It's time for Street Theater!

Life on the Third Rail, or A Subway Delay to the Future

Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company will open its 2023 annual tour Saturday, August 5 with "Life on the Third Rail, or A Subway Delay to the Future," a rip-roaring original musical which tells a story in which a violent hurricane floods the subways, sending a heroic subway crew into a new world. Book, lyrics and direction are by Crystal Field, Artistic Director of Theater for the New City (TNC).  The musical score is composed and arranged by Joseph Vernon Banks.  Free performances will tour parks, playgrounds and closed-off streets throughout the five boroughs through September 17.

The musical is the saga of a Train Operator and a Subway Conductor in an emergency flood situation. A violent hurricane, spurred by global warming, has inundated the subways and so the MTA is moving all its trains out of underground tunnels and stations. The duo have been been driving a car for repair that somehow got left behind.

Will they make it to the train yards?! 

Street Theater Schedule

Saturday. Aug 12 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN -- Wise Towers (91st Street bet. Columbus & Amsterdam) or Sol Bloom Park (92nd Street bet. Columbus & Amsterdam)

Sunday, Aug 13 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN -- Central Park Bandshell, 72nd Street Crosswalk

Friday, Aug 18 @ 6:30 PM: BROOKLYN -- Coney Island Boardwalk @ W. 10th Street

Sat, Aug 19 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN -- Abe Lebwohl Park @ St. Marks Church, E. 10th St. & 2nd Ave.

Sunday, Aug 20 @2:00 PM: MANHATTAN -- Jackie Robinson Park, W. 147th St. & Bradhurst Ave.

Saturday, Aug 26 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN -- Washington Square Park

Sunday, August 27 @ 2:00 PM: QUEENS -- Travers Park, 76-9 34th Avenue (between 77th and 78th Streets), Jackson Heights

Saturday, Sept 9 @ 2:00 PM: BROOKLYN -- Sunset Park, 6th Ave. & 44th Street

Sun, Sept 10 @ 2:00 PM: BROOKLYN -- Ft. Greene Park, Myrtle Ave. bet. N. Portland Ave. & St. Edwards St.

Saturday, September 16 @ 2:00 PM: STATEN ISLAND -- Tappen Park at Canal, Bay and Water Streets

Sunday, September 17 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN -- Tompkins Square Park at E. 7th St. & Ave A