Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # IRT Just another WordPress weblog ## Posts - [PRIESTESS OF TWERK: A BLACK FEMME TEMPLE TO PLEASURE + WISDOM SCHOOL](https://irttheater.org/archive-collective/priestess-of-twerk-a-black-femme-temple-to-pleasure-wisdom-school/) - Nia O. Witherspoon is a Black Queer theatre maker, vocalist and composer, and cultural worker investigating the metaphysics of Black liberation, desire, and diaspora. - [Memento Mori](https://irttheater.org/archive-collective/memento-mori/) - In Memento Mori (Latin for 'remember you must die'), Amanda Szeglowski / cakeface spins existential angst into something divine. Employing sharp wit and the slightest hint of optimism, the piece begs to discover the very nature of consciousness, and ultimately, what it means to be fully human. - [UPSTAIRS, IN OUR BEDROOM](https://irttheater.org/archive-collective/upstairs-in-our-bedroom/) - Led by twin choreographers Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley, Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is a New York- and Toronto-based performance collective celebrating 11 years of collaborative and interdisciplinary storytelling. - [The Essentialisn’t](https://irttheater.org/archive-collective/the-essentialisnt/) - IN RESIDENCE: July 24 – 28, 2025 Written and Performed by Eisa Davis A HERE World Premiere in association with The Movement Theatre Company Can you be Black and not perform? Incorporating art gallery aesthetics and an electronic soul score, Eisa Davis performs a piece about performance, exploring the cultural techniques that make musical expression a kind - [THE HAWTPLATES](https://irttheater.org/archive-collective/the-hawtplates/) - The HawtPlates music breaks down vernacular music styles into multiple modes of vocalizing, producing their sound and songs in the spirit of the family heirloom. - [SOFTEE UNPLUGGED & UNRELEASED](https://irttheater.org/archive-collective/softee-unplugged-unreleased/) - IN RESIDENCE: January 20 – 26, 2026 Get ready for an intimate evening with Softee as they strip it all down for a special acoustic set. Featuring raw, emotional performances from their unreleased upcoming album, and reimagined versions of fan favorites, this show offers a rare, up-close look at the heart of their music. Plus some super secret surprises - [Off the Record: Acts of Restorative Justice](https://irttheater.org/archive-collective/off-the-record-acts-of-restorative-justice/) - IN RESIDENCE:March 21 – 30, 2026 How do you face a world that fills you with anxiety, fear, and frustration? OFF THE RECORD: Acts of Restorative Justice is a performance, intervention, and invitation to walk an energizing path from despair to agency. When the American Criminal Justice System holds all the cards, one woman decides to question - [Translated City](https://irttheater.org/archive-collective/translated-city/) - IN RESIDENCE: April 14 – 27, 2026 An ever-changing evening of semi-improvised stories about people sharing a large, rent-stabilized apartment building–performed by virtuoso downtown storyteller luminaries and a killer ambient-electro-jazz band. PERFORMANCE: April 26, 2026 PRICE: FREE At IRT: 154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor) ADA Accessible PLEASE NOTE: All sales final and there is no - [Meat Expectations](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/meat-expectations/) - IN RESIDENCE: January 3 – 10, 2026 The play is set in Deaf Utopia, a meat-packing factory owned and run by a Deaf family for four generations. All employees are Deaf, and sign language is the primary mode of communication. The workplace is idyllic until a new CEO, eager to modernize, introduces unfamiliar technology — leading - [Waitress: The Musical | IN ASL](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/waitress-the-musical-in-asl/) - IN RESIDENCE: July 12 – 20, 2025 In just five short years, Deaf Broadway has become synonymous with authentically Deaf musical theater. The organization was founded during the 2020 pandemic in response to artistic director Garrett Zuercher's experience with the state of Deaf access to performances of lyrically complex musicals, which too often water down - [Jeanine Tesori & Brian Crawley’s Violet | IN ASL](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/jeanine-tesori-brian-crawleys-violet-in-asl/) - IN RESIDENCE: March 1 – 20, 2026 Performed in American Sign Language (ASL) by a full Deaf Broadway cast and accompanied by the original Broadway cast album, Jeanine Tesori’s Violet tells the story of a young woman’s quest for beauty amidst the image-obsessed landscape of the 1960s. Facially disfigured in a childhood accident, Violet dreams of a - [PearlofAGirlProductions](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/pearlofagirlproductions/) - IN RESIDENCE: February 17 – 28, 2026 Plays and Stories Performances: 2/22 14Y Plays in Progress, four short plays 2/22 Storytelling by Elliot Crown 2/23 FINDING ELVIS, play reading Public Performances 2/22 ASHES by Mindy Pfeffer CHAYREM (excerpt) by Lexa Rosean EVERYONE’S CHILDREN by Paul Graham THE MANDATE by Elise Catera Four short plays about - [Winter Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/winter-festival/) - IN RESIDENCE:January 27 – February 16, 2026 Theatre 4the People and Haley Rice is proud to present a festival of new plays, workshops, and community collaborations: a comic horror retelling of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, a Punk Rock retelling of Little Women, a woman trying to understand her home country as her - [Sulfer Bottom](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/sulfer-bottom/) - IN RESIDENCE: July 29 – August 4, 2025 Buoyed by the promise of jobs and economic development, a series of factories plague a small town. But with reports of dangerous chemicals leaking from the industrial plants, a young woman must make impossible choices to protect her loved ones. Set over 40 years, Rishi Varma’s new - [The Horniest girls in New York City](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-horniest-girls-in-new-york-city/) - IN RESIDENCE: July 21 – 23, 2025 An underdog story about two girls who are terrible at making good choices, coming of age together, when they realize they have been letting life, sex, and drugs bend them over the table. PERFORMANCE July 23 2025 PRICE: FREE At IRT: 154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor) ADA - [Courting Mayhem by Sidney Rushing](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/courting-mayhem-by-sidney-rushing/) - This is not a play about basketball. - [Theater Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/theater-festival/) - ALab is an NYC theater festival that takes place several times a year at The IRT Theater in the West Village. Our mission is to present diverse, experimental works to new audiences at accessible prices while providing free resources and fair compensation to participating theater artists. - [Jay Alan Zimmerman’s Incredibly Deaf Musical](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/jay-alan-zimmermans-incredibly-deaf-musical/) - Jay Alan Zimmerman’s Incredibly Deaf Musical tells the incredible true story of a composer who loses both his hearing and his home but finds new life by turning a battle with deafness…into a musical. - [R IS FOR WRITER](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/r-is-for-writer/) - Isaiah Frank's R is for Writer is a breakneck farce about plagiarism and the cost of getting everything you’ve ever wanted. - [Wake](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/wake/) - Burying the past is a lot harder than burying the dead. - [Colette Pitts](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/colette-pitts/) - The WIT Factor is a theater festival that uplifts and celebrates Women+ identifying college seniors and early career-professionals. - [My Ex-Husband’s Funeral](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/my-ex-husbands-funeral/) - A widow, a daughter, an ex, a friend, some cousins, an eccentric aunt, a sister, a few surprise guests. And every one has something to say. - [The Betrothed: A Staged Reading](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-betrothed-a-staged-reading/) - In this laugh-out-loud Victorian farce, an all-Women+ ensemble turns polite society into a hysterical swirl of scandal and spectacle. - [SABINE Women (or Pilgrim Play)](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/sabine-women-or-pilgrim-play/) - SABINE Women (or Pilgrim Play) explores themes of sisterhood and survival—what it means to be content. - [BABY TEETH](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/baby-teeth/) - BABY TEETH is a raw, surreal one-act play about shame, God, and two messed-up kids stealing teeth from a dentist’s office in nowhere, Pennsylvania. Gritty, strange, and full of heart. - [ALab Theater Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/alab-theater-festival-2/) - ALab Theater Festival presents experimental and thrilling new works, workshops, and music events by NYC's brightest emerging artists. - [Curated Workshops, Performances and Exhibits](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/curated-workshops-performances-and-exhibits-2/) - IRT Presents Siena, who will be featuring a week of curated workshops, performances and exhibits by some of their favorite artists and collaborators. - [Solo Show Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/solo-show-festival/) - A festival of unique storytellers with comedy, complaints, and the big questions. - [Songs For Hands On A Thursday ](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/songs-for-hands-on-a-thursday/) - A theatrical song cycle created by Jay Alan Zimmerman (based on poems by award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl). - [Uzi’s Art Tour](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/uzis-art-tour/) - Culture, Community, Celebration - [Dungeons and Disrespect](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/dungeuns-and-disrespect/) - What begins as a simple board game squabble quickly transforms into a chaotic, funny, and heartfelt adventure about family, imagination, and the surprising places games can take us. - [i know why iris chang died](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/i-know-why-iris-chang-died/) - This heartfelt, dark, and deeply funny two-hander takes a look at legacy, family, suicide, genocide, and healing from generational trauma. - [PRIVILEGE](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/privilege/) - IN RESIDENCE: NEW YORK DEAF THEATER: November 12 – 25, 2024 IRT's ASL CREATIVE: May 20 – June 2, 2025 Garrett Zuercher's exciting new play explores themes related to differing forms of identity within the Deaf Community. The story begins when Mateo, a profoundly Deaf young man from a Hispanic immigrant family, is charged with - [Theatre 4the People Summer Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/theatre-4the-people-summer-festival/) - A festival of Community Collaborations in laughter, songs, and murder… - [CETUS: Act One](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/cetus-act-one/) - CETUS: Act One; a metal version of Moby-Dick. Join the crew of the Pequod on a wicked world tour. A live band breathes life into Melville’s novel on revenge, and redemption. The crew of the Pequod pursue destiny, obsession, and a white whale that looms larger than life. Will we make it out alive? Or are we going down with the ship? - [Will You Be My Archnemesis? And Other Super Short Stories](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/will-you-be-my-archnemesis-and-other-super-short-stories/) - Who am I? What am I? Where will I end up? These are questions we ask ourselves every day… and so do the superheroes that protect us. A play about identity, this collection of scenes brings us into the world of superheroes and gives insight into what they experience when they’re not saving the day. - [ALab Theater Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/alab-theater-festival/) - A Lab Theater Festival presents experimental and thrilling new works, readings, and music events by NYC's brightest emerging artists. Join us as we welcome the next wave of theatrical trailblazers to our stage for two and a half weeks of dynamic art! - [A new musical play, Soldiers without Guns](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/a-new-musical-play-soldiers-without-guns/) - Workshop: A new musical play, Soldiers without Guns. The Co-Conceivers: Amelia Hensley, Alexandria Wailes, and Joey Antionio. - [Puerto Rico es una Cama Twin](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/puerto-rico-es-una-cama-twin/) - Puerto Rico es una Cama Twin intends to bring together and shed light on the importance of community and humanity in times of need. It is a statement that no matter where we are or where we go, we are not alone in our struggle. - [Parsley](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/parsley/) - Parsley is a breakneck collision of the canon and lost histories that made us. In an aching attempt to reach the other across a chasm of difference, we careen backwards in time through form and story towards forgotten knowns, greedy Generals, and our mothers’ fury. - [Turnover](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/turnover/) - A play about interviewing for a job. Interviewing for a job, getting the job. Getting the job, understanding you must now submit to an entity that is not yourself.Submitting to the entity, failing to comprehend exactly how expendable you are until it is far too late. - [Everything Goes Fest](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/everything-goes-fest/) - Live from IRT Theater, a two-night theater festival filled with electric performances, odd presentations and a good a** time! - [HEAT](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/heat/) - Cookin’ up trouble by stirrin’ up the past. - [S.I.M.P.S. | A New Musical](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/s-i-m-p-s-a-new-musical/) - A pulp-horror satire with a violent jazz-pop score, S.I.M.P.S. is a bloody, hilarious indictment of the manosphere and those who profit from it. - [Round Yon Virgin](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/round-yon-virgin/) - When a small-town church is tasked with putting on its annual children's Christmas Pageant, kids and adults alike learn some tough lessons about faith, foreskins, and whether the amount of lines you're given is truly an indicator of God's favor. Yeehaw! - [Being Chaka](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/being-chaka-2/) - IN RESIDENCE: November 5 – 11, 2024 Intent and Process Being Chaka is the culminating result of TÉA Artistry’s multi-year exploration into how Americans apprehend the construct of race in their lives and how this affects the way they treat each other and the personal, practical, and institutional decisions they make. As the New Ohio/ - [The Rocky Horror Picture Show](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/the-rocky-horror-picture-show/) - Cult Classic brought to you in ASL. Come do the Time Warp with us and let us take you on a strange journey into Dr. Frank n’ Furter’s lab. - [Phantasmagoria](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/phantasmagoria/) - People are going missing, taken in the night, with no sign of where or why they go. And it’s happening more and more. However, on Halloween night, Otho stumbles upon his classmate's plan to stop it: by ritualistically sacrificing the New Kid in Town. - [PUZZLING EVIDENCE](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/puzzling-evidence/) - Written & Directed by Robert Lyons Featuring Rhys Tivey & Folami Williams Two left-wing activists tour their “Post-Capitalist Realism” concert - singing, reciting beat poetry, and free associating an anti-capitalist manifesto. - [“It’s us, not I”](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/its-us-not-i/) - In this Capitalistic world, our mental distress is fed by social media, long work hours with low wages, poisoned food and a government that makes laws for companies not people. In this unfair system, join Axh and Gina in overriding it with the most anti-establishment thing possible; self-love. - [Curated Workshops, Performances and Exhibits](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/curated-workshops-performances-and-exhibits/) - Featuring a week of curated workshops, performances and exhibits by some of their favorite artists and collaborators. - [Under the Sheet – A New Musical](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/under-the-sheet-a-new-musical/) - Under the Sheet is a cut-throat, messy new musical where maids take centerstage…but they ain’t cleaning up no ordinary stains. Suspicions and rhymes fly as they get blood out of carpets, bleaching away the evidence of The Boss’s misdeeds to secure their safety in the streets. - [Sophie Blanchard’s High-Flying