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# Working Theater

Great theater should not be a luxury.

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- [Sanam Hashemi](https://theworkingtheater.org/sanam-hashemi/)
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- [FIVE BOROUGHS/ONE CITY](https://theworkingtheater.org/five-boroughs-one-city/)
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- [The only way to fix the American theater is to transform it](https://theworkingtheater.org/the-only-way-to-fix-the-american-theater-is-to-transform-it/)
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- [40th Season Announcement](https://theworkingtheater.org/40th-season-announcement/)
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- [Missing Them-Tribute Writing](https://theworkingtheater.org/missing-them-tribute-writing/)
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- [American Dreams Program](https://theworkingtheater.org/american-dreams-program/)
- [American Dreams](https://theworkingtheater.org/americandreams/)
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- [Gumballs Photos](https://theworkingtheater.org/gumballs-photos/)
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- [Gumballs Panels](https://theworkingtheater.org/gumballs-panels/)
- [Theresa Rebeck Interview](https://theworkingtheater.org/theresa-rebeck-interview/)
- [Tix](https://theworkingtheater.org/tix/)
- [Gumballs](https://theworkingtheater.org/gumballs/)
- [33rd Season Annual Report](https://theworkingtheater.org/33annualreport/)
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- [Participate](https://theworkingtheater.org/participate/)
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- [Directors salon](https://theworkingtheater.org/directors-salon/)
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- [16th Season 2000 - 2001](https://theworkingtheater.org/15th-season-1999-2000/)
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- [7th Season 1991 - 1992](https://theworkingtheater.org/7th-season-1991-1992/)
- [6th Season 1990 - 1991](https://theworkingtheater.org/6th-season-1990-1991/)
- [5th Season 1989 - 1990](https://theworkingtheater.org/5th-season-1989-1990/)
- [4th Season 1988 - 1989](https://theworkingtheater.org/4th-season-1988-1989/)
- [3rd Season 1987 - 1988](https://theworkingtheater.org/3rd-season-1987-1988/)
- [2nd Season 1986 - 1987](https://theworkingtheater.org/2nd-season-1986-1987/)
- [1st Season 1985 - 1986](https://theworkingtheater.org/1st-season-1985-1986/)

## Events

- [Stage Left 2026](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/stage-left-2026/)
- [Bridge Awards and Benefit 2026](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/bridge-awards-and-benefit-2026/)
- [TheaterWorks! CJI 2026](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworks-cji-2026/)
- [Control](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/control/)
- [Off the Clock](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/off-the-clock/)
- [12 Last Songs](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/12-last-songs/)
- [TheaterWorks! 2025](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworks-2025/)
- [Mark Plesent Commission Fund 25-26 Final Readings](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/mark-plesent-commission-fund-25-26-final-readings/)
- [American Steel](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/american-steel/)
- [Stage Left](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/stage-left/)
- [2025 Bridge Awards and Benefit](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2025-bridge-awards-and-benefit/)
- [TheaterWorks! with CJI](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworks-with-cji/)
- [The Blue Parts 2025](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-blue-parts-2025/)
- [Bilingual TheaterWorks! 2025](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/bilingual-theaterworks-2025/)
- [La Dureza](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/la-dureza/)
- [We Got The Power-Season 40](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/we-got-the-power-season-40/)
- [2024 Mark Plesent Commission Fund Readings](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2024-mark-plesent-commission-fund-readings/)
- [TheaterWorks! Final Performance Season 40](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworks-final-performance-s40/)
- [Bridge Awards and Benefit 2024](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/bridge-awards-and-benefit-2024/)
- [Fish](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/fish/)
- [Footwears](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/footwears/)
- [We Got the Power 2024](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/we-got-the-power-2024/)
- [2024 TheaterWorks! with People's Theatre Project](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2024-theaterworks-with-peoples-theatre-project/)
- [2024 TheaterWorks with 32BJ SEIU & CWE](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2024-theaterworks/)
- [2023 Mark Plesent Commission Fund Readings](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2023-mark-plesent-commission-fund-readings/)
- [The Blue Parts](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-blue-parts/)
- [2023 Bridge Awards and Benefit](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2023-bridge-awards-and-benefit/)
- [La Race](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/la-race/)
- [7 Minutes](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/7-minutes/) - Based on actual events, 7 Minutes depicts an urgent meeting of the 11 women elected to the union council of their rural Connecticut textile factory.
