January Theater Festivals 2025: from Dodos to Dictators, Gwyneth Paltrow to Yoko Ono

New York Theater: There are almost 100 shows produced by the seven annual theater festivals listed below, all of whom begin in January. Largely experimental, avant-garde, mixed-genre, and at much lower ticket prices than most theater in New York, they take over venues throughout New York every January. That’s the month the Association of Performing Arts Presenters holds its annual convention here — thousands of people who book shows for a living, a natural audience for cutting-edge work from all over.