PhysFestNYC 2025
BKBX’s Physical Theater festival is back for YEAR TWO! Check out all the offerings at PhysFestNYC.org.
Black & White Ball 2024
It's that time of year! Join the BKBX community for an evening of dance, drinks, eats, performances, honorees, and fundraising to celebrate BKBX past, present, and future.
This year we are at the 14Y Theatre on 14th and 1st in Manhattan! Perfect for a highlight of BKBX favorites lit by resident Lighting Designer Jamie Roderick.
Wear your best black and white, and meet us on the 19th! Thursday never looked so good.
$40 tickets HERE!
ASL interpretation present // Access needs? Contact us! // Wheelchair accessible // Ball photos by Bjorn Bolinder
PS: Looking for a way to support BKBX and get an end-of-year gift? Check out our auction HERE!
Physical Storytelling: Class Show
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in December.
SMALL TALK in Massachusetts
Broken Box Mime partners with Newton Theatre Company in Newton, Massachusetts, to present SMALL TALK: A Show About How (And Why!) We Tell Stories in Mime.
In SMALL TALK, the cast will present several of our favorite non-speaking narratives, skipping across genres and celebrating the limitless possibilities of physical storytelling. The show will interweave spoken descriptions of how the art was made by Artistic Director and Newtonite Becky Baumwoll, offering audiences a look behind the curtain - or beyond the box, as it were.
Appropriate for all ages! Tickets $15 adult, $10 kid, free for under 5. No one turned away for lack of funds. Running time: approximately one hour.
This show is made possible with support from Newton Theatre Company and the Newton Cultural Council!
Cast: Becky Baumwoll, Tia Cassmira, Ismael Castillo, David Jenkins, Tasha Milkman, Jae Woo
INSEKT
BKBX makes our debut at Tufts University!
…Did you just see something move? Broken Box Mime Theater presents INSEKT, a show about seemingly small things that make a big stir. Without a single spoken word, stories will stretch from absurdist comedy to poetic drama, from exoskeletons to the skeletons of our exes. A pop idol sheds his skin, a tween transforms through love, and a cockroach meets her match. Gregor Samsaa could never.
TICKETS FREE with RSVP HERE
NOVEMBER: New Works in Development
In moving toward our next 2025 Mainstage debut, BKBX will be performing two new works in progress shows this fall! Join us for the last Monday and Tuesday of each month this October and November. We have split into two cohorts, each cooking up new ideas to share with you. In November, you can catch us in a new plot-driven, genre-rich narrative at a beloved venue, the Theater at 14Y on 14th St and 1st in Manhattan. Cast: Géraldine Dulex, Duane cooper, Tia Cassmira, Jae Woo, Marissa Molnar, Blake Habermann, and Julia Cavagna. Music by Jack McGuire, Lights by Yang Yu. Stick around for the casual post-show Sip n’ Chat to keep the conversation going. Join us!
NOVEMBER: New Works in Development
In moving toward our next 2025 Mainstage debut, BKBX will be performing two new works in progress shows this fall! Join us for the last Monday and Tuesday of each month this October and November. We have split into two cohorts, each cooking up new ideas to share with you. In November, you can catch us in a new plot-driven, genre-rich narrative at a beloved venue, the Theater at 14Y on 14th St and 1st in Manhattan. Cast: Géraldine Dulex, Duane cooper, Tia Cassmira, Jae Woo, Marissa Molnar, Blake Habermann, and Julia Cavagna. Music by Jack McGuire, Lights by Yang Yu. Stick around for the casual post-show Sip n’ Chat to keep the conversation going. Join us!
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in December.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in December.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
See, Move, and Imagine
Join Broken Box Mime on an invisible adventure! A speaking host will guide even the youngest theater-goers through an afternoon of physical storytelling with NYC's favorite mimes. The cast will perform three different non-speaking stories, each taking place in wonderful and wild locations. After the show, we’ll teach kids how to mime from their seats and take questions from the crowd on how we make art with our bodies.
No registration required. Designed for lower elementary and their families, but all ages welcome.
Audience: Children, Pre-schoolers (3-5 years), School Age (5-12 years), Families, Parents/Caregivers
ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in December.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play! More info at:
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in December.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play! More info at:
OCTOBER: New Works in Development
In moving toward our next 2025 Mainstage debut, BKBX will be performing two new works in progress shows this fall! Join us for the last Monday and Tuesday of each month this October and November. We have split into two cohorts, each cooking up new ideas to share with you. In October, you can catch us in a devised, imagistic swirl of revolution with Tasha Milkman, Regan Sims, Ismael Castillo, Deniz Erzaim, Kristin McCarthy Parker, David Jenkins, and Becky Baumwoll at one of our favorite places to generate new work: the rehearsal studios at A.R.T./NY at 520 8th Ave (btwn 36th and 37th!). Stick around for the casual post-show Sip n’ Chat to keep the conversation going. Join us!
Please bring an ID to enter the building at 520 8th Ave. Thank you!
OCTOBER: New Works in Development
In moving toward our next 2025 Mainstage debut, BKBX will be performing two new works in progress shows this fall! Join us for the last Monday and Tuesday of each month this October and November. We have split into two cohorts, each cooking up new ideas to share with you. In October, you can catch us in a devised, imagistic swirl of revolution with Tasha Milkman, Regan Sims, Ismael Castillo, Deniz Erzaim, Kristin McCarthy Parker, David Jenkins, and Becky Baumwoll at one of our favorite places to generate new work: the rehearsal studios at A.R.T./NY at 520 8th Ave (btwn 36th and 37th!). Stick around for the casual post-show Sip n’ Chat to keep the conversation going. Join us!
