Under The Radar Announces Initial Programming for 2027

Under the Radar announced highlights of its 22nd festival. This is the first year that Janet Wong, former associate artistic director of New York Live Arts and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, and Obie Award-winning performing artist and UTR Under Construction alum Jenn Kidwell are co-creative directors, taking over from Kaneza Schaal and Meropi Peponides, and collaborating with founder Mark Russell. The festival is produced by Thomas O. Kriegsmann and Sarah [Rah] Bellin of ArKtype.

Highlights include the world premiere of Minor Theater’s Pity Whore (January 13-16), presented by NYU Skirball. Obie Award-winning playwright Julia Jarcho takes on the classic Jacobean play ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and places it in the present time. Kedian Keohan directs.

In Morgan Bassichis: In Concert with Amy Winehouse (January 13-17), presented by Joe’s Pub on the stage where Winehouse made her US debut in 2007, the comedian will recreate Winehouse’s set from that night.

As previously announced, Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor (January 13-24), directed by Geoff Sobelle, will be presented by Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) in partnership with UTR.

Other highlights include Yoroboshi (January 14–16), the comic and brutal puppet work from Satoko Ichihara, in her American debut, presented by Japan Society; Angelic Architectures (January 13-23), a dance play from Symara Sarai, presented by Abrons Arts Center; The Mushroom (January 15-31), created by Normandy Sherwood and Nikki Calonge and presented by LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) and New Georges at the Arts Center at Governors Island; Philippe Quesne’s Le Paradoxe de John [John’s Paradox] (January 18-22), the Obie-winning director’s latest work about a tight community of friends, presented by L’Alliance New York; and Fight Back (dates TBA), David Wise’s participatory theatrical experiment with no performers and no audience, inviting participants to recreate a 1989 ACT UP meeting, presented at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (The Center) and additional venues TBA.

Full programming, which will include more than 30 distinct works, will be announced in the fall. Click here for more information.