This Season at La MaMa
Our latest season focuses on Oneness, creating unity through collective action—striving to dissolve boundaries between the self and others, exploring ways art can be used to create profound connections.
Shares at La MaMa | 2026
Tawasol
- El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe
- September 5, 2026
A powerful two-hour journey of Palestinian dance, storytelling, and lineage with El-Funoun Dance Troupe, blending performance and audience participation in a celebration of cultural resilience.
Love Letters to the U. S. of A. Care Cafe
- a free community event by Lois Weaver
- September 15
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’.
Maedeup: Weaving Shin Yun-bok
- Ji-Young Kim | Seoul Institute of the Arts
- September 24-27
A live non-verbal performance reimagining the genre paintings of 18th-century Korean painter Hyewon Shin Yun-bok through movement, live sound, and real-time visual art.
La MaMa Kids: Kinding Sindaw Dance Interactive Workshop
- Potri Ranka Manis | Kinding Sindaw
- September 26-27, 2026
Children explore rice planting through music, dance, storytelling, and traditional Mindanao instruments, celebrating community, nature, creativity, listening skills, cultural heritage, and climate justice.
Experiments Reading: Miss dalloway
- Written by Yves allen
- September 28
Miss dalloway, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway, shifts the setting away from upper-crust 1923 London to Harlem in 1930, amidst the ailing Renaissance and the looming Great Depression.
La MaMa Kids: ELEMENTARY
- Denisa Musilova & Tami Stronach / Paper Canoe Company
- October 3-4, 2026
Explore the four elements through gentle movement, tactile props, music, and storytelling in an interactive performance for babies aged 6-36 months.
Epstein Oratorio or, A Modern Hymn to Demeter
- Karen Malpede | Kathleen Chalfant
- October 1-2, 2026
This short (50 minute), powerful poetic, terrifying, and funny political play is an expose of the “Epstein class” played out against the iconic mother-daughter myth of Persephone and Demeter.
ALL MY BODIES
- Maiamar Abrodos / Gonzalo Quintana | Queer New York Festival
- October 1-4
All my bodies is a poetic manifesto about the right to be, to rebuild oneself, to inhabit the body one longs for, and to be shaped by those who walk with us. It is a necessary, luminous, and profoundly contemporary work.
Coffeehouse Chronicles #185: Martha Clarke
- Curated by Michal Gamily
- October 3, 2026
Coffeehouse Chronicles is an educational performance series exploring the history of Off-Off Broadway. Part artist-portrait, part history lesson, and part community forum, Coffeehouse Chronicles take an intimate look at the development of downtown theatre, from the 1960s’ “Coffeehouse Theatres” through today.
BU Live: Back-to-School Edition
- Brooklyn United
- October 8-11, 2026
BU Live: Back-to-School Edition follows young Brooklyn artists using music, movement, storytelling, and student voices to explore education, confidence, leadership, community, and possibility together onstage.
Poetry Electric | Jazzetry 2.0 – Horn & Hughes
- Judy Tate & Steven Bernstein
- October 5
A blend of music & voice with the poems of the uniquely creative wordsmith, Langston Hughes.
Only Under
- Bruno Isakovic / Ana Mrak | Queer New York Festival
- October 8-9
"Only Under" is a performance about forces: invisible, structural, emotional, and physical. Inspired by wave mechanics, the piece explores how movements, both choreographic and social, emerge only under certain conditions.
Once Upon Tomorrow
- Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld | Queer New York Festival
- October 10-11
The performance Once Upon Tomorrow refuses to be situated in time, and often refuses to be situated in space as well. It constantly rearranges itself, just as it rearranges the possible meanings that can be inscribed into the relationship between two people.
Bond Street Theatre: Looking for Trouble since 1976
- Bond Street Theatre
- October 10-11
A celebratory weekend of storytelling, live music, global cuisine, and a tribute to all who helped build Bond Street Theatre and YOU!
La MaMa Presents An Evening of Happiness with Yungchen Lhamo
- Supporting One Drop of Kindness Foundation
- October 17
World-acclaimed award-winning Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo, will perform at La MaMa for the first time, accompanied by guitarist John Alevizakis.
UNCONDITIONAL, a new musical memoir
- Margot Rose
- October 15-25
A time-traveling genre-bending musical of one queer family’s journey in the face of unimaginable loss.
Doll Day Afternoon
- Dmitri Barcomi & Vice Squad
- October 15-25
The truth is queerer than fiction in the first ever performance of overlooked trans icon Elizabeth Eden’s unpublished memoir, misrepresented by the blockbuster hit film Dog Day Afternoon.
Untold Wajda: Blokowisko (The Estate)
- Blanka Barbara Stahl
- October 22-25
Untold Wajda: Blokowisko (The Estate)
A dance-theatre spectacle reviving Andrzej Wajda's lost film: a story of love in an oppressed society, told through live electronics, bold choreography and cinematic video.