Please bring an ID to enter the building at 520 8th Ave. Thank you!
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in December.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play! More info at:
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play! More info at:
My Little Eye: McCarren Park
Come catch us for FREE in the PARK this October! Broken Box is performing the newest iteration of My Little Eye: A Show about Climate & The Earth. Follow our speaking emcee (who might be…a caterpillar?!) as she guides us through the mimes’ silent stories and interactive games. What is climate change? What big feelings come up around big changes of any kind? Audiences will leave with an activated imagination, and a reminder of how powerful we are when we all work together. You bring the blanket, we’ll bring the stories. See you in the park! For ages 2-6 and their families.
This show is supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. First commission by the Alliance Francaise, image credit Alliance Francaise. Performed on the traditional lands of the Lenape people.
Collaboration for McCarren Park by The Mommy Archives, @themommyarchives
Saturday, October 19th
10am - 10:45a
FREE, no reservations required
North end of McCarren Park
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play! More info here.
My Little Eye: Prospect Park
Come catch us for FREE in the PARK this October! Broken Box is performing the newest iteration of My Little Eye: A Show about Climate & The Earth. Follow our speaking emcee (who might be…a caterpillar?!) as she guides us through the mimes’ silent stories and interactive games. What is climate change? What big feelings come up around big changes of any kind? Audiences will leave with an activated imagination, and a reminder of how powerful we are when we all work together. You bring the blanket, we’ll bring the stories. See you in the park! For ages 2-6 and their families.
This show is supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. First commission by the Alliance Francaise, image credit Alliance Francaise. Performed on the traditional lands of the Lenape people.
Saturday, October 5th
10am - 10:45a
FREE, no reservations required
South end of Prospect Park - Grecian Shelter, The Peristyle
Summer Workshop 3
Join BKBX company members to explore mime and empower the body as a limitless storytelling tool. No prior experience necessary; folx with and without mime experience are welcome to play!
You can come to one, two, or all three sessions; they will each offer new content. Sessions will be at a TBD location in Manhattan. Come dressed to move, masks optional, and share access needs and topic requests via the sign up form.
Workshops are $60 per session, and $150 if you come to all three. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Session 3 will be taught by Becky Baumwoll.
Sign up HERE!
Summer Workshop 2
Join BKBX company members to explore mime and empower the body as a limitless storytelling tool. No prior experience necessary; folx with and without mime experience are welcome to play!
You can come to one, two, or all three sessions; they will each offer new content. Sessions will be at a TBD location in Manhattan. Come dressed to move, masks optional, and share access needs and topic requests via the sign up form.
Workshops are $60 per session, and $150 if you come to all three. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Session 2 will be taught by Marissa Molnar.
Sign up HERE!
Summer Show EXTENSION
BKBX is making new work! Join us at the early stages, reinterpreting some of last year’s experimentation and putting it into a new shape. We will follow both performaces with our Sip N’ Chat for feedback and socializing. (We’ll throw in some repertoire too, for good measure!)
Looking forward to sharing this work-in-progress with you.
Tickets HERE!
Summer Show
BKBX is making new work! Join us at the early stages, reinterpreting some of last year’s experimentation and putting it into a new shape. We will follow both performaces with our Sip N’ Chat for feedback and socializing. (We’ll throw in some repertoire too, for good measure!)
Looking forward to sharing this work-in-progress with you.
Tickets HERE!
Summer Show
BKBX is making new work! Join us at the early stages, reinterpreting some of last year’s experimentation and putting it into a new shape. We will follow both performaces with our Sip N’ Chat for feedback and socializing. (We’ll throw in some repertoire too, for good measure!)
Looking forward to sharing this work-in-progress with you.
Tickets HERE!
Summer Workshop 1
Join BKBX company members to explore mime and empower the body as a limitless storytelling tool. No prior experience necessary; folx with and without mime experience are welcome to play!
You can come to one, two, or all three sessions; they will each offer new content. Sessions will be at a TBD location in Manhattan. Come dressed to move, masks optional, and share access needs and topic requests via the sign up form.
Workshops are $60 per session, and $150 if you come to all three. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Session 1 will be taught by David Jenkins.
Sign up HERE!
BKBX Community Picnic
Join us for some fun in the sun!
BKBX will be hosting our annual community picnic at Madison Square Park from 5-7p on Wednesday, July 10. A casual affair, the picnic will have some snacks, juice, and lots of conversation. Bring your friends and let’s connect!
SMALL TALK: Library Show
Join the artists of Broken Box Mime for a special afternoon of performance and process! In SMALL TALK, the cast (Regan, Deniz, and David) will present several of our favorite nonverbal narratives, skipping across genres and celebrating the limitless possibilities of physical storytelling. The show will interweave spoken descriptions of how the art was made by our Artistic Director, Becky, offering audiences a look behind the curtain - or beyond the box, as it were. Appropriate for all ages!
Designed for all ages. All are welcome!
Free. No reservation required.
See, Move & Imagine: Library Show
Borough Park Library, Brooklyn
Join the mimes from Broken Box on an invisible adventure! This is a 30-minute version of our flagship touring show for kids, Destination: Everywhere. Becky, our speaking host, will guide our very youngest theater-goers through an afternoon of physical storytelling. The cast (Regan, Deniz, Nick, and David!) will bring us three different non-speaking stories, each taking place in wonderful and wild locations.
After the show, we’ll teach kids how to mime from their seats!
Designed for ages 0-5 and their families. All are welcome!
Free. No reservation required.