Rock’n’Roll Extravaganza](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/sophie-blanchards-high-flying-rocknroll-extravaganza/) - Sophie Blanchard’s High-Flying Rock’n'Roll Extravaganza is a historical rock concert about the daredevil life and pyrotechnic death (spoilers) of the first professional female air balloonist. - [Al Alba](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/al-alba/) - A fresh version of one of Spain’s best stories, Al Alba resurrects the ruinous struggle between love and honor. Reimagined and retold through flamenco and theatre, Al Alba brings to life Federico Garcia Lorca’s La Casa de Bernarda Alba. - [It Happened Because of the Avocado](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/9675/) - Who dun it this time??? Come and help them figure it out! - [Scouts Guide to Conquering Your Childhood Fear](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/scouts-guide-to-conquering-your-childhood-fear/) - Andrew Harris Jerome, is an overly adventurous Boy-Scout. He’s a man with a plan & is always prepared for every situation. Well, almost every situation. Andrew is cursed with an insane phobia of the dark that leads him astray from his troop & little brother. He has only his wits & an insanely problematic imaginary friend to guide him to safety. Or sanity. Whichever comes first… - [Homunculus](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/homunculus/) - After her lover absconds with a model from his figure drawing class, an eccentric sculptor enlists the help of her lovelorn assistant to create a lifesize statue of her ex. - [bird play](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/bird-play/) - bird play is about four 12 year old birdwatchers who venture deep into the woods, beyond the blackberry bush, and make some decisions they later regret. and birds are involved. - [SOLDIERS WITHOUT GUNS](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/soldiers-without-guns-2/) - This residency is being used for pure development time. Creating the spine of the story with Amelia Hensley and Kailyn Aaron Lozano. - [DEPTHS OF THE VALLEY](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/depths-of-the-valley/) - Three estranged siblings reunite at their childhood home after the mysterious death of their father, and are forced to confront the ghosts both past and present that have destroyed their lives. - [WYLD WOMAN:The Legend of Shy Girl](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/wyld-woman-the-legend-of-shy-girl/) - A tender but socially anxious woman’s attempt to become cool and desirable, despite the fact that her only friends are members of her imaginary (albeit densely populated) clique. - [RENT](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/rent/) - Jonathan Larson's RENT by Deaf Broadway In American Sign Language Rose Theater at Lincoln Center - [HEAR ME Staged Reading](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/hear-me/) - HEAR ME is an original, women-led, cross-cultural, bi-lingual musical in ASL & English about confronting personal demons that deter us from loving fully and living authentically. "A visual feast!" - [WIED](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/wied/) - “What is Emily Drawing?” Emily, a profoundly deaf teen, keeps handing out drawings of people and things. Her communication style is different from teens her age. What exactly is she getting at? - [Everybody's Girl](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/everybodys-girl/) - Having a best friend means giving them your heart and trusting they won't break it. - [Finding Elvis – A Workshop Reading](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/finding-elvis-a-workshop-reading/) - In FINDING ELVIS, two long-time female friends travel to Graceland in search of inspiration and connection to their pasts. - [ACHIVE RESIDENCY](https://irttheater.org/archive-residency/achive-residency/) - IRT has provided a much needed developmental home for The Mad Ones third full length piece Untitled Biopicthrough the Archive Residency. Their unquestioning support of emerging artists has been invaluable to our work and our company. IRT's motto seems to be: 'We trust you. Here are the keys. Create.- Marc Bovino, Co-Artistic Director, The Mad - [THE ESSENCE OF TWO](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-essence-of-two/) - A Staged Reading of a New Television Dramedy Series by Award-Winning Filmmaker, Writer, and Director, Jade Bryan - [The Misanthrope](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-misanthrope/) - Two young cantankerous lovers meet at a landmark punk bar in the timeless home for misanthropy, the East Village. As Maddy attempts to realize her idea of an adult relationship with Hanes, and Hanes resists to preserve his castaway identity, their carefully curated personalities begin to fall apart. - [Tussaud/Antoinette](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/tussaud-antoinette-2/) - A tale of two Maries. One ruled wax; the other ruled France. ​Before Madame Marie Tussaud achieved wax museum fame, she was a sculptor, nearly guillotined during the French Revolution. She survived the Reign of Terror by using her artistic talents and went on to not only preserve history but to become it, notably by documenting the death of Queen Marie Antoinette. - [Ted Bundy's Volkswagen](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/ted-bundys-volkswagen/) - Annie and her mother Midge share a love of true crime stories… but is that enough to keep them from tearing each other apart? Find out in Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen, a brand-new, darkly funny, American road-trip play. - [LOBSQD](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/lobsqd/) - To save his Spanish grade, high school student Oscar seeks out his community and family members to answer the question, “What does it mean to be Hispanic?” in this one person show comedy. - [The Stella Show](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-stella-show/) - The Stella Show is a hilarious and heart-wrenching exploration of sisterhood, grief, and the unpredictable power of memory. - [Untitled Gabbie Project](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/untitled-gabbie-project/) - Gabbie’s been journaling, writing music, working super hard - and also just learned she’s God’s Messiah. After going public, she’s on the front-page of the Internet. A crowd forms: they laugh, pity, and bite back, all while Her holy book is written. - [An Ode To Ben Okri by Angélica Herrera](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/a-staged-reading-of-an-ode-to-ben-okri-by-angelica-herrera/) - An Ode to Ben Okri is a magic realist exploration of forgiveness, belief, and invisibility. Woken up in what she thinks is her room on what she could’ve sworn was her mattress, our protagonist must put her ethics to action. To give life or take life? To forgive or punish? To believe or know? Quick decisions are key to survival and wrong decisions may or may not exist. - [TRANS//FOR//MA//TION: in development Performance Piece & Wellness Workshop](https://irttheater.org/events/trans-for-ma-tion-in-development-performance-piece-wellness-workshop/) - TRANS//FOR//MA//TION will be a meditation and experimentation about how the mental and spiritual well-being of the artist can translate into more open, free thinking and courageous art. - [](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/9324/) - No Exit Theatre Collective will be presenting special performances by collective members! - [HandShake](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/handshake/) - What happens when Deaf and hearing emerging artists come together to devise new work? IRT's Westside Experiment through a very special John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts VSA brings you a performance of original theater pieces developed over a two week development process. - [Beyond Words](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/beyond-words/) - A delightful mix of music, mime and theater pieces created over a two week period at IRT's Westside Experiment and exciting unique approach to summer theater camp mixing cultures and providing new performance tools. - [I Am.....](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/i-am/) - I am ... a review of sign/mime performance pieces ranging from published poetry to original pieces created by our students exploring identity and answering the question, Who am I?..... - [Our Home](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/our-home/) - Our Home … a review of ABC Poetry, songs from Broadway and original pieces created by our students exploring and investigating the meaning of Home. - [Quest Through Our Fears](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/quest-through-our-fears/) - Join the young writers and performers of Westside Experiment 2021 as they explore a strange new planet and learn how to face and overcome their fears! - [How the Sloth & the Rock Star Became Friends Again](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/how-the-sloth-the-rock-star-became-friends-again/) - Join a couple of interdimensional tourists on an adventure to a new world, where they meet a cast of characters that teach them about friendship, family and believing in yourself. Based off of students’ improvs and devising activities, this short play incorporates techniques and games that this summer’s cohort has explored as an ensemble. - [WHERE’S OUR LANDLORD? ](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/wheres-our-landlord/) - Join a cluster of quirky tenants on their personal journeys as they try to solve their largest problem— where is the landlord when you need them?? - [Sweeney Todd in American Sign Language](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/sweeney-todd-in-american-sign-language/) - IN RESIDENCE: July 23-July 31, 2022 Theater is a space for everyone, and Deaf Broadway is here to prove just that. Returning to Lincoln Center after last year's performance of Into the Woods, Deaf Broadway presents an ASL production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Shadowed by a filmed version of the musical, Deaf actors bring life to - [SIXTY NINE SEVENTY (Workshop)](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/sixty-nine-seventy-workshop/) - SIXTY NINE SEVENTY deals with the social & political events between 1969 and 1970 that lead to the infamous protest at Buffalo State College, told through the perspectives of four college students struggling to find the right side of history. - [The Wake of Ur Problematic Fav Prty Grl](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-wake-of-ur-problematic-fav-prty-grl-by-claire-tumey/) - Claire is 26– the youngest anyone has ever been— and has decided to become a very stable and self-aware career actress. A couple things stand in her way: addiction, the theatrical industrial complex, and her own complicated relationship to truth and art. She’s putting on this one woman show to figure these things out (fingies crossed). - [Cherry Jam](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/cherry-jam/) - Who will buy the cherry orchard to pay off the family debt? And who the f*** remembers the family recipe for cherry jam? It’s kind of like Chekhov, but not. The kids are all in love but aren’t able to talk about it; the older characters are busy driving the family and the planet into the ground. Burning House presents CHERRY JAM, a play on The Cherry Orchard. - [BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/between-dog-and-wolf/) - UNFILTERED. UNAPOLOGETIC. A low-stakes, staged reading focused on providing writers developmental space to collaborate on unfinished projects and hear their work aloud in front of a live audience. - [Archive Residency-SKI END](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/ski-end/) - IN RESIDENCE: 2015- 2017 Resident Company New Ohio Theatre and and Piehole present An Archive Residency Production, in collaboration with New Ohio and IRT Theater Created by Piehole Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad In Piehole's Ski End, an abandoned ski shop becomes the center of the universe. A group of 30-whatever urbanites finds itself stuck in a flood-damaged - [Archive Residency-SOOT AND SPIT](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/archive-residency-soot-and-spit/) - What drives a single person to create nearly 20,000 works of art? Celebrating the life of James Castle - [ARCHIVE/ICE FACTORY- A FOOTNOTE IN HISTORY*](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archiveice-factory-a-footnote-in-history/) - "How does it feel to realize that...you are going to become a footnote in history and a trivia question subject forever?” - [DANGER SIGNALS](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/danger-signals/) - DANGER SIGNALS is a multidisciplinary fantasia about monkeys, brains and how we deal with our problems. - [MADAME LYNCH](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/madame-lynch/) - An Archive Residency Production, in collaboration with New Ohio Theatre - [SONGS ABOUT TRAINS](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/songs-about-trains/) - Folk songs, stories, and movement weave together in this theatrical concert to celebrate the multicultural workers from a pivotal moment in history—the building of the US rail system—and how their often untold stories and labor have had a lasting impact on the world we live in today. - [iNegro, a rhapsody](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/inegro-a-rhapsody/) - Born of disillusionment and a fierce self-excavation, Kareem M. Lucas’s Afro-surrealist solo show, iNegro, a rhapsody, takes the audience on a hilarious and harrowing ride through a young Black man’s consciousness as he carves out the space to wrestle with his community, his faith, his culture and himself. - [BEING CHAKA](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/being-chaka/) - BEING CHAKA is a coming-of-age story in which souls from two worlds struggle for self and group transcendence as they take the painful and possible redemptive journey through relationships and systems steeped in racism. - [A BURNING CHURCH](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/a-burning-church/) - With a dynamic score that fuses gospel and secular traditions, A Burning Church is an original musical haunted by acts of destruction, reconstruction, and radical transformation. - [Ultra Left Violence](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/ultra-left-violence/) - Imagine two activists hashing out a freely-associated anti-capitalist manifesto. While their favorite professor slides into dementia as he expounds on the unwritten books of our esteemed author. And a poet of privilege performs love poems inspired by her stay in a prestigious artist colony. Then add live music, a couple of songs, and a different guest artist at each performance. Something like that. - [Christen the Place](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/8952/) - A group of five friends come together to celebrate a housewarming…but one is coming to say goodbye. - [YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/you-dont-have-to-do-anything/) - Teddy and Clark aren't friends, but they have been talking online for 11 years. YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. is a disquieting new play by Ryan Drake and directed by Ryan Dobrin, that interrogates memory, agency, and the various boundaries and violations of queer exploration. - [Untitled Apartment Project](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/untitled-apartment-project/) - Two theatrical solo pieces encounter one another in this collaboration between theater artists Malik Paris and Jessica Ranville. Exploring themes of family history, belonging, generational trauma and language deprivation. - [Meat Expectations](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/9205/) - Meat Expectations is a Deaf musical in development by New York Deaf Theatre that is being created using American Sign Language first rather than written English. Music is then composed in response to the signing movement and rhythms. - [SOLDIERS WITHOUT GUNS](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/soldiers-without-guns/) - This residency is being used for pure development time. Creating the spine of the story with Amelia Hensley and select artists. More information about this show coming soon. - [PRIVILEGE & PHILOCTETES](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/privilege-philoctetes/) - Two readings each of Garrett Zuercher's two plays exploring themes of identity within the Deaf community. - [A Reading of The War Letters by Charlotte Purser](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/a-reading-of-the-war-letters-by-charlotte-purser/) - “In 2001, over a thousand love letters written during World War II were found in my grandmother’s attic…” - [Exploratory workshop of "T"](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/reading-of-their-new-play-room-to-cry/) - From ballet dancing and spoken poetry, to cracking eggs and game shows, this disordered young adult fantasia explores the messiness of being young and sick, and what fighting for your own healing really looks like. - [Dear John](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/dear-john/) - DEAR JOHN is a solo show inspired by real life events. In 2011, You receive a Facebook message from a man named: "John." You and John are not connected on Facebook. DEAR JOHN is the story of what happens when a man shows up to parent a child who isn't looking for a father. - [My Onliness](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/my-onliness-3/) - A mad King performs his royal power as an act of martyrdom, in a desperate attempt to impress a mysterious petitioner. While a Master of Ceremony orchestrates songs of torture, truth, and tenderness. (The poor Writer is simply collateral damage!) Is this a glimpse of our dystopian future? Or just the structure of human consciousness? - [Banshee](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/banshee/) - Maureen most certainly killed her husband. The question is, why? Banshee recounts the marriage of Maureen and Nathan Alderson and the events that led to his murder told through the memories of those testifying at Maureen's trial. Witnesses offer disparate testimony with memories distorted by prejudices, biases, and their preconceived opinion of Maureen's guilt. - [](https://irttheater.org/events/9130/) - IN RESIDENCE: January 29 2023 Come and watch IRT's black box theater transform into a trusting space for free creative performance and experimentation. Every artist on the lineup is breathtakingly talented and will be bringing something truly special to the show (+ all artists in attendance are invited to share works that they haven’t found the right - [Backbone Press & The Poetry Society of NY](https://irttheater.org/events/backbone-press-the-poetry-society-of-ny/) - IN RESIDENCE: January 14 2023 A collaborative Poetry Reading With the Winner of Backbone Press's 4th Annual Chapbook CompetitionAustin Sanchez-Moran And Runner-UpChris Slaughter OPEN MIC TO FOLLOWJANUARY 14, 2023, 1-2PMDOORS OPEN FROM 12:45-1:10PMAt IRT: 154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor)MASKS REQUIRED IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York - [Target Audience](https://irttheater.org/events/target-audience/) - A new video work by Hickerson with live music by Anders Nils and arid tear, and an installation of works-on-paper by Welteroth. - [Toxic Shock...and Other Women!](https://irttheater.org/events/toxic-shock-and-other-women/) - JENNIFER COOLIDGE. JUDY GARLAND. MARYLIN MONROE. What do all of these women have in common? - [A4A : CAPITALISM’S EFFECT ON THE ARTIST’S BODY](https://irttheater.org/events/a4a-capitalisms-effect-on-the-artists-body/) - Anticapitalism for Artists is an inclusive education community dedicated to raising the class consciousness of artists of all kinds in order to transform the living conditions of both arts workers and the world. - [Sacred and Profane Love](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/sacred-and-profane-love/) - Based on Bernie Langs’s 2021 music composition, IRT Theater’s staging of Sacred and Profane Love presents a unique environment for meditation on the mystic and interpersonal struggles between earthly and celestial love. - [Archive Residency](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency-6/) - New Ohio and IRT Theater are excited to welcome Kareem M. Lucas and the team of Zhailon Levingston, Alex Hare, and Nehemiah Luckett as our newest Archive Residency artists. - [Archive Residency](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency-5/) - New Ohio and IRT Theater are excited to present Byzantine Choral Project and Radical Evolution's final presentation as part of their Archive Residency. More information coming soon..... - [Trash](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/trash/) - Tim and Jake may be Deaf roommates sharing an apartment in the city, but they are polar opposites--each with very different worldviews on what it means to be Deaf in a hearing world. When it comes to taking out the trash, they take a comical and insightful dive into their trash and their perceptions of each other's lives. - [Round Dance](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/round-dance-2/) - A soldier, a poet, an actress, a hooker, and more -- ten characters drawn from every stratum of society in an interlocking web of life, love, and desire in a new translation of Arthur Schnitzler's ground-breaking 19th century classic “Reigen.” "Everything that can go wrong between lovers, will." - [](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/dangerous-signs-in-collaboration-with-push-physical-theatre/) - Dance/Physical Theater Residency: “Devising Theater” creating theater using ASL and physical expression. - [The Fixer FATIMA GRACE](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-fixer-fatima-grace/) - When blurred truth becomes controversial. Live staged reading of a TV drama. - [My Onliness](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/my-onliness-2/) - IN RESIDENCE: July 18–August 14, 2021 A mad King performs his royal power as an act of martyrdom, in a desperate attempt to impress a mysterious petitioner. While a Master of Ceremony orchestrates songs of torture, truth, and tenderness. (The poor Writer is simply collateral damage!) Is this a glimpse of our dystopian future? Or - [Please UNtranslate Me](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/please-untranslate-me-2/) - Please UNtranslate Me, written by Deaf playwright, Monique Holt, explores the very essence of the ASL language in theatre of absurd. The story portrays the Deaf experience and culture in their living visual language. - [Round Dance](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/round-dance/) - A soldier, a poet, an actress, a hooker, and more -- ten characters drawn from every stratum of society in an interlocking web of life, love, and desire in a new translation of Arthur Schnitzler's ground-breaking 19th century classic Reigen. "Everything that can go wrong between lovers, will." - [Space, Time and the Body](https://irttheater.org/events/space-time-and-the-body-a-free-introductory-viewpoints-based-workshop-for-deaf-and-hearing-artists/) - American Sign Language lives three dimensionally in space. The Viewpoints offers a vocabulary for theater artists to paint three dimensionally in Time and Space. Come explore what happens when we put ASL and The Viewpoints together. - [ARCHIVE/ ICE FACTORY-Our Voices Project](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/archive-residency-our-voices-project/) - What drives a boy born profoundly deaf who never learns to read, write, sign or speak, to create over 20,000 works of art? James Castle made himself into one of the most important American outsider artists. - [A Kind of Alaska: Interpreted/ASL Production](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/a-kind-of-alaska-interpretedasl-production/) - “Something is happening.” With these words, Harold Pinter evokes the quickening back to life of a bedbound older woman, to the astonishment of her attending physician. - [bye bye self-love, hello pop-tarts](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/bye-bye-self-love-hello-pop-tarts/) - An interdisciplinary storytelling event that sheds light upon his experience as a gay Black artist navigating a world steeped in systemic racism, homophobia, and "other debilitating oppressions spawned by patriarchy". - [CRIMINAL QUEERNESS FESTIVAL](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/criminal-queerness-festival-2/) - The Criminal Queerness Festival presents innovative new plays by LGBTQ artists from countries that criminalize queer and trans people and aims to uplift the careers of these artists and raise awareness about criminalization around the world. - [IT'S NOT LIVING](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/its-not-living/) - A girl, her monster ex-boyfriend, and her attempt to forget him. - [The Spring Fling: Happily Ever After](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-spring-fling-happily-ever-after-2/) - It's the TENTH and FINAL Spring Fling, with playwrights riffing on the theme of "Happily Ever After." The critically-acclaimed, award-winning collection of world-premiere plays returns (finally!) with TEN, brand new, commissioned selections in honor of our tenth and final year! There are TWO SERIES of 5 plays each - don't miss either show of funny, heartbreaking, exciting new work! - [Tussaud/Antoinette](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/tussaud-antoinette/) - Inspired by outrageously unreliable legends and claims, this story reimagines the historical fantasy of Marie’s Marie. - [Off Nights](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/whiskey-flicks-live-off-nights/) - An unscripted, booze-infused, deep dive into film. For each show, Dan projects a series of surprise movie clips and Mike provides impromptu commentary...with whiskey. Mike doesn’t know what Dan’s going to show him, Dan doesn’t know what Mike’s going to say, and the audience is along for the ride. - [Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/randys-dandy-coaster-castle/) - It's always a great day at Randy's....unless you work there. A brutal comedy that explores the low wage labor complex and ideological divides between generations of Cuban immigrants. Family Fun for all! No refunds. - [BANANA](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/banana/) - Written and performed by Shy Godzilla, BANANA is a silly queer clusterf*ck about where theater goes from here, how to combat your own internalized racism, and what it means to be an Asian fruit…legume…berry…(what’s a banana anyway?) *checks notes* - [Faculty Portrait](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/faculty-portrait/) - CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: In the interest of protecting the health and well-being of our artists and our patrons Faculty Portrait is closed. A year after a school shooting, survivors must come to terms with remaining in the space of tragedy. When a teacher and their students must make the best of a nightmare scenario, what is the ultimate cost? - [My Onliness](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/my-onliness/) - IN RESIDENCE: 2020-2021 Season A Mad King performs his royal power as an act of martyrdom in a desperate attempt to impress a mysterious petitioner while the Master of Ceremony orchestrates songs of torture, truth, and tenderness. (The poor Writer is simply collateral damage!) Is this a glimpse of our dystopian future? Or just the - [RE/VOLU/TION](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/re-volu-tion/) - "RE/VOLU/TION is a personal and communal investigation into the conscious & unconscious realms of life with a vacillating micro & macro scope. Incorporating elements of philosophy, science and history, ancestral veneration & objection - [Intentions](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/intentions-by-allison-svagdis/) - Intentions tell the story of a young woman in a cyclical pattern of past relationships in which she unsuccessfully attempts to break out of her unhappiness, all underscored by her mounting courage to confront the sexual assault trauma of her past. - [Please UNtranslate Me](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/please-untranslate-me/) - Please UNtranslate Me, written by Deaf playwright, Monique Holt, will explore the very essence of the ASL language and will portray the Deaf experience and culture in their living visual language. Using light, shadow play and multimedia, this production will explore the - [OLIVER AND ME](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/oliver-and-me/) - Oliver Sipple saved President Ford’s life in 1975 and Oliver’s life was ruined as a result. A battle and struggle for survival.... - [YOVO](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/yovo-2/) - Yovo wanders the urban sprawl and the small villages of the global south, navigating a whirling onslaught of images, interactions, impressions, and obligations as he searches for the post post post. A rigorous, physical, visceral tour-de-force performance of playful and dark buffoonery reimagined as The New Absurd. - [Traveler (working title)](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/traveler-working-title/) - An artist in space travels home to Earth in her little ship. After a years long residency that started with two but is ending with one, it is time to return home, face the truth of what happened in space, and show everyone what the artist has made. - [Outside In (Working Title)](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/outside-in-working-title/) - A Visual/Audial photography exhibit. December is a month of developing the finished project which will be shown some time in Spring at IRT Theater - [Yovo](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/yovo/) - Yovo wanders the urban sprawl and the small villages of the global south, navigating a whirling onslaught of images, interactions, impressions, and obligations as he searches for the post post post. A rigorous, physical, visceral tour-de-force performance of playful and dark buffoonery reimagined as The New Absurd. Anticipate your participation. Performed in ASL and Spanish - [Please UNtranslate Me](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/please-un-translate-me/) - Please UNtranslate Me, written by Deaf playwright, Monique Holt, will explore the very essence of the ASL language and will portray the Deaf experience and culture in their living visual language. - [Darkroom Developed Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/new-light-theater-project/) - The Darkroom Developed Festival is a month-long event showcasing new & exciting work in the off-off-Broadway community. The festival will launch with Darkroom 16, followed by three weekends highlighting projects New Light is developing that prominently feature our resident artists. - [Unlearning Words: A Workshop for ASL Interpreters and Moderately Skilled Signers](https://irttheater.org/events/unlearning-words-a-workshop-for-asl-interpreters-and-moderately-skilled-signers/) - Seth Gore presents an experimental workshop to unlock your true potential as a signer and ASL interpreter. Learn how to reduce your reliance on words, and make efficient use of the power of ASL. - [BOUFFON! BOUFFON! BOUFFON!](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/ratstar-residency/) - Ratstar Industries is proud to present, in partnership with IRT, the Ratstar Residency. Featuring a new play, The Bees by Dyer Rhoads; a late night cabaret of oddities and aberrations, Bouffon! Bouffon! Bouffon!; and a play reading series. - [The Bees](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-bees/) - Ratstar Industries is proud to present, in partnership with IRT, the Ratstar Residency. Featuring a new play, The Bees by Dyer Rhoads; a late night cabaret of oddities and aberrations, Bouffon! Bouffon! Bouffon!; and a play reading series. - [The Spring Fling: Happily Ever After](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-spring-fling-happily-ever-after/) - The Spring Fling is an annual, award-winning presentation of world-premiere, commissioned short plays around a central theme. In 2020, we’re using 10 playwrights to celebrate our 10th anniversary with the theme “happily ever after”: - [STEPCHILD, A New Musical](https://irttheater.org/asl-creative/stepchild-2/) - A radical retelling of Cinderella, seen through the eyes of a young Deaf woman coming of age in a kingdom violently intolerant of difference. - [From A to Double D](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/from-a-to-double-d/) - One woman's life, one bra at a time. How high will you bid? - [Kid Brooklyn Productions](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/kid-brooklyn-productions/) - Is a One Night Stand ever really just that? In three new plays that take place before, during, or after a one night stand we'll try to find out. - [The Fool’s Lear](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-fools-lear/) - A national leader with cognitive impairment. A dysfunctional family with political power. Concern about caring for an aging parent. Intrigue, war, and death. The Fool’s Lear: William Shakespeare’s King Lear from the Fool’s perspective. - [Throughoutiveness](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/throughoutiveness/) - Spearheaded by an all-female production team, Throughoutiveness is a play about grief and moving on, with script and music by Emily Krause. Throughoutiveness aims to show an honest and unfiltered portrayal of a young woman’s journey through grief - [The Yellow