{"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. 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This year's lineup presents works by Eoin McAndrew, Karis Kelly, Iseult Golden and David Horan, Hannah Khalil, and Chris Gethard, with readings curated by Nicola Murphy Dubey and Juliette Carbonnier. The program lets writers hear new work aloud with an audience to discover plays for possible future production.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-works-fall-festival-2026-53251/", "official_url": "https://irishrep.org/whats-on/new-works-fall-festival-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0091e773d0f5a46708dc7bd56359de4d8b720a33b7951d06f1bfda4761cfdb06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Women+ On the Edge of Democracy", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T21:00:00-04:00", "place": "Salem Missionary Baptist Church", "address": "East 21st Street 305, 11226", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/democracy", "stage/theatre"], "description": "An evening of readings of new short plays written by women playwrights, held at Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Brooklyn. 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": "Women+ on the Edge of Democracy", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Dixon Place", "address": "Chrystie Street 161A, 10002", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35526", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/democracy", "stage/theatre"], "description": "An evening of five new short plays staged on the eve of the midterms, followed by a panel of organizers, resource-sharing, and community-building in the venue's cocktail lounge. The Women+ on the Edge of Democracy project, initiated and commissioned by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, invited 36 women and TGNC playwrights to write short works on the state of democracy in America from national and international perspectives, and what history, global context, or futurism can offer in this pivotal moment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/women-on-the-edge-of-democracy-52282/", "official_url": "https://dixonplace.org/performances/womenontheedgeofdemocracy/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d070fee8d4ccfbca410c42f7f2d75bc21db13a73d3f8f19ca6156e7d06217b4-2000.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "First Mondays: Readings of New Works In Progress", "start": "2026-10-05T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-07T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "First Mondays: Readings of New Works In Progress is a reading series at Performance Space New York where writers present new, unpublished work-in-progress to an audience. It is organized and curated by Sarah Schulman and aims to build and grow literary community, mixing well-known and rewarded writers with under-recognized artists, emerging writers, and some who have not yet published. The October 5 season opening features Sarah Schulman, William M. Burton, Lazz Kinnamon, and more with THE LESBIAN BODY by Monique Wittig.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/first-mondays-readings-of-new-works-in-progress-67058/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Wayfinding: Señas del Camino", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "FREE w/ RSVP · Donations welcome at checkout", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35689/production/1286594", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Wayfinding: Señas del Camino is a devised theatre piece at Flushing Town Hall, free with RSVP. It is facilitated and directed by Catalina Beltrán, with assistant director Yulio Rondon, and features Pamela Diaz, Carmen Barbosa, Eduardo Almonte, Ileana Hernández, Mariela Pellegrini, Yanglu (Lulu) Chen, Yulio Rondon, and Yvanna Tassy. The piece follows three stories, of escape, of survival, and of discovery, woven together with the personal journeys of its performers. Drawing from myths and old tales, it moves through ancient and contemporary ways of finding our place in the world, and the audience is invited to become part of the map. It is presented in partnership with The People's Theatre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/wayfinding-senas-del-camino-52644/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/wayfinding-senas-del-camino", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c65d3d3e84d0b1ea2c659ab02cea8c7950e309ab760b40fb8ebb51080be35c79-600.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"}, {"title": "Community Storytelling Theater Residency with Lincoln Center Theater", "start": "2026-10-29T16:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Morrisania Library", "address": "East 169th Street 610, 10456 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word/storytelling", "stage"], "description": "A series of free storytelling workshops where participants draft, share, and celebrate their own narratives in a supportive community. Lincoln Center Theater presents the residency at Morrisania Library, with sessions facilitated by teaching artist Tiffany McLarty. McLarty is an actor, nationally recognized public speaking coach, and experienced teaching artist based in New York City and New Jersey. The program is built as a progressive journey, and attendance at all sessions is recommended.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/community-storytelling-theater-residency-with-lincoln-center-53987/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "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": ["literature/spoken-word", "music/rock"], "description": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama is a residency at La MaMa built around the spoken word, rock and comedy duo of the same name. Slanty Eyed Mama is award-winning lyricist and singer Kate Rigg (Lady-K) and electric violinist Lyris Hung, who met while studying at the Juilliard School and create a fresh American Asian sound. Their work has taken them twice to the Smithsonian Institute, to headline the PBS Special \"Race is the Place\", and to stages such as LA Grand Performances, the Perth International Festival and the Vancouver Comedy Festival. On November 1 they lead \"Speak Up! Speak Out! Speak Up!\", a free workshop for ages 14-22 on turning stories and feelings into powerful spoken word with improvised musical accompaniment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kate-rigg-with-slanty-eyed-mama-53459/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/kateriggwithslantyeyedmama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63d467e6a125927dea076c1e3563ecf6e80e82fe036cc990b3a1d1794f1f8a4f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Skylight Open", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T21:00:00-04:00", "place": "The Billie Holiday Theatre", "address": "1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word"], "description": "Skylight Open is a stage series presenting an electric blend of adventurous spoken word, musical, and movement-based artists. It continues into the Fall Season, giving artists working across music, spoken word and dance the chance to take the stage and connect with audiences. The series reflects The Billie's commitment to providing a platform for artists while creating an accessible gathering space for the community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/skylight-open-67232/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/025b679180caed6e491137bf1fefee4064313191d5ebf3322294328d50ab2d5f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $35", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55619", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long is a transdisciplinary poetry series honoring the legacy of Brooklyn icon June Jordan. It is curated by Hanif Abdurraqib, a BAM Curator and MacArthur \"Genius,\" now in its third year, and this year spotlights powerful voices from across the African Diaspora. The evening on offer pairs versatile composers and instrumentalists Meshell Ndegeocello and Samora Pinderhughes, who share a night of words and music under the series' banner. The program also includes Poetry Overnight at BAM, Southern Oracles by the Black Air Poets, Be Holding based on a Ross Gay poem, and Stones in the Water with Sarah Kay, Clint Smith, Anis Mojgani, and Abdurraqib.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-guess-it-was-my-destiny-to-live-so-long-51198/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca322bacd44652032ba8e3d49e9c02203731c1f147933a90f0e38b4f8fdc7558-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Artist to Artist Convening", "start": "2026-10-30T17:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T20:30:00-04:00", "place": "Abrons Arts Center", "address": "Grand Street 466, New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The Artist to Artist Convening is a peer-led evening where interdisciplinary artists, sound and performance makers, writers, cultural workers, and activists connect and experience each other's creative practices. It is hosted by the School of Making Thinking together with Abrons Arts Center. The evening features presentations and performances from the Fall 2026 Artist to Artist courses, facilitated by Megumi Shauna Arai, Gianfranco Reyes, Kenny Shiloh Russell, and Joy Norton + Kiki Mills. Refreshments are provided and the gathering is free and open to all.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/artist-to-artist-convening-50880/", "official_url": "https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/Fall2026-artisttoartist", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d2d8347b35b42e33feaae5552a170713e017f593c25a296d8fef7e0045c76e8-2000.webp"}]}