Emerging Artists Theatre returns with their bi-annual Spark Theatre Festival NYC. The three-week festival will showcase over 60 brand-new works spanning musicals, plays, solo performances, storytelling, dance, and sketch comedy.

This year’s lineup includes seven musicals, among them Earth Icon: The Climate Meets AI Musical, The Story of the Bagel, The High School Reunion That Never Should Have Happened, Friday Night in a Bookstore, Illusions, and A Leaf in the Wind. Audiences will also experience ten solo shows, including Escape to Ravioli Mountain, Learning Curves, and Yo Taxi. More than two dozen dance pieces will light up the stage, with highlights like rendezvous der Sterne, Dedos Libres, and Can You Feel It?, while numerous plays round out the festival, from Consequences of the Castro and Sybil Creepe’s House of Mysteries to Funeral for a Fish.

Presented in both workshop productions and fully produced shows, performances run nightly, with multiple performances on weekends. Most productions receive one performance, with shorter shows grouped together to form a full evening of entertainment. Short talkbacks with the artists will follow some of the performances.