Now PLAYING
Building My Casa – Jan 23-Feb 2
Three immigrants from different parts of Latin America share a small apartment in NYC. On their hidden rooftop, they discover the farewell letter from Antonio, a former tenant.
La MaMa Kids: The Great Zodiac Animal Race – Feb 1-2
The Great Zodiac Animal Race is back at La MaMa Kids and just in time to celebrate the Year of the Snake!
Had Enuf of the Blues: Cabaret on the Verge – Feb 6-9
Returning to the room where he first came to La MaMa fifty years ago, Don Arrington and company perform a lifetime of his comic and moving tunes, celebrating the unique East Village characters he has inherited.
Cecilia Gentili Day – Jan 31
January 31 is designated as Cecilia Gentili Day in the City of New York to recognize her significant contributions as an author, performer, policymaker, and activist, who fought for the rights of undocumented immigrants, sex workers, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
No Reservation – Feb 6-23
NO RESERVATION is about global goddesses who have been underground for centuries and now rise up, sensing the urgency of their presence ‘at the table’.
Coffeehouse Chronicles #178: Dancenoise – Feb 8
“I saw The Glass Menagerie and for the first time understood there were family secrets, family joys, and sorrows, just as in my own life.”
The Barbarians – Feb 14-Mar 2
Countries are made of laws, and laws are made of words. So are plays. How strange.
La MaMa Kids:The Dragon’s Laugh & Other Tales – Feb 15
Join “bona fide fairy princess” Charlotte Lily Gaspard for enchanting original fairytales and songs by Midnight Radio Show! Shadow puppetry breathes life into these delightful short stories of adventure and friendship.
Experiments: Trying for Hedda – Feb 24
Loosely based on Hedda Gabler. Loosely as in, imagine if you were in a room where Hedda Gabbler had once been. Perhaps years ago. Or perhaps in the way a creature who is not constrained to the laws of time has been in a room. And you smell her perfume. And it makes you choke. It almost kills you. And you are so close to entering the valley of the dead, but then Hedda, from the heavens, gives you her dress, and asks you to be the next Hedda. To usurp her. That is Trying for Hedda.
Unsuccessful – Feb 27-Mar 2
An immersive opera/play/Passover seder, based on the oldest known Jewish play, written in Alexandria in the second century BCE by Ezekiel the Tragedien.
The Magic of Light – Mar 7-16
The Magic of Light interweaves puppetry, language, music and poetry to illustrate the cultural and spiritual awakening of an artist in the 1870s in Ukraine.
Metamorphoses (or A Few Ways of Keeping a Child from Running Around at His Great Uncle’s Funeral) – Mar 7-23
A dark comic romp bursting with puppets, high anxiety, and dubious life lessons, Metamorphoses is a brand-new play crafted by Dmitry Krymov and his NYC Lab.
Above ground – not exactly a comedy – Mar 13-23
Above ground – not exactly a comedy, is a theater piece about aging and childhood memories.
Infinity – Mar 20-23
Infinity is an intimate exploration of the searing complexities of love, change, parenting, and being parented.
La MaMa Kids: Travels to the South Pole – Mar 15-16
Bring your family to this unique interactive experience! The Trojan Women Project is committed to working in this spirit, encouraging all of us towards a collective vision of peace, hope, and the understanding that comes with hearing stories, making theater, and being together.
Angel in the Ashes- a melodrama with kazoos – 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.
