Go See a Show‪!‬ Robert A. K. Gonyo

Listen in as Push Party playwright Nia Akilah Robinson, along with Producing Artistic Director of The Hearth Julia Greer, discuss just what a “push party” is, high school drama, naming characters, showing unspoken love, enmeshment, making peace with what’s passed down to us, showing up, and how friendship remains.

“…something that The Hearth was born out of is, wanting to make plays for people that may be going to school…that maybe don’t see themselves in a play. How could you pick up this play, and do it with your friends, and it would be accessible to you…”



TheaterLab & The Hearth present

Push Party

written by Nia Akilah Robinson

directed by Chesray Dolpha

thru June 23, 2024

TheaterLab

357 W 36th St, 3rd floor

Manhattan

tickets: $29 and up, available via OvationTix photos by Travis Emery Hackett

Listen in as performers Sevrin Willinder and Emily Conlon and director Melissa Ingle, of Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works, discuss translation order, opening up and exploring the box, post-COVID theatre, playing with the audience, the show’s resident ShakesPEER expert, connecting, and why liveness is so integral to being human.

“…it’s such a funny idea…but it proves the fallacy of technology, how it’s letting us down in some ways. But we still get to bring it into the room, and engage with it, and have fun with the miscommunications, which is very Shakespearean…”



Devon Loves ME! and the Down to Clown Festival present

Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works

written by William Shakespeare

translated by Google Translate

directed by Melissa Ingle

thru June 1, 2024

The Vino

274 Morgan Ave., Suite 201

Brooklyn

tickets: $15, available via the Sour Grapes website







photos by Melissa Ingle

Listen in as members of the team that devised What Will the Neighbors Say?‘s Third Law—director Coral Cohen, designer Cosette Pin, and performers Sam Hood Adrian and James Clements—discuss their devising process, exploring audience agency, Kandinsky, testing your show with live participants, taking risks, and where theatre meets gaming.

“…it’s unlike any game that you have played. You are controlling physical bodies all around you, like real life VR…like reality, but you’re making a play right in front of you.”



What Will the Neighbors Say? presents

Third Law

devised by the ensemble & designers

directed by Coral Cohen

thru May 26, 2024

Culture Lab LIC

5-25 46th Avenue

Long Island City, Queens

tickets: from $28.52, available via EventBrite

photos by Paris Marcel

Listen in as Luis Feliciano, Kristen Hoffman, Penelope Deen, & Padraig Bond of Torch Ensemble’s The Climate Fables: Debating Extinction & The Trash Garden, winner of “Best Play” in the New York City Fringe, discuss playing with trash, constant improvisation, clowning, casting the audience, ouija boards, bringing play to tragedy, and making a connection.

“…for me as an actor, I really feel like this play is so much about, ‘what do you do when the world is ending?’ You just play some games with your friends, and hope you stay ok…”



Torch Ensemble presents

The Climate Fables: Debating Extinction & The Trash Garden

written by Padraig Bond

directed by Padraig Bond & Torch Ensemble

April 3–17, 2024

UNDER St. Mark’s Theater

94A St. Mark’s Place

Manhattan

Listen in as the director of Lost Sock Laundry, Madelyn Chapman, along with the full cast—Jesse Castellanos, Michelle Feza Kuchuk, Fernando Mateo, Jr., Haneen Arafat Murphy, Maria Peyramaure, & Yasmin Ranz-Lind—discuss variations on the immigrant experience, finding the political in the quotidian, theatre in/of/for the community, laundry jokes, cast bonding, actual lost socks, and the freedom to play.

“…it’s a very human play. It’s looking at the day-to-day life of folks who are struggling with different aspects of the immigrant experience…The sort of ordinary heroism that is in the play…people just do that in life, and it’s not sung very much, the ways that people stand up for each other.”



UP Theater Company presents

Lost Sock Laundry

written by Ivan Faute

directed by Madelyn Chapman

thru April 27, 2024

Fort Washington Collegiate Church

729 West 181st Street

Manhattan

tickets: $15–25, available via EventCombo

photos by Jody Christopherson

Listen in as Dorothea Gloria, Joe Staton, Natasha Jain, Francesca Bolam, Kevin Rios, Jandel Camilo, Mila Besson, Nicholas Bompart, and Pablo Gatto of RiffRaff NYC‘s Immigrants in New York short play festival discuss mother-daughter relationships, unpacking baggage, why clowns, the superpowers bestowed by costumes, personifying statues, and wearing masks over masks.

“…I wanted to show their lives, their dreams, their feelings…for me, it was important to show these professions, also…sometimes we take for granted, there are people who do it for passion, and some of them, they do it because they need to bring in money…”



RiffRaff NYC presents

Immigrants In New York,

a showcase of 5 short plays

Dream Card

written by Francesca Bolam

directed by Joseph Fusco

Funland

written by Russell Legaspi

directed by Guelan Luarka

Lady Liberty

written & directed by Nicholas Bompart

Pizza From Nowhere

written & directed by Cara Ronzetti

Raw

written by Kevin Rios

directed by Mila Besson

March 8–10, 2024

Court Square Theater

44-02 23rd Street

Long Island City





photos by Hraban Luyat