- [2023 TheaterWorks 32BJ SEIU](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2023-theaterworks-32bj-seiu/)
- [Open-Access TheaterWorks! 2023](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/open-access-theaterworks-2023/)
- [2022 Mark Plesent Commission Fund Readings](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2022-mark-plesent-commission-fund-readings/)
- [Manhunt](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/manhunt/)
- [Mark Plesent Commission Fund Readings 2022](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/mark-plesent-commission-fund-readings-2022/) - The Mark Plesent Commission Fund supports the commission and development of new plays by working people– in particular, those who have not had the privilege or the resources to self-identify or support themselves professionally as artists, but who have shown extraordinary talent, consistency of practice and a commitment to writing within the mission of Working Theater.
- [2022 Bridge Awards and Benefit](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2022-bridge-awards-and-benefit/) - The Bridge Awards and Benefit will celebrate Working Theater's 37th season of theater and honor a member of our community who champions working people and helps to bridge the gap between arts, labor, and community. Announcements for this year’s honoree and locations coming later in the spring.
- [That's Life](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/thats-life/) - It's 4th of July weekend, 1985. The local dive bar in this small working-class New Jersey town is doing all it can to keep the doors open-- including hosting a competition with the newest invention around... karaoke.
- [Songs About Trains](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/songs-about-trains/) - Folk songs, stories, and movement weave together in this theatrical concert to celebrate the workers from a pivotal moment in history—the building of the US rail system
- [Missing Them](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/missing-them/) - Their stories. Our history. Missing Them, a live theater event, goes beyond the headlines and numbers to bring a living COVID-19 memorial to the stage. This two night online performance is produced by the Working Theater, and adapted and developed by Reza Salazar and Anjali Tsui, in collaboration with THE CITY’s award-winning MISSING THEM project
- [TheaterWorks! Feb 2022](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworks-feb-2022/) - TheaterWorks! teaches playwriting and performance to working people. In this sixteen-week class, students write and rehearse short theatrical pieces based on their work experiences, and perform them at an off-Broadway venue with professional actors and directors.
- [Butterfly Effect NYC](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/butterfly-effect-nyc/) - This immersive listening experience takes a deep dive into New York neighborhoods, exploring the varied lives of the people who call it home.
- [Open Mic Night 2021](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/community-open-mic-night-2021/)
- [TheaterWorks! with Pathways2Apprenticeship](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworks-with-pathways2apprenticeship/)
- [TheaterWorks! 2021](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworks-2021/) - Join us for the final performance of plays written by 32BJ SEIU playwrights completing the TheaterWorks! program.
- [Sanctuary 2020](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/sanctuary-2020/) - An immersive soundwalk exploring the meaning of sanctuary in a world of chaos and uncertainty
- [2021 Virtual Awards Ceremony](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2021-virtual-awards-ceremony/) - Our annual benefit and award ceremony to honor those bridging the gap between labor, arts, and community.
- [American Dreams](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/american-dreams/) - An interactive theater event broadcast live nightly. This playful participatory performance takes a page from America’s favorite game shows and uses voting, polling, trivia and more to explore what it means to be(come) a citizen.
- [TheaterWorks 32BJ Final Performance](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworks-fy20-32bj/) - An evening of original short plays written and performed by members of 32BJ
- [Working Theater & 32BJ SEIU Virtual Open Mic Night](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/virtual-open-mic-2020/) - Join Working Theater and 32BJ SEIU for a community shine moment in our first ever Virtual Open Mic Night!
