PhysFest – NYC’s Only Physical Theater Festival Returns!

Broken Box Mime Theater proudly announces their third annual PhysFest NYC – a 10-day physical theater festival featuring 50 shows, events, free panels, and workshops from January 8-18, 2026 at Stella Adler Center for the Arts. The festival is produced by Broken Box Mime Theater, with support from Stella Adler, Parallel Exit, and LubDub Theatre Company.

PhysFestNYC is a one-of-a-kind community-led festival that celebrates, enriches, and envisions the field of physical theater. It provides space for practitioners, audiences, and the physical theater-curious to share in presented works, diverse workshop offerings, and community-building events featuring a stellar lineup of practitioners, makers, and companies from all genres of physical theater across two theaters, two studios, and a community-gathering space.

Performances range from new works, vintage works, and works-in-progress including the fever dream play, “Marble in My Mouth,” Lone Wolf Tribe’s “Body Concert,” Soft Brain Theatre’s “Spork & Gimble Lose Their Cheese,” Bill Bower’s acclaimed “It Goes Without Saying,” the family-friendly “Yellow Bird Chase” from Liars & Believers Ensemble, Parallel Exit’s “I’ll Take It,” and an annual best-of performance by Broken Box Mime Theater.