Wallpaper](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-yellow-wallpaper/) - Confined to rest and separated from her new-born child, a woman finds comfort within the yellow wallpaper that decorates her room. A multimedia staging of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic American story. - [ETHER: The Strange Afterlife of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/ether-the-strange-afterlife-of-harry-houdini-and-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/) - Frenemies Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle continue their rivalry in the afterlife. They and their wives are stuck in competing versions of reality, when they make a dire metaphysical bet. Together they explored the space between life & death, debating the validity of mediums and magic.Puppetry, magic, images create a layered world between life and death. - [BlackBox MonologueSlam Actor’s Show Case](https://irttheater.org/events/blackbox-monologueslam-actors-show-case/) - Elevating The Voices Of POC Talent - [Stepchild](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/stepchild/) - IN RESIDENCE:March 26- April 1 2013/December 16 2014 In this sweeping musical tale, Orella is born deaf at the brink of the Italian Renaissance. Her journey takes her through a childhood of poverty, an adolescence in hiding, and a young adulthood at an asylum for the "cursed". However, her drive to learn and her courage - [IRT & TGF 12 Productions , in association with LaGuardia Performing Arts Center](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/stepchild-a-new-musical/) - In this sweeping musical tale, Orella is born deaf at the brink of the Italian Renaissance. Her journey takes her through a childhood of poverty, an adolescence in hiding, and a young adulthood at an asylum for the "cursed". However, her drive to learn and her courage to communicate with Sign Language unites a broken kingdom, and Orella is ultimately crowned the world’s first proud Deaf queen. - [What Will the Neighbors Say? and Becky Abramowitz](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/what-will-the-neighbors-say-and-becky-abramowitz/) - Agency in Storytelling is a question we grapple with daily as a company with its complex intersection of privilege, influence, and visibility. Join us on October 9th at 7pm for a panel followed by an open bar reception. - [Duck](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/duck/) - Duck follows the internal struggle of a CIA statistician who learns that 1% can be the difference between life and death. He tries to understand what “loyalty” means — to whom, and at what cost. Under periods of great stress, he loses the ability to speak and instead quacks at people like a duck. - [The Trade Federation: Or, Let’s Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-trade-federation-or-lets-explore-globalization-through-the-star-wars-prequels/) - An allegorical comedy about Star Wars - [You Sound Like a Girl](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/you-sound-like-a-girl/) - You Sound Like a Girl is a performance and educational program that investigates the social norms surrounding cis women’s and trans women’s voices in order to empower every girl and woman to embrace their voice. - [American Sign Language poetry performance group](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/american-sign-language-poetry-performance-group/) - Dangerous Signs is an American Sign Language poetry performance group that uses a fusion of sign, spoken word, mime, storytelling, dance and music. - [Miranda from Stormville](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/miranda-from-stormville/) - Two men are stranded in the small town of Stormville, New Jersey - a place where life moves slowly and people don’t leave. But it seems as if the accident of their arrival is no accident after all. Outside, a storm rages. Inside, a family withers. There’s magic in this universe. Remember that. - [Breaking Our Silence: World Pride Showcase](https://irttheater.org/events/breaking-our-silence-world-pride-showcase/) - FOR RESERVATION CONTACT: jeremy@poetictheater.com Breaking Our Silence was launched in the 2013 Poetic License Festival by Joanna Hoffman, Elliot D. Smith, Charan P. Morris and Storm Thomas and has since highlighted the work of over 30 all-star queer poets, playwrights, and musicians, sharing their work and their experiences of coming out, finding love, breaking the silence - [Hunger](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/hunger/) - When a manic episode prompts a struggling artist to create a YouTube Live persona and disappear into Times Square for four days, he emerges with a primer on how to survive Late Capitalism. - [What We Do](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/what-we-do/) - What do we do when no one’s looking? - [Crushing Baby Animals](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/draft/) - Crushing Baby Animals is a new semi-autobiographical play. After sharing a dream, Tana and Maria open up a wormhole that sucks them into a timeless ether where they come face to face with their own antagonistic Dopplegangers, the perils of the human psyche, and the absurd pitfalls of human identity. - [Tuning Your Instrument Class](https://irttheater.org/events/tuning-your-instrument-class/) - A movement class designed to bring actors and movers back into their body. - [Criminal Queerness Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/criminal-queerness-festival/) - The Criminal Queerness FestivalWorldPride 2019 | Stonewall 50 ​Global stories for global impact - [Archive Residency](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residents/) - In Residence: 2017- 2019 New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater are proud to announce that One-Eighth Theatre and The Drunkard's Wife will be an Archive Resident from 2017 – 2019. Since 2007, IRT Theater has served the downtown theater community by providing space, support and community for independent artists through its 3B Development Series. With the arrival of the New Ohio Theatre to the - [Daily Developments](https://irttheater.org/events/7642/) - Three public showings of works in progress. - [Chuck.Chuck.Chuck.](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/chuckchuckchuck/) - Chuck. Chuck. Chuck. is a collage of performance, video, music, and dance that uses William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying as a departure point for a broader examination of failure, secular faith and family. - [Let's talk about healing](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/healmetoo-festival/) - In honor of sexual violence awareness month, let’s ask how we can heal. For four weeks this spring, the #HealMeToo Festival will present performances, panels, workshops and podcasts to create an intersectional space for conversation that inspires healing and cultural change. - [M4M](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/m4m/) - M4M is a seven character reimagining of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure - [The Thing About Dan](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-thing-about-dan/) - Paul and Zip are waiting for Dan, the friend who keeps their lives running smoothly. The thing is, he’s sleeping with their wives. - [Daily Development: A Showing of Works in Progress](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/daily-development-a-showing-of-works-in-progress/) - A showing of excerpts from three shows in development that explore gender roles, sexuality, and man-made disasters as told through poetry, farce, and millennial alt-pop. - [YOU / EMMA](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/le-bovarysme/) - In this postmodern fever dream of Madame Bovary, Flaubert’s 19th century protofeminist masterpiece collides with retro Americana and a future that’s female. Emma Bovary’s voracious desire cracks the facade of domestic life, unleashing a flood that challenges the constructs of femininity. - [New Development](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/new-development/) - Improbable Stage is in the early development phase of creating a new devised theatre piece. - [The 1st New York International FRIDGE Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-1st-new-york-international-fridge-festival/) - The FRIDGE Festival is a multidisciplinary theater festival featuring new works. All plays include (nay, feature) a fridge. - [Jessica by Patrick Vermillion](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/jessica-by-patrick-vermillion/) - A disappearance story for the digital age. - [Alexandria by Vince Gatton](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/alexandria-by-vince-gatton/) - In a small town in the deep South, two librarians are unlikely friends. When outside forces threaten their safe space, each has to decide what to save: their friendship or themselves. Something has to burn. - [In Her Own Words: The Diana Tapes](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/in-her-own-words-the-diana-tapes/) - This tense thriller presents the true story of one of the greatest media scandals in British history – the publication of Andrew Morton's book about Diana, Princess of Wales, which ended her marriage and shook the monarchy to its core. The question remains: who was the victim, and who the victor? - [People as People: A Symposium on Diversity](https://irttheater.org/events/people-as-people-a-symposium-on-diversity/) - This symposium encourages our community to confront the lack of representation, as well as the misrepresentation, of many peoples bodies and cultures in the arts. Through guest speakers and lively debate, WWTNS? aims to create a space where a real, honest conversation about the way forward can be had. - [Untitled Shape Show: A New Musical for Young Audiences- ASL Interpreted Performances](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/untitled-shape-show-a-new-musical-for-young-audiences/) - Following the life of a young Polygon as they transition to a new school, Untitled Shape Show​ puts on stage themes of bullying, academic stress, and understanding yourself. Using non-gendered shapes, this show is crafted to resonate with all students regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or creed. - [Experimental Bitch Presents Bitchin’ Mondays](https://irttheater.org/events/bitchin-mondays/) - ​Experimental Bitch Presents Bitchin’ Mondays: events all day & night! Workshops, readings, music, dance- bitchin’ new work! Stay tuned for artist announcements! EBP is hosted by WWTNS during their IRT Residency! - [Quicksand](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/quicksand/) - Helga Crane, a biracial woman, journeys through white- and male-dominated societies of the 1920s in this theatrical adaptation of Nella Larsen’s seminal Harlem-Renaissance novel. Laced with jazz, gospel, and dance, this transporting world-premiere play explores a past eerily similar to our present. - [Female Festival Readings](https://irttheater.org/events/female-festival-readings/) - In the spirit of Michelle Kholos Brooks’ play, Hitler’s Tasters, which shifts the focus of a male-dominated war narrative to the women, New Light Theater Project is proud to present three new female-driven events. With new works by playwrights Eliza Bent, Ren Dara Santiago, and Lea McKenna-Garcia, and direction by Sarah Hughes, Jenna Worsham, and - [KB Lab Series The Emilies](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/kb-lab-series-the-emilies/) - A public staged workshop of The Emilies by J. Stephen Brantley Directed by Evan F. Caccioppoli Featuring Paul Edwards and Amanda Lyn Jungquist - [Hitler’s Tasters](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/hitlers-tasters/) - Three times a day, every day, a group of young women have the opportunity to die for their country. They are Adolph Hitler's food tasters. And what do girls discuss as they wait to see if they will live through another meal? Like all girls, throughout time, they gossip and dream, they question and dance. Deliberately anachronistic, stretching across time to autocracy today, these young women want to love, laugh, and above all, they want to survive. - [Syndicated](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/syndicated/) - A festival of new work featuring the premiers of Bluets, First Read, and Tiny Errors at the End of the Millennium - [The Lightbulb Reading Series](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-lightbulb-reading-series/) - In this year’s expanded Lightbulb Reading Series, eight young playwrights will collaborate with G45 Productions to develop their own new works over the course of a two week residency at IRT. - [Archive Residency](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/6463/) - IRT and The New Ohio's Archive Residency offers two select independent theater companies a two year commitment of space, artistic support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work. - [Sanguine Spring Break: Playwrights’ Week](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/sanguine-spring-break-playwrights-week/) - Come binge-watch new works-in-progress! Each night features a presentation by a different playwright, making a full week of exciting new plays. - [3rd Annual Women in Theatre Festival](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/3rd-annual-women-in-theatre-festival/) - Women in Theatre Festival(#WiTFESTNYC) is dedicated to commissioning, developing, and producing the work of women playwrights. - [The Spring Fling: Chemistry](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-spring-fling-chemistry/) - The Spring Fling is an annual, award-winning presentation of seven world-premiere, commissioned short plays around a central theme, written specifically for this project by seven different playwrights of note, now going into its eighth year. In 2018, playwrights will draw inspiration from the theme "chemistry." - [The AMERIKA! Series](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/church-of-the-millennials/) - AMERIKA! exposes Kafka's vision of a mythical "Amerika" against the backdrop of the current American landscape. Join our seven ingénues as they travel from East to West in hot pursuit. From siblings washed ashore to Central Park in 1999, AMERIKA! is a series the whole family can enjoy. - [Life Brief & Glorious](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/production-of-new-work/) - Men and ships and men and ships and men and ships… Murder. Sex. Achilles’ heel. A modern re-telling of the events leading up to the fall of Troy, as seen through the eyes of the women responsible for holding the city together. - [There’s Iron in Your Future](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/theres-iron-in-your-future/) - A one-person play about triathlon training, finding one's "inner athlete," and reaching for the unreachable. From the waters of the Hudson River to the hills of Lake Placid... Swimming onstage without a pool! Biking without a bike! Humor, pathos, and life lessons! - [Teaching the Teaching Artists: Professional Development Workshops for Arts Educators](https://irttheater.org/events/teaching-the-teaching-artists-professional-development-workshops-for-arts-educators/) - Join The New Collectives for two professional development workshops led by Eduction and Outreach Directors Erin Maxon and Sam Leichter. - [Static: An Intergenerational Playwrights Experiment](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/static-an-intergenerational-playwrights-experiment/) - In the first ever Static: An Intergenerational Playwrights Experiment, Stable Cable brings together two playwrights of different generations to craft two brand new one-act plays centering on the same theme, which will be performed back-to-back. - [6 Shows in 60 Minutes](https://irttheater.org/events/one-person-show-workshop-presentation/) - Monique Holt leads a workshop: Developing Your One-Person Show. They will give their 10 to 15 min sketch of their one-person show. - [Pidor and the Wolf (a staged reading)](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/pidor-and-the-wolf-a-staged-reading/) - An adaptation of Prokofiev’s orchestral story Peter and the Wolf, this bold new work, Pidor and the Wolf, weaves the classic morsel of Russian folklore into the unraveling tapestry that is modern-day Chechnya. - [The Space](https://irttheater.org/events/the-space/) - Come into The Space, an evening of theatre-making with the New Collectives - [Journey of a Dream: Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr](https://irttheater.org/events/journey-of-a-dream-celebrating-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/) - Dream A New Dream - [Wake…Sing…](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/wakesing/) - A new performance work, based on Clifford Odets' depression era drama "Awake & Sing"...with Zombies. (Biblical stories about the resurrection of the dead and Zombie flicks). A meditation on “Wokeness” and “wakefulness”, WAKE...SING... is about the tension between middle class aspirations and utopian vision. - [Holy Name – Work in Progress Showing](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/holy-name-work-in-progress-showing/) - Holy Name is the story of a working-class family in 1960’s Buffalo, NY. The matriarch of the family suffers from a mental illness, which expresses itself in verbal abuse and threatening behavior. The men of the family devise a plan to get her treatment, but when it backfires it sends the family into a deep psychological battle of determination vs. free will, family obligations vs. a happier life. - [A STAR HAS BURNT MY EYE](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/a-star-has-burnt-my-eye/) - Howard Fishman’s new play about polymathic songwriter and outsider artist Connie Converse. - [The Followers & Age of Extinction: Two Plays about Women at The End of The World](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-followers-age-of-extinction-two-plays-about-women-at-the-end-of-the-world/) - In The Followers and Age of Extinction, playwright Willie Johnson examines the social forces that pressure women to conform in two very different apocalyptic landscapes. - [This England: The Complete Kings 1377-1485 (Abridged)](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/this-england-the-complete-kings-1377-1485-abridged/) - Who is the rightful king of England? Eight actors perform over 40 roles in a condensed adaptation of Shakespeare’s play cycle chronicling over a hundred years of war, murder, seduction, and betrayal as one family tries to answer the most hotly contested political question of the middle ages. - [MYTH IN MOTION: EXPLORING HADES AND PERSEPHONE](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/myth-in-motion-exploring-hades-and-persephone/) - IRT’s Westside Experiment has joined Amanda Gronich & Samuel Adams as they lead students grades 6-12 through an incredible development process resulting in a show at IRT! - [BUTCHER HOLLER HERE WE COME by Casey Wimpee](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/butcher-holler-here-we-come-by-casey-wimpee/) - 1973, West Virginia. Following a cave collapse, 5 coal miners struggle to survive the dwindling supply of oxygen, the lack of food and water, the unravelling sense of passing time, and, even more threatening, their own competing natures. - [America is Hard to See](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/america-is-hard-to-see/) - In 2015 Life Jacket Theatre Company travelled to Miracle Village - a community hidden in a sugarcane field in Southern Florida where America’s largest concentration of sex offenders live. This play tells the controversial story behind the village as well as the stories of the people who live there. - [New Work Development Series](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/new-work-development-series/) - 4 young playwrights, all under the age of 23, will collaborate with the artists from G45 Productions to develop their own new works. Some are award winning, some are unknown, but they all will create incisive, funny, dynamic works that will be shared with the public in a series of readings. - [The Romancers & Another Kind of Love](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-romancers-another-kind-of-love/) - Another Kind of Love by Crystal Skillman directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch & The Romancers Music by Kathryn Hathaway Book & Lyrics by Sarah Hammond under the Music Direction of Ian Axness - [Paper Dolls](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/paper-dolls/) - New York Daily News Newsstand Junkie columnist and playwright Patrick Huguenin went behind the scenes of celebrity scandal and brought it to the stage. - [JayZ&Me: A (fast) talking memoir](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/jayzme-a-fast-talking-memoir/) - 62-year-old white woman, obsessed with Jay Z, breaks her back at his baptismal concert at The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, solo shows the tale, and finally meets the Man! All while living/loving/working in NYC with no cell phone. - [](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/5651/) - A reading series showcasing both the individual voices of the four Hunter College Playwriting MFAs and its shared artistic resonances. - [Solo Show Festival: Three Award-Winning Solo Performances](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/solo-show-festival-three-award-winning-solo-performances/) - These three award-winning solo shows performed by Lee Kaplan, Padraic Lillis, and Douglas Taurel address issues of suicide, shame, and bullying with humor, vulnerability, and honesty. - [ARCHIVE/ICE FACTORY-Ski End](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency-ski-end/) - Piehole's newest work places an abandoned ski shop at the center of the universe. A group of adults gets stuck in this banal site of destruction, and engages in a cosmic ritual of nostalgia, apocalyptic delusion, and ski. Inspired by the many clues left behind in a real abandoned ski shop, Piehole’s SKI END examines anxieties about how we spend our time. - [A Staged Reading of “A CONCISE HISTORY OF FUTURE CHINA”](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/a-staged-reading-of-a-concise-history-of-future-china/) - The 1st play selected by the acclaimed Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen Stückemarkt by a Chinese playwright is recalibrated by Drama Desk-nominated theater-maker EUGENE MA in this FREE staged reading based on the script by Pat To Yan. Let us witness barbarism unfolding in a dream-like asynchrony. - [Masquerer’s Drama Club (MDC)](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/masquerers-drama-club-mdc/) - IN RESIDENCE: May 28- 31 2015 Dangerous Signs is an American Sign Language poetry performance group that uses a fusion of sign, spoken word, mime, storytelling, dance and music. While at IRT we will be creating and rehearsing new pieces to add to our repertoire and video editing to get the performances up on Youtube. - [Dangerous Signs](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/dangerous-signs/) - Dangerous Signs is an American Sign Language poetry performance group that uses a fusion of sign, spoken word, mime, storytelling, dance and music. - [Broadway Books Upper Class](https://irttheater.org/westside-experiment/broadway-books-upper-class/) - FIRST GRADE TEACHER DR. GARY WELLBROCK CREATED BROADWAY BOOKS FIRST CLASS. WE ARE NOW EXPANDING IT TO STUDENTS GRADES 6-12 AT BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES. GUEST ARTISTS: Gregory Jbara JW Guido PROGRAM GOALS: CELEBRATE THE RICH CULTURAL OFFERINGS OF NYC PROMOTE LITERACY AND THE ARTS FOSTER AN ENVIRONMENT OF SHARING ACROSS EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL COMMUNITIES - [A WEEKEND OF CLOWN WORKSHOP with Eugene Ma](https://irttheater.org/events/a-weekend-of-clown-workshop-with-eugene-ma/) - Whether you are a seasoned performer, a physical comedy fan, or someone who simply wants to dive into a nutty world for a weekend-get-away, ALL LEVELS ARE WELCOMED in this 10-hour clown workshop with EUGENE MA, Columbia University Acting MFA Professor & Christopher Bayes-certified clown teacher!! - [HERstory](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/herstory/) - This fall, Random Access Theatre is asking: who are the women that changed the face of theatre? HERstory Examined hopes to delve into that question through a series of performative exercises exploring the role and contribution of women in historical drama. - [Daphne & Pomegrenade](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/daphne-pomegranate/) - DAPHNE: Spun from a love of vegetation and Greek mythology, Daphne is a hero’s journey of survival, symbol, and poetic endurance. POMEGRENADE: Underworld love in times of refugee crises - [Canto Contra Reagan](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/canto-contra-reagan/) - Virgil led Dante down to hell. Nate Speare follows Ronald Reagan into an underworld of madness and corruption and, in the process, calls upon the power of song to redeem Reagan, the USA, and everyone entering psychological adulthood. - [Reading of the play, S&H Camping](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/reading-of-the-play-sh-camping/) - As age advances and older relationships stagnate, new possibilities can arise from the oddest of circumstances. Join the bickering Art and Catherine at the S&H Campgrounds as they confront an odd family group: two women who are former sister-in-law and their three children. Anything can happen… - [A Reading of “The Coward: a madcap fairy tale”](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/a-reading-of-the-coward-a-madcap-fairy-tale/) - In a far off kingdom on some cloud or something, a King has given his realm over to The Insane Demon Queen Gregory. But a Monster Rebellion is brewing. This violent, dark fairy tale takes a wild romp through a magical world of confetti, paint and shenanigans. - [A Warm Winter, or Black Is Beautiful But It Ain't Always Pretty](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/black-is-beautiful-but-it-aint-always-pretty/) - A staged reading of a new piece written and directed by Kareem, exploring the relationships between a group of friends, young Black artists, living in NYC, as they navigate their careers, love, money, and growing up at the beginning of the 21st Century. - [#liberated](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/liberated/) - Zumba. Wine. Take­out. Porn. In the quest for personal and sexual empowerment, the Sister Support Group for the Daily Trials of Being a Woman tackles them all. But acts of feminist revolt rarely go unpunished, and the women find themselves caught up in something much bigger than their own liberation. - [Light Bulb Reading Series](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/light-bulb-reading-series/) - For the second year running G45 Productions will be partnering with four young playwrights to help them develop their own original works. Playwrights will workshop their pieces for one week with the G45 ensemble, culminating in a public reading series that will allow them to see their works come to life. We hope you will join us! - [That Which Remains](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/titus-andronicus/) - Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. O, why should nature build so foul a den, Unless the gods delight in tragedies? - [Hope You Get To Eleven or What are we going to do about Sally](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/hope-you-get-to-eleven-or-what-are-we-going-to-do-about-sally/) - Inspired by the suicide of a student when he was a guest artist at a university, Padraic shares honestly, with humor and insight, his experience with suicide. A very personal sharing of the ways of the mind, techniques for survival, and an invitation to talk about an issue that if left unspoken is deadly. - [The Conspiracists](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-conspiracists/) - Hindsight is 2016. A world premiere play by Max Baker about conspiracy junkies. - [Workshop: “Developing Your One-Person Show”](https://irttheater.org/events/workshop-developing-your-one-person-show/) - You wanted to perform like Ramesh Meyyappan, Peter Cook, Terrylene Sacchetti, Michael Davis, Manny Hernandez, Monique Holt … You CAN! In this workshop, you will learn how to: 1) develop a theme, 2) research on a specific subject, 3) create several bits, and 4) perform your piece. - [The Spring Fling: Rebound](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-spring-fling-rebound/) - The Spring Fling is an annual, award-winning presentation of six world-premiere, commissioned short plays around a central theme, written specifically for this project by six different playwrights of note, now going into its seventh year. In 2017, playwrights will draw inspiration from the theme "rebound." - [The Disposal ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-disposal-hit-and-match/) - The Disposal by William Inge- Three death row inmates deal with their upcoming executions. - [Sub-Basement](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/sub-basement/) - Sub-Basement is a dark comedy about the importance of art and imagination in our increasingly structured society. - [The Cabaret At The End Of The World](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-cabaret-at-the-end-of-the-world/) - It’s the Ides of March—What could go wrong? Irreverent and vivacious hosts Flora and Fawna invite you to the hottest club in Ancient Rome for a sly, sexy, hilarious romp through Julius Caesar, affectionately burlesquing Shakespeare and Rome while casting a sharply satirical light on the play’s themes and how they reflect our own times. - [American Maar](https://irttheater.org/events/american-maar/) - Imagining the near future as an all-too-familiar pre-apocalypse, American Maar places one suburban household at the center of our country's ecological crisis. - [Wake Up Call](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/6268/) - Extreme boredom. Forced pleasantries. Tinsel. In the midst of an unexpected double shift (on Christmas Eve, no less) a group of degenerate hotel employees stumble their way through an unusual night of service. It's a "coming of age when you're already of age" story. Sometimes it takes a miracle to grow the hell up. - [THE GHOSTLIGHT PROJECT](https://irttheater.org/events/the-ghostlight-project/) - IRT Theater, New York Deaf Theatre, and Our Voices Theater will come together with the common interests of advocating inclusion and diversity. We will gather inside IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street, Third Floor-3B) from 4:30-5:30pm with a 15 minute ceremony at 5:30pm sharp. ASL interpreters will be provided - [Bareback Ink ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/6251/) - A mysterious, powerful man commissions an isolated and withdrawn tattoo artist to create a large work of “ink” on the back of his beautiful, restless boy-toy. Greek mythology serves as inspiration for this modern, erotic tale of desire and possession. - [Archive Residency](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/5998/) - IRT and The New Ohio's Archive Residency offers two select independent theater companies a two year commitment of space, artistic support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work. photo credit: Nina Wurtzel - [TWO workshops One-Sock Tree & Where Does Love Live?](https://irttheater.org/events/wholy-unholiday-two-workshops-one-sock-tree-where-does-love-live/) - Loss, love and all things left behind. - [w’Holy unHoliday series of events "Fractured Hearts and Lurid Details"](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/wholy-unholiday-series-of-events-fractured-hearts/) - An exploration of what happens when the music stops and we forget to continue dancing anyway. Mothers, gramma and little girls look to each for the next steps, who leads whom, whether to take them together, or choose an altogether different journey on a solitary road. - [The Starving Dress by Matthew Freeman A closed developmental reading](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-starving-dress-by-matthew-freeman-a-closed-developmental-reading/) - The Starving Dress is a surreal tale of discovery, murder, and escape. When a woman in a red dress becomes aware that she is in sealed, liminal world, she searches her scattered memory and the fractious tribes that form around her for answers and, perhaps, a path to freedom. - [No Bad Days](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/no-bad-days/) - This solo show takes you through the impossibly painful journey of saying goodbye to my recently passed dad while introducing you to his magical, eccentric spirit that never left. - [Baby Mama: One Woman’s Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/baby-mama-one-womans-quest-to-give-her-child-to-gay-people/) - Baby Mama tracks one birth mother's true adoption journey, from conception to placement with the gay couple of her dreams—while still living her life, dating, and attending the occasional orgy. From adoption agencies to vaginal discharge, from burlesque to good­byes, this intimate night of storytelling is up close and personal. Bring hankies. - [Mountain Madness Septacular](https://irttheater.org/events/mountain-madness-septacular/) - Delivered straight from the delirious heights three evenings of daring new works in dance, theater, and physical comedy - [NOVACATION](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/novacation/) - A science fiction comedy about desire, boredom, and teleportation. - [ARCHIVE RESIDENCY-The Upper Room](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency-the-upper-room/) - The Upper Room is a new play with original music inspired by the back-to-the-land movement. Set on an island way off the north coast of Maine, the