- [Sanctuary 2020 thank you](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/sanctuary-thank-you/) - An immersive soundwalk exploring the meaning of sanctuary in a world of chaos and uncertainty
- [To the Bone- Benefit Reading for Rural & Migrant Ministry](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/to-the-bone-benefit-reading-for-rural-migrant-ministry/) - A reading of the Working Theater Commission by Lisa Ramirez, hosted by V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Maria Hinojosa to benefit Rural & Migrant Ministry, an organization serving migrant farm workers in Sullivan County
- [TheaterWorks 32BJ Final Performance 2021](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworks-32bj-final-performance-2021/) - An evening of original short plays written and performed by members of 32BJ
- [American Dreams Results](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/american-dreams-results/)
- [Sanctuary (Manhattan)](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/sanctuary/) - Workshop performances of the Manhattan Five Boroughs/One City play at St. John the Divine
- [Border People](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/border-people/) - written & performed by Dan Hoyle. directed by Nicole A. Watson. off-broadway premiere & borough tour
- [Virtual Annual Awards Ceremony 2020](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/awards2020/) - An online celebration honoring Kyle Bragg, president, 32BJ SEIU for bridging the gap between the arts, labor and community
- [Best of TheaterWorks!](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/botw2020/) - off-Broadway production featuring the best short plays from 19 years of Working Theater's playwriting and performance class TheaterWorks!
- [The Future- Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/future-reading-series/) - staged readings of brand new plays
- [The Hits- Benefit Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/hits-readings/) - staged readings of Working Theater classics
- [The Only Ones (Brighton Beach 2020)](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-only-ones-brighton-beach/) - A reading of the latest Five Boroughs/One City play in its home community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
- [35th Anniversary Season Kickoff Party](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/season-kickoff-2020/) - Raise a glass to Working Theater's 35th Anniversary Season
- [Five Boroughs/One City](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/five-boroughs-one-city/)
- [Working Theater Breakfast 2020](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/breakfast-2020/) - Plan a fun night out at the theater... a great way to spark dialogue among your group!
- [2016 ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2016-annual-awards-ceremony/) - THE BENEFIT FEATURED COCKTAILS, DINNER, DESSERT, SILENT AUCTION AND A “FEEL GOOD AUCTION” (IN WHICH PARTICIPANTS BID TO DONATE TICKETS TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS FOR OUR TOURING PRODUCTION OF THE BLOCK) AND ENTERTAINMENT FEATURING A SELECTION OF MUSICAL NUMBERS FROM THE BALLAD OF ELLA MAY AND A PERFORMANCE EXCERPT FROM THE BLOCK.
- [Workshop Festival 2001](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/workshop-festival-2001/)
- [Let Me Live ](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/let-me-live/) - Let Me Live is based on the autobiography of labor-union advocate Angelo P. Herndon. After organizing thousands of destitute white and black workers to march in protest against the city of Atlanta when it summarily ceased relief payments, Herndon was harassed, beaten and illegally imprisoned.
- [Open Mike Night](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/open-mike-night/) - The 3rd Annual Open Mic Night, where working men and women take the stage with their own short stories, monologues and poetry.
- [BELMONT AVENUE SOCIAL CLUB](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/belmont-avenue-social-club/)
- [CITY WATER TUNNEL #3](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/city-water-tunnel-3/) - An Obie-award-winning piece by Marty Pottenger, which tells the story of the planning, building, and financing of the largest non-defense public works project in the Western Hemisphere- the building of a third water tunnel to insure the continued delivery of water to all of New York City from the upstate watershed regions. The cost so far: several million dollars and 24 human lives.
- [PORT AUTHORITY THROW DOWN](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/port-authority-throw-down-2/) - Pervez, a Pakistani cab driver, is haunted by the ghost of his religious brother after he is picked up by the FBI on suspicion of terrorist activity. The brothers came to America to live a secular life in relative safety and now find themselves on two very different paths as they respond to the alienation they feel here.
- [Port Authority Throw Down](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/port-authority-throw-down/) - Pervez, a Pakistani cab driver, is haunted by the ghost of his religious brother after he is picked up by the FBI on suspicion of terrorist activity.
- [TABLETOP](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/tabletop/) - Tabletop takes you into the crisis-a-minute world of a TV commercial film studio which provides the product shot, or close-up, of the item the advertisers would like to convince you is absolutely essential to your well-being and survival.
- [BACK FROM THE FRONT](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/back-from-the-front/) - An absurd picture of America at war, a hilarious and finally tragic portrait of a family coming apart at the seams.
