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Gilgamesh: Fragments of a Megalithic Puppet Opera

MegaFawn

Photo by: MegaFawn

Future Space, Ridgewood Queens
5-84 Woodward ave
Queens, NY
https://www.futurespace.studio/

The Collective’s Epic of Gilgamesh is the mystic ontology of climate collapse, an avant garde opus retelling the world’s “first story” of hidden queer love, civilizational lust for immortality, the origin of patriarchy, and civilizations initial affront against nature, through a world touring immersive performance puppet opera, currently under construction in New York City & Cascadia.

After receiving a Jim Henson Workshop grant to develop Gilgamesh, Kalan Sherrard (AKA enormousface) and Ron Shalom (AKA Minivan) will be presenting a work-in-progress edition of the Epic's first five tablets at Future Space in Queens, after a month long series of interventions on NYC's G Train. The show should run under an hour and, true to the epic, features sexual and adult content.

June 4 - 6, 2026
8pm Jue 4th, 5th and 6th

$20-40

In the shadows of her past selves

Deniz Khateri

Theaterlab
Theaterlab. 357 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY
New York, NY
https://ci.ovationtix.com/28175/production/1272481

In the Shadows of her past selves uses shadow puppets to take the audience through a woman’s different possibilities of being- from childhood dreams and secret desires sparked by the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Puppets are manipulated interchangeably by the performer and audience members, sharing control of the imagery and breaking the boundary between observer and performer.

May 18 - 31, 2026
Monday 18 May 2026
8:30 pm
Thursday 21 May 2026
7:15 pm
Saturday 23 May 2026
8:15 pm
Thursday 28 May 2026
8:45 pm
Saturday30 May 2026
7:45 pm
Sunday 31 May 2026
4:30 pm

$20+

Consuewella Triptych In MOVE

Jacqueline Wade

Dixon Place
161A Chrystie St
New York, NY
https://dixonplace.org/

A powerful, thought-provoking puppet performance traces an African American woman’s journey through MOVE, a radical, back-to-nature activist organization in Philly, and the government systems that surveilled, targeted, and ultimately bombed it. In a moment when the word “terrorist” is too often used to describe anyone who dares to stand against state power, this moving play asks us to reconsider who the real terrorists are.

May 21 - 29, 2026
7:30 PM

$30-$45

That Paradise Place at the Sugar Sugar! Festival

Pussypaws Puppetry

Domino Square
12 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
Brooklyn, NY
https://www.dominopark.com/events/deliadelia-pussypaws-puppetry

Welcome to the garden of otherworldly delights! Pussypaws Puppetry’s That Paradise Place is an exuberant puppet production in which the love, sex, and fantasy lives of artists with disabilities blossom, pulse, sing, and sparkle. Based on 12 original love stories shared by disabled artists and adapted into puppetry spectacles, Pussypaws’ musical celebrates eroticism as an essential element of our shared humanity. Over 60 artists with and without disabilities have collaborated on this show through an experimental process for over five years, continuing to suffuse it with ever more pleasure and play. Demon daddies, big breasted goddesses, shapeshifting fish, robot dinosaurs, and more will take the stage to explore the infinite range of shapes that our inner lives and erotic experiences can take. Come join the sensation and let the puppet love wash over you!

With a very special opening act from actor and clown Amando Houser. Spurred by the witch hunt on trans rights in the United States, Houser’s alter ego DeliaDelia is a flat-chested witch from the swamps on a quest to become a “real girl” and join a human basketball team.

June 3 - 4, 2026
June 3, 2026
07:00 PM- Doors & DJ Set
08:00 PM - DeliaDelia
08:30 PM - Pussypaws Puppetry
June 4, 2026
07:00 PM- Doors & DJ Set
08:00 PM - DeliaDelia
08:30 PM - Pussypaws Puppetry

Free

Little Shop of Horrors

Off-Broadway

Westside Theatre Upstairs
407 West 43rd St
New York, NY
littleshopnyc.com

The world's most ravenous plant has returned to its acclaimed, sold-out run at the Westside Theatre! Winner of the 2020 Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is “wildly exuberant” (The Hollywood Reporter), and a New York Times Critic's Pick. Get tickets now and enjoy a taste of what we’ve all been craving: live theater!

Tuesdays & Thursdays - 7:00pm
Fridays - 8:00pm
Saturdays - 2:00pm & 8:00pm
Sundays - 2:00pm & 7:30pm

Starting at $59