{"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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/invisible-shadows-53458/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/invisible-shadows/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/25f855f5b94ec28683b4bd0441b457c7d65560daada1306dad21750f6efa4be1-2000.webp", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/all-my-relations-53461/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/all-my-relations/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5f4d74ee441a822cc4992c5dbccc91b8618135a3fa6ee24fe74acca607adb22c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spiderwoman’s Global Indigenous Theatre Festival", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "40.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284915", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "Spiderwoman's Global Indigenous Theatre Festival is a series of performances and community events presented at La MaMa, running from October 30 to November 7, 2026. It is staged by Spiderwoman Theater, La MaMa's longtime resident company and a foundational force in Native American and feminist performance, marking its 50th anniversary. The festival brings together Indigenous theatre makers from Aotearoa (New Zealand), Minneapolis, Australia, and Canada, with shows including KŌPŪ, Invisible Shadows, Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars), and All My R(el)ations. The program also features Spiderwoman Workshops and closes with a Spiderwoman Theater Gala celebrating 50 years, created by Murielle Borst-Tarrant.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/spiderwomans-global-indigenous-theatre-festival-66700/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/spiderwoman-theatre-50-years/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7b1183e2c8c0e575b43d0b99fd30b5e21e0d6e3b6f3b0300c5ec74de8bcc194e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "KŌPŪ", "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/1284915", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "KŌPŪ is a theatre show in which the wāhine of the company weave live music, performance, poetry, and poi into a hilariously honest, no-holds-barred account of their femininity on their own terms. It comes from Te Pou Theatre, a kaupapa Māori performing arts company and venue from Aotearoa (New Zealand), and was originally commissioned by Auckland Arts Festival. Written by Tuakoi Ohia and directed by Amber Curreen, it shares the songs of young wāhine Māori navigating the world, following in the footsteps of their naughty nannies from the marae. The 75-minute show has been called a hilarious celebration and gut-wrenching 'me too sis' to wāhine.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/kopu-53457/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c40ffa606faa98864eda10acb1d7262cffdeaed050ff726b337f1efad14cbe63-2000.webp"}, {"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/production/55770", "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. It was created by sweat variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, and continues a speculative trilogy about one family's fractured ancestral memories. Set in a near-future United States, it follows a young woman taught she has no history worth remembering who begins receiving sudden transmissions, opening a multitude of imaginable futures. 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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/adaku-part-2-she-shivers-with-it-51174/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/dance/2026/adaku2", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7d1960a9a12df5faf2af54f2950a34095c7e9f314d5c5f8c24049bd289f9058a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)", "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/1284916", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)\" is a 65-minute performance work from Australia. It was created by Yuwalaaraay composer and performer Warren Mason and is presented by Moogahlin Performing Arts, tracing the intergenerational journey lines of First Peoples healing from injustice. Mason blends natural sounds of his Yuwaalaraay homeland, guitar, spoken word and singing styles of his old people, interwoven with movement choreographed with Jo Clancy, Lily Shearer, Kiarn Doyle and himself. The work honours matriarchy, survival, strength and the power of First Peoples storytelling, inviting audiences into a shared catharsis of truth, healing and resilience.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/maayuma-li-mubirr-healing-scars-53460/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/maayuma-li-mubirr/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/92b25eb1f266bcb72ef3c6488400b7467f96fa3309ec1924b4d8c18170d245a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spiderwoman Theater Gala", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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/1284917", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["occasion/gala", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A gala evening celebrating 50 years of Spiderwoman Theater. Indigenous artists and the downtown arts community come together in a tribute. It is curated and directed by Murielle Borst-Tarrant and is part of the Spiderwoman global indigenous Theater festival. The program is still to be determined.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/spiderwoman-theater-gala-66702/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/celebrating-50-years-a-spiderwoman-gala/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7eb5d8f8ef2dd0bab08b98ca39f3f142eacb72616f82b5f573326f28c0efcdf0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283991", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A performance presented by grunt gallery at Performance Space 122. Curators Tania Willard and Dana Claxton commissioned a new work by Vance Wright, the gallery's 2026 curatorial fellow, drawing on the gallery's archive and its history with Indigenous performance art. Using actions, natural materials, oration, and sound, Wright's piece explores sacred sexuality, decolonial kink, trust, consent, and the body and the land as archive, grounded in Indigenous queer ways of being.