Chocolate Factory Theater

CATCH is "everyone's favorite" Obie Award–winning, itinerant, rough-and-ready series of performance parties. Satisfying the promise of New York City since 2003, CATCH gives stage to an ever-expanding universe of emerging artists and downtown luminaries — pouring equal portions of community, love, and beer.

Join us on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 for an unforgettable evening at The Chocolate Factory Theater’s Fifth Annual Gala as we proudly honor this year’s Artist In Industry Award recipients: composer David Lang and independent arts professional Janet Wong!

This Is Unreal constructs a hybrid world in which the authentic and the synthetic continuously contaminate one another. An autobiographical pact that goes awry, becoming an autofiction for the age of deepfakes, a dizzying, disorienting game that asks: where does the body end and the machine begin?