Now Playing at La MaMa Theatres
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.
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.
At this table… | May 28
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.
Coffeehouse Chronicles #183: An Afternoon with Agosto Machado | May 30
Curated by Michal Gamily &
Kim Ima
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.
La MaMa’s SQUIRTS | June 4-7
Each year, La MaMa’s Squirts gathers the most exciting voices from New York City’s queer performance world, across the generations.
luzAzul | June 4-7
Experience luzAzul an immersive opera designed especially for babies and their caregivers. This enchanting show will have you exploring the magic of symmetry, emotions, and connection through a blend of music, dance, and interactive elements.
The Morgan Jenness Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship Readings | June 8
The Morgan Jenness Experiments in Playwriting fellowship will offer two early career playwrights in the NYC area an artistic home at the legendary La MaMa for the course of one year. The fellowship seeks to encourage playwrights from underproduced communities with an emphasis on members of the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, and people with disabilities. This event will host a reading from our current playwright fellows.
The Game of Bluff | June 10 – 11
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.
The Visit | June 18
Loco7’s Studies in Puppet Form Workshop Showcase —
a 10-week series with older adults
and members of the Sirovich Center for Balanced Living
“SICAL” (So It’s Come At Last…) | June 20-21
“SICAL” (So It’s Come At Last…) is a generous performance by Carol “Carl” Imrie Mui and Lim Mui, featuring live musical accompaniment. Through soliloquies, celebration, Bye Bye Birdie, nerve and glamour, “SICAL” examines the intimacy of a relationship all too close for ease, parent and offspring, or mother and “daughter.”
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.
Pairings | June 22-28
Each night, an interdisciplinary musician and movement artist come together to create a one-of-a-kind performance, improvised live in the moment.
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.
