{"title": "The Undercity", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["nature/environment", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "\"The Undercity\" is a rat puppet pageant about overthrowing a crumbling empire on the verge of ecological collapse. Gaby FeBland and Sammy Zeisel, who create multidisciplinary puppet plays harnessing communal ritual, set the show in a 1970s New York-inspired neon-lit rat metropolis beneath our feet, where Rat Girl uncovers a vast conspiracy that threatens the fate of her world. The play was developed during a 2024 residency at Culture Lab LIC and received a Production Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation. It runs 50 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-undercity-66710/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/the-undercity/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8cb669192ec41704307dc3a726ac59c1f80f66a230039339bbab381275dcde59-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": "12.63", "price_to": "33.87", "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": "Endless Forms", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "Endless Forms is a world-premiere puppetry work blending tabletop puppetry, shadow play, digital projection, and electronic music. It was created by Monica Lerch, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary puppet artist, with Jeshua Bratman as writer and producer and Sean Devare as creative co-director. The story follows Syx, whose body is withering in a future where engineering the body is a crime; she alters herself in secret, builds robotic companions, and descends beneath the ocean to a commune of transformed humans. There, the wholeness she finds asks her to surrender the self she has fought to preserve.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/endless-forms-66706/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/endless-forms/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/beb492b0c84574284c576ec30d61d03a7221867a3fdd8f6a18035165ed9aa7b9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "La MaMa Puppet Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "La MaMa Puppet Festival 2026 is an annual festival of contemporary puppet theatre, running November 11 to December 6. Puppetry has been part of La MaMa's programming since 1962, and the venue has hosted annual puppet festivals since 2004. Curated by Denise Greber and Federico Restrepo, this year's festival brings together international puppet artists including Monica Lerch, Tiresias, Tom Lee, Deniz Khateri, and Michelle Beshaw. It presents shows such as Endless Forms, The Undercity, Mirrored Pool, and Husks from Iran.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/la-mama-puppet-festival-2026-66705/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/la-mama-puppet-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/567bb4e4279fb91888aab03631817b950406788becb0e9c378eae57ace3266dd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "La MaMa Kids: The Dandelion’s Wish", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "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": "kids-family", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "La MaMa Kids: The Dandelion's Wish is a children's puppet show, part of the La MaMa Puppet Festival. It was created by Fatima Sambo Schoenfelder, a puppeteer and author-illustrator, and runs about 35 minutes. It tells of a lonely dandelion that dreams of traveling while rooted in place, until a kind child helps its seeds take flight on the breeze. Through gentle storytelling, it teaches young viewers about perseverance, kindness, and believing in big dreams.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/la-mama-kids-the-dandelions-wish-66709/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/the-dandelions-wish/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/12fe5e13123d367285825a28da49d9d88549dbd82bd292debd4404be4adac6df-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Concrete Boom Vol 5", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Dixon Place", "address": "Chrystie Street 161A, 10002", "price": "Early Bird $22 (ends October 16th), Standard Seating $25, DP/CTT Lover $50", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "\"Concrete Boom Vol 5\" is an evening of visual theatre at Dixon Place, showing works that express ideas through puppetry, movement, images, mask work and scenography. It was launched in 2018 by Concrete Temple Theatre, an internationally acclaimed devised visual-theatre company, to support the development of visual theatre in New York City. This installment is curated and hosted by J Hann and features artists Ash Winkfield, Christine Schisano, Al Strong and Pixie Pierrot.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/concrete-boom-vol-5-52283/", "official_url": "https://dixonplace.org/performances/concrete-boom-vol-5/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9053a2613bf6f6a9cad05bbff960245d76c27cf28575b1ddbc8aea3b967ab122-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Three Little Pigs with WonderSpark Puppets", "start": "2026-11-10T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T16:45:00-05:00", "place": "Lefferts", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "The Three Little Pigs with WonderSpark Puppets is a puppet show for kids aged 0 to 5 at the Lefferts library in Queens. The New York company WonderSpark Puppets performs the classic tale of three pigs who build their houses of hay. It is an event by Queens Public Library. The show runs about 45 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-three-little-pigs-with-wonderspark-puppets-53533/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98dce8a65dbe66a2f44cd5ac8248265991e018e3ca8d8e861e2962453932ac4c-600.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", "price_from": "27.00", "price_to": "27.00", "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": "The Greatest Story Ever", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage"], "description": "\"The Greatest Story Ever\" is an intimate, surprising performance blending sci-fi and lo-fi, in which everyone in the room shares in the story. It is created by Paul Budraitis, a Berlin-based director, performer, and writer, who also directs and performs; Evan C. Anderson handles lights, sound, and music. A spaceship drifts silently out of orbit, its pilot refusing to come home. The show runs 55 minutes with no intermission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-greatest-story-ever-53456/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/the-greatest-story-ever/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bc6caa5c2bed55c99f682f91eb9c3ead1d230048384456d361eb44fbeb28fe6-2000.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", "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"}]}