- [CALL ME WALDO](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/call-me-waldo/) - Extraordinary things happen when an ordinary electrician begins channeling the spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- [BAMBOO IN BUSHWICK](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/bamboo-in-bushwick/) - As a group of old friends gather for a round of dominoes, outside forces converge on their street corner. When your community is threatened, every block is worth fighting for.
- [CHERRY SMOKE](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/cherry-smoke/) - Poverty, first kisses, boxing, and irrational hope combine in a brutal love story about four young people trying to grasp the American Dream.
- [Exit Cuckoo](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/exit-cuckoo/) - A hilarious and profoundly moving collage of mothers, nannies and caretakers, and the complex chemistry between them.
- [LA RUTA](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/la-ruta/) - An immersive theatrical experience staged in a semi truck that follows the journey of several undocumented immigrants as they cross the border into the U.S.
- [Honey Brown Eyes](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/honey-brown-eyes/) - Set in two kitchens, Honey Brown Eyes portrays the 1992 war in Bosnia through two encounters of unsettling intimacy.
- [MERCY KILLERS](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/mercy-killers/) - Joe loves apple pie, Rush Limbaugh and his wife, Jane. He is blue-collar, made in the USA and proud, but when his wife gets sick and loses her insurance, his patriotic feelings are turned upside down.
- [THE BLOCK](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-block/) - Dontrell’s just come back from upstate, no, not like Upstate upstate, just with his girl, you know, quiet workin’ man life. Now he’s back on his block in the Boogie Down, the South Bronx, where he did his dirt years back, but he’s not tryin’ to be grimy no more. Nah man, he’s trying to do good. But do you have any idea what that’s really like?
- [A Drop in the Bucket](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/a-drop-in-the-bucket/) - Retired widow Bea is content to watch “Jeopardy” and bake cookies for her son’s weekly visits, until she is befriended by a neighbor who introduces her to the excitement of Atlantic City.
- [TheaterWorks 32BJ Final Performance](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworksfy19-32bj/) - An evening of short plays written and performed by members of 32BJ
- [Annual Awards Ceremony 2019](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/awards-2019/) - Honoring extraordinary New Yorkers for bridging the gap between the arts, labor and community.
- [TheaterWorks CWA 1180 Retirees Final Performance](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworksfy19-1180/) - An evening of short plays written and performed by retirees of CWA Local 1180
- [TheaterWorks PSC/CUNY Final Performance](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/theaterworksfy19-psccuny/) - An evening of short plays on caregiving written & performed by members of PSC/CUNY
- [Working Theater Season Kickoff Party](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/working-theater-season-kickoff-party-2/) - Raise a glass to Working Theater's upcoming season
- [The Only Ones (Brighton Beach)](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/brighton-beach-project/) - A reading of the latest Five Boroughs/One City play in its home community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
- [Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/gumballs/) - by Rob Ackerman, directed by Theresa Rebeck. off Broadway premiere 6/11-7/6/19
- [Working Theater Breakfast 2019](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/breakfast2019/) - Plan a fun night out at the theater... a great way to spark dialogue among your group!
- [ALTERNATING CURRENTS](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/alternating-currents/) - When two newly married electricians move to Electchester everything seems perfect: spacious apartment, low rent, friendly neighbors, and an incredibly close-knit community. But as they settle in, they discover how much they may need to give up in order to really belong.
- [5 BOROS 1 CITY: BUSHWICK](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/5-boros-1-city-bushwick/) - Bamboo in Bushwick is part of Working Theater’s Five Boroughs/One City Initiative. The play was developed in partnership with Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council (RBSCC), and through conversations with their members and members of Bushwick Salvation Army Community Center, El Puente Bushwick, Make the Road New York and the general Bushwick community.
- [FIVE BOROUGHS/ONE CITY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/five-boroughs-one-city-community-engagement/) - Bushwick community members and experienced artists alike showcased their skills at this inclusive and exploratory evening of creative solidarity and artistic upliftment
- [2015-2016 THEATERWORKS!](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2015-2016-theaterworks/) - IN OUR 31ST SEASON, WE HOSTED OUR 16-WEEK PLAYWRITING AND PERFORMANCE CLASS FOR MEMBERS OF CASA IN THE SOUTH BRONX.
