CWP Evolution Festival 2026
The CWP Evolution Festival will present more than thirty new works of theatre, dance, music, comedy, and more at venues all across Manhattan. From the Upper West Side to the Lower East Side, there’s something for everyone in your neighborhood. CWP Members receive complimentary access to every performance!
For the first time, the festival will present new, one-night-only performances in both the summer and the fall, as well as an Evolution Festival edition of the CWP Launchpad Reading Series featuring ten new plays throughout this summer!
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Thursday, September 10 @ 7pm
Enduring Atlas
The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew
263 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024Saturday, September 12 @ 7pm
Something to Believe In
Guild Hall at the Episcopal Actors’ Guild
1 E. 29th Street, New York, NY 10016Sunday, September 13 @ 7pm
Invincible & Twink Death of the Universe
Venue to be announcedTuesday, September 15 @ 7pm
Caroline Brethenoux & William Goldstein
The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew
263 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024Wednesday, September 16 @ 7pm
The Fish Market
Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente
107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002Thursday, September 17 @ 7pm
House of Blue
New Stage Performance Space
36 W. 106th Street, New York, NY 10025Friday, September 18 @ 7pm
I Used to Love Her
Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente
107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002Saturday, September 19 @ 7pm
The Magic Lantern Anthology
New Stage Performance Space
36 W. 106th Street, New York, NY 10025Sunday, September 20 @ 7pm
Death by 9 to 5
Guild Hall at the Episcopal Actors’ Guild
1 E. 29th Street, New York, NY 10016Thursday, September 24 @ 7pm
acolyte training
The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew
263 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024Friday, September 25 @ 7pm
Feathers Dance Company: As We Are
The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew
263 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024Saturday, September 26 @ 7pm
Recess Gender Clinic
Urban Stages
259 W. 30th Street, New York, NY 10001Sunday, September 27 @ 7pm
The New Route
The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew
263 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024Tuesday, September 29 @ 7pm
Toil
New Stage Performance Space
36 W. 106th Street, New York, NY 10025Wednesday, September 30 @ 7pm
Dances We Dance: Harmonic Dissonance
The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew
263 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024Thursday, October 1 @ 7pm
or do it explode?
Venue to be announcedFriday, October 2 @ 7pm
The Moving Architects
Venue to be announcedSaturday, October 3 @ 2pm
Cordillera Cultural Ensemble Gong Festival
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
248 W. 60th Street, New York, NY 10023Saturday, October 3 @ 8:30pm
Baggage From BaghDAD: Becoming My Father’s Daughter
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
248 W. 60th Street, New York, NY 10023Sunday, October 4 @ 7pm
El Péndulo
The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew
263 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 -
The Parlor at St. Paul & St. Andrew 263 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024
Monday, June 15, Sway by SMJ
Sunday, July 12, Losing Faith by Cassidy Byron
Monday, July 20, Gossamer by Rebecca Brudner
Saturday, July 25, The Binding Retreat by Olivia Billings
Monday, August 3, Destructing a Human Sacrifice by Erin Proctor
Monday, August 10, Game Night by Xander Jackson
Monday, August 24, Sour Grapes by Annabel McConnachie
Friday, August 28, It Gets Better (monologues for Melanated Men) by Charles Day
Wednesday, September 2, PASSION PROJECT by Grace Parker
Wednesday, September 9, I Close My Eyes and Do My Duty by Defne Ozkan
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Thursday, June 11 @ 7pm
Wake & Forget-Me-Nots
Abrons Arts Center Experimental Theater
466 Grand Street, New York NY 10002Saturday, June 13 @ 7pm
New York International Dance Festival
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
248 W. 60th Street, New York, NY 10023Wednesday, June 17 @ 7pm
Instinct and Extinct & Ofrenda
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002Sunday, June 21 @ 7pm
Junie B. Jones Plans Her Funeral
Guild Hall at the Episcopal Actors' Guild
1 E. 29th Street, New York, NY 10016Thursday, June 25 @ 7pm
COMMITTED? A Ritual for Robbie
Urban Stages
259 W. 30th Street, New York, NY 10001Saturday, June 27 @ 7pm
A Beautiful Place to Die
West End Theatre
263 W. 86th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10024Sunday, June 28 @ 7pm
SUNGOD
The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew
263 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024Monday, June 29 @ 7pm
La Gata Bajo la Lluvia
West End Theatre
263 W. 86th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10024
THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS
We would like to thank and acknowledge our donors for their generous support of The Evolution Festival and our programming year-round.