Corkscrew Theater Festival is a brand-new NYC summer festival running August 7 - September 3 at the Paradise Factory theater (64 E 4th St), with the aim of increasing access to production opportunities for a varied set of early-career artists, especially those who are developing work through innovative collaborative models. The inaugural 2017 season includes five new plays with eight performances each, plus a reading series of five plays in development. The festival is presented by The Brewing Dept. and Fortress Productions.
Part of the Corkscrew Festival. "Stone" is a collaborative play inspired by Leslie Feinberg's seminal novel…
Part of the Corkscrew Festival, "Patience" offers a portrait of a young black man struggling to build a life…
Part of the 2019 Corkscrew Festival, "Collective Noun" is a love letter to an unsung history of collective…
A play in the form of an audience participatory exercise class led by Walt Whitman, the esteemed poet and…
Part of the Corkscrew Festival, "Six Years Old" is a comic and poignant play reflecting back on the wild…
Part of the 2019 Corkscrew Festival, this adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy is set at a hootenanny in…
This new play pits modern romance against a modern medical bill and asks: what's sicker? Part of the Corkscrew…
'Desarrollo' follows three queer and trans Bronx natives as they grow from exuberant 13-year olds to yearning…
This new drama traces the stories of two pairs of immigrant/first generation women living in the same San…
Two sisters, Agnes and Kitty, find their big dreams derailed when a disaster strikes their pie shop. Part of…
A political drama set in Turkey in 2016, where a group of high school friends reunite on the evening of an…
This new play invites you to Mermaidland, Florida, the only place on earth where mermaids are real. Part of…