New Stage Theatre Company presents the Premiere of LISTS OF PROMISE on March 13- 30, 2025 at the Johnson Theater at Theater For The New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10003. Performances run Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. Tickets are $25 for general admission, $20 for Students and Seniors, and Pay-What-You-Can on Sundays. Tickets can be purchased online at https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/lists-of-promise/, by phone at 212-254-1109, or in person at the Theater For The New City Box Office.

Lists of Promise is a blended theatrical and aerial performance piece inspired by When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone and created for the stage by Ildiko Nemeth and Lisa Giobbi with Marie Glancy O’Shea. This sharply humorous production looks at women’s positions in society through historical, political, and mythological lenses. The lists that govern women’s lives – past and present – serve as an organizing theme.

Ildiko Nemeth is an exceptional actor and director. She is the founder and artistic director of the New Stage Theatre Company (NSTC), and the director, producer, and visionary force behind all the company’s premieres. Originally from Budapest, she founded NSTC in 2002 after graduating from the Actor’s Studio Drama School. Drawing from her Eastern European theatre background and the multicultural influences of her collaborators, Ildiko Nemeth premieres foreign writers’ works in New York and creates original pieces. Her works are distinguished by their bold visual style and juxtaposition of absurdist and physical humor with dark, difficult material. As a director she often refers to her projects as compositions, which reflects her multidisciplinary approach: all artistic elements, including text, music, movement, and spectacle, are fused into a unified work of art. newstagetheatre.org

Lisa Giobbi (Choreographer/Artistic Director) Since founding the Lisa Giobbi Movement Theatre in 1991, the company has performed in theaters and opera houses throughout Europe and the United States as well as outdoor festivals and sports arenas. She was a three-time guest artist in the Deutche Opera in Berlin. With an MFA (summa cum laude) from the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, a BFA graduate of Juilliard, she joined MOMIX (1983) collaborating and performing with Moses Pendleton throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas for eight years. She choreographed and performed with Pilobolus, collaborating on pieces including Televisitation, Return to Maria La Baja and Lands Edge and with dir. Martha Clarke including The Garden of Earthly Delights,Vienna: Lusthaus, Endangered Species and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. www.lisagiobbi.org

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York’s most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have found TNC’s Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Vin Diesel, Oscar Nuñez, Laurence Holder, Romulus Linney and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented by TNC are Mabou Mines, the Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and COBU, the Japanese women’s drumming, and dance group.TNC also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company’s 1997 production of BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, which was the only play ever produced in America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 42 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor’s Stop The Violence award.

For more information, visit theaterforthenewcity.net.

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