Sundays at ShowBox

June 15th – Teatro Sea 

Teatro SEA is the premiere Bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization and Latino Children’s Theatre in the United States. SEA has created and produced a combination of educational theatre productions and art workshops/programs specifically designed to examine, challenge and create possible solutions for current educational, social and community issues.

June 22nd – Show Up Kids!

This fresh twist on the traditional kids’ show blasts off when the hapless host gets the audience to help write, design & direct a comedy show on the spot. What could possibly go wrong?

June 29th – Wonderspark Puppets

WonderSpark Puppets is a New York City based puppet theater company led by Chad Williams and Z Briggs. The company’s mission is to spread joy, spark imagination and share laughter through high quality puppet performances.

July 13th – Puppetsburg

Interactive, culturally relevant puppet shows for 4mos-4yrs. Shows are 45 minutes long and involve dancing, instruments, dress-up “photo-ops,” and bubble time (!) followed by a different puppet story each week.

July 20th – Parallel Exit

Parallel Exit creates compelling stories that are family-friendly, cultivating art that speaks to a culturally boundless audience of any age.

July 27th – Sova Dance and Puppetry

“Marvelous Metamorphoses” unravels to present bizarre and beautiful transformations in our world like caterpillar to butterfly, polliwog to frog, and more!  In this outdoor performance we dance & sing our way through these cycles celebrating them for our sustained joy and ecological health on this planet.

August 3rd – Chinese Theatre Works

Each year, Chinese Theatre Works celebrates the Lunar New Year season with an original “budaixi” traditional Chinese glove-puppetry production that features the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac. This year’s show stars the Snake, who presides over a jolly selection of wild puppet skits, dances, popular songs, and well-known Chinese sayings that celebrate the wit and wisdom of the zodiac animals.

August 10th – Puppetsburg

Interactive, culturally relevant puppet shows for 4mos-4yrs. Shows are 45 minutes long and involve dancing, instruments, dress-up “photo-ops,” and bubble time (!) followed by a different puppet story each week

August 17th – Wonderspark Puppets

WonderSpark Puppets is a New York City based puppet theater company led by Chad Williams and Z Briggs. The company’s mission is to spread joy, spark imagination and share laughter through high quality puppet performances.

August 24th – Sova Dance and Puppetry

A delightful Masque Theatre performance that explores an ancient art form in modern and zany ways while utilizing vignette style theatre interacting with live music and sound effects! The audience will experience an amazing array of characters as a sort of “feast of faces” performed by only two mask performers changing into many different animals.

August 31st – Show Up Kids!

This fresh twist on the traditional kids’ show blasts off when the hapless host gets the audience to help write, design & direct a comedy show on the spot. What could possibly go wrong?

September 7th – NYC Kids Project

Interactive experiences using puppets, storytelling, and facilitated dialogue to help children develop critical social-emotional skills, most notably empathy and social awareness.

September 14th – Teatro Sea

Teatro SEA is the premiere Bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization and Latino Children’s Theatre in the United States. SEA has created and produced a combination of educational theatre productions and art workshops/programs specifically designed to examine, challenge and create possible solutions for current educational, social and community issues.

September 21st – Creative Stage Collective

Creative Stage Collective brings together youth and professional artists to co-create original kid-inspired theater with a spirit of playfulness and community that envisions the kind of world we want to live in.

September 28th – NYC Kids Project

Interactive experiences using puppets, storytelling, and facilitated dialogue to help children develop critical social-emotional skills, most notably empathy and social awareness.

October 5th – Bill Gordh

Bill Gordh is an award-winning Banjo-playing storyteller, author, educator, early childhood and elementary literacy specialist and consultant.

October 12th – Puppetsburg

Interactive, culturally relevant puppet shows for 4mos-4yrs. Shows are 45 minutes long and involve dancing, instruments, dress-up “photo-ops,” and bubble time (!) followed by a different puppet story each week

October 19th – Broken Box Mime Theatre

BKBX (Broken Box Mime Theater) is a contemporary physical theater company that tells original stories beyond language barrier.  Set to rich lighting and a heart-thumping soundtrack, our narratives range from realistic to metaphorical, heart-wrenching to hilarious, and cinematic to intimate, held together by a dedication to the empowered imagination and the collective artistic voice of our diverse company.

October 26th – Paper Heart Puppets

Four original stories, brought to life using nothing but cardboard and the power of your imagination. With help from the audience, puppeteer Brad Shur transforms simple cardboard shapes into elaborate puppet characters, then brings them to life right before your eyes.