Next Door at NYTW provides a home for companies and artists who are producing their own work. Meeting the artists where they are in their process, this initiative provides each project with subsidized resources and space for development and performance in the newly renovated Fourth Street Theatre. As part of an ongoing effort to expand support for artists at every stage of their careers, this series will serve nearly 100 additional artists in the first year alone.
Music, Lyrics and Text by Dave Malloy
Directed by Annie Tippe
October 5, 2017—November 5, 2017
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Ghost Quartet is a haunted song cycle about love, death, and whisky. A surreal and raucous chamber musical from Dave Malloy, composer of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.
Created by Gardiner Comfort & Kel Haney
Featuring Gardiner Comfort
Directed by Kel Haney
November 9, 2017—November 25, 2017
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Comedy, dance and groundbreaking video design combine to offer a strikingly intimate solo piece about Gardiner Comfort’s experience as an actor living with Tourette Syndrome.
Houses on the Moon presents De Novo
Directed by Jeffrey Solomon
December 1, 2017—December 22, 2017
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On the streets of Guatemala City, gang members were Edgar’s only family.
But he dreamed of a different future.
To leave the gang was a death sentence.
Coming to the USA was his last hope.
By Mac Wellman
Adapted for the Stage and Directed by Elena Araoz
January 17, 2018—February 11, 2018
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Astrological disturbances splinter asteroids. Loved ones are wrenched from one another. How do you deal with aliens when you feel alienated yourself?
Monk Parrots present Terminus
By Gabriel Jason Dean
Directed by Lucie Tiberghien
Starring Deirdre O'Connell
February 17, 2018—March 10, 2018
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As Eller, a white matron, slips into the spell of dementia, truths about her violent past in the segregated South materialize and her mixed-race grandson’s capacity to love her is put to the ultimate test.
By Rick Burkhardt
Directed by Ellie Heyman
March 17, 2018—April 7, 2018
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Dinner with Georgette is a farcical fantasia about the closet. For a homophobic grandma's visit, two college lovers adopt straight personas that hurl them back in time.
Colt Coeur presents ZÜRICH
By Amelia Roper
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
April 14, 2018—May 5, 2018
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Funerals are for the living. What happened and why and who did it and how, none of that matters in the moments before. This is a play about the moments before.
objects in mirror AR closer than they appear
Written by Graham Sack, Geoff Sobelle, Sarah Hughes
Installation Design by Steven Dufala
May 9, 2018—May 19, 2018
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Enter a world of chance and new imaginative possibilities through this interactive new media installation based on the critically-acclaimed theatrical performance THE OBJECT LESSON.
Blessed Unrest presents This is Modern Art
By Idris Goodwin & Kevin Coval
Directed by Jessica Burr
June 1, 2018—June 24, 2018
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A crew of marginalized artists risk everything to make their voices heard, defying our assumptions of what art is and where it belongs.
Winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Fringe Award
By Henry Naylor
Directed by Michael Cabot
June 30, 2018—July 22, 2018
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Borders, by Henry Naylor, winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Fringe Award – an urgent, moving commentary on today’s great refugee crisis.