Double Bill: Witches and Aliens featuring ENCOUNTER & CHRISTMAS EVE IN DIKANKA

A comedic, entertaining and otherworldly evening of two hysterical theatrical works directed and choreographed by Jen Wineman, including Zena Wood’s ENCOUNTER: A Space Cabaret, and Kit Goldstein Grant’s CHRISTMAS EVE IN DIKANKA: A Musical In-Concert. Encounter is an original comedy comedy-driven musical featuring all-new songs previewing in New York ahead of its full run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Just the Tonic July 31 to August 24, 2025. It lands somewhere between a late-night weather show and a cosmic fever dream where nothing is linear. Live from New York, it’s Space Weather Girl! Christmas Eve in Dikanka is a new musical loosely adapted from Ukrainian novelist Nikolai Gogol’s story setting the show in a meta-theatrical universe which combines a Ukrainian 19th-century absurdist tone and a modern sensibility, plus a lotta slapstick.