| Real People, Real Stories, No Fiction |
| The Club at La MaMa74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003June 25-28, 2026 |
| This June, the legendary La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club welcomes the return of a Romanian production after more than four decades with “Migration Diary. New York City Edition” — a raw, visually immersive new multimedia theater experience created by award-winning Romanian director Carmen Lidia Vidu. Presented by La MaMa together with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York and in partnership with the National Theatre of Bucharest, the production brings real lives to the stage inside one of the world’s most influential homes of experimental theater. No invented characters. No fictional dialogue. Just the stories people carry across borders. Built through an extensive documentary process of interviews, personal archives, video diaries, and autobiographical testimony, “Migration Diary” continues the groundbreaking artistic method Vidu created more than a decade ago for her internationally acclaimed “Diary of Romania” (“Jurnal de România”) series, presented across Europe at major festivals and theaters. The show follows women whose lives passed through Romania, China, Germany, Portugal, Singapore, London, Moscow, and finally New York — and asks the question this city has always asked, and never fully answered: what does it mean to stay? Urgent, intimate, and deeply contemporary, “Migration Diary. New York City Edition” speaks directly to New York’s immigrant soul — and to everyone who has ever left one life behind to begin another. “MIGRATION DIARY. NEW YORK CITY EDITION”Concept, Research, Script & Artistic Director:Carmen Lidia VIDUPerformers: Sam XU, Lia FIETZ, Ana Maria BANDEAN, Ellen KOMultimedia Production: Sabina COSTINEL Media Design: Constantin ȘIMONStyling: Lizhen MEIPress Representative: David GIBBS / DARR PublicityPresented by La MaMa Theatre together with the Romanian Cultural Institute New YorkIn partnership with “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre of BucharestWith the support of the Ministry of Culture of Romania Performance Schedule: “MIGRATION DIARY. NEW YORK CITY EDITION” will run fromJune 25 – 28, 2026. For the full schedule is available HERE.Please note that tickets are required for attendance. |
