Theatre & Dance

We are back to an exciting new edition of the Battery Dance Festival with the American premiere of “Balkan Ballerinas”, an audacious show produced by Romanian contemporary dance company Platforma 13, choreographed by Anca Stoica and Sergiu Diță and performed by Sergiu

We are delighted to invite you to a special performance of The Pit, the haunting allegory by acclaimed Romanian-French playwright Matei Vișniec, hosted by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. Written in 1988 during the waning days of European communism, The Pit

We are back at the Rehearsal for Truth Festival, the NYC showcase of Central European theater advocating the anti-totalitarian values exposed by Václav Havel, with The Pit, a compelling drama by prolific Romanian playwright Matei Vișniec, which serves as a stark allegory

RCI’s Romanian-American Studio Theater proudly presents an electrifying exploration of love, fear, and the weight of our choices in an uncertain world. Directed by up-and-coming Luana Seu, this intimate theater workshop invites you into the raw, fast-paced, and emotionally

Theater workshop presented as part of “The Brâncuși Month in New York”Brâncuși v. United StatesWritten by: Tatiana NiculescuAdapted for stage by: Amanda L. AndreiDirected by: Dina VovsiCast: A. J. Ditty, Ethan Dubin, Lennox Duong, Vas Eli, Elijah Guo, Jasmine Sharma,

National Culture Day 2025A tour-de-force starring Simona Măicănescu & Mircea FlorianJoin us in celebration of our National Culture Day with The Retreat, a tour-de-force one-woman show based on a work by legendary Marin Sorescu, one of Romania’s most revered literary

A haunting depiction of the moral decomposition of the terminal years of CommunismWe are excited to open (and close) the Rehearsal for Truth Festival in New York with the workshop production of ”Lowlands” by the German-Romanian, Nobel Prize winner author, Herta Müller, 

We are excited to present “Until Dark”, an edge-of-the-seat play that explores the boundaries of solidarity and acceptance in time of (personal) crisis, as part of our busy Romanian-American Studio Theater program. When Cass is accused of a heinous crime, her sister

After the success of the world premiere of the award-winning play “The Town with Very Nice People”, written by acclaimed Romanian-American playwright, author and academic, Domnica Rădulescu, and presented by RCI New York last fall, the show moves for a special performance

We are excited to announce the 5-day run of “Dream Body Body Building”, an unconventional performance directed by acclaimed choreographer Ursula Eagly, which premieres at the Chocolate Factory Theater on March 5, with the support of RCI. The show, commissioned and co-produced

We are thrilled to present on our studio stage the world premiere of The Town with Very Nice People, a hilarious, unforgiving exposé of middle-class hypocrisy, written by acclaimed Romanian-American playwright, author and academic, Domnica Rădulescu. The workshop production,

We are excited to get back to Battery Dance Festival, our long-term partner and one of New York’s major choreographic events, with Special People, an exploratory performance conceived and performed by Teodora Velescuand Lari Giorgescu, two of Romania’s most accomplished