The Seagull and Other Birds

The Seagull and Other Birds

(previews start on Wednesday; opens on March 26) The Irish company Pan Pan may ruffle some feathers with a performance inspired by Chekhov’s signature seabird. 

Drunken With What

Drunken With What

(previews start on Thursday; opens on Feb. 

Mariana Valencia

Mariana Valencia

“Originators” is part installation, part lecture, and part choreography that draws from Ms. 

A Ride on the Irish Cream

A Ride on the Irish Cream

(performances start on Jan. 

Once Upon a Mattress

Once Upon a Mattress

This Transport Group production at Abrons Arts Center presents a familiar musical with an unusual cast. 

Pike St.

Pike St.

(previews start on Tuesday; opens on Nov. 

Lionel Popkin

Lionel Popkin

In Lionel Popkin’s “Ruth Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” the titular Ruth refers to Ruth St. 

Ponydance

Ponydance

This boisterous Irish dance-theater troupe returns to New York as part of Travelogues, a series assembled by Laurie Uprichard, who brings the best of what she’s seen in her c… 

Sisters Follies: Between Two Worlds

Sisters Follies: Between Two Worlds

(previews start on Oct. 

Electroacoustic Music Festival

Electroacoustic Music Festival

With ever more sophisticated technology at their fingertips, composers of electronic music are producing a dizzying array of works that often draw on video and performance art, too… 

Will Rawls

Will Rawls

The Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center, a wing of the 122-year-old Henry Street Settlement, turns 100 this year, and it holds a rich history of artistic experimentation. 

Kimberly Bartosik and Dylan Crossman

Kimberly Bartosik and Dylan Crossman

In 2008, Kimberly Bartosik introduced the first and second chapters of her “Ecsteriority” project, a meditation on decay. 

Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor

Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor

The line between normal and outrageous is thinner than you think. 

Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag

Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag

(previews start on Tuesday; opens on May 3) Sibyl Kempson, a playwright of indelible and unforced weirdness, launches a new theater company, the 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. 

David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group

David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group

Mr. 

Im Looking for Helen Twelvetrees

Im Looking for Helen Twelvetrees

(previews start on March 19; opens on March 22) The writer and performer David Greenspan can make Aristotle accessible and Gertrude Stein interesting. 

Daniel Léveillé Danse

Daniel Léveillé Danse

Mr. 

Pretty Filthy

Pretty Filthy

(previews start on Jan. 

Christmas With The Crawfords

Christmas With The Crawfords

This riotous camp classic is based on the actual Christmas Eve live radio broadcast from Joan Crawford’s Brentwood mansion in 1949. 

RadioBallett

RadioBallett

In the final installment of Abrons’s series of avant-garde Eastern European artists who like to take their clothes off, RadioBallett  — the Hungarian duo Bea Egyed… 

The Maids the Maids

The Maids the Maids

Engaging and frustrating, imaginative and jumbled, original and derivative, this piece by the experimental company Sister Sylvester uses both professional housekeepers and professi… 

Labyrinth

Labyrinth

Mark Dendy, a Broadway choreographer who also creates and performs original work, structures this autobiographical piece around the myth of Theseus. 

Lippy

Lippy

The clouds of mystery never part in this multi-layered, multi-form examination of the real-life suicide pact of four women in a small Irish town. 

Queer New York International Arts Festival

Queer New York International Arts Festival

“Queer” has gained mainstream momentum as an umbrella to capture the ever-shifting terrain of gender identity and sexuality. 

Twelfth Night or What You Will

Twelfth Night or What You Will

For those not familiar with this Shakespearian classic, it opens with a shipwreck which leaves a brother and sister stranded on the coast of an island called Illyria. 

Beauty And The Beast

Beauty And The Beast

Beauty is beautiful. She journeys to a heart of darkness. And she comes back. By any means necessary, Jack Crow re-invents stories and makes them live. This is a show for everyone.