Under the Radar

“Festivals are celebrations. They mark harvests and other moments of abundance or recognition. Under the Radar is a festival that each year celebrates the vibrancy of new theater, in New York and internationally. At this moment, even in very challenging times, there is still innovative work rising from communities around New York and in far-reaching parts of the globe. Under the Radar aims to spotlight this work for audiences—not only those ‘in the know,’ but from a wider stretch of communities, diverse in all respects, that could benefit by engaging with these creative leaders.”
– Festival Director Mark Russell

UNDER THE RADAR

Produced by ArKtype in collaboration with Festival Director Mark Russell, the Under the Radar Festival will be reimagined as a new, city-wide annual festival of theater and performance emerging from New York and around the world that incisively speaks to our moment. Rather than being tied to a single host institution, this iteration of Under the Radar is curated in collaboration with an array of New York arts organizations and curators, each harnessing the community-building, connective, celebratory nature of the festival format to introduce some of today’s most innovative voices to wider audiences. The festival sets an example of how collaboration can get the American theater through this moment of existential crisis: reinvigorated and ready to create a theater that can embrace diversity, risk, and reinvention.

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UNDER THE RADAR 2026

Tickets, Events and More @ utrfest.org
On sale October 14th!

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>>January 8, 2026
Radar Symposium in partnership with CIPA, HowlRound, and IPC

>> January 11, 2026
Coming Attractions @ Lincoln Center

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LaMaMa
Quarantine 12 Last Songs
Lee Sunday Evans + Elizabeth Marvel’s The Ford/Hill Project
Jo Fong + George Orange’s The Rest Of Our Lives

Mitu580
Cole Lewis + Patrick Blenkarn + Sam Ferguson’s 2021

Mabou Mines
Joanne Akalaitis’s All That Fall

Irish Arts Center
Brokentalkers Bellow

Lincoln Center
Kevin Matthew Wong’s Benevolence
Agrupación Señor Serrano Birdie

Performance Space New York
Cherish Menzo’s DARKMATTER

The Performing Garage
Kaneza Schaal’s Data Room

HERE Arts Center
The Hawtplates’s Dream Feed

Live Artery | New York Live Arts
Lisa Fagan + Lena Engelstein’s Friday Night Rat Catchers

Joe’s Pub
The Wooster Group / Eric Berryman’s Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
Pamela Sneed’s A Tribute to Big Mama Thornton

Onassis ONX
Modesto Flako Jimenez’s ¡Harken!
Curated by Onassis ONX Techne Homecoming
Graham Sack’s We Have No Need Of Other Worlds (We Need Mirrors)

New York Theatre Workshop
Roger Guenveur Smith’s In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Japan Society
Company Kinsoshita Kabuki’s Kanjincho

Pregones/PRTT
Anonymous Ensemble’s Llontop

Symphony Space
Sunny Jain’s Love Force

NYU Skirball
Mario Banushi’s Mami
Narcissister’s Voyage Into Infinity

The Chocolate Factory Theater
Autumn Knight’s NOTHING: more

Park Avenue Armory
Tina Satter/ Half Straddle’s Petra

Tow Center At Brooklyn College
The Team’s Reconstructing

Pace University
j. boueys A Tale of Fire And Flight (Work-in-Progress)

Dixon Place
Wet Mess’s TESTO

A.R.T/ New York Theatres
Dahlak Brathwaite’s Try/Step/Trip

The Public Theater
Elevator Repair Service’s Ulysses