NEW SHOWS THIS WEEK AT TNC
IN OUR FOUR THEATER COMPLEX

In the JOHNSON THEATER

The 28TH Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts
May 26, 27 & 28
Memorial Day Weekend

Performances until midnight for FREE

With the roster still building, Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 200 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers for its 28th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which will be mounted May 26 to 28 in and around Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. (at E. 10th Street). Admission is free but donations will be gratefully accepted.

This year, the festival is mounted with a theme addressing climate change: “The Heat Is On” followed by an exhortation taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Act Now in the Living Present.” The subject will be addressed in some of the playlets and acts written for the festival.

COMING SOON

In the CABARET THEATER

I Just Want To Tell Somebody!

The production dramatizes Stevens’ meteoric rise in the entertainment industry and his life long battle with drugs in which he, at long last, prevailed. Smokey plays both himself and his nemesis, a sarcastic doppelganger called “D MAN.” The play ushers us through modern moments of theater history that were Smokey’s triumphs and the journey through drug usage that was nearly his undoing.

JUNE 1 - JUNE 18; THU, FRI, SAT @ 8 PM, SUN @ 3 PM

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In the COMMUNITY SPACE THEATER
Freedom Summer

This latest play by Toby Armour takes its name from the volunteer campaign in June 1964, staffed primarily by northern college students, to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. Police, white citizens’ councils and the KKK used arrests, arson, and worse to oppose the project. The play centers on two young women who are thrown together by chance as volunteers in the effort. Sylvie, white from up North, knows too little. Terry, African-American born and raised in Mississippi, perhaps knows too much.

Running Time: 90 minutes, no intermission
June 8 – June 25, 2023
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

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