Mon, Jul 27 → Mon, Aug 3 · New York City
This week
Everything worth your time in the next seven days. Listings are verified from organizer sources or submissions.
Runs Jul 9 – Aug 1 · Chain Theatre
Chain Theatre 2026 Summer One-Act Festival
A month of new one-act plays at Chain Theatre — 28 blocks of short work across two Midtown stages.
$24 advance, $27 door · Best for actors & theatre-people
Runs Jul 23 – Aug 16 · AMT Theater
Broadway Bound Theatre Festival 2026
A summer festival of new plays and musicals in development, on West 45th Street.
$30–40 (varies by show) · Best for actors & theatre-people
Tue, Jul 28 · 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM · B&H Event Space
B&H Event Space: Video Editing for Different Platforms
A free B&H seminar on editing footage that performs across platforms — Premiere, Final Cut, Resolve, CapCut.
Free · Best for editors & filmmakers
Tue, Jul 28 · 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM · Online (Zoom)
NYC Film Green Office Hours: Sustainability in VFX & Post-Production
A free MOME 'Made in NY' online panel on cutting emissions across visual-effects and post-production workflows.
Free · Best for editors & crew
Tue, Jul 28 · 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM · Brooklyn Artery
Body Banter: Movement Workshop
A guided Brooklyn Artery movement workshop exploring empathy, expression, and the body.
$22 · Best for actors & theatre-people
Runs Jul 28 – Sep 8 · Film Forum
NYC in Transit
A Film Forum series of classic NYC movies where the subway, the El, and the streets are the real stars — timed to the Transit Museum's 50th.
$18 general, $12 members · Best for filmmakers & writers
Wed, Jul 29 · 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM · George Bruce Library (NYPL)
Acting & Theater Studies Class (NYPL)
A free NYPL acting class for beginning adult actors — games, script analysis, and scene study.
Free · Best for actors & theatre-people
Wed, Jul 29 · 7:30 PM · Central Park — Great Hill (Rooftop Films)
Rooftop Films: Wild Inside (World Premiere)
A free outdoor world premiere on Central Park's Great Hill.
Free · Best for filmmakers & writers
Wed, Jul 29 · 8:00 PM · The Bell House
The Moth StorySLAM: Plot Twist
An open storytelling slam at The Bell House — tell a true 5-minute story on the theme Plot Twist.
$22.05 · Best for writers & actors
Runs Jul 29 – Aug 4 · The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Silent Movie Week 2026
MoMA's fourth annual Silent Movie Week — seven restored silent masterpieces with live musical accompaniment.
$14 adults, $10 students; free with museum admission · Best for filmmakers & first-timers
Thu, Jul 30 · 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM · Allerton Library (NYPL)
TechConnect: Podcast Development Workshop
A free NYPL workshop on publishing, hosting, and promoting your podcast.
Free · Best for writers & filmmakers
Thu, Jul 30 · 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM · Online
Cyber Security for Freelancers
A free online Freelancers Hub session on protecting your work, files, and clients online.
Free · Best for filmmakers & writers
Thu, Jul 30 · 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM · Online
Hot Film Summer: The Art of the Pitch — Selling Television (Notes from Ni)
A free online Nonfiction Hotlist masterclass with TV exec Nicole Tossou on pitching television in today's market.
Free · Best for filmmakers & writers
Thu, Jul 30 · 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM · NYPL for the Performing Arts — Harvey Fierstein Theatre Lab
NYPL Performing Arts Play Club: 1776 (In Person)
A free in-person NYPL play-reading club at Lincoln Center — this session digs into the musical 1776.
Free · Best for theatre-people & writers
Thu, Jul 30 · 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM · Bryant Park (Reading Room)
Writers Workshop at Bryant Park: Fiction
A free fiction workshop with Gotham instructor Susan Breen — grounded craft, then write.
Free · Best for writers & first-timers
Thu, Jul 30 · 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM · Brooklyn Artery
Open Mic Night: Stories of Living in the In-Between
A Brooklyn Artery open mic — bring a story, song, or performance on the theme of living in between.
Free · Best for writers & actors
Runs Jul 30 – Aug 16 · Gene Frankel Theatre
Gene Frankel Theatre Play Festival 2026
A summer festival of new plays at the Gene Frankel Theatre in NoHo, including Onomatopoeia Theatre Company.
$28–106 · Best for actors & theatre-people
Fri, Jul 31 · 7:45 PM · Green-Wood Cemetery (Rooftop Films)
Rooftop Films: New York Non-Fiction 2026
A program of New York documentary shorts, screened outdoors at Green-Wood Cemetery.
$22 · Best for filmmakers & writers
Sat, Aug 1 · 8:00 PM · The Old American Can Factory (Rooftop Films)
Rooftop Films: 2:1 by 2/3 — Computer Chess, sitrep & the Sony Tube Camera
A format-focused feature program in a Gowanus courtyard, after dark.
$22 · Best for filmmakers & crew
Sun, Aug 2 · 12:00 PM – 6:30 PM · Online
TRU Writer-Director Communications Lab 2026
A full-day virtual TRU lab pairing playwrights and directors to practice the working relationship.
$35–$100 (observers $45–$65) · Best for writers & theatre-people
Sun, Aug 2 · 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM · Williamsburg Music Center
Muse Film Festival
A one-night showcase of four short films by up-and-coming Black filmmakers, with director Q&As and a networking intermission.
From $10 · Best for filmmakers & writers
Mon, Aug 3 · 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM · Bryant Park
Reel Talks at Bryant Park: The Making of Rear Window
Author Jennifer O'Callaghan on the making of Hitchcock's Rear Window, at Bryant Park.
Free · Best for filmmakers & writers
Mon, Aug 3 · 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM · The Lee C. Bollinger Forum
HARLEM WEEK / ImageNation: TCB — The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
A free HARLEM WEEK / ImageNation screening on writer-filmmaker-activist Toni Cade Bambara, with a filmmaker panel.
Free · Best for filmmakers & writers
Mon, Aug 3 · 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM · The Lee C. Bollinger Forum
HARLEM WEEK / ImageNation: When a Witness Recants
A free HARLEM WEEK / ImageNation NYC premiere — Dawn Porter's wrongful-conviction doc, with Ta-Nehisi Coates, plus a panel.
Free · Best for filmmakers & writers