The Chocolate Factory

The Chocolate Factory

  • Theater | Performing arts space
  • price 1 of 4
  • Long Island City
  • Recommended
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Time Out says

Brian Rogers and Sheila Lewandowski founded this 5,000-square-foot performance venue in Long Island City in 2005, converting a onetime hardware store into two spaces: a low-ceilinged downstairs room and a loftier, brighter upstairs whitebox. The Factory is not for rent: Rogers curates his season, inviting artists (from midcareer playwrights like Mac Wellman to rising directors like Alice Reagan) onboard—and the space pays them. It's a welcoming place (buy your chocolate-chip cookies at the box office), and the spot won an Obie for its programming, which tends toward the highly physical, the interdisciplinary and the avant-garde.

Details

Address
5-49 49th Ave
Queens
11101
Cross street:
between Vernon Blvd and 5th St
Transport:
Subway: G to 21st St, 7 to Vernon Blvd–Jackson Ave
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Anna Sperber: Beacons

The Brooklyn choreographer Anna Sperber, who won a 2022 Bessie Award for her rooftop performance piece Bow Echo, dips back into the Chocolate Factory with a work on themes of wildness and connection. Sperber performs the piece with dancers Tim Bendernagel, Owen Prum and Zo Williams; the experimental composer and saxophonist Lea Bertucci provides the music. 
  • Contemporary and experimental
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