Performances

One night only! Downtown performers/stand-up comedians Samantha Fontana and Jill Pangallo present: “Double Header, ‘cuz Two is Better.” Two gals, one night… of stand up comedy! Two half-hour sets, back to back! Get yourself to The Wild Project on January 6th for some inspired stand-up without a darn drink minimum! SAMANTHA FONTANA is a Greek-Italian-Jew […]

TIN CAT SHOES written by Trish Harnetiaux directed by Knud Adams May 19-29, 2018 with: Kyle Beltran, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, David Greenspan, Emily Cass McDonnell, and Pete Simpson Kimie Nishikawa (set design), Sydney Maresca (costume design), Oona Curley (lighting design), Peter Mills Weiss (sound design) and Corinn Moreno (production stage manager) Blessed with the can-do

Robert Patrick’s long and distinguished career began at New York’s legendary Café Cino in the 1960’s with his first play “Haunted Host.” He went on to become a celebrated pioneer of Off-Off Broadway theatre and the gay-theatre movement and in the 1970’s Samuel French Publishing called him “New York’s Most-Produced Playwright.” His best-known work, “Kennedy’s

David Commander’s Modern Toy Theater ESSEX In this modern toy theater piece, I intend to draw a parallel between the 1819 sinking of the whaling-ship ESSEX by a sperm whale, and the dangerous backlash of overtaxing the Earth’s resources. Like the crew of the Essex, we are engaged in a chase that leads to our

SipFest, a new festival showcasing some of the coolest women theatremakers, has announced a lineup of multimedia works at different levels of development. “When Spaceman was tragically postponed, we had this marvelous theatre that was going to sit empty for a few weeks. Taking a few hours to mourn, I immediately reached out to some

Poetic Theater Productions is proud to announce our 7th Annual Poetic License festival of new poetic theater to be presented February 12th -18th, 2018 at the Wild Project, 195 E 3rd St. The Poetic License 2018 theme is “Reclamation”. Poetic License: Reclamation is headlined with Leslie Lissaint’s This is How We Heal and Jason Bayani’s Locus of Control and

This year’s edition of Special Effects Festival asks How do we build community? How do we build empathy? and how do we stay focused and carry each other through this clusterf*ck”. Artist driven and oriented, Special Effects gathers experimental performance works by practitioners exploring contemporary issues. Drawing on a network of over 7K artists who

NYNL is proud to kick off the 2018 season and our 8th curating films with a group of 7 intriguing short films that span the narrative, experimental, comedic and foreign spectrum. A Q & A will be conducted with the filmmakers who are present following the program. Wild Project is wheelchair accessible. For questions about

Based on the play LILIOM by Hungarian master Ferenc Molnár (which inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel), JERICHO by award-winning screenwriter and playwright Michael Weller, revolves around the love affair between a scoundrel carousel barker and a maid at a Catholic Young Women’s Inn. His confused violent passion and her simple unshakable devotion, form the combustible

It’s summertime in New York City, 1992. In NYC’s hazy pre-Giuliani,pre-cellphone, pre-Metrocard days, a black kid and a white kid meet in a chance encounter on an uptown D train, chatting hoops, hip hop, and history. Over the course of one afternoon, fear, guilt, longing and a cigar filled with weed allow one kid to