Under the Radar 2024 is a theatre showcase of experimental theatre and performance. It is one of the JanArtsNYC showcases during APAP, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, which is an conference of booking agents and presenting theaters.
The Festival was founded by Mark Russell at the Public Theater, one of America’s leading Off-Broadway theatre producers. It is still curated by Russell, but now through experimental theatre producer ArKtype.
There are many British artists in this edition. Curation is adventurous and thought-provoking. This isn’t Broadway. Under the Radar is where theater begins.
Under the Radar 2024
The Under the Radar 2024 theatre showcase of experimental theatre and performance presents 23 shows at seventeen venues across New York City; over three weekends from January 5-21, 2024. 🇱🇧 🇸🇾 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇿🇦
Latin Shows
The “Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu,” by South African performance artist Albert Ibokwe Khoza, turns the old tradition of racist human zoos into healing performance art; at New York Live Arts in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday-Saturday, January 11-13, 2024 at 8pm. $25. newyorklivearts.org 🇿🇦
“Cultural Exchange Rate,” by performance artist Tania El Khoury, meditates on her family’s journey from Lebanon and Syria to Mexico and the United States; at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn; Thursdays-Sundays from January 11-21, 2024 at 12pm, 1:30pm, 3pm, 5:30pm, and 7pm, with an extra 8:30pm show on Fridays and Saturdays. $24. eventbrite.com 🇱🇧 🇸🇾 🇲🇽
There are Lebanese Diaspora communities in the Caribbean and Latin America.
“Search Party,” by Nigerian-born artist and playwright Inua Ellams, is call and response storytelling in which the audience calls out a topic, and Ellams responds with texts from his archives; in the Clark Studio Theater in the Samuel B. & David Rose Building at Lincoln Center; on various dates and times from January 6-13. Choose-what-you-pay. lincolncenter.org 🇳🇬
There are more great shows this year. For tickets and a full show listing, visit utrfest.org