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An Off Stage Access Pass gives you on demand access to Off Stage projects as they are released through 2021.

Here’s what’s coming to OFF STAGE

Waiting for Godot

By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Scott Elliott

Beckett’s revolutionary vision of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety and loneliness is refracted through our current moment of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety and loneliness. Bringing together a roster of lauded artists from across the cultural spectrum, this experimental exploration of a storied play combines theatrical invention and innovative filmmaking. The New Group Off Stage’s Waiting for Godot is at once both a faithful realization of a classic work and an artistic expression of now.

This work features Ethan Hawke (Vladimir), John Leguizamo (Estragon), Wallace Shawn (Lucky), Tarik Trotter (Pozzo) and Drake Bradshaw (Boy).

GODOT starts streaming on Thursday, May 6th at 7PM EST

Bernarda’s Daughters

An audio play inspired by Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba
By Diane Exavier
Directed by Dominique Rider

It’s summer in Flatbush; streets are hot with protest, and the Abellard sisters are trapped in their mother’s house. In this aural exploration of private and public grief, Black women’s voices call out in a complex chorus of big frustrations and small joys in a moment where physical touch remains beyond reach.

A developing archive of the play’s experiments and iterations can be found at www.bernardasdaughters.club.

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I Need Space

Written & Directed by Donja R. Love
A multi-episode web series

After their engagement went viral, Malcolm and his fiancé quickly became social media’s go-to couple for relationship advice.  But Malcolm ended the relationship, and he still doesn’t know why.  Now alone and throwing himself into online hook-ups, he’s having to look at what drives him away from people, with millions of followers watching. Told entirely through a series of video encounters, I Need Space offers a frank and voyeuristic look into one man’s struggle with love and loneliness.

The Dinner

Produced in collaboration with WalkRunFly Productions and Shariffa Ali
Written & Directed by Warren Adams
Music & Lyrics by Brandon Victor Dixon and Michael Olatuja;
Rap lyrics by Ronve’ O’Daniel
Poetry by Daniel J. Watts
With Brandon Victor Dixon and additional casting to be announced.

Six college friends pledged to each other to come together around a table every June 19^th to celebrate their bond.  In 2019 they come together for their nineteenth dinner.  A year later everything has changed.

Lypsinka Must Be Destroyed… Again

Written & Performed by John Epperson
Directed by Chloë Sevigny

Lypsinka, Goddess of Showbiz, finds herself once again in a state of limbo.  Will she be able to manage another interior crisis?  Only her hairdresser knows for sure.  Downtown legend Lypsinka – the surrealist stage creation of John Epperson – returns with this brand new work in a whole new medium.  New Group alum Chloë Sevigny steps into the director’s chair bringing her own instinctual depth and glamour to this singular work.

Singing Heads

Written & Composed by Richard Thomas
Directed by Monet

In his signature outrageous, exuberant style, Richard Thomas follows The New Group bow of his Jerry Springer – The Opera with this series of one-person micro musicals based on real-life, almost unbelievable events, blending stand-up with show tunes. Singing Heads: the weird, the glamorous and the phenomenally ordinary.

What I Did for Love

Directed by Alexandra Shiva and Scott Elliott
Produced by Frank Marshall and John Ridley
An adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull by Thomas Bradshaw
Starring Edie Falco with additional casting to be announced

Documentary filmmaker Alexandra Shiva follows a group of New York theater folk, led by director Scott Elliott and actor Edie Falco, who, missing their work and each other so terribly, can’t help but turn their lives upside down in order to rehearse Thomas Bradshaw’s incredibly timely take on Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull – itself about people tortured by their dependence on art and career.  This meta mash-up of play and process tells the tale of this incredibly fraught but vibrant moment in time: the attempt to rebuild the beloved theater community, against all odds, and the portrayal of how necessary it is for survival of the human spirit.

Now playing only for Access Passholders:

The Reunion Reading Series

A collection of pre-recorded digital broadcasts featuring the original casts of iconic plays from The New Group’s first 25 years. Reunion Readings were originally broadcast live beginning in Summer 2020. Now Available to Watch Here

The Jacksonian by Beth Henley
with Juliet Brett, Ed Harris, Carol Kane, Amy Madigan, Bill Pullman

The Spoils by Jesse Eisenberg
with Erin Darke, Jesse Eisenberg, Kunal Nayyar, Annapurna Sriram, Michael Zegen

The True by Sharr White
with Austin Caldwell, Edie Falco, Glenn Fitzgerald, Michael McKean, John Pankow, Peter Scolari, Tracy Shayne

Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn
with Marcia Stephanie Blake, Thomas Bradshaw, Liam Craig, Melissa Errico, Kristen Johnston, Layla Khoshnoudi, Carlos Leon, Emily Cass McDonnell, Maulik Pancholy, Stephen Park, Bill Sage, Lili Taylor

Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn
with Matthew Broderick, Jill Eikenberry, John Epperson, Larry Pine, Wallace Shawn, Claudia Shear, Annapurna Sriram, Michael Tucker

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