It's time for Street Theater!

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

LAST WEEKEND

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

Community Space

This Random World

Mining the comedy of missed connections, This Random World asks the serious question of how often we travel parallel paths through the world without noticing. An ailing woman, Scottie is planning one final trip to cross off her bucket list. But Scottie is insistent: her adult children are not to know. In fact, they know very little about their mother or even themselves. Throughout this play, we follow a dynamic ensemble of interconnected individuals navigating their own complex lives, weaving a story of hope, failure, inspiration, and longing.

Running Time: 90 minutes

September 21, 22, & 23, 2023 at 8pm

Buy Tickets

Cabaret Theater

Takedown

A new drama about life, love, loss and wrestling, “Takedown” follows a family as they struggle with the aftermath of a great loss. Noah (Xander Furman) takes up wrestling, while his father Lucas (JD Glickman) tries to hold the family together with some help from his mother, Connie (Susan Neuffer), who is also a TV and movie extra. Colin (Christopher W. Clayton) is a fellow wrestler, Sylvie (Robyn Ross) is a friend of the family and Molly (Hannah Brudnock) navigates life, living in the present while never losing a focus on the future. A well written drama with a top-notch cast who truly bring these characters to life. “Takedown” is story of struggle, survival and the way we fight back when life sometimes takes us to the mat.

Running Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes, with intermission

September 21 – October 1, 2023

Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Buy Tickets