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Ruth Childs, the niece of the renowned choreographer Lucinda Childs, got over being intimidated by her aunt’s achievements. Now, she debuts her own work in New York.

The Chocolate Factory's Fourth Annual Gala, honoring Chocolate Factory Co-Founder / Executive Director Emerita Sheila Lewandowski. Hosted by Becca Blackwell. Performance by Ayano Elson. Food by Little Chef Little Cafe.

CATCH is the Obie award-winning, itinerant, rough and ready series of performance events that whirls through Brooklyn and other cities. For years, Catch has given stage to emerging artists and downtown luminaries, pouring equal portions of community, love, and beer.

Throughout the 2025 / 2026 season, ten artists selected via a peer nomination process will each receive access to space and financial support for early stage research into their new projects.

Join us on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, for an unforgettable evening at The Chocolate Factory Theater’s Fourth Annual Gala as we proudly honor this year’s Artist In Industry Award recipient: Sheila Lewandowski, Co-founder and Executive Director Emerita. Sheila’s vision, passion, and tireless dedication are the very foundation of The Chocolate Factory Theater. Over the decades, she has poured her heart and soul into building a home for our community of artists and groundbreaking work—transforming a dream into a vital cultural institution.

Martita Abril continues her ongoing exploration of her - and our - relationship to border life, and its distortions, contradictions, oppressions, and deep emotional resonance. Inviting audiences into a layered, multisensory experience - incorporating a performance by Mexican banda ensemble Directos de la Sierra, the onstage presence of Martita’s mother, and a mezcal offering - Tacos de Lengua introspectively navigates the dualities of identity, resistance, separation, geography, and mirroring.

Alla Kovgan (film), Paula Matthusen (sound/music), Katherine Profeta (text), Mieke Ulfig (graphic arts), Tuçe Yasak (light/installation), and Netta Yerushalmy (movement) come together to devise nothing personal, just everything – a multi-sensory tangle of pictures, bodies, and objects in motion. Interrogating ideas of femaleness, fleshiness, the passage of time, the evasive notion of belonging, and the survival practices of their artist-heroines through history, these six makers move in and out of step with one another, constructing and dismantling jagged landscapes.

In her solo performance Blast!, Ruth Childs crafts a choreographed dialogue with the percussive sound design of Stéphane Vecchione, weaving its rhythms and ruptures together with movement into a choreographic circle. Drawing from her observations of how humans express themselves, Childs confronts and interacts with representations of bodies that embody a terrible violence.

To mark the occasion of Fall of Freedom, join guest curator Jennifer Krasinski and The Chocolate Factory Theater for an evening of food, drink, and performance.

Acclaimed choreographer Juliana F. May is renowned for creating thrillingly elaborate cycles of song, text, and movement from the wreckage of difficult experience. In Optimistic Voices, a reprise of her BAM debut, May delves into the tangled contradictions of family, eroticism, and motherhood.