last participants of a once thriving commune meet the sea. - [Archive Residency-BODY: ANATOMIES OF BEING](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency-blessed-unrest/) - A trauma surgeon works to repair her patient’s internal organs, a painter seeks to expose the raw humanity of his nude model, and a woman journeys back to Chernobyl as she strives to understand the body that is now only partially hers. BODY digs into the flesh, organs, bones, systems, and movement of the human body as art and as machine. - [Archive Residency-I WILL LOOK FORWARD TO THIS LATER](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/i-will-look-forward-to-this-later/) - I WILL LOOK FORWARD TO THIS LATER is a bitingly funny and tragic examination of art-making and evolution. Inspired by Kabuki theater and interviews with our mentors, The Assembly and a multigenerational ensemble ponder the mysteries of bourbon, coffee, and what makes a meaningful life. - [Hedda (Gabler)](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/hedda-gabler/) - Ibsen’s simmering, shimmering tale of a woman too large for her destiny gets a fresh adaptation, streamlined into a gilded juggernaut of secrecy and manipulation. Wandering Bark creates a collision of past and present to build a Hedda where the story’s the same, but the devil’s in the details. - [Primary by Gracie Gardner](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/winner-of-project-playwright-2016/) - Project Playwright allows the audience to have a say. This play was chosen as one of six finalists from over 200 submissions, and then it was voted as the ultimate winner by a public audience in January 2016. The people have spoken! - [Last Call ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/last-call/) - A play about family…About boundaries…And about how much to tip. - [Archive Residency-SIX ROUNDS OF VENGEANCE](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency-six-rounds-of-vengeance/) - In a post-apocalyptic “Lost Vegas”, an ex-lawman enlists the help of a young swordstress and her cursed strongman to help avenge the murder of his lover. However the gang they’ll be going against has powers that go way beyond just gunpowder and steel. To get revenge, they may have to become just as blood-thirsty as the monsters they’re facing. - [The world premiere of In the Event of My Death ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-world-premiere-of-in-the-event-of-my-death/) - Eight small-town twenty-somethings who know each other from high school share an impromptu time of mourning and celebration after the suicide of a mutual friend. - [The Koan of Seymour](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-koan-of-seymour/) - Seymour Fitzgerald Payne, the controversial comic, prankster and provocateur has recently – and supposedly - passed away. Now, his fellow comedians have gathered together to pay their respects. But in an evening filled with confessions, recriminations and competitive banter, will Seymour headline one last time? - [THE EXECUTION OF MRS. COTTON by Sara Fellini](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-execution-of-mrs-cotton-by-sara-fellini/) - Bury them low, hang her high. - [The Coward: a Madcap Fairytale at FringeNYC](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-coward-a-madcap-fairytale-at-fringenyc/) - Possessed by an insane monster, a cowardly castle maid must battle gods and demons to resurrect the King she herself killed. This experimental, absurdist comedy revels in clowns, confetti, and blood. So shield those precious eyes, you cowards. - [Lifetime Supply](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/lifetime-supply/) - IRT and NEON CAVIAR to present Workshop Production of LIFETIME SUPPLY by Sarah Todes, directed by Jessi D. Hill, in memoriam of 21-year- old set designer Noah Goldstein, killed by hit and run driver June 18th. Noah’s sketches and other work will be shown in the lobby to further celebrate their talent. June 23-26th 8pm - [A workshop development of The Oresteia](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-oresteia/) - Writer/Director Bryan Davidson Blue and actress Emily Batsford take a new look at the Aeschylus trilogy of plays focussing on Elektra, daughter of Agamemnon and Klytemnestra. - [Archive Residency](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency-4/) - IRT and The New Ohio's Archive Residency offers two select independent theater companies a two year commitment of space, artistic support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work. - [The Spring Fling: Crush](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-spring-fling-crush/) - The Spring Fling is an annual, award-winning presentation of six world-premieres. Playwrights include Kevin Artigue, Seth Moore, Greg Moss, Ariel Stess, Catya McMullen and Stephanie Del Rosso. - [VISUAL LANGUAGE](https://irttheater.org/events/visual-language/) - Visual Language workshop is an introduction to and brief exploration of how a visual theatrical language can work. Using traditional play texts as a basis for exploration, participants will have an opportunity to play with visual ideas and consider a myriad of visual possibilities within ‘storytelling’ to create a short visual narrative. - [Peter Nichols’ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/peter-nichols-a-day-in-the-death-of-joe-egg/) - A young British couple are struggling to keep their marriage afloat while caring for their only child, a young girl with cerebral palsy. Sheila devotes her life so her daughter will have one, while Brian is constantly looking for a way out. Tensions mount as everyone is left to ask: Is it ever worth it? - [Aliens, Cheerleaders and Spies](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/aliens-cheerleaders-and-spies/) - IRT’s Westside Experiment has joined Vampire Cowboys as they lead students grades 6-12 through an incredible development process resulting in a show at IRT! - [Inquiries of Time Space and Robots](https://irttheater.org/westside-experiment/5270/) - IRT’s Westside Experiment has joined Vampire Cowboys as they lead students grades 6-12 through an incredible development process resulting in a show at IRT! - [A Clowning Workshop ](https://irttheater.org/events/with-zachary-fine/) - This two weekend workshop built on the pedagogy of Christopher Bayes (Head of Physical Acting, Yale School of Drama), reintroduces adult students to a childlike world of expressiveness through the vehicle of clowning. - [NORMAL](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/normal/) - So, is it important to be "normal"? How do we collectively determine what "normal" even is? This devised theater piece created by the students of IRT's Westside Experiment and Improbable Stage Company explores the underlying concepts behind the word "normal". - [Portal of Parallels](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/portal-of-parallels/) - *ATTENTION HUMANS* A Time-Space portal will be opening to transport you to the Edge of Reality. Your presence is required by the Interdimensional Realism Trust to save Earth from the Absurd! Help us pl // TRANSMISSION INTERCEPTED // MEATBALL / HAPPY / TOOTH / MONKEY // ERROR!! // ERROR!! - [The Improbable Fall, Rise & Fall of John Law (part1) a new play about money](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-improbable-fall-rise-fall-of-john-law-part1-a-new-play-about-money/) - A swashbuckling origin story for the global economy, mixing history, absurdity, verbal wit, and inventive theatricality to tell the true story of John Law: the man who unleashed the world’s first financial bubble, first market crash and first currency crisis — all while shaping the global financial system we know today. - [Reading Series](https://irttheater.org/events/reading-series/) - The Dreamscape Theatre presents a FREE Reading Series of new works in progres - [The Journey of a Dream: Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.](https://irttheater.org/events/the-journey-of-a-dream-celebrating-martin-luther-king-jr/) - If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King, Jr. - [And Now Is Gone](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/and-now-is-gone/) - anecdota is dedicated to telling the (too) little-known (true) stories of women who dared to shape their cultural moment. Our last production, TAKE WHAT IS YOURS, was also developed in residency at IRT. We're delighted to be back. - [RoadKill](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/roadkill/) - RoadKill, a dynamic, highly physical contemporary dance-theatre piece, provides a powerful look at how we create boundaries and categories for our friendships and romantic relationships and thus limit meaningful, genuine connections. - [HUNG Over](https://irttheater.org/events/hung-over/) - Comedian Kaitlin Colombo (Last Comic Standing, MTV, E!) helps you through your holiday hangover with a night of raunchy stand up comedy and some special comedy guests. A benefit for IRT. - [The Most Beautiful Thing In The World](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-most-beautiful-thing-in-the-world/) - IN RESIDENCE at IRT: March 15-20, 2015 Internationally renowned motivational speaker, and acclaimed pioneer of the YOUniverse theory, Chase Michaels has inspired tens of hundreds worldwide, and was recently named a Top Twelve Speaker in North America by Pure Potential magazine. Now Chase is coming to Brooklyn to share his most recent written revelation: Owning your - [Before You Go](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/before-you-go/) - An existential look at a lonely clown who slowly loses his sanity, while desperately attempting to avoid his past, present and future. - [Rough Draft ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/rough-draft-development/) - You are happy, content, feeling accomplished . . . then an unexpected event strikes your very core and makes you question everything. Do you hold steadfast to what you believe you know? Or do you gamble, leave it all behind and respond to a desire long ago buried? - [Director Collective Definitively Collaborates](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/director-collective-definitively-collaborates/) - Once a month, five directors get together. We show work. We give feedback. We drink. (If you’ve ever been in the room with more than one director at a time, that last sentence should be obvious.) This month, we're doing it at IRT. Check it out! - [In a Tilted Place](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/in-a-tilted-place/) - She moves to the city from far, far away. The lights flash, the surfaces gleam. She tastes something in her mouth. She hopes it’s her dreams... - [USELESS](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/useless/) - USELESS investigates the relationship between a married couple of Eastern European immigrants involved in organ trafficking and a disabled boy from a poor country, brought to the US for his kidney. (Warning: Heightened Realism & Dark Humor). - [MadLab](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/madlab/) - The MadLab is a weeklong celebration of new works with staged readings of full-length plays, one-acts, and screenings of short films that all grew out of NYM’s short plays in our first five seasons. - [Gordy Crashes](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/gordy-crashes/) - Gordy is having a bad week. Superstorm Sandy has driven him out of his apartment and to the doorstep of his estranged ex-girlfriend. Over the next three days, Gordy will see the true extent of the storm’s devastation as his declining mental state steers him into a head-on collision with his own fear and anxiety. - [Send in the Mimes](https://irttheater.org/events/send-in-the-mimes/) - "Send in the Mimes." A series of shorts by Broken Box Mime Theater. Thursday March 19th at 9 pm, and Friday March 20th at 10 pm. $5, or FREE with admission to Manifest Destiny Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) is a collaborative group of artists who tell original stories through mime technique. Set to lights and music, - [The Spring Fling: Anniversary](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-spring-fling-anniversary/) - F*It Club presents the 5th Annual award-winning Spring Fling, a collection of six world-premiere, commissioned short plays from notable playwrights on a common theme. This year’s theme is “anniversary.” - [Manifest Destiny](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/manifest-destiny/) - Have you ever wanted to be a better person? Or perhaps more kind and honest? Sensitive, courageous and creative? Or are you ashamed of what your life has become and want more meaning? Lucas Caleb Rooney and Zack Fine - actors, artists and humanitarians - wanted those things once too, and so they went out and found the answers. - [The Belief Project](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-belief-project/) - The Belief Project wrestles with the convictions that drive one human to commit violence against another. Inspired by the Newtown shootings and filtered through the viciousness of the Peter Pan myth, this physio-musical examination of mortality and childhood was devised by FullStop Collective under the direction of Leta Tremblay. - [Clown ](https://irttheater.org/events/clown/) - DATES: March 21 & 22, cialis 2015 TIME:11-5pm PRICE:$75 deposit, sickness $125 on day one in cash/check DETAILS: Please wear comfortable clothing Includes a complimentary ticket to Manifest Destiny (March 5-21 @ IRT) Where did all your fun go? Well, you grew up, moved to the BIG CITY and got really serious. Wanna undo all of that? - [Forgive Us Our Trespasses ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/forgive-us-our-trespasses/) - After being brutally attacked, Claire Stukel’s false sense of certainty leads to her own destruction. - [Dmitri & the Three Thousand Kopeks](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/brothers-k/) - Dmitri is caught between honor and desire. His debt binds him to Katerina, but he's in love with Grushenka. Unfortunately, so is his miserly father. In a world of masks and melodrama, the eldest of the Brothers Karamazov must choose: is he a murderer or a thief? - [Archive Residency](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency/) - IRT and The New Ohio's Archive Residency offers two select independent theater companies a two year commitment of space, artistic support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work. - [Elegant Complexities](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/elegant-complexities/) - We are developing the scaffolding of “Elegant Complexities” by examining the variables of two elusive techniques based on novel premises. One premise is that actors can perform intricate entrainment or ‘uncanny coordination’ between characters, while maintaining the illusion that the characters are in two different realities. - [Archive Residency](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-alliance-residency/) - IRT and The New Ohio's Archive Residency offers two select independent theater companies a two year commitment of space, artistic support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work. - [Archive Residency-THE ESSENTIAL STRAIGHT & NARROW](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency-3/) - IRT and The New Ohio's Archive Residency offers two select independent theater companies a two year commitment of space, artistic support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work. - [Archive Residency-CTown FAMILY PLAY (1979 TO PRESENT)](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-residency-2/) - IRT and The New Ohio's Archive Residency offers two select independent theater companies a two year commitment of space, artistic support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work. - [Daughters of Leda (and the Mad & Merry Women’s Histories Festival) ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/daughters-of-leda-and-the-mad-merry-womens-histories-festival/) - You think you know the legends. Leda. Helen. Clytemnestra. Electra. Iphigenia. But, something new is bubbling in the underworld that will change history forever. - [R Culture ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/r-culture/) - Throw together an androgynous ringmaster, a couple clowns, football players, bridezillas, red carpet interviews and some sexy birds selling tree houses and you’ve got a biting look at Modern American culture. - [BETTE DAVIS AIN’T FOR SISSIES](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/bette-davis-aint-for-sissies/) - After a successful hit solo show at Edinburgh Fringe, sold out off-Broadway preview at 59E59 and front page cover of Three Weeks Magazine Miss Davis is back to share her 5 Star show. - [Hi, Hitler](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/hi-hitler/) - Fresh off the heels of a smash hit, sold out Edinburgh Fringe debut, a debut on London’s