Grand Pistachio: Layer the Walls
2026-01-31 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-01-25 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Claire Tow Theater
Using puppetry, masks, and live action, Layer the Walls tells the incredible stories held within each layer of a Lower East Side tenement. Each part has three unique stories that can be viewed in any order.
Part I — Turn of the Century (1870–1909)
Sunday, Jan. 25, 2 p.m.
An Irish father builds the Brooklyn Bridge, Italian brothers endure the Blizzard of 1888, and Jewish girls face the 1909 Garment Strike.
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Part II — Midcentury (1930–1970)
Saturday, Jan. 31, 2 p.m.
A Chinese father swims the Hudson, a Holocaust survivor finds refuge, and Puerto Rican cousins join the Young Lords’ fight for healthcare justice.
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Reconstructing by the TEAM
2026-01-11 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-11 12:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-10 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-01-10 14:30 - 16:30, 2026-01-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Don Buchwald Theater
Created by The TEAM (Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin; Producing Director Emma Orme)
Directed by Rachel Chavkin & Zhailon Levingston
Presented by The TEAM and The Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
As part of Under the Radar Festival® / utrfest.org
Dates: Jan 9-11, 2026
Runtime: approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, with no intermission.
Late seating policy: limited late seating is available
Tickets range from $20-$55
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Onstage is a two-story house. From one angle, it’s mucked out after a flood. From another, it’s a new development wrapped in Tyvek. And from another, it’s “Tara” from Gone with the Wind being transformed into an Airbnb. The piano can’t be tuned. Someone is quilting in the corner. Come in.
Co-written by 21 Black-, POC-, and white-identifying artists ranging in age from 29 to 99, RECONSTRUCTING is a new work by internationally-renowned theater collective the TEAM that wrestles with how, in the aftermath of slavery, we might move through history together. Propelled by a quilt-like score, this “complex and combustible project” (Sarah Holdren, Vulture) slips between fact and fiction and performance and ritual to tell a story of historical figures and fictional characters seeking and fleeing intimacy—and us as makers doing the same.

Indecent by Paula Vogel
2025-12-09 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-12-08 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-12-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-12-06 14:00 - 16:15, 2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, New Workshop Theater
Indecent
by Paula Vogel
Directed by Sam Plattus
December 5–6, 8–9 at 7:30 p.m. and December 6 at 2 p.m.
New Workshop Theater
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The true story of a little Jewish play, Indecent recounts the history of the groundbreaking 1923 Broadway play God of Vengeance which scandalized the Jewish community and the American public with its portrayal of love and desire between women. Set against the backdrop of rising fascism and the struggle for creative freedom, Indecent uncovers the divide between art and censorship, identity and persecution, as well as cultural divides both then and now. A testament to the power of art-making as an act of resistance, Indecent is a revolutionary story about finding the unflinching courage to speak truth through art.

Graduate Open House – School of Visual, Media, and Performing Arts, Theater, M.F.A. Directing Specialization
2025-12-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Meet with faculty and admissions representatives to discuss the Theater, M.F.A., Directing specialization.
Learn about admission requirements, the application process, career resources, and funding options, while getting to know our current students, faculty, and staff.
This session is held on Zoom.
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Devising ShortWorks Festival
2025-11-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-18 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Beller Rehearsal Studio
7:30-9:30 p.m. performance
Beller Rehearsal Studio, 093
A collection of work created and presented by students in the undergraduate devising class. RSVP will be distributed by the Theater Department a week prior to the show.
Free admission.

Graduate Open House – School of Visual, Media, and Performing Arts, Theater, M.F.A. Performance Arts Management Specialization
2025-11-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
Meet with faculty and admissions representatives to discuss the Theater, M.F.A., Performing Arts Management Specialization, admission requirements, and the application process.
Learn about career resources, internship opportunities, and funding options, and get to know our current students, faculty, and staff.
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Graduate Open House – School of Visual, Media, and Performing Arts, Theater, M.F.A. Design and Technical Production Specialization
2025-11-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Meet with faculty and admissions representatives to discuss the Theater, M.F.A. Design and Technical Production Specialization, admission requirements, and the application process.
Learn about career resources, internship opportunities, and funding options, and get to know our current students, faculty, and staff.
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Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet by Tarell Alvin McCraney
2025-11-04 19:30 - 21:45, 2025-11-03 19:30 - 21:45, 2025-11-01 19:00 - 21:45, 2025-11-01 14:00 - 16:15, 2025-10-31 19:30 - 21:45 | Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Don Buchwald Theater
Directed by Irvin Mason, Jr.
October 31, November 1, 3–4 at 7:30 p.m. and November 1 at 2 p.m.
Don Buchwald Theater
Marcus is sixteen. And “sweet.”
That’s what folks say — in whispers, in warnings, in the way they look but don’t speak.
Days before Hurricane Katrina strikes, Marcus begins searching —
for his father’s past, his own truth, and a name for the sweetness he carries.
Set in the housing projects of San Pere, Louisiana,
this coming-of-age story blends grief, queerness, and Southern Black tradition
with the lyricism of Yoruba spirituality and community memory.
Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet is the final story in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister trilogy.
It’s fierce. Funny. Full of spirit.
A baptism in rain, rhythm, and revelation.
Come if you are ready to listen.
To witness.
To sit with the things that go unsaid,
the truths that live in gesture,
glance,
and rain.
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The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson
2025-10-07 19:30 - 21:45, 2025-10-06 19:30 - 21:45, 2025-10-04 19:30 - 21:45, 2025-10-04 14:00 - 16:15, 2025-10-03 19:30 - 21:45 | Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, New Workshop Theater
Directed by Colleen Morgen
October 3–4, 6–7 at 7:30 p.m. and October 4 at 2 p.m.
New Workshop Theater
In a time of revolution, four women—one an activist playwright, one an assassin, one a queen, and one a Haitian spy—face the chaos of the French Revolution. With wit, bravery, and a healthy dose of humor, they question how to fight for freedom in a world that wants to silence them. The Revolutionists is a fierce, feminist exploration of the power of sisterhood and the struggle to define one’s identity amidst societal upheaval. The play crosses divides of gender, power, and historical boundaries, raising the question: how do we create revolution without losing ourselves in the process?
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Short Works Festival
2025-04-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Beller Rehearsal Studio
7 p.m. doors / 7:30-9:30 p.m. performance
Beller Rehearsal Studio
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An evening of 10-minute plays presented by the students in the undergraduate directing class.
