{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Spiderwoman’s Global Indigenous Theatre Festival", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "40.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284915", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "Spiderwoman's Global Indigenous Theatre Festival is a series of performances and community events presented at La MaMa, running from October 30 to November 7, 2026. It is staged by Spiderwoman Theater, La MaMa's longtime resident company and a foundational force in Native American and feminist performance, marking its 50th anniversary. The festival brings together Indigenous theatre makers from Aotearoa (New Zealand), Minneapolis, Australia, and Canada, with shows including KŌPŪ, Invisible Shadows, Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars), and All My R(el)ations. The program also features Spiderwoman Workshops and closes with a Spiderwoman Theater Gala celebrating 50 years, created by Murielle Borst-Tarrant.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spiderwomans-global-indigenous-theatre-festival-66700/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/spiderwoman-theatre-50-years/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b1183e2c8c0e575b43d0b99fd30b5e21e0d6e3b6f3b0300c5ec74de8bcc194e-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, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284923", "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": "Invisible Shadows", "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/1284922", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "A theater piece told by Indigenous actors about growing up in an urban Indigenous community amid an opioid epidemic. It centers on young people in community prevention programs who face addiction at home, whose hopes collide with learning their cultures and their family's and community's misuse of alcohol and drugs. It is performed by Ikidowin Theater Ensemble, a group from Minneapolis whose members tell stories of their own lives, some having joined as young as eleven. A recurring question runs through it: can one spirit tell another what to do?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/invisible-shadows-53458/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/invisible-shadows/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25f855f5b94ec28683b4bd0441b457c7d65560daada1306dad21750f6efa4be1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SCAPE", "start": "2026-11-04T21:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Tank", "address": "West 36th Street 312", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thetanknyc.org/EventAvailability?EventId=166001", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "SCAPE is a play performed at The Tank, a venue on West 36th Street in New York City. It is made by POPE JOAN, a multidisciplinary theatre company co-founded by Kyndall Sillanpaa, who writes and directs, and Sophie Vincent, who performs. On the last night before her childhood home is sold, a young woman gets a call from her dead father and must confront his spirit and the child-self she buried with him. The play is anchored by home videos from the creator's childhood and newspaper articles written by her late father, forming a haunted reckoning where the past won't stay dead.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/scape-56941/", "official_url": "https://thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/scape", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d2352201fdac3c4132c55ac8c673ac5b70233245e8e8f9799fbb11c743d2571-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spiderwoman Theater Gala", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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/1284917", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["occasion/gala", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A gala evening celebrating 50 years of Spiderwoman Theater. Indigenous artists and the downtown arts community come together in a tribute. It is curated and directed by Murielle Borst-Tarrant and is part of the Spiderwoman global indigenous Theater festival. The program is still to be determined.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spiderwoman-theater-gala-66702/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/celebrating-50-years-a-spiderwoman-gala/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7eb5d8f8ef2dd0bab08b98ca39f3f142eacb72616f82b5f573326f28c0efcdf0-2000.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, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55770", "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": "Spiderwoman Workshops!", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "music"], "description": "Spiderwoman Workshops! is a series of free theatre and cultural workshops, one of which takes place on this day: Song Story with Warren Mason. It is part of the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival at La MaMa, held as Spiderwoman celebrates its 50th Anniversary with groundbreaking theatre companies. Warren Mason, the creator, composer and performer of Maayuma li Mubirr, sits with participants to learn devising song stories, with instruments optional for the ten participants.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spiderwoman-workshops-66701/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/spiderwomanworkshops/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a5b52ffb101d621b8ea83758dd1b76e570c77b410f579ca3126ea824690a32e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NY Comedy Festival Presents: Putería con PAPIROSSA: Celebration of Life", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Littlefield", "address": "Sackett Street 635, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "$29.50 - $39.79", "price_from": "29.50", "price_to": "39.79", "tickets_url": "", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["society/queer", "stage/variety"], "description": "Putería con PAPIROSSA: Celebration of Life is a drag variety show featuring queer bipoc performers with a ceremonious dance opening number, taped sketches, stand-up, character performances, and live music. This eighth installment in the series is centered around mental health and will donate a portion of proceeds to organizations supporting LGBTQ+ people in need of mental health resources and support. Doors open at 7:00 pm and the show starts at 8:00 pm, with a minimum age of 21.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ny-comedy-festival-presents-puteria-con-papirossa-celebratio-66789/", "official_url": "https://littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_eb_id=1998383402552", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1fa33475481f2b4aef0eb6d14702b24cfbc667c656d6e14fe7953dbf294c0808-600.webp"}, {"title": "La MaMa Kids: Kinding Sindaw Dance Interactive Workshop", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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/1285644?performanceId=11878160", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["dance/traditional", "diy"], "description": "La MaMa Kids: Kinding Sindaw Dance Interactive Workshop is a 60-minute workshop where children learn how rhythm, music, and ritual dances tell the story of planting and harvesting rice. It is led by Potri Ranka Manis and Kinding Sindaw, an NYC-based, AANHPI / BIPOC-led non-profit founded in 1992 that preserves the southern Philippines' living traditions through dance, storytelling, kulintang music, and silat. Through movements inspired by farming activities, participants build coordination, teamwork, and confidence, combining music and dance in an ensemble performance. The workshop explores community, celebration, and gratitude while highlighting the importance of preserving living traditions and cultural heritage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/la-mama-kids-kinding-sindaw-dance-interactive-workshop-66703/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/lamamakids-kindingsindawworkshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8a52ad2b91302efce322f3787900f54478854a8c160c1f5cb0af6685b3612ad-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": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "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"}]}