{"title": "makemake presents: Opera Praktikos’ La Sonnambula", "start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "National Sawdust", "address": "North 6th Street 80, 11249", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/disability", "stage/opera"], "description": "This is an opera performance reimagining Bellini and Romani's La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker). It is staged by Opera Praktikos, a disability-affirmative company, and conducted by Spicer Carr with Brandon Kazen-Maddox as ASL conductor. The production makes accessibility part of the work from the beginning, weaving spoken, sung, and signed languages into one expressive whole. It is part of makemake, National Sawdust's new annual festival rooted in disability-led design.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/makemake-presents-opera-praktikos-la-sonnambula-71486/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalsawdust.org/event/opera-praktikos-presents-la-sonnambula", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4c6dfdcd04f71a5c2cb3aad604505f99716ee446d1fc644538426f03bec154d-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "National Sawdust", "address": "North 6th Street 80, 11249", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "makemake presents: Wholly Unwinding (A New Musical) - NYC Premiere", "start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "National Sawdust", "address": "North 6th Street 80, 11249", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "Wholly Unwinding is a new musical and New York premiere that blends folk concert, immersive ritual, and dance party into a journey of self-discovery. It was created by composer-performer Hailey McAvoy, making her compositional debut, directed by Edwin Cahill, and developed by the company Hogfish. The piece explores McAvoy's life with cerebral palsy, inviting audiences to honor their scars through song, hands-on Alexander Technique, an art gallery of work by disabled artists, and a closing inclusive dance party. It is part of makemake, National Sawdust's new annual festival rooted in disability-led design and accessibility.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/makemake-presents-wholly-unwinding-a-new-musical-nyc-premier-71485/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalsawdust.org/event/visionintoart-in-residence-wholly-unwinding-the-canticle-of-cerebral-palsy-the-songs-of-my-scars-a-new-musical", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c6e883e1aa66718101d6a594e3ccdbe24669cd6506bf28302226ded575187d0c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dead Centre: Deaf Republic", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Skirball Center for the Performing Arts", "address": "LaGuardia Place 566", "price": "$50-$90", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "90.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Dead Centre: Deaf Republic is a theater production making its North American premiere. Dublin's Dead Centre and sign language poet Zoë McWhinney adapt Ilya Kaminsky's poetic narrative: after a soldier shoots a deaf boy in an occupied town's public square, the whole town wakes up deaf, refusing to hear the soldiers and teaching one another a sign language of resistance. A deaf and hearing ensemble folds sign language, puppetry, live cinema, aerial work, and music into a single form, turning quiet itself into something political. The show, fresh from an acclaimed premiere at London's Royal Court, runs two hours with no intermission and is performed through a mix of International Sign, spoken English, and moments of creative captioning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dead-centre-deaf-republic-55903/", "official_url": "https://nyuskirball.org/performance/deaf-republic/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/699c115e057d6f19f48c17483e793291b39e651c0616a037c4644ae243f0609a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tosca", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Opera House", "address": "Doyers Street 5, 10013", "price": "Tickets from $33.00", "price_from": "33.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "The Metropolitan Opera stages Puccini's Tosca, one of opera's most dramatic thrillers. The story follows a jealous diva, the ardent painter who loves her, and the villainous chief of police who tears them apart. Composer Giacomo Puccini, with librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, created this melodrama, here in a grand, immersive production by David McVicar that transports audiences to three picturesque locations in Rome. The performance is sung in Italian and features Saioa Hernández, SeokJong Baek, and Quinn Kelsey, with Oksana Lyniv conducting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tosca-53939/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8b02ce416b8ae2b285051b5aa95866d61238cb5c0d93597e7a3c6d89b6fd7713-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lisa Marie Simmons", "start": "2026-11-14T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Perelman Performing Arts Center", "address": "Fulton Street 251, 10007 New York", "price": "Free and open to the public; RSVPs encouraged but not required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music/jazz"], "description": "A free Lobby Stage performance of jazz, poetry, and improvisation at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. Multidisciplinary storyteller, singer-songwriter, and poet Lisa Marie Simmons performs with pianist and composer Marco Cremaschini in their poetic-jazz ensemble NoteSpeak, weaving original compositions, spoken word, and songs in English, French, and Italian. Based in Italy, the ensemble has performed across Europe, India, and the United States, with acclaimed albums including NoteSpeak 12 and NoteSpeak (In a Word). 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The work imagines futures of multispecies flourishing in the ruins of the Anthropocene, promising utopian visions of eclectic, non-innocent entanglements on Future Earth as a collective act of radical queer defiance against apathetic submission to climate apocalypse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tiresias-presents-new-weird-future-a-work-in-process-66708/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/tiresiaspresentsnewweirdfuture/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8224396d8efa016b65abe9936821ddaf8a6a728f848175d58ba89a29a3c6e758-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dead Centre: Deaf Republic", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "NYU Skirball", "address": "", "price": "USD 76", "price_from": "76.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Dead Centre: Deaf Republic is a piece of theater playing Off Broadway at NYU Skirball in New York City. Dublin's company Dead Centre built it from Ilya Kaminsky's acclaimed poetic narrative, after a premiere at London's Royal Court. A soldier shoots a deaf boy in a public square, and in answer the whole town goes deaf, refusing to hear the soldiers and teaching one another a sign language of resistance. Deaf actors lead a production folding sign language, puppetry, live cinema, and music into a single charged form, in which silence becomes both a hiding place and an act of defiance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dead-centre-deaf-republic-66916/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/05be2ff7bb9a963a69c224c1eded8d4bb9de7fc6f4ea7c519e444581f8f02931-2000.webp"}]}