- [Working One Acts 1991](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/working-one-acts-1991/)
- [Henry Lumper](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/henry-lumper/) - Set in Gloucester, Massachusetts in the 1970’s, the fishermen and longshoremen known as lumpers fear that the growing Asian American community will threaten their livelihood. Henry Lumper mirrors the plot of Shakespeare’s Henry IV (Parts I and II) as two families vie for power within the longshoremen union.
- [Working One Acts 1989](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/working-one-acts-1989/)
- [Working One-Acts 1988](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/working-one-acts-1988/)
- [COME MY BELOVED](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/come-my-beloved/) - Come My Beloved is a new play about race, intimacy and Detroit, Michigan. The play chronicles one Friday night in the lives of three Black and Jewish couples, all based on one real family.
- [THE BOAT](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-boat/) - Set during the unemployment crisis following the 2008 economic collapse, The Boat, commissioned by the Working Theater, follows two brothers who struggle financially and emotionally to keep their families afloat after a factory shutdown puts an end to economic prospects in their Upstate New York town.
- [THE MAIDS’ THE MAIDS](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-maids-the-maids/) - In The Maids’ The Maids, director Kathryn Hamilton and Sister Sylvester company members have partnered with domestic household workers in New York City to devise a response to Jean Genet’s notorious 1947 one-act The Maids.
- [THE BEST OF THEATERWORKS!: STORIES FROM THE 99%](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-best-of-theaterworks-stories-from-the-99/) - An off-Broadway production featuring the best short plays to come out of our playwriting and performance class TheaterWorks! over the past 10 years.
- [SICK?](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/sick/) - Tasha is experiencing some very unusual symptoms. Could they be related to her dead end job?
- [Directors Salon](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/directors-salon/) - A week of events created to inspire and assist emerging stage directors in their careers.
- [Mamie and Yvonne & Gus and Emily](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/mamie-and-yvonne-gus-and-emily/) - A staged reading. Two quirky and endearing one-acts about work, aging, loneliness and sex.
- [The Poetry of Philip Levine](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-poetry-of-philip-levine/) - 2011 US Poet Laureate & Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Levine joins us for a night of poetry
- [Broad Channel](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/broad-channel/) - A working class family comes to blows when they discover a cherished painting brought home by their grandfather during WWII is a valuable work of art… and was stolen from a victim of the Holocaust.
- [7th Annual Alumni Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/7th-annual-alumni-reading-series/)
- [Working One Acts 1987](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/working-one-acts-1987/) - The idea is that a writer can say more-or at least, as much-in a brief period of time, if he limits his scope. . ..The Great Labor Day Classic is a pithy example of the form .. .
- [Working One Acts 1985](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/working-one-acts-1985/) - “As one might expect, the emphasis is on acting and directing. The pieces are designed precisely to challenge actors-and directors-to impose their own meaning. . .
- [Crown Cork Cafeteria](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/crown-cork-cafeteria/) - Set in the 1960s in the lunchroom cafeteria of a bottle cap factory on the southwest side of Chicago, frustrated workers discuss their working conditions.
- [KING OF SHADOWS](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/king-of-shadows/) - The story centers around Nihar, a 15-year-old homeless runaway selling sex to survive, who claims he’s being pursued by supernatural demons. When Jessica, a young social worker, takes him in, he forms a dangerous bond with her teenage sister that threatens everything she values.
- [OUR DAD IS IN ATLANTIS](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/our-dad-is-in-atlantis/) - Our Dad is in Atlantis is a funny, tender story of two young brothers left in Mexico by their widowed father who’s gone to the U.S. to find work. In the care of relatives they barely know, the boys are forced to rely on each other for the emotional and physical support that, as children, they are wholly unequipped to provide.
- [Box Americana: A Wal-Mart Retail Fantasia ](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/box-americana-a-wal-mart-retail-fantasia/) - The ghost of Sam Walton is resurrected-with his own personal chorus of Chinese workers-to sing the praises of consumer utopia.
