The Chocolate Factory Theater

The Chocolate Factory Theater “It feels a little bit like the first New York I knew in the ’70s and ’80s" - Tere O’Connor,

A note from our Director of Development Regine Pieters:We believe in Artists. We believe in the Possible Futures they un...
06/12/2026

A note from our Director of Development Regine Pieters:

We believe in Artists. We believe in the Possible Futures they unfold.

Please consider supporting The Chocolate Factory Theater with a gift of any size that feels meaningful to you 🤎donate to our Spring campaign to raise $45k before June 30th.

These funds will directly support our commissions and fair hourly wages for the lead artists and performers working within our spaces. 🩵

Link in bio & at chocolatefactorytheater.org

Pictured: Champagne Jerry Neal Medlyn singing out to our audience at Neal & ulrika andersson ‘s Made in Heaven show this past March. — if you look closely, you can spot Regine Pieters in the crowd!

A note from our  🩵We believe in Artists. We believe in Risk. Please consider supporting The Chocolate Factory Theater wi...
06/05/2026

A note from our 🩵

We believe in Artists. We believe in Risk.

Please consider supporting The Chocolate Factory Theater with a gift of any size that feels meaningful to you 🤎donate to our Spring campaign to raise $45k before June 30th.

These funds will directly support our commissions and fair hourly wages for the lead artists and performers working within our spaces. 🩵

Link in bio & at chocolatefactorytheater.org

We had an absolute blast at the 4th annual Mother’s Day Block Party on May 10th  with   and  and ! Thank you to the  300...
05/31/2026

We had an absolute blast at the 4th annual Mother’s Day Block Party on May 10th with and and ! Thank you to the 300+ amazing friends, families, and neighbors who came out and hung out with us this year!

Shout out to the phenomenal artists who led and fed us:
🎶🎸🎤
The Band
☀️😎🍳🍪
Solar Cooking & Shadow Puppets
🏳️‍🌈📚🎉
Drag Artists for Expression NYC
🕺🏻🎺💃🏻
LIC Salsa School
🎶💿👾
Karaoke
🪅🍭🍬
Piñata
🎨👩🏻‍🎨🖌️
Face Painting
🌸🫟🖇️
Flower Making Station
🪄🔥👏🏻
Magic .thompson.315080
🪴🌱🖍️
Seed Planting
💿🕯️ 🎶
Album listening Session
🫧🫧🫧
Bubble Station
🧑🏻‍🍳🌭🌮🌟
Chef
🍪🧁✨
Cookie Decorating

And to the incredible organizing team, crew, volunteers, family members, supporters and MOTHERS who made it possible!! 💖

Tickets released for Wed 6/10! Moriah Evans’s […/+*^%€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] is ready for you this June 5-6, & 10-13.[…/+*^%€£¥$&...
05/29/2026

Tickets released for Wed 6/10!

Moriah Evans’s […/+*^%€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] is ready for you this June 5-6, & 10-13.

[…/+*^%€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] confronts the body as a site of political and existential conundrums. The title is intentionally unsayable, engaging that which cannot be uttered in the ineffable present, a way to stay with the body. It resists the explicative we so often demand of the historical moment and instead offers dance and performance as a form to negotiate these complex times.

The work probes how material, immaterial, biological, and sensorial resources coexist in dancing actions that oscillate from the unstable and unresolved to unified group choreographies of mesmerizing dance steps.

In this maze of interdependence, […/+*^%€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] proposes non-linear thinking and embodied ways of knowing, questioning how bodies can and cannot be isolated from social, economic, and political urgencies.

Direction and Choreography: Moriah Evans
with Performers: Cyril Baldy .cyrilbaldy, Malcolm-x Betts , Chloë Engel , Kris Lee , João dos Santos Martins , Varinia Canto Vila ;
Lighting Design: Madeline Best ; Scenic Design: Doris Dziersk ; Sound Design: Ian Douglas Moore ; Costumes: Strauss Bourque-LaFrance ; Dramaturgy: Joshua Lubin-Levy ; Fabrication: Matt Shalzi; Studio Management: Margaret Knowles

The premiere of […/+*^%€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] is Co-Commissioned with the Walker Art Center and supported through Moriah Evans’ 2025-2027 Fellowship with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics with additional support by Villa Albertine.

Some snapshots from Maya Lee-Parritz’s residency at CF earlier this month as part of our the Early Stage Creative Reside...
05/27/2026

Some snapshots from Maya Lee-Parritz’s residency at CF earlier this month as part of our the Early Stage Creative Residencies!

Maya was in working on the - very early - stages of a new process with Benin Gardener, Huda Abdulla, Ella Wasserman-Smith, Cayleen Del Rosario, Joel Watson, Rachel Gill, and Morgan Griffin, and set designer Taryn Kneteman



Huda Abdulla





Put your hands together for our second Gala Honoree! The inimitable David Lang!! Block off Tuesday Sept 29th right now a...
05/27/2026

Put your hands together for our second Gala Honoree! The inimitable David Lang!!

Block off Tuesday Sept 29th right now and save the date to celebrate the legendary work of🌟 🌟 the Chocolate Factory Theater 🌟 and the incredible artists, performances and work happening at the 🌟

“With his winning of the Pulitzer Prize for little match girl passion (one of the most original and moving scores of recent years), Lang, once a postminimalist enfant terrible, has solidified his standing as an American master” - The New Yorker

Passionate, prolific, and complicated, composer David Land embodies the restless spirit of invention. Land is at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to music that resists categorization, constantly creating new forms.

Scroll through to learn what David has been getting up to lately, and then put Sept 29th right in your calendar posthaste!

Please consider joining ms. z tye .ztye  and collaborators as she introduces Glossolalia; a generative movement system t...
05/06/2026

Please consider joining ms. z tye .ztye and collaborators as she introduces Glossolalia; a generative movement system that acts as a container for possibilities in somatic utterance.

Open studio May 9, 2026 3-5pm
as part of CF’s Early Stage Creative Residencies

Photo courtesy of Clifford Prince King

Some iconic photos from the iconic  March 25th one night only performance Made in Heaven! by the icons Neal Merlyn  and ...
04/29/2026

Some iconic photos from the iconic March 25th one night only performance Made in Heaven! by the icons Neal Merlyn and Ulrika Andersson

featuring the many many talented stars of the evening including
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Thanks to all who came out!

Playing the Hits: Dancing with the Stars! returns  with  and Tool Is Loot on Sunday May 10! Playing the Hits: Dancing wi...
04/24/2026

Playing the Hits: Dancing with the Stars! returns with and Tool Is Loot on Sunday May 10!

Playing the Hits: Dancing with the Stars! is a monthly series screening the documentation of older works by living choreographers. Please join us for each gathering to see these important performances, hear a post screening conversation between Kim and the choreographer, and hang afterwards. It’s casual! There’s popcorn!

Wally Cardona and Tool Is Loot

a collaboration with Jennifer Lacey & Jonathan Bepler
2010/2011

Created and curated by Kim Brandt
Presented by The Chocolate Factory in partnership with Movement Research

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