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RENTAL: The Hummingbirds (4th Floor)

  • Chain Theatre 312 West 36th Street, Floor 4 New York, NY, 10018 United States (map)

THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF 
GARRET JON GROENVELD’S


THE HUMMINGBIRDS 

APRIL 3rd – 21st

 
THIS DARK COMEDIC DRAMA IS SET IN THE NEAR AND UNSETTLING FUTURE, 
WHERE MEANINGFUL WORK IS SCARCE, DELICATE HUMMINGBIRDS
HAVE BEEN WEAPONIZED, AND TERRORISM IS THE DAILY NORM

 
 

Directed by Kim T. Sharp, the production features Francesca Ravera and Leonardo Gómez. 

Performances of The Hummingbirds are on Wednesdays – Saturdays at 7:30pm, with matinee performances on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00pm. 

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online at: https://thehummingbirds.eventbrite.com 

Been unemployed too long? Welcome to a very special office of the Unemployment Bureau! Here you will work with two very special unemployment counselors to place you into a job today. It may not be a job you are qualified to do, or a job that's safe for anyone to perform, but you will have to do it. because if you can walk, you can work! 


The Hummingbirds won the 2012 Global Age Project and the 2012 Internationalists Global Playwriting Prize (7 Presentations in 7 countries - US, Romania, Spain, Mexico, The Netherlands, Germany, and Singapore) and received its English language premiere at New Jersey Rep in 2022. It has been produced in Romania (in Romanian), and in Spanish in Zaragoza, Spain, and in two acclaimed productions in Mexico City, Mexico.

The Hummingbirds features set design by Emily Hao-Yun Hsieh, sound design by Jason Lee, lighting design by Zee Hanna. The Stage Manager is Kate Gavin.