Bread & Puppet in NYC - December 2025 THE CHRISTMAS STORY

BREAD & PUPPET IN NYC
December 3 – 7: Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus
December 11-14: The Christmas Story
Theater for the New City
155 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $15-$20, no one turned away for lack of funds
*Please be mindful that it’s one ticket page for two different shows. Please make sure you purchase to the show you intend to.

Join Bread & Puppet for an urgently-needed retelling of the first Christmas. In the tradition of the medieval mystery plays, this show combines reverence and impudence to speak to this exact moment. Mary and Joseph sleep with the cows because they don’t have $26.50 for a room at the Sandy Arms motel. King Herod laments the balance-of-payment deficit. The bubble-headed bourgeoisie of Jerusalem dismiss the star in the east as a publicity stunt. See this ancient story remade for today’s horrors and today’s badly needed cry for an end to war.

Originally created in 1962, Bread & Puppet’s The Christmas Story was performed every year at Christmastime until the mid 1980’s. The puppeteers have revived the show with the help of archival video and interviews with the original performers. In 1967 The New York Times said of the piece: “The scene is at once the holy land and super America; the time then, and now… The approach may seem campy or sacrilegious. It is neither. The play says that Jesus’s world was, in essence, ours; that both need saving.”

You may also like the following events from Bread and Puppet Theater:

• Next Wednesday, 17th December, 07:00 pm, Bread & Puppet December 2025 Tour – TROY, NY 12-17-25 in Troy
• Next Thursday, 18th December, 07:00 pm, Bread & Puppet December 2025 Tour – BOSTON, MA 12-18-25 in Boston

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