Cheryl King’s theater company, Silver Glass Productions, will present Hucka at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street, New York NY 10012, accessible from the ACE trains at West 4th Street) September 4-21 (Thursday-Saturday at 7 PM and Sundays at 3 PM) is an adaptation of The Adventures of Huck Finn that examines safe spaces. Hucka, resting in the bardo, receives a visit from her brother Cain. He attempts to bring her to shore to rehabilitate his reputation, challenging their notions of safe space. Tickets are $52, but NYWIFT members can use exclusive discount code hts2025 for 50% off. Get tickets. Follow them on Instagram and Facebook or visit their site to learn more.
Playwright Catherine Filloux invites NYWIFT members to see her new production for free. Told entirely through letters, emails, and dictated messages, Third Person is a play that centers on Octavio, a passionate high school student, his mother Diane, an English teacher and poet, and Robert, a CEO of a defense conglomerate and parent at Octavio’s school. What begins as a personal inquiry becomes a profound reckoning with silence and accountability. Third Person will play three performances on September 20 at 2 PM, 6 PM and 8 PM at CultureHub (47 Great Jones St., 3rd Fl, NYC). RSVP.
NYWIFT member Ann Meredith invites you to O’ The Murder of Christa McAuliffe and Judith Resnik, The N.A.S.A. & President Ronald Reagan Challenger Shuttle Disaster on September 25 at 7 PM. O is a thrilling multi-platform performance and presentation that reveals the true story about what actually happened that winter morning in Florida while the whole world was watching. What too many greedy politicians, chief production managers and directors had known and refused to share; as well as why the first People of Color and two-woman space craft crew had to suffer the consequences and were forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. See the show at Under St Marks Theater(94 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009). Get tickets.
Producing Associate at Parity Productions and NYWIFT member Meg Gilbert invites fellow members to a free reading of My Mother The Sun by Paloma Monfiletto on September 26 and 27. My Mother The Sun follows Solana after her mother goes missing in the desert between the US/Mexico border, and she must journey out with a group of activists to bring her back. My Mother the Sun is a meditation on the way borders arrest grief, the transformative power of empathy, and the need for unconditional hospitality in the face of institutional cruelty. Attend the reading at New Perspectives Theatre Company (458 West 37th Street). Get free tickets and learn more about the show.
NYWIFT members have an exclusive offer of 20% off tickets to see the Lucille Lortel Award-winning musical parody Titanique. The journey begins when Céline Dion hijacks a Titanic Museum tour and enchants the audience with her totally wild take, re-charting the course of Titanic’s beloved moments and characters with her iconic song catalog. Titanique is a one-of-a-kind musical voyage bursting with nostalgia and heart. To retrieve this offer, enter one of the code that corresponds with your ticket level (Standard: TTQ20MKDRT, Preferred: TTQ20MKPRM) when you get tickets online. Book tickets over the phone by calling 212-947-8844 or in person at The Daryl Roth Theatre box office.
