{"title": "DOUGLASS: THE RECKONING: A WORKING PROCESS", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/experimental-theatre", "history/abolitionism"], "description": "DOUGLASS: THE RECKONING: A WORKING PROCESS is a performance project in development, presented as a town hall that invites audiences into the making of a new work. It centers on Frederick Douglass and the unfinished argument over American democracy, asking who \"we\" is in \"We the People\" and who gets to speak. It was conceived and directed by Charlotte Brathwaite and created in collaboration with June Cross, Nia O. Witherspoon, Alexis Marcelo, artists from IMPACT Repertory Theatre, and students from The New School's School of Drama. The event is free and open to the public, RSVP is required, and light snacks will be provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/douglass-the-reckoning-a-working-process-88266/", "official_url": "https://event.newschool.edu/douglassthereckoning", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2a51a86b4aa93517b901d586db34dc9a262d4311fc1d6981a321a9bf77d8f9b0-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "DOUGLASS: THE RECKONING: A WORKING PROCESS", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "651 ARTS", "address": "Lafayette Avenue 10, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/works-in-progress", "history/abolitionism", "society/democracy"], "description": "DOUGLASS: THE RECKONING: A WORKING PROCESS is a performance project in development centered on Frederick Douglass and the unfinished argument over American democracy, shared with the public across two town halls. It is conceived and directed by Charlotte Brathwaite and created in collaboration with June Cross, Nia O. Witherspoon, Alexis Marcelo, artists from IMPACT Repertory Theatre, and students from The New School's School of Drama. Audiences are invited into the development of the new work, exploring Douglass's words alongside questions of freedom, citizenship, belonging, disagreement, and what democracy asks of us now. It is free and open to the public, with RSVP required and light snacks provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/douglass-the-reckoning-a-working-process-88267/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2a51a86b4aa93517b901d586db34dc9a262d4311fc1d6981a321a9bf77d8f9b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Women+ on the Edge of Democracy", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Dixon Place", "address": "Chrystie Street 161A, 10002", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/democracy", "stage/theatre"], "description": "An evening of five new short plays staged on the eve of the midterms, followed by a panel of organizers, resource-sharing, and community-building in the venue's cocktail lounge. The Women+ on the Edge of Democracy project, initiated and commissioned by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, invited 36 women and TGNC playwrights to write short works on the state of democracy in America from national and international perspectives, and what history, global context, or futurism can offer in this pivotal moment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/women-on-the-edge-of-democracy-52282/", "official_url": "https://dixonplace.org/performances/womenontheedgeofdemocracy/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d070fee8d4ccfbca410c42f7f2d75bc21db13a73d3f8f19ca6156e7d06217b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Naima Ramos-Chapman: In Place of Monuments", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Apollo Theater", "address": "West 125th Street 253, 10027 New York", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play", "society/racism"], "description": "A staged reading of the one-act play \"In Place of Monuments\", part of the Apollo Works in Process Series, presented by the Apollo. The play, by Naima Ramos-Chapman, centers the friendship of two Black American and Caribbean friends and examines how state-sanctioned violence threatens to tear their family and community apart. Through recalling memories across time and incorporating movement and dance, it aims to create a portal for audiences to envision more just and liberated futures for Black and Brown people. The reading is followed by a talkback with the creatives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/naima-ramos-chapman-in-place-of-monuments-51069/", "official_url": "https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-new-works-naima-ramos-in-place-of-monuments", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9358ca52963fb66e5e081b518918365f8df1020d3d1e3843395423eec923c3ca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "All My R(el)ations", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "dance", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "All My R(el)ations is a multi-disciplinary dance theatre performance and installation by the Indigenous company Aanmitaagzi from Nipissing First Nation, Ontario, Canada, running about 45 minutes. Co-created and performed by the Aanmitaagzi Ensemble under director and choreographic lead Penny Couchie, it is part of the Spiderwoman global indigenous Theater