Experimental theatre festival Under the Radar has announced the programming for its 2026 iteration. The festival will run January 7–25, featuring over 30 shows across New York City. Highlights of the programming include Elevator Repair Services' Ulysses, Brokentalkers’ Bellow, and Kinoshita Kabuki’s Kanjincho.
Under the Radar reemerged in 2024, bringing back a new, itinerant version of the festival after being on the brink of closure after its longtime host, the Public Theater, announced it would no longer help produce the festival. (The Public Theater is still collaborating with individual productions, including Ulysses.) The festival is led by artistic director Mark Russell alongside co-creative directors Meropi Peponides of Radical Evolution and Kaneza Schaal.
In 2025, for the first time ever, Under the Radar became a commissioning body, and in 2026, the roster of works the festival itself commissioned includes four commissioned or co-commissioned works: Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein Friday Night Rat Catchers, Hawtplates’s Dream Feed, Kaneza Schaal’s DATA ROOM, and excerpts from A Tale of Fire and Flight, a new in-development work from j. bouey.
The Festival will also include an industry symposium for artistic professionals to address the most pressing issues facing the creative sector and new work development systems worldwide.
The full list of artists presenting work in this year's festival across two-and-a-half weeks of multi-disciplinary performance includes Agrupación Señor Serrano, JoAnne Akalaitis, Anonymous Ensemble, Mario Banushi, j. bouey, Dahlak Brathwaite, Brokentalkers, Kinoshita Kabuki, Elevator Repair Service, Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein, Jo Fong and George Orange, Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel, Anne Gridley, The HawtPlates, Sunny Jain, Modesto “Flako” Jimenez, Autumn Knight, Cole Lewis, Patrick Blenkarn, and Sam Ferguson, Cherish Menzo, Moogahlin Performing Arts and Sydney Theatre Company, Narcissister, Quarantine, Graham Sack, Tina Satter and Half Straddle, Kaneza Schaal, Roger Guenveur Smith, Pamela Sneed, The TEAM, Wet Mess, Kevin Matthew Wong, and The Wooster Group with Eric Berryman and Jharis Yokley.
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