The Brick presents Blood Gala co-created and devised by Shawn Escarciga and Joanie Drago at Brick Aux Studio — 628 Metropolitan Ave October 22-25, 2025 Tickets $15-35 Running time 75 minutes Your presence is requested at Blood Gala. An ancient vampire prepares to step down as leader of that most otherworldly and haunted of occult spaces—the non-profit cultural institution. But first, one more fundraiser! Two of NYC’s most provocative meme-makers and performance artists—Shawn Escarciga (@missladysalad) and Joanie Drago (@meanmommy6969)—join forces…

The Brick presents Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World Identity Crisis Theater in collaboration with LPAC (LaGuardia Performing Arts Center) at Brick Aux Studio — 628 Metropolitan Ave October 30 - November 15, 2025 Tickets $25-50 Running time 75 minutes Cast: Francisco Arcila, Ed Jr Cardenas, Gamze Ceylan*, Doğa Özbilun, Defne Özkan Stage Manager: Iyleen Torres Lighting Designer: Casey Duke Sound Designer: Mark Alberto McKnight HOW SHOULD WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT'S COLLAPSING? A group of Istanbul theater artists struggles to…

The Brick presents Who's Your Daddy created by Gagarin directed by Reuven Glezer at Brick Aux Studio — 628 Metropolitan Ave playing November 19-22, 2025 tickets $15-35 running time 65 minutes Direction & Magic Design by Reuven Glezer Light Design by Henry Mont Sound Design by Emma Hasselbach Projection Design by Leo Grierson Producer by BT Hayes Elektra waits in her father's house. Fate has beset a bloody path. She is destined to kill her mother or, no, become her…

The Brick presents Mikey Maus in Fantasmich! by Hannah Kallenbach November 6-22, 2025 at 8PM at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave Tickets $25-50 Running time: 70 minutes An unruly Mikey Maus goes on a bender at Epcot and (accidentally) desecrates the Magic Kingdom of Heaven. This dismal fall from grace lands Mikey Maus in a Times Square purgatory, hustling tourists for cash. If he wants to impress Father, Mikey Maus will need to pull off the greatest D*sney spectacular…

The Brick presents Quick + Dirty 13 Sunday, November 23, 2025, 6-9 pm at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave Quick + Dirty is a development series for short plays by new collaborators + a community of playwrights and directors + a place to try new work on its feet with an audience. You should come. Here’s how it works: We pair three playwrights with directors they haven’t worked with before. Each team works on a new play, casts actors,…

The Brick and BrickFlix present In the Battlefields Directed by Danielle Arbid November 24, 2025 Doors 7PM, Screenings 7:30PM at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave Tickets $15-35 Running time: 120 minutes Lebanon 1983. A coming of age story about 12 year old Lina, her relationship with her family, and her friendship with her Aunt's servant, 18-year old Siham. Written/Directed by Danielle Arbid Starring Rawya El-Chab and Marianne Feghali CW: nudity, sex, war, violence BrickFlix, a periodic screening & performance…

The Brick presents Not Being Able to Paint by Hayley Stahl at Brick Aux Studio — 628 Metropolitan Ave December 2, 3, 4, 2025 at 7PM, December 7, 2025 at 3PM and 7PM Tickets $15-35 Running time: 60 minutesperformed by Misha Brooks, Betsey Brown, Julianna Azevedo Mitchell, and Sam Stillman lighting design by Evan Anderson costumes by Willa Schwabsky assistant director Sterling Gates written and directed by Hayley Stahl produced by Hanna Novak with additional support from Clubbed Thumb, made…

The Brick presents Replaced! by Jess Lauricello at Brick Aux Studio — 628 Metropolitan Ave December 10-13, 2025 Tickets $15-35 Running time: 60 minutes Replaced! is a surrealist sci-fi tragicomedy following a young woman identified only as a Daughter who returns to her hometown to find that everyone in it has been replaced by aliens. Not knowing who’s real and who isn’t, she has to figure out how to live in this new world, or if she even wants to. Come…

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 8-18, 2026 Running time 90 minutes, no intermission 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…

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 Live Music by: Alex Beckmann on drums Emily Duncan on flute Eric Lichtenstein on bass guitar Lynn Hodeib on violin Scenic Design: Josh Oberlander Costume and Prop Design: Zo…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present GodbirdNurit Chinn at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 21-25, 2026 Sold out performances will have a waitlist at the theater beginning 30 minutes prior to showtime PLEASE NOTE: Sun Jan 25 2PM performance cancelled due to winter storm conditions in NYC 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*,…

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) Nikkie Samreth (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 running time 60 minutes without mirrors is an experimental solo play written and directed by Jerry Lieblich (The Barbarians, Mahinerator) and performed by 6x OBIE winner David Greenspan.  In 60 minutes of gleaming shadow, a lone character speaks a jagged poetry from what they think is a cave — though in truth they aren’t sure.  Without light, without sensation, without context, reference, or…

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 did. Playwright…