- [Killa Dilla (an Ogunde minstrel show for Jim Crow)](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/killa-dilla-an-ogunde-minstrel-show-for-jim-crow/) - Using a kaleidoscope of performance styles Killa Dilla tells the story of La Barsha, a woman whose survival is threatened by her unresolved rage.
- [Republicans, A Prose Poem](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/republicans-a-prose-poem/) - A powerful snapshot of the world as seen through the eyes of one of America’s foremost essayists.
- [Third Rail Quill](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/third-rail-quill/)
- [DISCONNECT](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/disconnect/) - By inviting relatively unknown neighbors to dinner, a corporate consultant at a moral crossroads tries to avoid the lies of his job and his life.
- [8th Annual Alumni Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/8th-annual-alumni-reading-series/)
- [Fedunn](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/fedunn/) - It is 1948 in the Catskills, a popular destination for New York Jews. The three Silverman brothers own and operate the Manor Hotel. Business is not good and the Holocaust is reverberating.
- [ABUNDANCE](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/abundance/) - Abundance is a tragic musical comedy based on a community arts performance project about the ways that people of different classes, races and ages negotiate economics in their daily lives.
- [HOLD PLEASE](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/hold-please/) - Amid complex office politics and power struggles, two generations of secretaries, answering phones for bosses who never materialize, battle the corporate infrastructure, technology, and each other.
- [6th Annual Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/6th-annual-reading-series/)
- [FREE MARKET](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/free-market/)
- [5th Annual Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/5th-annual-reading-series/)
- [4th Annual Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/4th-annual-reading-series/)
- [3rd Annual Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/3rd-annual-reading-series/)
- [2nd Annual Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/2nd-annual-reading-series/)
- [1st Annual Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/1st-annual-reading-series/)
- [Running Tab ](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-last-stand-of-owen-tobias/) - At the dinner that never ends, a couple of guys meet to eat, drink, be merry and rap about the daily grind, life and race.
- [Madame Killer](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/madame-killer/) - Manhattan in 1878 is a city rife with vice and sin. In Madam’s stately drawing room there are bones under the floor.
- [Security ](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/security/) - This one-act chronicles a decade in the lives of two coworkers.
- [Porchmonkey](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/porchmonkey/) - Lisa’s boss is on the campaign trail again! Just how much will she mutilate her identity to get this Republican senator back in office?
- [Low Rent WASP](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/low-rent-wasp/) - This solo performance piece takes you deep into the bladder of a vertically integrated media giant.
- [Working it Out ](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/working-it-out/) - An intimate and informal evening with Pottenger, a progressive lesbian Garrison Keillor. Working It Out makes use of everyday humor, cliff-hanging suspense and ordinarily eloquent tales.
- [Rhetorical Oratorio](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/rhetorical-oratorio/)
- [Heroes and Saints](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/heroes-and-saints/) - Heroes and Saints brilliantly explores the inner life of a Chicano farm worker community under siege from ruthless growers and the poisonous pesticides of agribusiness run amok.
- [The Windowman](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-windowman/) - Inspired by a true story of the murder of an Asian-American teenager by a Detroit autoworker in 1982, The Windowman addresses issues of racism, xenophobia and changes in the American blue-collar economy.
- [Persimmon Peel](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/persimmon-peel/) - Persimmon Peel explores the lives of African-American women through dreams, monologues, and improvisations.
- [I am a Man](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/i-am-a-man/) - On February 12, 1968, African-American sanitation workers, members of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1733, struck the Memphis Department of Public Workers.
- [Ascension Day ](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/ascension-day/) - Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays award, Ascension Day dramatizes the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner.
- [Monday Night Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/monday-night-reading-series/) - A quirky comedy about immortality by one of America’s most exciting filmmakers.
- [Late Night Performance Series 1991](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/late-night-performance-series-1991/) - A quirky comedy about immortality by one of America’s most exciting filmmakers.
- [New Hope for the Dead](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/abandoned-in-queens/) - A quirky comedy about immortality by one of America’s most exciting filmmakers.
- [Betting on the Dust Commander](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/betting-on-the-dust-commander/) - An innovative, comic look at the endless repetition of daily life.
