JULY 25 TO AUGUST 3
PARKING LOT ADJOINING 145 STANTON STREET
(ENTER ON RIVINGTON ST. BETW. NORFOLK & SUFFOLK.)
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKING LOT, "TWELFTH NIGHT"
The Drilling Company's Shakespeare in the Parking Lot has been a Lower East Side neighborhood institution for almost three decades. Its concept--presenting Shakespeare plays with a "poor theater" aesthetic in a working parking lot--is now widely imitated around the US and around the world, with productions as far away as New Zealand. Cast of this production includes Ivory Aquino as Olivia. She is known for portraying transgender activist Cecilia Chung in the 2017 miniseries "When We Rise."

COMPLETE INFO: www.jsnyc.com/season/12th_nite.htm
PHOTOS: https://photos.app.goo.gl/oPrmEkiPVoMSzb8v8

AUGUST 3 TO SEPTEMBER 15
IN PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS & CLOSED-OFF STREETS CITYWIDE
TNC STREET THEATER, "THE SOCIALIZATION OF A SOCIAL WORKER..."
Theater for the New City's 2024 Street Theater musical is "The Socialization of a Social Worker or The Fight for Social Justice," which tells a story of a humanitarian case worker learning to overcome despair and find strength for today's challenges through people power. Book, lyrics and direction are by Crystal Field, Artistic Director of Theater for the New City (TNC). Musical score is composed and arranged by Peter Dizzoza. Free performances will tour parks, playgrounds and closed-off streets throughout the five boroughs.

COMPLETE INFO: www.jsnyc.com/season/stth2024.htm
PHOTOS: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4qMuSLYwZPzbjeLS7

AUGUST 25 TO SEPTEMBER 15
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
DREAMUP FESTIVAL
Theater for the New City (TNC) presents its twelfth Dream Up Festival, an ultimate new works festival dedicated to the joy of discovering new authors and edgy, innovative performances. The Festival is helmed by the theater's Literary Manager, Michael Scott-Price.  It plans to offer about 20 plays, a mix of world premieres, American premieres and New York premieres. Audiences will savor the excitement, awe, passion, challenge and intrigue of new plays from around the country.  Submissions are being accepted from interested performance groups and individuals through May 28. Submission info is available on the Festival's website, http://dreamupfestival.org/.

COMPLETE INFO: www.jsnyc.com/season/dreamup2024.htm

AUGUST 30 TO SEPTEMBER 15
GURAL THEATRE AT A.R.T/NEW YORK THEATRES, 502 W. 53RD STREET
SMOKING MIRROR THEATRE COMPANY IN "THE TEMPEST"
Smoking Mirror Theatre Company performs Shakespeare's "The Tempest," directed by John Gordon.

SEPTEMBER 6 TO OCTOBER 13
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
"DICKHEAD" BY GIL KOFMAN, DIRECTED BY RICHARD CALIBAN
A lawyer and paterfamilias named Richard (he's a real Dick) has forgotten the password to his bitcoin wallet, where millions of dollars sit just out of reach. His panic ushers in a funny, dark, macabre, satiric play on the multigenerational dynamics of a dysfunctional family pursuing/embacing their personal fantasies and pipe dreams in a world under siege by technology and virtual reality. Cast of seven stars Ezra Barnes as Richard.

VIDEO ON DEMAND

"USED AND BORROWED TIME" BY SOPHIA ROMMA
"Used and Borrowed Time," written and directed by Sophia Romma, is now available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Roku and the Vyre Network. This experimental avant-garde film, a psychological drama phantasma, has amassed over 45 festival awards and 26 festival film selections. An interracial couple's idyllic love rises above the hatred of a vengeful white supremacist family in segregationist Alabama during the 1960s. The film pays homage to the French New Wave films of Goddard, Truffaut and Agnès Varda. It has been translated from its original English into Greek, Spanish and Italian.

COMPLETE INFO: www.usedandborrowedtime.com

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY & NEW YIDDISH REP PRODUCTION OF "THE DYBBUK"
"The Dybbuk" is arguably the most well-known play in the Yiddish theater lexicon. It was premiered on December 9, 1920 by the Vilna Troupe at the Eizeum theater in Warsaw. Its success catapulted that company onto the International stage. It has since been translated into 27 languages and performed worldwide. From December 9-13, New Yiddish Rep celebrated the play's 100th birthday with a live performance streamed from Theater For The New City. A recording of the production has now been released for the general public to view on Vimeo.

MORE INFO: www.jsnyc.com/season/Dybbuk.htm

"Feathers of Fire" is the most elaborate shadow theater experience ever created, and this recording, captured on an actual theater stage, transforms it into a video-on-demand production for all ages. The story is adapted from Shahnameh (the Persian Book of Kings) and tells the action-packed tale of two star-crossed lovers of old Persia. Zaul, an outcast albino boy, is brought up by a bird-goddess and grows up into a wise ruler. He enters into a forbidden love with Rudabeh, a princess who is the granddaughter of the dreaded Serpent King. Their young, impetuous romance survives many precarious adventures before they finally receive blessings for their union. When they ultimately have a child, it is Rostam, "the Hercules of Iran." Aspects of the story are reminiscent of "Romeo and Juliet," "Rapunzel," "The Firebird" and "Jungle Book."

The piece is created and directed by Hamid Rahmanian, a 2014 Guggenheim fellowship-winning filmmaker/visual artist living in Brooklyn. It is endorsed by Francis Ford Coppola, who called the production "Fantastic! One of the greatest epics of all time and my favorite Shahnameh brought to life in a spectacular fashion by Hamid Rahmanian with shadow puppets design and cinematic wizardry."

COMPLETE INFO: www.jsnyc.com/season/feathers.htm