Performances

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