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive-54720/", "official_url": "https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/1a61500cefb709a9417d77508430a09aec9d3614a028e75c41adb87723879973-1200.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://go-gnocchi.app/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://go-gnocchi.app/images/9358ca52963fb66e5e081b518918365f8df1020d3d1e3843395423eec923c3ca-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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/rough-draft-festival-53450/", "official_url": "https://www.lpac.nyc/upcoming-events/rough-draft", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/b630d0b2ec7633cd208ae9b1a185ef4184c89e2c7d72c2d34bcf4f710bf63516-1200.webp"}, {"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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/wayfinding-senas-del-camino-52644/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/wayfinding-senas-del-camino", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c65d3d3e84d0b1ea2c659ab02cea8c7950e309ab760b40fb8ebb51080be35c79-600.webp"}, {"title": "La MaMa Kids: Kinding Sindaw Dance Interactive Workshop", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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/1285644?performanceId=11878160", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["dance/traditional", "diy"], "description": "La MaMa Kids: Kinding Sindaw Dance Interactive Workshop is a 60-minute workshop where children learn how rhythm, music, and ritual dances tell the story of planting and harvesting rice. It is led by Potri Ranka Manis and Kinding Sindaw, an NYC-based, AANHPI / BIPOC-led non-profit founded in 1992 that preserves the southern Philippines' living traditions through dance, storytelling, kulintang music, and silat. Through movements inspired by farming activities, participants build coordination, teamwork, and confidence, combining music and dance in an ensemble performance. The workshop explores community, celebration, and gratitude while highlighting the importance of preserving living traditions and cultural heritage.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/la-mama-kids-kinding-sindaw-dance-interactive-workshop-66703/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/lamamakids-kindingsindawworkshop/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/a8a52ad2b91302efce322f3787900f54478854a8c160c1f5cb0af6685b3612ad-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spiderwoman Workshops!", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "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": ["stage/theatre", "music"], "description": "Spiderwoman Workshops! is a series of free theatre and cultural workshops, one of which takes place on this day: Song Story with Warren Mason. It is part of the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival at La MaMa, held as Spiderwoman celebrates its 50th Anniversary with groundbreaking theatre companies. Warren Mason, the creator, composer and performer of Maayuma li Mubirr, sits with participants to learn devising song stories, with instruments optional for the ten participants.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/spiderwoman-workshops-66701/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/spiderwomanworkshops/", "image": ""}, {"title": "i’m not even half", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "The Bushwick Starr", "address": "Eldert Street 419, 11237 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/monodrama", "society"], "description": "A darkly funny solo theater show about a woman glued to her phone watching an uprising in Iran, who gets hit by a car while crossing a Brooklyn street. Created and performed by Layla Khoshnoudi and directed by Machel Ross, it follows her character S on an odyssey of antics and self-discovery, as a physical impact forces her to confront what is worthy of faith. Produced in association with ¡OYE! Group, the show runs about 90 minutes without intermission and is recommended for ages 15 and up.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/im-not-even-half-56450/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/cf6301430177345a3bd1955501a6e26582a3a1a9a45271531c8b156cbe64b5db-2000.webp"}, {"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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/kate-rigg-with-slanty-eyed-mama-53459/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/kateriggwithslantyeyedmama/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/63d467e6a125927dea076c1e3563ecf6e80e82fe036cc990b3a1d1794f1f8a4f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nikki and the Noise at Arts on Site", "start": "2026-11-08T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Arts on Site", "address": "Saint Marks Place 12", "price": "$30.00", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage"], "description": "An evening of performance by Nikki and the Noise, the group of Nikki Assanti, Shannon Healey, Daniel Morimoto, and Brandon Washington. It traces their creative evolution, from early stirrings of Claws of A Stray to the NYC premiere of Ambiguous Grief. Claws of A Stray, a new work-in-progress, explores shifting dynamics of territory and how we inhabit our own space. Ambiguous Grief examines the sorrow that comes with the loss or destruction of an emotional bond and the uncertainty of navigating all types of loss.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/nikki-and-the-noise-at-arts-on-site-51085/", "official_url": "https://www.artsonsite.org/events-1/nikki-and-the-noise-at-arts-on-site", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/434acd13f6ca5744bc71e3fd6c9b00f3e579743fa60c7fb2a06a7d507637e972-2000.webp"}]}