{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "National Sawdust", "address": "North 6th Street 80, 11249", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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"}, {"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": "I Became We", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Atlantic Theater", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/classical/choral", "stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "I Became We is a world premiere play at the Linda Gross Theater, a first-person monologue performed by a sixteen-person choir. Written by Mona Pirnot, with music by Jack D. Coen and lyrics by Pirnot and Coen, and directed by Sarah Benson. It tells of a woman in her mid-thirties wrestling with one of life's most important decisions, its plainspoken contemporary language sung in the stylings of classical choral music. The formally-daring, auto-fictional play runs 70 minutes with no intermission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-became-we-51137/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5b19f6d31da5c025c1c65b68fc66de37857794e4b3061f5e4ff6ce08482ed98-1200.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": "Hell Yeah!: An Improvised Musical", "start": "2026-11-07T21:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Grove 34", "address": "34th Street 31-83, 11106", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/improv", "stage/musical"], "description": "Hell Yeah!: An Improvised Musical is more than an improv show, it is a musical created entirely from scratch. Based on a suggestion from the audience, the Hell Yeah! team of professional actors and musicians makes up every line, lyric, move, and melody live on stage, bringing laughs, tears, awws, and wows. The performers are Annie Raczko, Bebe Tabickman, Ben Hirsch, Maria Nally, Mark Melton, Shaina Lubliner, Xiaoxiao Sun, Max Feldman (music director and pianist), and PJ Nally (director and drummer). Characters you fall in love with are never seen again, so bring a friend to share the joy and heartbreak.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hell-yeah-an-improvised-musical-52957/", "official_url": "https://grove34.com/shows/hell-yeah-nov07", "image": "https://noky.io/images/915d6486850aaeb92292381422665789d5e880e6b04545b59f9f5a4766fcc19d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Family Workshop: Musical Theater", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "New Victory Theater", "address": "West 42nd Street 209, 10036 New York", "price": "$28", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "28.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "Family Workshop: Musical Theater is a hands-on workshop where families act, sing and take a bow, penning an original musical number and performing it together. It is guided by a New Victory Teaching Artist from New Victory Theater, who leads small groups to learn arts-based skills, get creative, forge family memories and make new friends. Everyone must have a workshop ticket, and each family must have at least one adult participating. It is recommended for everyone 6 and up and lasts 90 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/family-workshop-musical-theater-54167/", "official_url": "https://www.newvictory.org/events/2627-family-workshop-musical-theater", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e95e304d1f80e66399a762856eb697c25a7c077e4f534670bae29326e57857f5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tiresias Presents New Weird Future: a Work in Process", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["nature/climate", "stage/opera"], "description": "New Weird Future: a Work in Process is a speculative eco-opera and puppet pageant-in-process running at La MaMa. It is written, directed, and composed by Tiresias, who also performs, together with Synead, Wes Garlington aka Klondyke, Ellen Zahniser, Mizuho Kappa, Nicki Kissil, and Emily Batsford. 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": "Broadway Close Up: Bound for Broadway", "start": "2026-11-16T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Merkin Concert Hall", "address": "West 67th Street 129, 10023 New York", "price": "$70", "price_from": "70.00", "price_to": "70.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "Broadway Close Up: Bound for Broadway is an evening offering a sneak peek at five of the best new shows headed for New York's bright lights. Emmy Award-winner and Tony nominee Liz Callaway hosts and interviews some of musical theater's most fascinating voices, followed by performances of selected songs. The lineup features The Goose Girl, The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, The Museum of Broken Relationships, The Scream and Caesar: The Musical, performed by a large cast of theater artists. The event takes place at Merkin Concert Hall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/broadway-close-up-bound-for-broadway-118877/", "official_url": "https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/bound-for-broadway-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3384459abbc17c6ce3e992c4505bff743235cb2e1ec0939353e32a144f775fd8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "Free, first-come-first-served with registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/opera"], "description": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down is an evening in the Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum presenting the New York-stage premieres of two short operas, Trials and Tears and Sacajawea: Women of Many Names. Both pieces are by Dawn Avery, a Grammy-nominated cellist-composer of Mohawk descent, with Danielle Olana Jagelski (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe) as music director and original video design by Kate Freer. Trials and Tears, a collaboration with artist Ty Defoe commissioned by New Music Theatre Alliance in 2022, responds to Benny Andrews' painting Trail of Tears and connects the forced resettling of Indigenous people with trials leading to incarceration of minorities. Sacajawea: Women of Many Names, made with librettist-soprano Blake Hill-Saya and Shoshone Advisor Francesca Mason Boring, shows Sacajawea from the perspective of her Shoshone ancestral traditions, unfettered from Western mythologies about her life and motivations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/native-voices-karennalay-our-vibration-down-75364/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/native-voices-karenna-lay-our-vibration-down", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30e9c4439e2e624271c3021d72aaf341e5043b486c586d78e474d967d1eb8b40-1200.webp"}, {"title": "As if everything was perfect", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "BAC", "address": "West 37th Street 450, 10018", "price": "Orchestra: $40; Balcony: $30; Access Tickets: $20", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "40.00", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "A character-driven dance piece embodying a woman's internalized sense of responsibility. Directed and choreographed by Gianna Burright, it is a world premiere commissioned by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, scored by Shio Tepper with live violin and piano. Humor, surreal imagery, and sharp physicality move through memories, fantasies, and imagined futures colliding with the push and pull of expectation, as joy and despair sit side by side.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/as-if-everything-was-perfect-75163/", "official_url": "https://baryshnikovarts.org/performance/as-if-everything-was-perfect/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14e71d94fdf8461c454eb63c2d4652978e9c2af91aa511536f47fd0d556a39fe-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Love Me", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "SoHo Playhouse", "address": "", "price": "USD 42", "price_from": "42.00", "price_to": null, "category": "comedy", "tags": ["stage/theatre/immersive-theatre", "comedy"], "description": "\"Love Me\" is an immersive off-Broadway comedy play in which the audience is brought inside the performer's mind as he retraces his lifelong search for love across five chapters and five relationships. It was written by and stars Emmy-nominated comedian Drew Michael, and is directed by Peabody Award winner Prashanth Venkataramanujam. The story is told through headphones and cinematic sound design, and the show is presented in partnership with Deaf West Theatre, fully accessible to both Deaf and hearing audiences. Following an acclaimed 2023 run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, it is part of the 2026 New York Comedy Festival and runs 1 hour and 15 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/love-me-79684/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b7176885019def1d0d391191e7fcbfb79670e8058aaf8ef905e3fffb4a9c7ab-2000.webp"}]}