Now Playing at La MaMa Theatres
Spider Rabbit | March 26-April 12
“Spider Rabbit” is a play by poet and Obie award winning playwright Michael McClure. Written in 1971, it is an “absurdist anti war gargoyle cartoon” that feels increasingly relevant 50+ years later. Harolded by Dan Safer and Tony Torn who have been referred to as “Off Off Broadway luminaries” by the New York Times.
Uncle Vanya, scenes from country life | March 28 – April 12
Krymov has never staged “Uncle Vanya”
But now—as our own world burns with despair, longing, and betrayal—it is time for the Lab to take up Chekhov’s masterpiece, transforming it into a grotesque elegy, a wasteland vaudeville.
Krymov Lab NYC develops bold, experimental, design-forward theater under the leadership of Dmitry Krymov, “one of the world’s finest theater-makers.” (The New York Times)
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2026 | Apr 9-May 10
La MaMa Moves! 2026. Celebrating the 21st Annual Dance Festival
Occurrence #14 | April 9-12
A glimpse into Spectrum Dance Theater Artistic Director Donald Byrd’s experience and memories of 9/11, OCCURRENCE #14 combines old and new movement ideas, showcasing them together and offering new perspectives.
STAND BY — an allegory | April 16-17
A glimpse into Spectrum Dance Theater Artistic Director Donald Byrd’s experience and memories of 9/11, OCCURRENCE #14 combines old and new movement ideas, showcasing them together and offering new perspectives.
Center for Fiction: This Is Not May ’68. | April 16-19
Directed and choreographed by Patricia Hoffbauer, this bold new work gathers eleven performers, ages 25-80 in a charged encounter between generations. Through a dynamic mix of text and movement, together they reimagine historical struggles for power, love, and knowledge. Here, the past activates us. The unfinished revolutions of 1968 cast a restless shadow, pressing urgently against our present time. As memory and bodies collide with lived experience, performers are propelled into unexpected situations and daring new possibilities.
Confession of Peaches The Vixen | April 16-17
GET TICKETS April 16-17, 2026 Community Arts Space74A East 4th StreetNew York, NY 10003 Tickets: $30 Adults ($50 Support The Artist Ticket)$25 Students/Seniors$10 La MaMa MembersFirst ten tickets to every performance $10 each (limit 2 per person)_______ 2, 3 and 5-Show La MaMa Moves Packages Available! See more shows and save. Click here for packages Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees. created byms. z tye guest curatorsMartita Abril & Blaze Ferrer About CONFESSIONS OF PEACHES, THE VIXEN is a cipher of pro hoe chronicles collaged intoperformance, with ms. z tye recalling the repentant memory of Y2K. La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2026 La MaMa Moves! 2026, the 21st season of La MaMa’s annual dance festival, brings togetherdance artists at all stages of their careers to experiment, collaborate, and share new work.Curated by Nicky Paraiso, the festival will take place over five weeks in April and May of 2026and will
Gold Pylon / Tender is the Night | April 17-19
GET TICKETS April 18-19, 2026 The Club74A East 4th StreetNew York, NY 10003 Tickets: $30 Adults ($50 Support The Artist Ticket)$25 Students/Seniors$10 La MaMa MembersFirst ten tickets to every performance $10 each (limit 2 per person)_______ 2, 3 and 5-Show La MaMa Moves Packages Available! See more shows and save. Click here for packages Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees. a Shared Evening with Jade CharonGold Pylon& Tiffany Merritt-BrownTender is the Night about Gold Pylon by Jade Charon is an inquiry into the possibilities of a grandmother’sprayer becoming an intercessory superpower and gateway to a higher self. Charon’s ongoingmulti-media research project series Gold was created to emPOWER Black and Brown people byconnecting them to the element gold’s spiritual, metaphysical, and ancestral powers throughdance, film, sound, and writing. This latest event in the series is a live multimedia performancesolo that journeys through the refining and purification process of gold, reaching
a hole new world. | April 18-19
In a hole new world. dispersed holes and absences beyond the self are threaded into a dissonant tunnel tracing the resonance of a hollow center.
MAN WOMAN | April 18-19
MAN WOMAN is a choreographic work by Vangeline that revisits the iconic photographic series
Man and Woman by Eikoh Hosoe—featuring Tatsumi Hijikata and Motofuji—through a
contemporary feminist lens.
Experiments Reading: Stubbornness & Bone | April 20
Returning to work at a chemical plant in the wake of a coworker’s murder of a supervisor, a group of blue-collar Latino laborers must confront their own mutual hostilities and the draining grind of the job as they search for ways to either move forward or move on.
Seeds of Care Café | April 21
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’.
Alien of Extraordinary | April 23-24
Alien of Extraordinary is an immersive dance-theatre work by Sun Kim, transforming her immigration journey in the U.S. into a powerful call for empathy and shared belonging.
SURFACE | April 24-26
The American premiere by Green Cow – a contemporary, Korean, circus-based experimental arts collective.
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.
La MaMa Kids: Hula Magic | April 25
Children are invited to experience the beauty, rhythm, and storytelling of traditional hula in this
joyful, hands-on workshop led by Kumu Hula ʻAuliʻi Aweau. Through movement, chant, and
cultural learning, keiki will explore how hula shares stories of nature, place, and community.
Edible Tales: Ho’oulu | April 25-26
Edible Tales by Dancers Unlimited explores cultural heritage, social justice and environmental
sustainability through a bi-coastal food lens from Hawai’i and NYC.
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.
Under the Umbrian Sun: A Reading Series | April 30 – May 2
Last summer, playwrights hailing from places ranging from New York to Tokyo came together in Umbria, Italy, for ten days of writing and theater-making with master playwright Dael Orlandersmith. On the grounds of LaMaMa founder Ellen Stewart’s home, they developed and workshopped plays that tell stories of hope and personal revelation. Come join us for a weekend of play excerpts read by actors, and the chance to meet the playwrights. A reception with light refreshments will be held between readings.
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.
BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin | May 2-May 3
A shared evening performance with BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