- [Bitter Cane](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/bitter-cane/) - Lim combines myth and realism in a play about Chinese immigrant workers.
- [Special Interests](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/special-interests/) - Special Interests presents sympathetic views of people caught in situations that bring out the best and worst in them.
- [Sand Mountain Matchmaking](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/freeze-tag/)
- [Floor Above the Roof](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-closer/)
- [The Road to Ruin](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-road-to-ruin/)
- [Harvest Sun](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/harvest-sun/)
- [No Time](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/no-time/)
- [The Last Temptation of Joe Hill](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-last-temptation-of-joe-hill/)
- [Deep Sleepers](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/deep-sleepers/)
- [Asleep on the Wind](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/asleep-on-the-wind/)
- [How Women Break Bad News](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/how-women-break-bad-news/)
- [Comrades](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/comrades/)
- [Breakdown](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/breakdown/)
- [Walking Papers](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/walking-papers/)
- [San Antonio Sunset](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/san-antonio-sunset/)
- [Mac Terrance Muldoon’s Dress Rehearsal](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/mac-terrance-muldoons-dress-rehearsal/)
- [Montana](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/montana/)
- [The Great Labor Day Classic](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-great-labor-day-classic/)
- [Man with a Raincoat](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/man-with-a-raincoat/) - A detective loses his marriage and career in his compulsive need to solve the murder of three teenage boys in Chicago.
- [Buck Fever](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/buck-fever/)
- [Sky Readers](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/sky-readers/)
- [Johnny & Evan](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/johnny-evan-2/)
- [The Person I Once Was](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/johnny-evan/)
- [No Trains for Harris](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/no-trains-for-harris/)
- [Horse](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-buffer/)
- [The Three O’Clock Appointment](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/the-three-oclock-appointment/)
- [Till Then](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/till-then/)
- [Bridget & Katherine](https://theworkingtheater.org/events/bridget-katherine/)

## Productions

- [Los Deliveristas Project](https://theworkingtheater.org/productions/los-deliveristas-project/) - Explores a day in the lives of the delivery cyclists who make our city run. Created in solidarity with the Los Deliveristas Union (Worker’s Justice Project).
- [Brooklyn - Brighton Beach](https://theworkingtheater.org/productions/brooklyn-brighton-beach/) - Exploring the fractions intersection of the Russian and Pakistani Communities in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
- [Manhattan](https://theworkingtheater.org/productions/manhattan/) - Exploring the meaning of home and sanctuary with the community of St. John the Divine, in a unique project weaving interviews, text, and original music, staged in the historic cathedral.
- [Staten Island](https://theworkingtheater.org/productions/staten-island/) - Welcome to the Gibilisco Family Reunion dinner! Immersive events explore community, family ties and racial tension. Come hungry – baked ziti is on the menu!
- [The Bronx](https://theworkingtheater.org/productions/the-bronx/) - Based on conversations and interviews over two years in the South Bronx and with members of CASA, a project of New Settlement Community Apartments, comes a play that will change the way you look at New York.
- [Brooklyn - Bushwick](https://theworkingtheater.org/productions/bushwick/) - Exploring gentrification in the suddenly trendy neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn
- [Queens](https://theworkingtheater.org/productions/queens/) - When electricians Luke and Elena move to Electchester everything seems perfect. But as they settle in, they discover how much they may need to give up in order to really belong.

## Categories

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## Event categories

- [TheaterWorks](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/theaterworks/)
- [Five Boroughs/One City](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/five-boroughs-one-city/)
- [Directors Salon](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/directors-salon/)
- [Mainstage Production](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/mainstage-production/)
- [Working One Acts](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/working-one-acts/)
- [Late Night Performance Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/late-night-performance-series/)
- [Workshop Productions](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/workshop-productions/)
- [Annual Reading Series](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/annual-reading-series/)
- [First Stage Presentations](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/first-stage-presentations/)
- [Reading](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/reading/)
- [Annual Awards Ceremony](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/annual-awards-ceremony/)
- [Party](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/party/)
- [Audience Event](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/audience-event/)
- [Community Evrny](https://theworkingtheater.org/event_categories/community-evrny/)