{"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": "https://www.salembrooklyn.com/event-details/women-on-the-edge-of-democracy", "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. 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Readers also collectively suggest an actionable call, such as an organization to donate to or ways to confront injustice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rally-reading-series-kevin-nguyen-ey-zhao-and-aurora-huiza-54772/", "official_url": "https://www.rallyreadingseries.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/226c8e2824c45fda2e26adf58d053203a092cd9561ebc4d5b7c9975d16da416a-600.webp"}, {"title": "PAGE BREAK Presents: STAGE BREAK", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Littlefield", "address": "Sackett Street 635, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "$11.79", "price_from": "11.79", "price_to": "11.79", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "STAGE BREAK is a live reading event where four writers read their original short stories with audience members joining them on stage. It is a new edition of the reading series by PAGE BREAK, the only reading series where everyone reads. Three randomly chosen audience members read each story on stage together with its author, one page at a time, alternating between the four readers, and every attendee receives an exclusive zine with the stories printed in it. 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Beyond the featured names, the sources say nothing about who is behind it or what it is about, so no fuller description can be given.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dead-ladies-show-private-curtain-79247/", "official_url": "https://redroomnyc.com/event/dead-ladies-show-private-curtain-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5f592ccb2d8e684e5077885fef1ef55dce4c6fe0bbec8eb1990e87f3437fa516-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DURATIONS: Triple Canopy presents Civic Crash Course with Chloë Bass, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Hal Foster", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Public Records", "address": "Butler Street 233, 11217", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society"], "description": "An evening talk titled 'Civic Crash Course', presented by Triple Canopy as part of the DURATIONS series. 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Written by Amy Shoshana Blumberg and Eliana Fabiyi, with contributions from an original devising cast, it follows Sue, who after 40 years of hosting Passover seders hopes her youngest, Miriam, will show up. When she does, the family retells the Passover story while confronting an identity beyond violence as Palestine is present at the table. The play asks what story the family will tell and who gets to be free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/experiments-reading-seder-66707/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/experiments-reading-seder/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5ae2ada5d081d1871ea52653002bbf333712d9e9fbc2b30931786c814d66bc4f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Unruly", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "Pay what you can with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283947", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "\"Unruly\" is a reading in the First Mondays reading series, featuring Owen Park, Betty Shamieh, and Rivers Solomon. First Mondays brings a wide range of writers presenting new, unpublished work-in-progress to an audience at Performance Space New York. 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