Breaking the Binary Theatre has revealed additional programming for its fourth annual Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. 

The festival, which will continue the theatre company’s mission of producing work created and developed by transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+) theatre artists, will take place October 20-26.

As previously announced, the festival will open on October 20 with a one-night-only concert of The Drowsy Chaperone at Carnegie Hall, featuring a star-studded all-trans and non-binary cast led by Laverne Cox, Alex Newell, Betty Who, Jonathan Van Ness, Dylan Mulvaney, and more. All net proceeds will benefit Trans Lifeline, Black Trans Liberation, and Breaking the Binary Theatre.

The Festival will continue at Open Jar Studios October 21-October 25, with 10 readings of five new plays. The festival will then conclude at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center October 26, with the organization’s annual commissioning project with partners Concord Theatricals.

The five new play readings will be as follows:

AriDy Nox's Death Comes in Threes, directed by Cooper Howell, will be read October 21. Set in a bedroom on the edge of a meadow on the edge of a cliff on the edge of a shoreline, two people, Me and Myself, (im)patiently wait for Death as they try not to kill each other first.

Legendary by Cheeyang Ng, directed by Emilio Ramos, will be read October 22. The piece is a solo ritual-musical that follows a queer Asian immigrant in the U.S. as they wrestle with inherited legacies and imagine new ones. 

Dane Figueroa Edidi's The Lady of M Street, directed by Sharifa Yazmeen, will be read October 23. The piece is a retelling of William Shakespeare's MacBeth, set in the cut-throat climate of 1980's Washington DC and the world of elite prep schools.

Hiraeth Or, When Pluto Was a Planet by Jayne Deely, directed by Mack Brown, will be read October 24. The piece is an exploration of lifelong friendship, taking place during a wedding weekend that is haunted by 1990s throwbacks, childhood flashbacks, and emotional landmines.

Genevieve Simon's Punch Back, directed by Kedian Keohan, will be read October 25. Set in Ohio, a modern Republican state, the piece follows seven trans college students as they fall in love, care for one another in secret, and learn to protect themselves via boxing. Punch Back is presented in association with Ten Toes Theater Collective.

All readings will be offered at 3 and 7 PM on their performance day.

Lastly, October 26 at 5 PM, the Limitless series will be staged at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. Co-conceived by L Morgan Lee and George Strus, the 2025 series will feature 12 commissioned monologues or short scenes created by TBA TNB2S+ artists

For more information, visit BTB-NYC.com.