West End and a sold-out off-Broadway preview run at 59E59 , Lucie Pohl brings her 5 star show Hi, Hitler back to New York to IRT. - [THE FUGITIVE-Art Opening](https://irttheater.org/events/the-fugitive/) - The Fugitive is a multi-disciplinary work that brings together performance, text, installation, drawing with encouraged participation. Scheduled performances are on Wednesday July 24—Friday July 26, 7pm—10pm. - [In Antarctica, Where it is Very Warm](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/in-antarctica-where-it-is-very-warm/) - Neil’s a plumber, but he’s never been a plumber in Antarctica before. As Winter arrives and total darkness sets in he starts to learn how lonely it can be on a base with fourteen other people at the bottom of the world. A play about beer, mistakes, and trying to be something other than yourself. - [One Ninth ](https://irttheater.org/young-audiences/one-ninth/) - A powerful exploration of human dignity and racial conflict as seen through the eyes of teenagers, One Ninth features the story of the playwright’s mother, Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the students from The Little Rock Nine who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. - [Flamingo](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/flamingo/) - “I want the You that you are not.” Flamingo is every wonderful and terrible relationship you’ve ever had. - [Takes on Silence](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/takes-on-silence/) - With the help of her Bouffon alter ego, a silent film actress breaks into the 3- dimensional world-- beyond simulated emotions and distorted projections—in search of her voice. - [Wet Glitter.](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/wet-glitter/) - The year is 1996. Bill Clinton is running for reelection. Tupac has just been shot. Five people, and one small dog, have fled the world to Paradox Valley, Colorado—where something is just not right with the uranium and very strange things happen all the time. - [KB Lab Series- Encounters: the La Ronde project/KB Reading Series](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/kb-lab-series-encounters-the-la-ronde-project/) - Encounters: the La Ronde project is a modern adaptation of Schnitzler’s La Ronde. Nine playwrights come together to write a series of encounters about love, dating, relationships, and sex set in modern day New York. - [Accidents Waiting to Happen](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/accidents-waiting-to-happen/) - “You break it, you buy it.” - [Man and Coconut](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/man-and-coconut/) - Existing on the margins of civilization, a Man escapes to live on a dangerous, desolate beach with his Coconut wife. - [Wild by Crystal Skillman](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/wild-by-crystal-skillman/) - The latest from explosive playwright Crystal Skillman, Wild is a savagely funny Chicago story that asks: will love ever meet our expectations, and how far will we go to hold onto it? Raw, sensual, and deeply truthful, Wild has arrived for its much-anticipated NYC premiere after a successful run in Chicago. - [](https://irttheater.org/events/5141/) - A workshop with celebrated playwright Crystal Skillman! - [The Gin Baby](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-gin-baby/) - No longer able to self-medicate with alcohol and in a desperate search for escape, a young woman finds herself standing on the edge of the 1 subway platform. She faces the train as it roars into the station, and then faces the consequences as she commits herself to a psych ward in one last attempt to commit to herself. - [Two-Day Clown Workshop: "Play the Game" Facilitated by Denni Dennis ](https://irttheater.org/misc/two-day-clown-workshop-play-the-game-facilitated-by-denni-dennis/) - This clown workshop taught by Denni Dennis will combine his background of the European style of Jacques Lecoq, Russian character clown and the Pochinko method, with his personal experience working in clown and as a clown teacher. - [UNTITLED BIOPIC PROJECT ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-alliance-the-mad-ones-ice-factory-2013/) - A hallucinatory meditation on 1960s folk rock culture and the confines of motel room 118. From the creators of the acclaimed Drama Desk Nominated Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War and The Tremendous Tremendous. This is the final installment of their Performer Trilogy. - [HELP ME TO MAKE IT](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/archive-alliance-collaboration-town-ice-factory-2013/) - HELP ME TO MAKE IT weaves together stories about several generations struggling from inside the architecture of contemporary families. - [Hip and Darkling](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/hip-and-darkling/) - In DARKLING, it's 1987, and thirteen-year-old Trinity is obsessed with three things: goth figurines, losing her virginity and being just like her troubled older sister. - [terraNOVA Collective’s Fall Season ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/terranova-collectives-fall-season/) - terraNOVA Collective returns to IRT this fall, presenting work as part of soloNOVA ARTS and our Groundworks Residency. - [THE SECRET WAR](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-secret-war/) - In this controversial new work, Mike Daisey is telling the most important story we’re not allowed to talk about: the story of secrets. Why we make things secret, how we keep secrets, and the power that secrecy has over our world. - [For the Sins I Can Remember](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/for-the-sins-i-can-remember-2/) - Set in a purgatory cell just after a woman’s death, For the Sins I Can Remember is an absurdist portrait of the women of the Victorian Era who chose to work as prostitutes. - [The Sister Rosettas](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/the-sister-rosettas/) - A revival of the rock/pop-punk/cabaret music of world touring, from Athens to Georgia, MING DYNASTY last seen on City Stages in 2009 alongside Diana Ross, Ben Harper, and Al Green. Miranda and Oh call this new collaboration THE SISTER ROSETTAS featuring Diana Oh on lead vocals. - [Will Work For](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/will-work-for/) - Unemployment and the adventure begins! On a journey into the unknown, Dacyl Acevedo has to dodge through booby-trapped interviews, face demons of her employment past, hold tight to her dream while surviving the economic crash. Will Work For is a farcical and satirical journey into the new world of work and tells of how one person is surviving. - [WINNETOU, I.T. – The Electric Indian](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/winnetou-i-t-the-electric-indian/) - WINNETOU, I.T. – The Electric Indian reimagines the events that followed Cherokee relocation to Indian Territory as an “historically accurate,” all-white fantasia of Indianness, hosted by the Cherokee Confederate Colonel Elias Cornelius Boudinot and his mistress, the famed sculptress Vinnie Ream. - [THE ORANGE PERSON/THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-orange-person/) - At last, the story of THE ORANGE PERSON, told from the perspective of the people who actually experienced it - a celebration of existence, of difference, and of song. From within both sides of a duplex in Terlingua, a rural town in the south Texan desert, a family confronts a medical marvel: an orange baby is born. - [Darkling](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/darkling/) - Kim Katzberg presents the world premiere of Darkling, a multi-media play that follows Trinity, a thirteen-year-old wanna-be Goth girl from a suburban, affluent family who worships an older sister who escapes from a lock-up boarding school for troubled teens. Written and performed by Kim Katzberg. - [Helping People](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/helping-people/) - Helping People follows two entrepreneurs, the extreme altruist they hire, and the violence of personal and global negligence. - [LAND & Anniversary Benefit Performance of BOX](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/land/) - Improbable Stage Company members are exploring the current “back to theland” movement. - [soloNOVA Arts Festival](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/solonova-arts-festival/) - terraNOVA Collective presents 8 solo performers as part of the 10th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival. - [Surrogate Traveler](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/split-the-village/) - A letter home from southern Africa about an ill-conceived “cultural heritage” project veers off the page – the narrative (and actors) hijacked by a fractious national election, inept American restructuring of an African university, and villagers’ attempts to capture a runaway coffin. Framing the chaos: a divisive archeological excavation and looming dam-created flood. - [SeXcurity](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/sexcurity/) - The 2010 raid on the Gaza flotilla and the shadowy world of gay bareback sex culture are the backdrop for this darkly funny solo show about the dangers of self-preservation. - [The Choking Game](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-choking-game/) - The Choking Game, a new play by Kaitlin Colombo (FOX, MTV, E!, NBC) - [HOSTIAS ](https://irttheater.org/events/hostias/) - Sometimes music is more than just the food of love. - [Dangerous Signs: Interpreted/ASL Production ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/dangerous-signs-2/) - Dangerous Signs is a performance group that represents global community building through the use of American Sign Language (ASL), spoken English, music and dance. - [The Conscious Actor Workshop Series](https://irttheater.org/events/the-conscious-actor-workshop-series-i-bonnie-katz/) - The Conscious Actor Workshop Series is designed to help actors develop the tools needed to successfully navigate through the day-to-day challenges of their profession. - [The Naked Side of Grace: The Final Concert of Grace Fullest and Violet Tendencies](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-naked-side-of-grace-the-final-concert-of-grace-fullest-and-violet-tendencies/) - Two burlesque artists: Grace Fullest, who has a penchant for pontificating about Madonna and cultural decline while scantily clad in just a few shredded shopping bags, and her significantly less angsty girlfriend Violet Tendencies, who hopes to inspire everyone to leave a trail of glitter wherever they go. - [The Chess Lesson ](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-chess-lesson-an-ionescoan-god-of-carnage/) - Slightly Altered States Theater Company presents the World Premiere of THE CHESS LESSON, an absurdist comedy by Sari Caine, a chess champion and teacher. - [LOTUS EATERS EP](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/lotus-eaters/) - Tommy Smith's LOTUS EATERS is a hallucinatory audio experience meant to be experienced alone -LOTUS EATERS will have a one-time-only live performance at IRT Theater. (No one under 17 admitted.) - [Coast of Mars](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/coast-of-mars/) - A series of excavations and remembrances of the future, Group Theory's latest investigation takes us 50 million miles across the solar system to Mars. - [SONG OF A CONVALESCENT AYN RAND GIVING THANKS TO THE GODHEAD (IN THE LYDIAN MODE)](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/song-of-a-convalescent-ayn-rand-giving-thanks-to-the-godhead-in-the-lydian-mode/) - An experimental academic lecture with digressions into song and dance, Wolf 359’s SONG OF A CONVALESCENT AYN RAND GIVING THANKS TO THE GODHEAD brings together Beethoven, Ayn Rand, a drag queen in Peoria, IL, and a writer with migraines to explore what it means to be a suffering artist in America. - [GROUNDWORKS NEW PLAY SERIES](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/groundworks/) - terraNOVA Collective gives workshop & development time to playwrights including J. Julian Christopher, Lucy Gillespie, Jennifer Lane, and Leah Nanako Winkler. - [UBU](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/ubu/) - A kinetic romp through the absurdist world of the most powerful CEO in the universe. - [Workshop of Robert Askins’ Pig Shit and the Frozen City](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/workshop-of-robert-askins-pig-shit-and-the-frozen-city/) - terraNOVA Collective prepares the fantastical puppetry world of Robert Askins’ Pig Shit and The Frozen City. The world premiere will occur in December 2012. - [Ramona Clay](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/ramona-clay/) - Set against the backdrop of the New York Off-Off-Broadway scene, this new play by Stan Richardson begins with the reunion of two estranged sisters--twelve years apart (the younger, Ramona, is Deaf)--as the man who murdered their parents is set to be executed. It's also funny. - [We Were There](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/we-were-there/) - A documentary theater play about three Iraq War vets and their vastly different experiences and views. - [La Castor Enamorada-Spanish for Daughters THE FATALISTS](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/la-castor-enamorada-spanish-for-daughters-the-fatalists/) - Ladies and gentlemen, a parable; about blue collar teenagers and the benefit of talking to strangers. A woman - may be sawed in half. - [‘Puff up the Volume’](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/puff-up-the-volume/) - Talibam! will engage in a spectacular performance of their new album ‘Puff up the Volume’, out Sept 18th on Uk label Critical Heights. The band will bring their wild style of performance and theatrics to the IRT Theater, guaranteed to grease your wheels.! - [THERE’S A SHOW IN HERE](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/theres-a-show-in-here/) - Not quite a romp, almost a journey, and just shy of an epic, this is the story of Jackie Tohn, a girl who knows that the road to adulthood is paved in sweatpants, and isn’t afraid to wear a pair on stage when she sings about it. - [The Eyes of Others, by Ivan Dimitrov](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-eyes-of-others-by-ivan-dimitrov/) - When Big Brother gets laid off, who’s watching? The first Bulgarian play to be produced in the US. Developed with the playwright and translator in residence. - [Die Fascist Capitalist Pigs! Die!](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/die-fascist-capitalist-pigs-die/) - A reading of a dark and funny new play about extremism gone horribly wrong. - [Gadarene](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/gadarene/) - Writer/director/designer Neal Wilkinson probes the line between psychological and religious disorder. - [Box](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/box/) - A physical exploration of a life lived inside and outside the BOX. - [Doesn't Everybody Do It In Paris?](https://irttheater.org/events/immediate-medium-everybody-do-it-in-paris/) - Former 3B residents Immediate Medium return with a full production of their dance-theater-media exploration of 'Madame Bovary.' - [Take What Is Yours](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/take-what-is-yours/) - Writer/performer Erica Fae returns to the solo form with Take What Is Yours, an original play inspired by the life-work of American suffragist Alice Paul. - [Little Fictions](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/little-fictions/) - A performance environment exploring malleable identities, intimate lies and a hedgehog. - [Small Claims](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/small-claims/) - An evening of justice, or lack thereof, in Lower Manhattan’s Small Claims Court. - [Outpost: Letter from Lesotho](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/outpost/) - A Westerner's letter from Lesotho explodes into a partially scripted, partially improvised performance piece about one of our planet's few remaining outposts. - [The Assassins Chase Pinocchio](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-assassins-chase-pinocchio/) - How do you blow the mind of a five-year-old? And why do we adults build such hard shells around the forces that were so active in us as kids? Immediate Medium takes up these questions in its latest multimedia exploration. - [Silent Movie Mash-up](https://irttheater.org/events/silent-movie-mash-up/) - An evening of locally grown silent films and live music, puppets, theater, ukuleles, dance, stand-up and silent movie trivia and prizes! - [Freek Show/Fundraiser: Carnival Round the Central Figure](https://irttheater.org/events/carnival-benefit/) - One night only: a fundraiser to support the upcoming remount/rework of Diana Amsterdam's phantasmagorical play, directed by Karen Kohlhaas. - [Barring the Unforeseen](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/barring-the-unforeseen/) - Woven