The Flea Theater
The Flea embodies the spirit of adventure and experiment that has defined Off-Off-Broadway since its inception. The Flea is one of the only professional theaters in the city that maintains an open-door policy for artists—a policy that the organization believes is crucial to keeping New York theater vital. Part playground, part laboratory, part training ground, The Flea has been home to established artists taking new risks, emerging artists developing their ideas, and mid-career artists building sustained audiences and identities.
Productions (41)
Jesús I. Valles' meditation on queer longing, grief, and reality.
A New York premiere, directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan, Emilie is one of history’s least told stories.
A new play by Zora Howard about the interiority of Black Men in America.
A genre-bending and experimental new work commissioned by The Flea.
An immersive theatrical experience that takes place in complete darkness.
In this queer love story from Taylor Mac, audiences will jump into the mud with the Fre to hash out the…
Russians in track suits play melodicas to an original, folk-punk score in this fresh adaptation of "Anna…
An evening of two short plays from experimental legend Mac Wellman. Part of the Flea's "Mac Wellman: Perfect…
This absurdist work about a chorus of students trying trying like the devil to tell a simple story offers an…
Part of The Flea's "Mac Wellman: Perfect Catastrophes" series, "Bad Penny" asks: how do we make choices in the…
"Sincerity Forever" is a comedy about a group of young residents from the fictional southern town with a…
This new play from Experimental Bitch Productions offers an invitation to commune with a humanity broken and…
