{"title": "How to Get to Heaven from the Crawfish Pond", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Theater for the New City", "address": "1st Avenue 155, 10003", "price": "$25, Students & Seniors $15", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "A play titled \"How to Get to Heaven from the Crawfish Pond\", a darkly comic Louisiana love story about death, desire, family, faith and redemption, at the Community Space Theater. Written by Melanie Maria Goodreaux and directed by Goodreaux with Christopher Bello, it is the world premiere marking her 25th year of writing and directing plays. Crawfish farmer Earl Roussel has been dead for ten years when he wakes in a \"Purgatory\" that is his front yard, while his dying wife Ruth escapes at night to be with him and their estranged children and a pair of possibly fraudulent nuns circle the family. 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When Helen falls and Michael considers moving her to a nursing home, his estranged father Walter arrives, reopening old wounds and competing versions of the family's history. 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With contemporary characters and plot twists, it offers a fresh look at a timeless love story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/eurydice-55127/", "official_url": "https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/ctmp/theatre-productions.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ef80e36425ba70c22466a13d8af8c6e22279a27defe43de625c41c62bec6f381-600.webp"}, {"title": "KŌPŪ", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284915", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "KŌPŪ is a theatre show in which the wāhine of the company weave live music, performance, poetry, and poi into a hilariously honest, no-holds-barred account of their femininity on their own terms. It comes from Te Pou Theatre, a kaupapa Māori performing arts company and venue from Aotearoa (New Zealand), and was originally commissioned by Auckland Arts Festival. Written by Tuakoi Ohia and directed by Amber Curreen, it shares the songs of young wāhine Māori navigating the world, following in the footsteps of their naughty nannies from the marae. The 75-minute show has been called a hilarious celebration and gut-wrenching 'me too sis' to wāhine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kopu-53457/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c40ffa606faa98864eda10acb1d7262cffdeaed050ff726b337f1efad14cbe63-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Staged Reading: THE BIRD IS DONE", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Theater for the New City", "address": "1st Avenue 155, 10003", "price": "Free, donations appreciated", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy-drama"], "description": "A staged reading of the play THE BIRD IS DONE at Theater for the New City. The play is by Michael Fishman and directed by Jim Semmelman, presented by Executive Director Crystal Field. It is a new dysfunctional family dramedy, having its New York City premiere as a staged reading. 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Written by Danny Robins and directed by Matthew Dunster and Gabriel Vega Weissman, it stars Anna Camp, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Finn Jones, and Martin Marquez. Jenny believes her new house is haunted, though her husband Sam and their friends doubt it. During a housewarming dinner party, a debate over whether the dead can walk among us leads them to stay up until 2:22 to find out.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/222-a-ghost-story-71924/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a23b7a1e733a88366e6c121e85c334701e5c21cede1f6e374993924e453b5b04-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Here There Are Blueberries", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Ethel Barrymore Theater", "address": "243 West 47th St, 10036 New York", "price": "USD 86", "price_from": "86.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.newyorkcitytheatre.com/shows/ethelbarrymoretheater/here-there-are-blueberries/tickets/calendar/december-2026", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/holocaust"], "description": "Here There Are Blueberries is a critically acclaimed drama play transferring to NYC. Co-written by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, conceived and directed by Kaufman, and presented by Tectonic Theatre Project, this 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist is based on a true story. It examines the banality of evil through images an archivist discovered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which show the perpetrators of the Holocaust at play with their families rather than the horrors themselves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/here-there-are-blueberries-54203/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8b588ee080ff8d256a1b28d577a05ad56bad8d62de22f25d1ca0ba354ab30e61-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Two Girls", "start": "2026-10-30T21:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Cherry Lane Theatre", "address": "Commerce Street 38, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A darkly funny two-hander play for ages 18 and up, with a runtime of one hour. Written by Eliya Smith and created with The Goat Exchange, it revisits one of the 2000s' most viral shock-porn videos, using verbatim dialogue to examine sex and the body. Directed by Chloe Claudel and Mitchell Polonsky, it explores what we look at as we develop our sexualities and why we can't look away. Developed by Cherry Lane Theatre, it was designed by Forest Entsminger (scenic), Alicia J. Austin (costume), Isabella Byrd (lighting) and Mitchell Polonsky (sound).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/two-girls-51821/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f3b0782c19350cb1e777da247e394741abf1790d2bde8ad85caa90babe101477-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Greatest Story Ever", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284953", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage"], "description": "\"The Greatest Story Ever\" is an intimate, surprising performance blending sci-fi and lo-fi, in which everyone in the room shares in the story. It is created by Paul Budraitis, a Berlin-based director, performer, and writer, who also directs and performs; Evan C. Anderson handles lights, sound, and music. A spaceship drifts silently out of orbit, its pilot refusing to come home. The show runs 55 minutes with no intermission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-greatest-story-ever-53456/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/the-greatest-story-ever/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bc6caa5c2bed55c99f682f91eb9c3ead1d230048384456d361eb44fbeb28fe6-2000.webp"}]}