THE WOMB & THE WEB
- Annie Finch & Jane LeCroy | a Poetry Electric special
- October 26th, 2026
With spells, dance, ritual, and music, poets Annie Finch and Jane LeCroy weave a shimmering web of life and death around the cauldron of abortion.
Spiderwoman Theater | Celebrating 50 years
- A Global Indigenous Theatre Festival
- October 30 - November 7, 2026
Longtime Resident Company and a foundational force in Native American and feminist performance will present a series of performances and community events.
KŌPŪ
- TePou Tuakoi Ohia (Kaituhi) ~ Aotearoa (New Zealand)
- October 30-November 1
Ho, ho, ho your way through our cheeky ballad of a show, sharing the tales of our young wāhine Māori as they navigate this world, festive nipples first, following in the footsteps of our naughty nannies from the kāuta.
Invisible Shadows
- the Ikidowin Youth Ensemble ~ USA
- October 30-November 1
Invisible Shadows is an authentic and honest story of growing up in the urban Indigenous community amidst an opioid epidemic.
Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)
- Moogahlin Performing Arts ~ Australia
- November 4-6
Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars) is an expression of the self-healing journey First Peoples take in reconciling the grief of loss from injustice crossing multiple lifetimes.
All My R(el)ations
- Aanmitaagzi ~ Canada
- November 4-6
All My R(el)ations celebrates a return to community. Aanmitaagzi’s multi-disciplinary dance theatre project looks at who we are in the face of adversity.
Spiderwoman Theater Gala
- Celebrating 50 years ~ by Murielle Borst-Tarrant
- November 7
Indigenous artists and the downtown arts community come together in a tribute to 50 years of Spiderwoman Theater. Curated and directed by Murielle Borst-Tarrant.
The Greatest Story Ever
- Paul Budraitis
- Oct 29-Nov 8, 2026
A stolen spaceship. A taxi driver. A distant star. Paul Budraitis returns to La MaMa for an intimate, surprising performance where everyone in the room is part of the story.
La MaMa Puppet Festival 2026
- Curated by Denise Greber & Federico Restrepo
- November 11-December 6
Endless Forms
- Monica Lerch | Puppet Festival 2026
- November 11-14
Endless Forms Most Human is an original science-fiction myth told through a feast of tabletop puppetry. Haunted by a family tragedy born from a society that outlaws life-saving technology, the brilliant, genderqueer scientist Syx wages a personal war against the frailties of the flesh.
Tiresias Presents New Weird Future: A Work In Process
- Tiresias | Puppet Festival 2026
- November 12-15
Tiresias Presents New Weird Future: A Work In Process is a speculative eco-opera and puppet pageant that imagines futures of multispecies flourishing in the ruins of the Anthropocene.
La MaMa Kids: The Dandelion’s Wish
- Fatima Sambo Schoenfelder | Puppet Festival 2026
- November 14-15
The Dandelion’s Wish is an extraordinary story of never giving up from the perspective of an unlikely wild flower.
The Undercity
- Gaby FeBland & Sammy Zeisel | Puppet Festival 2026
- November 14-16
When an otherworldly artifact falls into her paws, Rat Girl uncovers a vast conspiracy that threatens the fate of the entire rat metropolis.
Where Did You Go, Connie?
- Amanda Glynn Card | Puppet Festival 2026
- November 19-22
an interdisciplinary shadow and toy puppetry performance examining the life and work of cult musician Connie Converse and our relationships with the artists we love
Everything That Follows
- LOCO7 DANCE PUPPET THEATRE COMPANY | Puppet Festival 2026
- November 19 - 23
Everything That Follows is a dance puppet experience that blends rod puppets, marionettes, dance, acrobatics, and video. This project explores themes linked to the natural environment, aiming to shed light on the interconnectedness between humans and animals while showcasing the beauty and fragility of our shared world.
Mirrored Pool
- Tom Lee, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan |Puppet Festival 2026
- November 27 - 29, 2026
Where do we fit in this endless universe? Glimpse the precious fragility of our life on Planet Earth as we peer into the Mirrored Pool.
Jump Start 2026
- Various Artists | Works in Progress | Puppet Festival 2026
- November 27-29
La MaMa’s annual Jump Start series gives puppet artists the opportunity to workshop and showcase current work-in-progress. Featured artists are Justin Perkins, William Carter, Andrew Murdock, Marcella Murray, Torry Bend.
Husks from Iran
- Deniz Khateri | Puppet Festival 2026
- December 3 - 6
An Iranian immigrant artist struggling with language finds her same struggle reflected in the works of exiled poets, whose translations she sees through shadow puppetry inspired by Persian calligraphy.
En Mer Avec Louise Bourgeois
- Michelle Beshaw | Puppet Festival 2026
- December 3-6
A haunting found-object theatre piece where discarded things reveal fragments of the memories, and obsessions that animated Louise Bourgeois’s work well into her 90s.
To The Playground
- Andy Bragen Theatre Projects
- December 4-20, 2026
To The Playground is an ode to playgrounds and playground parents – a journey into the beauty, banality and anxieties of the longest shortest time.