together from Maine ghost stories, the history of spiritualism, H.P. Lovecraft’s tortured life, and the unspeakable dread lurking under your bed, Daisey creates a monologue about why we tell ghost stories, and the precious, terrifying gifts they bring us. - [CARAVAN](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/caravan/) - Dorit Avganim's new play is set in the temporary, cardboard world of a generation built on credit, a busted up storybook landscape where past, present and future collide. - [Four Women at the Edge of the Desert](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/four-women-at-the-edge-of-the-desert/) - Matthew Stephen Smith performs his four female characters in this hyperbolic dreamplay that follows a small family through two days in the Anza Borrego Desert. - [Carnival Round the Central Figure](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/carnival-round-the-central-figure/) - Karen Kohlhaas directs Diana Amsterdam’s extravagant psycho-fable, about a man whose imminent demise makes him a kind of ringmaster in death’s circus. - [The Three Sisters: A Reading](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/three-sisters-reading/) - PL115 tackles one of Chekhov’s darkest plays. Meiyin Wang directs. - [We Three Kings](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/we-three-kings/) - A multimedia collaboration between artists of New Orleans’ Cripple Creek Theatre Company Mondo Bizarro and NYC-based Slightly Askew. - [Of Rivers, Of Days](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/of-rivers-of-days/) - An adaptation of the story behind Thoreau’s first book, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," OF RIVERS, OF DAYS is a journey through the mind of this great writer during his darkest hours. - [Dynamic Non-Verbal Acting](https://irttheater.org/events/dynamic-non-verbal-acting/) - A workshop for advanced ASL users with acting experience who are interested in taking their abilities to the next level. - [Creative Physicality with Soul Strata Theater](https://irttheater.org/events/creative-physicality/) - Recent 3B residents Danyon Davis and Alexandria Wailes will be sharing some of the unique techniques they employ to develop their brand of progressive physical theater (seen recently in OF RIVERS, OF DAYS) over a three-night set of workshops. - [D.E.A.F. (Deaf Emerging Artists Festival) 2010](https://irttheater.org/events/deaf-festival-2010/) - The IRT Deaf Emerging Artists Festival (D.E.A.F.) is an annual one-week program of performances, screenings and workshops aimed at creating common ground for Deaf and hearing artists. - [The Wife](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-wife/) - Tommy Smith's new play is a series of snapshot scenes involving a Hasidic Jewish couple whose firm grasp on their religious identity becomes diluted by a wild assortment of gentrifiers moving into their urban neighborhood. - [Workshop: Taste the Clown or A Very Mini HAHA](https://irttheater.org/events/taste-the-clown-workshop/) - Two special workshops teaching basic components of the clown. Prepare to get bigger, more beautiful, stupid and simpler than you already are. - [Dwellicle 109](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/dwellicle-109/) - A surprising and funny look at one extraordinary day in the life of A & B, two men who live and work together in a dwelling-cubicle deep underground. - [Anaphylaxis](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/anaphylaxis/) - Throwing Bones reworks their hit from the Seattle Fringe, a chilling meditation on love and memory in the age of genetic modification. - [Underbelly's Cartoon Mashup](https://irttheater.org/events/underbellys-cartoon-mashup/) - A special one-time variety show to benefit Underbelly's DWELLICLE 109 and IRT's 3B Development Series. - [By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama (HBO Documentary Films)](https://irttheater.org/events/by-the-people-obama-doc/) - IRT hosts a special screening of the acclaimed HBO documentary about Barack Obama's journey from the political margins to the presidency. Conversation with director Amy Rice to follow. - [RadioPlay](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/radioplay/) - Modeled after radio programs of yesteryear, RADIOPLAY gathers a group of actors, musicians and sound-effects artists to create a surreal sonic entertainment. - [The Groove Factory: An Electronic Musical Fable](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-groove-factory/) - A new musical set on New Years Eve 1999, featuring a high-voltage pulsating original score comprised of electronic dance music, pop, hip hop and R&B - [New Ground for Composing Form in Theatre](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/fay-glassman-duo/) - Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman are composing and performing movement-based theatre artists who apply complex composed structures to ordinary daily human behavior. - [Operation Kino: IRT Fall Benefit](https://irttheater.org/events/irt-fall-09-shindig/) - Come support IRT with a night of music, film and other intoxicants. Featuring performances by resident artists, including a live original scoring of Buster Keaton's 1923 The Balloonatic. - [Oh My!](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/oh-my/) - A new indie rock musical comedy about the invention of the vibrator. The play takes place in an American town during the late 1800s, a time when vibrators were more popular than toast. - [BARTLEBY.](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/bartleby/) - A chamber ritual exploring Herman Melville’s famous story of Wall Street. - [Dutch A/V](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/dutch-av/) - Infused with sonic landscapes performed live by Reggie Watts, DUTCH A/V is a live-edited environmental film that seeks to replicate the first hand experience of being a flâneur in another city. - [The Last Cargo Cult](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-last-cargo-cult/) - Groundbreaking monologuist Mike Daisey returns with the true-life story of his time on a remote South Pacific island whose inhabitants worship America at the base of a constantly erupting volcano. Their religion is explored alongside our own to form a sharp and searing examination of the international financial crisis. - [Full](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/full/) - A new physical theater piece that investigates the messy terrain between fierce idealism, vitriolic rage, paralyzing pessimism and joyous ecstasy. - [2girl_henry5](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/2girl-henry5/) - Taking the Henry V Chorus’ infamous theatrical challenge “Attest in little place a million” to its literal extreme: only two actresses will imagine and perform this action-packed text, inhabiting the voices of more than 25 characters. - [Depth of a Moment: in four parts](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/depth-of-a-moment/) - Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman are composing and performing movement-based theatre artists who apply complex composed structures to ordinary daily human behavior. - [Test Kitchen](https://irttheater.org/events/test-kitchen/) - A workshop of new material by Renee Pena, Sarah Landon, and Zoe Schieber. - [A Map of the Ocean's Floor](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/a-map-of-the-oceans-floor/) - An exploration of the end of the Beat Generation in music, theater, spoken word and movement. - [Semiospectacle Nº 2](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/semiospectacle/) - A verbal varieté presenting an encounter between academic lecture hall, poet’s theater, and vaudeville house. - [The Funny Pain](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-funny-pain/) - They don't call Mary Rochelle Douleur "Roach" for nothing -- she’s practically indestructible. - [Walled In](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/walled-in/) - Part fantasy, part mythology, part clown-show, and all inspired by Thoreau's Walden, Walled In is the story of one man's determination to live the life he has imagined. - [Part of the Fiasco](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/part-of-the-fiasco/) - A true story about India, love, chaos, death--and the courage it takes to embrace them all. - [Lake Water](https://irttheater.org/irt_productions/lake-water/) - LAKE WATER follows two small town high school seniors, Iris and James, who become estranged after their best friend suddenly commits suicide. - [The Ballad of Rusty and Roy](https://irttheater.org/events/the-ballad-of-rusty-and-roy/) - A singalong for grown-ups, premiering at the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival (IATI Theater) - [Hamlet](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/hamlet-collective/) - The Hamlet Collective rewires (and reorders) Shakespeare's tragedy. - [The Oddyasee](https://irttheater.org/events/the-oddyasee/) - IRT is proud to host InViolet Repertory Theater's Workshop Series 2011. - [Regarding Hot Air Balloons](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/regarding-hot-air-balloons/) - An age old tale concerning levity vs. gravity, a brother and a sister, the miracle of hot air, the problem with kites, the friendship between Andy Warhol and Jean Michelle Basquiat, eating, singing, mountains and the simplicity of soup. - [Bloodworks](https://irttheater.org/events/bloodworks/) - IRT is proud to support Youngblood's annual reading series, presenting new full-length plays by Christopher Sullivan and Meghan Deans - [An Evening of Reckonings](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/an-evening-of-reckonings/) - Two new one-act plays by Josh Billig and Todd Pate. - [Listen...](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/listen/) - A new piece exploring listening - not as a mechanical operation, but as an art of the soul. - [When Richard Ordered the Sun to Set / K5](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/american-centaur/) - In these two Shakespeare adaptations, American Centaur refracts classical stories through postmodern lenses to better see, to celebrate, and to scorn these troubled and troublesome men. - [The Spring Fling: 8 Brand New Plays](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/spring-fling/) - A collection of one-act plays about relationships in New York by up-and-coming New York playwrights. - [Trousers](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/trousers/) - TROUSERS is a play about two men—one wearing a fifteen-foot pair of trousers, one not wearing any trousers at all—and the bruising conflict that ensues between them. - [Alice Sit by the Fire](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/alice-sit-by-the-fire/) - Adaptive Arts, a new off-off Broadway Theater Company dedicated to raising awareness of Autism, presents a rarely performed work by J.M. Barrie ('Peter Pan'). - [For the Sins I Can Remember](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/for-the-sins-i-can-remember/) - A new movement-theater piece exploring the humanity of the ordinary women of the American Victorian Era who turned to prostitution as a means of survival. - [The Scavengers](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/scavengers/) - This new play by Eric John Meyer tells the story of two brothers who try to escape from the world, but cannot escape each other. - [Experiment Sessions Vol IV](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/experiment-sessions-vol-iv/) - A free marathon of uncensored work in multidisciplinary forms; readings of plays, fiction/ non-fiction, poetry, live music, movement, dance, ensemble creations and a preview of upcoming plays in rep. - [The Orpheus Variations](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/orpheus-variations/) - A cinema/theatre hybrid that deconstructs the classic myth from the inside out by colliding the grand narratives of Greek tragedy with the private internal narratives of modernist literature, poetry, and film. - [Doesn't Everybody Do It In Paris?](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/doesnt-everybody-do-it-in-paris/) - Immediate Medium's latest work is a non-narrative collage of movement, live and recorded music, video and spoken text inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary. - [Roots of Rap: Poetry](https://irttheater.org/young-audiences/roots-of-rap-poetry/) - A fast-paced theater performance that combines poetry, drama, music and dance to tell the story of origins of rap music. - [Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/Conversation Storm](https://irttheater.org/events/great-hymn-of-thanksgivingconversation-storm/) - This pair of minimalist DIY chamber-music-plays thrillingly probes the Bush hangover haze. - [Storm Still](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/storm-still/) - The dazzling Madison, Wisconsin-based company deconstructs Shakespeare's 'King Lear.' - [The Shipment](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-shipment/) - Young Jean Lee applies her signature style and acid wit to hip-hop culture and African American identity politics. The Shipment is an extremely awkward exploration of the experience of being black in America - [Hamlet Solo](https://irttheater.org/events/hamlet-solo/) - Like an ancient storyteller, Bhaneja plays seventeen parts in a two-hour version of Hamlet based solely on Shakespeare's text - [Excavation](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/excavation/) - Excavation follows two daughters, each searching for fathers who have lost themselves by losing part of their minds – one, through a bizarre railroad accident in 1848; the other, through the disintegration of dementia. - [Southern Promises](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/southern-promises/) - When the master of the plantation dies, he wills his slaves to be freed, but his wife doesn't think that good property should be squandered. Pandemonium ensues. - [Sandy the Dandy & Charlie McGee: A Case Study In Harsh Realities](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/sandy-the-dandy/) - Set against the backdrop of a whimsical New York City, this new-fangled vaudeville chronicles the adventures of Sandy—a self-proclaimed star-to-be with dreams as big as his debts, and Charlie—his hopelessly optimistic and slightly peculiar companion. - [El correo de la noche](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/el-correo-de-la-noche/) - A multilingual, interdisciplinary performance resembling a bad dream about a first date on the first night of an ill-planned trip - [IRT Westside Experiment Benefit Party](https://irttheater.org/events/westside-experiment-benefit-party/) - Westside Experiment Benefit Party. Celebrating the beginning of our Young Actor's Laboratory. Admission is FREE; but donations are gladly accepted and heartily encouraged! - [Shrewd](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/shrewd/) - What is the meaning of the word Shrewd? All will be revealed in the Improbable Stage Company’s astute, tricky, clever, calculating, resourceful, cunning, keen, piercing, artful new comedy Shrewd. - [The Spring Fling: My Best/Worst Date Ever](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/the-spring-fling-my-bestworst-date-ever/) - The smash-hit, New York Innovative Theatre-nominated collection of world-premiere plays returns to IRT with a fresh new selection! - [Modern Luv](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/modern-luv/) - The show is a hilarious parody of life and love in the digital age, where texting, emailing, facebooking, and "liking" have replaced true romance. - [Dangerous Signs](https://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/ntid-masquers-drama-club-dangerous-signs/) - A powerful fusion of physical theater, American Sign Language (ASL), music and spoken word poetry accessible to both hearing and Deaf audiences. 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The program's adult staff never underestimated the creative abilities of the youth, and provided them with the support and skills necessary to imagine, design and perform a remarkably sophisticated multi-media theatrical experience. My daughter made many - [About IRT](https://irttheater.org/about/) - Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT's mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. IRT supports independent artists through our Artist in Residency Program, and we provide access for Deaf and hard of hearing communities - [Support IRT](https://irttheater.org/about/support/) - DONATE HERE! IRT Theater is a not-for-profit theater company and relies on tax-deductible contributions to support its productions, artistic development and education programs. Your donation is a direct investment in our future and the future of so many artists and their work. 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