An 80s-90s Dance Party with DJs Catsilk and Special Guest along with aerial performances by Hilary Melcher Chapman and Corinna Grunn

The Outrage — new works in development centered around Queer narratives

Transforma Theatre presents an early work in progress showing of their sequel to last year’s “BIOADAPTED.”

Chat with GPT-4! Transforma Theatre offers a public workshop in Media & Technology Literacy.

A Pre-Solstice Circle of Art and Light More…

Double-header presentation of New Works by Robert Lyons and Daniel Irizarry (One-Eighth Theater & Soho Think Tank) and by Paul Pinto and Kristin Marting (HERE Arts).

A Performative Potluck Feast Hosted by Goddess of Poesy Laura E. J. Moran More…

Double Header: New Works by Title:Point and thingNY More…

NACL joins forces once again with the artists of Seasonal Affective Disorder Dance Party (SADDP) to bring you an immersive, participatory festival for your disembodied soul. More…

Mariana Newhard returns to NACL to further refine work on her hybrid theater opera, Queen of the Nile. More…

Deepali Gupta shares excerpts from her musical tragedy United States v. Gupta. More…

Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble brings An Evening of Soundpainting to Highland Lake. More…

Transforma Theatre will share a work-in-progress presentation of their recent science-theatrical experiment BIOADAPTED, to be followed by a panel discussion on AI and the Arts . More…

Join Tracy Broyles and her collaborators for this Work-In-Progress presentation. More…

UNSETTLING returns to continue the journey! Join the ensemble for an open rehearsal and a shared meal. More…

E2G: Justan, Donnie, and Y2Kaleb are charting a course through the liminal space between teenage retroheterofantasia and non-binary trans pop extravaganza. More…

Former Deep Space artist Megan Campisi returns with collaborators to develop a ‘Larval Mask’ performance engaging with the experiences of displaced people and immigrants. Read more…

NACL hosts the kickoff performance of Hideaway Circus’ 2023 Tour of Stars Above, an open air circus paying tribute to two centuries of circus performer families traveling the byways of America. More…

Brad Krumholz talks about his new book and leads an informal workshop at the Deep Water Literary Festival in Narrowsburg, NY. More…

Mind-bending, heart-rending, and funny! Zebra 2.0 is a charming and engaging love story between an AI and an immigrant office cleaner. Read More…

Rite of Spring - A Hybrid Dance/Performance with SADDP, featuring Hilary Chapman, Corinna Grunn, and DJ Catsilk

Join us to celebrate 25 years of NACL and 100 years since the laying of the cornerstone of our performance hall. It will be a night to remember — a festival of light, sound, and magic — shared with old friends and new!

Richard Grunn performs his original play Good Medicine — “A satirical history of America's great anti-satanic, quasi-scientific, and pseudo-spiritual salesmen.” More…

Please Note: This event has been canceled. Actors and Dancers, Costumers, Technicians, Directors, Stage Managers, Designers, Musicians... Performance Poets and Playwrights who’ve had it with Zoom — and anyone else who should be in the room… More Info...

In her brand new one-woman show, RuPaul's Drag Race queen Miz Cracker uses stand-up, dance, sketch-comedy, wig-reveals and jump splits to bring a little laughter into an increasingly confusing world. More…

Kicking off our season of 25th Anniversary "Homecomings", we are hosting two simultaneous residencies by writer-actor-director Jane Wells (Brightness Falls, Icaria, The Curious History of Peter Schlemihl, The Mystery of Lakewood House), and Megan Stewart, Artistic Director and co-founder of The River Clyde Pageant in New Glasgow, PEI. More…

Please Note: the public presentation for this residency has been canceled.

With a penchant for immersiveness, site-specificity, liminality, and wild interrogations of U.S. mythologies, Wistaria Project creates performance-events that are alive and humanely transgressive, that are often not story-based, that aim to rankle the status quo, that have moments of beauty, and that bring performers and spectators to a space in which they might do something together — with an eye towards nothing less than justice, equity, and the mysteries of human existence. Read more…

WAMOO makes music and visual virtual experiences and is constructing a musical called Tranquilo based on his experience as a Dominican immigrant to the United States. With graphics and sounds of vintage video games as backdrop, he recounts his struggle to fit in, not just because of the language barrier, but because he did not fit the mold of other Dominican kids in America. More…