festival. The work brings together professional artists and community, asking who we are in the face of adversity and who we hope to be, built on story-telling luncheons with elders, summer intensives with youth and weekly workshops. Through this intergenerational, multi-year project, the company seeks to make the E and the L no longer silent, so we can return to All My Relations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/all-my-relations-53461/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/all-my-relations/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5f4d74ee441a822cc4992c5dbccc91b8618135a3fa6ee24fe74acca607adb22c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "New Music from Washington and Jackson", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Perelman Performing Arts Center", "address": "Fulton Street 251, 10007 New York", "price": "Free and open to the public; RSVPs are encouraged, but not required.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/hip-hop/r-n-b"], "description": "An evening of brand-new musical theater performed on the Lobby Stage. Writers Dwayne Washington and Brandon Jackson, fresh off a sold-out run at Green Room 42 and a developmental reading of their first public work Influenced with ATC Theater in Pittsburgh, present a high-energy show. The Juilliard- and Berklee-trained collaborators draw on world music, R&B, jazz, classical, and hip-hop, and feature songs from three musicals in development celebrating Black joy, bold storytelling, and a fresh take on what Broadway can sound like. The event is free and open to the public, with RSVPs encouraged but not required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-music-from-washington-and-jackson-67048/", "official_url": "https://pacnyc.org/whats-on/new-music-from-washington-and-jackson/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c1c6e5dd18e54e79d7dc7c4cfaf607b4a91d311c82c1b935f37f19d4d7ff5602-600.webp"}, {"title": "adaku, part 2: she shivers with it", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $45", "price_from": "45.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "adaku, part 2: she shivers with it is a dance-theater work presented by BAM in association with L'Alliance New York's Crossing The Line Festival. It was created by sweat variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, and continues a speculative trilogy about one family's fractured ancestral memories. Set in a near-future United States, it follows a young woman taught she has no history worth remembering who begins receiving sudden transmissions, opening a multitude of imaginable futures. Running 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission, the work places Black interiority at the center of an immersive experience at the crossroads of dance, theater, and visual art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adaku-part-2-she-shivers-with-it-51174/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/dance/2026/adaku2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d1960a9a12df5faf2af54f2950a34095c7e9f314d5c5f8c24049bd289f9058a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)\" is a 65-minute performance work from Australia. It was created by Yuwalaaraay composer and performer Warren Mason and is presented by Moogahlin Performing Arts, tracing the intergenerational journey lines of First Peoples healing from injustice. Mason blends natural sounds of his Yuwaalaraay homeland, guitar, spoken word and singing styles of his old people, interwoven with movement choreographed with Jo Clancy, Lily Shearer, Kiarn Doyle and himself. The work honours matriarchy, survival, strength and the power of First Peoples storytelling, inviting audiences into a shared catharsis of truth, healing and resilience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/maayuma-li-mubirr-healing-scars-53460/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/maayuma-li-mubirr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92b25eb1f266bcb72ef3c6488400b7467f96fa3309ec1924b4d8c18170d245a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word", "music/rock"], "description": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama is a residency at La MaMa built around the spoken word, rock and comedy duo of the same name. Slanty Eyed Mama is award-winning lyricist and singer Kate Rigg (Lady-K) and electric violinist Lyris Hung, who met while studying at the Juilliard School and create a fresh American Asian sound. Their work has taken them twice to the Smithsonian Institute, to headline the PBS Special \"Race is the Place\", and to stages such as LA Grand Performances, the Perth International Festival and the Vancouver Comedy Festival. On November 1 they lead \"Speak Up! Speak Out! Speak Up!\", a free workshop for ages 14-22 on turning stories and feelings into powerful spoken word with improvised musical accompaniment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kate-rigg-with-slanty-eyed-mama-53459/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/kateriggwithslantyeyedmama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63d467e6a125927dea076c1e3563ecf6e80e82fe036cc990b3a1d1794f1f8a4f-2000.webp"}]}