{"title": "From Concept to Ask", "start": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "$100 per person, includes the workshop, performance, and talkback", "price_from": "100.00", "price_to": "100.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/education/professional-development", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "From Concept to Ask is a one-day intensive that helps puppet artists turn a show idea into a real production by building a working budget and pitch grounded in real numbers. It is led by Jean Marie Keevins, a NYC-based Emmy-nominated producer, writer, and puppetry artist and founder of Little Shadow Productions. Participants work on a project of their own and attend the evening performance of Everything That Follows by Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre, followed by a talkback used as a live example. Enrollment is limited to 12 so everyone gets direct feedback and leaves with immediately usable tools.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/from-concept-to-ask-66713/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/from-concept-to-ask/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6e34df0b5d0d5724c05884b458143ed3d0d3d9cc3b755a9dc859a001c4a55d8d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Everything That Follows", "start": "2026-11-19T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-23T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/puppetry", "dance"], "description": "Everything That Follows is a dance puppet theatre piece by Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company, presented as part of La MaMa's Puppet Festival 2026. Created and co-directed by Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber, it is a visceral work about what it means to be human, exploring our need for connection, instinct to survive, and struggle to adapt. Through movement, puppetry, and visual art, bodies and puppets collide and evolve in a dreamlike landscape that blurs the boundaries between human, animal, and environment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/everything-that-follows-66712/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/everything-that-follows/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8c068982e40d3afdbe76ae42cb607764da76ec5cb64e020b2692ff04bf76aca1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fuzzy Palace Puppet Slam: The Dark Side of the Palace", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Brooklyn Art Haus", "address": "Marcy Avenue 24, 11211 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "12.63", "price_to": "33.87", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "An evening of short puppetry acts of all genres by artists from Brooklyn and beyond. The slam is organized by Brooklyn Art Haus, with producers and performers including Roxas Sky, Muna M Muhsin and Mr. Ky Why, and takes the theme of dark fantasy. It is a Covid safer event, so visitors are asked to wear a face mask, and buying a ticket guarantees a seat.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fuzzy-palace-puppet-slam-the-dark-side-of-the-palace-51522/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b570f552326d191ac9ef8d8741a93f66786a0b8c905b4111d0fc534181d5bbc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Undercity", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["nature/environment", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "\"The Undercity\" is a rat puppet pageant about overthrowing a crumbling empire on the verge of ecological collapse. Gaby FeBland and Sammy Zeisel, who create multidisciplinary puppet plays harnessing communal ritual, set the show in a 1970s New York-inspired neon-lit rat metropolis beneath our feet, where Rat Girl uncovers a vast conspiracy that threatens the fate of her world. The play was developed during a 2024 residency at Culture Lab LIC and received a Production Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation. 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The story follows Syx, whose body is withering in a future where engineering the body is a crime; she alters herself in secret, builds robotic companions, and descends beneath the ocean to a commune of transformed humans. There, the wholeness she finds asks her to surrender the self she has fought to preserve.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/endless-forms-66706/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/endless-forms/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/beb492b0c84574284c576ec30d61d03a7221867a3fdd8f6a18035165ed9aa7b9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Master Class | A Conversation at the Director's Table", "start": "2026-11-19T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-19T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York City Center", "address": "West 55th Street 131, 10019", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "dance"], "description": "A Conversation at the Director's Table is a master class in New York City Center's free series for dance and theater professionals. It is moderated by Gabriel Stelian-Shanks of The Drama League and features panelists Zoë Adams, Kemar Jewel, Irvin Mason Jr, and Charlique Rolle. The artists discuss how they develop a vision, work with collaborators, and guide a production from its first rehearsal to opening night. Adams is Associate Director of Bug on Broadway, Jewel a 2025–2026 Encores! Directing Fellow, Mason Jr Associate Director of In the Heights at City Center, and Rolle Assistant Director of School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play on Broadway.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/master-class-a-conversation-at-the-directors-table-133998/", "official_url": "https://www.nycitycenter.org/events/master-class-a-conversation-at-the-directors-table", "image": ""}]}