mentored by Justin Elizabeth Sayer.

Poetry Electric: The Hot Folder – Apr 21
How often do you *really* get to give advice to your teenage self?

LUCY AI – Apr 24-25
LUCY AI is a collaboration between Lucy Simic and her Toronto-based interdisciplinary performance collective bluemouth inc. and Montreal artificial intelligence company Reimagine AI.

Jesse Zaritt & Pamela Pietro / Jordan Demetrius Lloyd – Apr 25-27
Shared Program: Jesse Zaritt and Pam Pietro’s duet is an experiment in accumulation and dissolution. / In Jordan Demetrius Lloyd’s most recent work the performer is both the magician and the veil, fostering spaces of encounter with his audiences.

Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss / Megumi Eda – Apr 25-27
Shared Program between Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss and Megumi Eda. Percussive dancer Nic Gareiss and fiddler Alexis Chartrand meld unparalleled virtuosity with an introspective sensibility. / Please Cry is a deeply personal solo performance by Megumi Eda, blending dance, live video, and music to explore intergenerational trauma, resilience, and the lingering impact of war.

Ta’na Nirau – Apr 26-27
Amalia Suryani’s Ta’na Nirau is rooted in the dance, music, and storytelling traditions of the Dayak tribes of Borneo, Indonesia, who are grappling with multiple existential challenges.

New York Arab Festival – May 1-4
Shared Program: New York Arab Festival (NYAF) presents its “festival within festival” program at La MaMa for its 2025 edition, rooted in experimental Arab and Arab American choreography, theater, and performance.

Jessica Cook / Alex Romania + Stacy Lynn Smith – May 1-3
Shared Program: Emerging Choreographers Program, Curated by Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer