The Brick presents Crossing the Water by Rawya El Chab December 5-21*, 2025 at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave Tickets $25-50 Running time: 70 minutes Director & Dramaturg: Jesse Freedman Playwright, Producer & Storyteller: Rawya El Chab Dramaturg: Mona Merhi Sound & Music Composition: Omar Dewachi Projection, Set & Object Design: Ettie Pin Lighting Design: Jacqueline Scaletta Costume & Wearables Design: Katie Friedman Production Director / Theater Manager: Tommy Lynch Stage Manager: Kyle Quick Graphic Design: Carine Zahabi Crossing the Water is a chronicle of life under military occupation,…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present :/secondplace Kaye Hurley at Brick Aux Studio January 8-10, 2026 What begins as a monologue about a florist unravels into a multimedia, sci-fi performance on beauty, survival, and what it means to keep creating at the end of the world.​​ Director: Kedian Keohan Lighting Design: Jacqueline Scaletta Costume Design: Ásta Bennie Hostetter Original Music & Co-Sound Design: Michael Hernandez Video Design & Co-Sound Design: Kaye Hurley Animation: Wyatt Bertz Line Producer: Sarah Jones…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Shared Bill: Isa Spector | Derek Smith at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 8-17, 2026 Real Estate by Isa Spector ​​ A domestic fantasy in three movements.  ​​​​​Written, Directed and Choreographed by Isa Spector Starring Ari Dalbert and Sheldon Donenberg Sound Design by Asa Levite Costumes by Max Lillian Artwork by Amandla Stenberg​​ Find them: @isaaspector -AND- Letters from Tyra by Derek Smith A spectacular duet blending song, dance, and scene…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present GodbirdNurit Chinn at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 21-24, 2026 Deb sees a dog. Hugo sees Deb. A bird sees it all.​​​ Written by Nurit Chinn Directed by Kedian Keohan Produced by Paul William Levine Starring Layla Khoshnoudi, Peter McNally, and Pete Simpson Artwork by Lenna Christakis Poster by Léa Grzywacz Artwork by Lenna Christakis and poster by Léa Grzywacz Find them: @godbirdplay @justkedian justkedian.com nuritchinn.com​ Deb's mom told her to take a…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present PANICMOMLianne Elsouki at Brick Aux Studio January 22-24, 2026 PANICMOM is haunted by the Greek god Pan, who stages birth and death as a looping gag. He’s just trying to make a joke about reincarnation—one we can’t forget. Created and performed by Lianne Elsouki Find them: @liannesouki Beginning with a gag and never really recovering, PANICMOM is an exorcism masquerading as a clown show. In an unexpecting mother's fever dream, the Greek god Pan induces…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present MOMMA! Akane Little at Brick Aux Studio January 29*-31, 2026 MOMMA! is an evening-length dance theater solo mining codependency in the context of an Asian American mother-daughter relationship. The piece explores inherited trauma; partial memory; and the slippages between safety and primal fear. Sonic ordeal, physical feats of endurance, ambiguous embodiments, gore, and masturbation are interrupted with humor, campy lip syncs, and rigorous physical comedy, propelling the narrative to a climactic encounter between…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present I want to hold onto something beautiful and empty Hillary Gao at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 30 - February 7, 2026 One sexy office siren- performed by 4 performers - is trying to answer her daily email. As she hits reply all, she keeps being whisked away into more and more absurd worlds. Hillary Gao (writer and director) Josephine Chiang (performer) Isabel Ebeid (performer) Miranda Kang (performer) Sam Xu…

The Brick and Third Ear Theater Co. present without mirrors by Jerry Lieblich playing February 2026 at The Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Ave tickets from $25 running time 60 minutes without mirrors is an experimental solo play exploring isolation and a perhaps misguided search for an essential self. Written and directed by Jerry Lieblich (The Barbarians, Mahinerator) and performed by 6x OBIE winner David Greenspan, without mirrors asks: when all the ways you know yourself are gone, who are you?…

The Brick presents we're delinquents.pdf by MIDDLE SISTER* playing February 26-March 1, 2026 at Brick Aux Studio, 628 Metropolitan Ave tickets from $20 running time 60 minutes we're delinquents.pdf is a live-in person email attachment come to haunt the prefrontal cortex. it's a goofball parade of mistakes and celebrations and self-doubt and punishment. download the pdf and join us in unpacking the time when you didn't know what you needed, but you were beholden to an administration that thought they…

The Brick presents Baby Butcher Choke For Free by laialeah playing March 18-21, 2026 at The Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Ave tickets from $25 running time 75 minutes Noise theater duo laialeah present a new apparatus of spectacle and sound as they return to the site of their bygone intern days at The Brick. Acts of surgery and other interventions get them to the heart of the matter: dinner. Created and performed by Leah Plante-Wiener and Eulàlia Comas Scenic &…

The Brick presents Meaghan Robichaud Is The Greatest Show on Earth by Meaghan Robichaud playing March 25-28, 2026 at The Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Ave tickets from $25 running time 75 minutes An anti-acrobatic feat of flapdoodle and ballyhoo served up under the big top and all alleyooped by the world’s most fearless performer, Meaghan Robichaud. Step into the three rings of Robichaud's pervo circus featuring the world's worst male clown, Spunky T. Throw tomatoes and peanuts at this freak,…