Emerging Artists Theatre’s Spark Theatre Festival NYC will run from March 3 – 23, 2025, in New York City. Nearly 60 performances will be presented across three weeks, including plays, musicals, solo shows, dance, and more.

Festival Schedule:

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Earth Icon

California, 2029… fire-free, maybe? Manny, a teenage country singer, must win a climate-themed pop music contest to save his comatose mother, Terra. When he struggles against a Puerto Rican science rapper, the technology sponsors generate Terra’s AI version— using polluting fuels! Will Manny sacrifice happiness today for an uncertain tomorrow?

Writers: Abhishek Pandit & Laurence Warner
Music Composers: Abhishek Pandit & Laurence Warner
Lyricists: Abhishek Pandit & Laurence Warner

Tickets $25 / $30 at the door

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5:00 PM - 6:15 PM: Beautiful Thing

A profound exploration of dance and poetry, Beautiful Thing explores themes of grief, empathy, and transformation. Through movement and verse, the performance captures the emotional journey of shedding old selves, confronting loss, and embracing renewal—a powerful meditation on the cycles of life, healing, and promise.

Choreographer: Natalie Katz
Writer: Will Van Dyke

Tickets $20 /$25 at the door

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5:00 PM - 6:15 PM: Between Us

Humans are paradoxes and we are constantly at odds with ourselves and each other. When do you choose to be thoughtful? How often are you guided by impulses? How can being aware of the two make a difference to those around you?

Choreographer: Tai Lum

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5:00 PM - 6:15 PM: Home With You

How many ways can a young lesbian fail to live up to the expectations set for them by society? Was Mary Magdalene a ***** or a girlboss? And how high can FKA twigs sing? All these questions are asked by this new contemporary dance piece in progress exploring love, loneliness, and alienation. Maybe you'll find your answers - if you do, please tell us because we're dying to find out.

Choreographer: Phoebe Amory
Music: FKA twigs

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5:00 PM - 6:15 PM: Stop All The Gaycism

A community of artmakers come together to get a few things off of their collective chests and onto a blank canvas in the name of Queer visibility.

Writer/Director: Katie Casebolt
Production Assistant: Ryan Casebolt
Producer: Kat Schenk

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7:00 PM - 8:15 PM: Astor Piazolla: The New Era

“Astor Piazzolla: The New Era” celebrates the life of the great Argentinian Maestro Astor Piazzolla, a prolific music composer that integrated Argentinian Tango with elements of European classical music and jazz to create a new genre: New Tango.
His legacy and the future of dance through the eyes of award-winning choreographer Analia Farfan.

Director: Analia Farfan
Producer: Analia Farfan
Choreographer: Analia Farfan
Union: Agma

Tickets $25/$30 at the door

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7:00 PM - 8:15 PM: Exousia

The piece explores the insatiable hunger for power. Through sharp movements and intense rhythms, the dancers portray the struggle of never being satisfied—constantly pushing for control. The choreography shows how this unchecked desire erodes connections and balance, as the pursuit becomes chaotic. Emptiness overwhelms as they grasp for something unattainable, embodying the reality of limitless power.

Choreographer: Claudio Caverni

Tickets $20 /$25 at the door

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