This Season at La MaMa

A time-traveling genre-bending musical of one queer family’s journey in the face of unimaginable loss.

The truth is queerer than fiction in the first ever performance of overlooked trans icon Elizabeth Eden’s unpublished memoir, misrepresented by the blockbuster hit film Dog Day Afternoon.

“Mondo” means world, but it means also hopscotch - the game - and it is the opposite of immondo, ‘unclean’.

World-acclaimed award-winning Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo, will perform at La MaMa for the first time, accompanied by guitarist John Alevizakis.

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.

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.

Longtime Resident Company and a foundational force in Native American and feminist performance will present a series of performances and community events.

Why is this night different from all other nights? After 40 years of hosting Passover seders, Sue holds out hope that it won’t be. Miriam, her youngest, could show up after all.

To The Playground is an ode to playgrounds and playground parents – a journey into the beauty, banality and anxieties of the longest shortest time.

Witness a groundbreaking moment in opera history where the first-ever female doctor to take stage in opera brings to life the story of Allegra. Set in the tension-filled days before a high-stakes trial, Allegra lets the audience of lawyers into the most vulnerable and difficult moments in her life and career as they navigate her pretrial discovery together.

COUNTRY/CONVENIENCE is a new experimental operetta, presented as a workshop performance. Set entirely during a graveyard shift at a rural gas station, a middle-aged queer woman stands alone at the register of the last outpost for miles — and over a single night, her inner life erupts into song.

As the ever-changing world we live in continues to challenge us both as individuals and within our different communities, we can use this year-end holiday time to reflect, heal, find solace as we celebrate together. ‍Joy, hope and love to this world! Hosted & curated by Nicky Paraiso.

"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.

Anima Mundi fuses visceral movement, live music and cinematic imagery, conjuring spirit beings and shadows to explore our connection with the other-than-human world.

A cautionary tale about what it feels like to be left behind as an artist in our world.