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Theater For the New City

East Village

A reading series of bold new works at one of the East Village's most beloved community theaters. Come for fresh plays in an intimate space with a funky art-filled lobby and cheap drinks at the bar.

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🏛️"pillar of the Lower East Side" theater community
🎨funky lobby full of amazing artwork
🍻welcoming bar on the main floor

Theater For the New City

155 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003, USA

Upcoming at Theater For the New City

Thursday, Jun 18
Odyssey and the flowers of the sun

Odyssey and the flowers of the sun

June 18 at 8pm

Homer's epic gets a haunting Mexican makeover in this 70-minute theatrical journey. A young girl travels through the land of the dead, guided by live music, ritual movement, and Día de los Muertos folklore as she searches for the mysterious Flowers of the Sun.

VILLAGE PLAYWRIGHTS ONE-ACT PRIDE FESTIVAL 2026

VILLAGE PLAYWRIGHTS ONE-ACT PRIDE FESTIVAL 2026

June 18 at 8pm

Andy Warhol called it "a work of genius" — and that was just one play. This Pride festival packs three audacious one-acts by LGBTQ+ playwrights into 80 electric minutes, from existential angst to campy drag comedy.

Monday, Jun 22
TNC’s New City, New Blood Reading Series: Songs of Love and Madness

TNC’s New City, New Blood Reading Series: Songs of Love and Madness

June 22 at 7pm

What happens when love songs crash into psychiatric diagnoses? This staged reading mashes up romantic tropes with DSM disorders in three scenes that ask: is love just madness we pretend to want? Two of the pieces already won festival awards.