Players Theatre

Audience members sit in a circle along with seven actors in Nick Thomas's hyper-intimate drama about an addiction support group that is forced to confront new challenges when its leader fails to show up. The scrappy troupe spit&vigor, formerly of Gowanus, has been performing the show roughly once a month since 2023; now it settles in for a longer run in a tiny studio space above the West Village's Players Theater. The cast includes company co-founders Sara Fellini and Adam Belvo (who alternates performances with Thomas himself). 

Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell's child-oriented musical adaptation of the classic folktale— as rendered in books by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and Madame De Villeneuve—celebrates a bookish girl's ability to see past the hirsute appearance or her kidnapper. Pierce Cassedy directs this 70-minute production; the first performance of each two-show day is preceded by an hour-long arts workshop at which kids can meet members of the company and create a mask to take home.

Greta Quispe plays a terminally ill Latina woman who gets enmeshed in a crisis of healthcare and alternative medicine in a family dramedy by Queens playwright Anna Capunay. Gregory Lipson directs a cast that also includes Yessenia Rivas, Danny Borba, J. Santiago Suarez and Jared Trevino.