{"title": "Naima Ramos-Chapman: In Place of Monuments", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Apollo Theater", "address": "West 125th Street 253, 10027 New York", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00006519DF8B9C86", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play", "society/racism"], "description": "A staged reading of the one-act play \"In Place of Monuments\", part of the Apollo Works in Process Series, presented by the Apollo. The play, by Naima Ramos-Chapman, centers the friendship of two Black American and Caribbean friends and examines how state-sanctioned violence threatens to tear their family and community apart. Through recalling memories across time and incorporating movement and dance, it aims to create a portal for audiences to envision more just and liberated futures for Black and Brown people. The reading is followed by a talkback with the creatives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/naima-ramos-chapman-in-place-of-monuments-51069/", "official_url": "https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-new-works-naima-ramos-in-place-of-monuments", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9358ca52963fb66e5e081b518918365f8df1020d3d1e3843395423eec923c3ca-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Apollo Theater", "address": "West 125th Street 253, 10027 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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/booking/production/bestavailable/55771", "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. 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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": "Rough Draft Festival", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "LaGuardia Performing Arts Center", "address": "Van Dam St 45-50", "price": "Free to attend with a Free RSVP; a $25 Supporter Ticket is also offered", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35690/production/1292857", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Rough Draft Festival is a festival at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center where invited artists share works in progress through performances and conversations with the artists. Behind it is LPAC, as part of its commitment to supporting new work, giving artists opportunities to strengthen storytelling, test new possibilities, and connect with audiences and fellow artists. Audiences are invited into the creative process, seeing how new work evolves through experimentation, revision, and collaboration. On October 27 the program presents \"Skin to Skin - Triptych of an American Epidemic\", created by playwright Jeremy J. Kamps and co-creator Trixie Ndanu Kioko with Houses on the Moon Theater Company, centering the experiences of Black women in a theatrical exploration of health, care, and survival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rough-draft-festival-53450/", "official_url": "https://www.lpac.nyc/upcoming-events/rough-draft", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b630d0b2ec7633cd208ae9b1a185ef4184c89e2c7d72c2d34bcf4f710bf63516-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fantasma", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "59E59 Theaters", "address": "East 59th Street 59, 10022 New York", "price": "$38 Preview Seating Available!", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "125.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "occasion/christmas"], "description": "A stage play running at 59E59 Theaters. It was written by Benjamin Benne and directed by Laurie Woolery, with a cast including Zabryna Guevara, Alma Martinez, Camila Moreno, Elizabeth Ramos, Nancy Rodriguez, and Adriana Sevan. On Christmas Eve, three generations of women gather in Rosie's newly renovated kitchen to make chuchitos, a traditional Guatemalan recipe passed down by heart, touch, and intuition. As her granddaughters try to document the dish step-by-step, the play explores what we keep, what we lose, and the impossibility of ever capturing it exactly right.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fantasma-50800/", "official_url": "https://www.59e59.org/shows/show-detail/fantasma/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25185af80cf8881965c4f702599919f70b10854993bd12fa7017b147bdd601cf-600.webp"}, {"title": "En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Abrons Arts Center", "address": "Grand Street 466, New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://abronsartscenter.app.getcuebox.com/o/C5XTY485/shows/0HMK4567", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy is a work spanning performance, film installation, and an exhibition that reassembles the Greek myth of Antigone. It is directed by artist Natalia Lassalle-Morillo as part of her two-year La Residencia residency with Abrons and Pública Espacio Cultural in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and organized by residency curator Natalia Viera-Salgado. Through collaboration with an ensemble of nonprofessional actors from Puerto Rico and New York City's Puerto Rican diasporic community, it examines the collective consciousness shaped by decades of environmental, economic, political, and spiritual tragedies in the archipelago. Presented as a two-part film installation with an accompanying exhibition, Part I chronicles the New York-based cast's process while Part II follows a Puerto Rico-based ensemble developing their own interpretation of Antigone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/en-parabolaconversations-on-tragedy-50881/", "official_url": "https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/enparabola", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bbfbcb849e0bdfab76227597846f16a1412ee5330514f195c32ae0d319f07087-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cruzando Ensueños | Across Borders | Musical Monologue", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T20:00:00-04:00", "place": "Terraza 7", "address": "Gleane Street 40-19, 11373 Elmhurst", "price": "", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.terraza7.com/detalles-y-registro/cruzando-ensuenos-across-borders-musical-monologue-2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "music/folk", "society/migration"], "description": "\"Cruzando Ensueños | Across Borders | Musical Monologue\" is a performance ritual honoring migrants who have died at the borders. Inspired by Indigenous farewell traditions from Oaxaca, it blends theater, Mexican music, and remembrance. 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It is part of the nationwide initiative Women+ On the Edge of Democracy and was organized by Lecturer in Theater Vivia Font. A mix of professional and non-professional actors, directors and producers will share readings of 10-minute plays by playwrights such as Heidi Schreck and Lauren Gunderson, among others. The event is free, and RSVP is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/women-on-the-edge-of-democracy-55676/", "official_url": "https://www.salembrooklyn.com/event-details/women-on-the-edge-of-democracy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bfcedfe64ddccf2de97432ac427e2decde57d1e6001c706f85f4353508f49067-2000.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": "MOCA PERFORMS – Echoes of Arrival: Becoming", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "General Admission: $20 | MOCA Member Admission: $15", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-5", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "MOCA PERFORMS – Echoes of Arrival: Becoming is a live performance at the Museum of Chinese in America in which immigrant artists share stories of migration, transformation, and becoming. It was conceived by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li and is devised and performed by Shan Y. Chuang, Nikkiesha N. McLeod, Timmy Ong, Pascal Phoa, Jeremy Rafal, Nedelka Sotelo, and Fang Tseng. Seven immigrant artists from Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago reflect on their journeys to the United States—what they had to learn to survive and build a life, what they chose to carry with them from home, and what new parts of themselves emerged along the way. Through personal narration, poetry, music, dance, and stand-up comedy, they share these experiences on stage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-54048/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-5/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f76fac89e905abd68b0a491b4c2addb494e8784b35b03b7c92e6f7bd935dcc6c-1200.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": "King of the Yees: Lauren Yee, Francis Jue and David Henry Hwang", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "Non-Members $30, Members $20, Students/Seniors $5 off with code SENSTU", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://join.asiasociety.org/orders/513/tickets?cdEventIds=6a6b77cbd8753eb896685313&date=2026-11-02T18:30:00-05:00&eventId=6a6b77cbd8753eb896685313", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "society"], "description": "An in-person conversation with three theatermakers at Asia Society about the New York premiere of Lauren Yee's play King of the Yees at Signature Theatre. Playwright and screenwriter Lauren Yee, Tony-winning actor Francis Jue and playwright David Henry Hwang discuss sharing the notion of family in their work, their stories of their fathers and portraying them on stage. The play tells of Larry Yee, a driving force in San Francisco Chinatown and the heart of the Yee Fung Toy Family Association, whose daughter Lauren sets off on a surreal quest to find him when he disappears. The three also discuss Asian American families, lineages and storytelling in the theater.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/king-of-the-yees-lauren-yee-francis-jue-and-david-henry-hwan-51114/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/king-yees-lauren-yee-francis-jue-and-david-henry-hwang", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4da3c74d6f0d4360d2666502efc7441c94a2668c26591041d11ec114857b3cd0-600.webp"}]}