Plot Summary
What happens when radical ideas about freedom and responsibility collide with the messy, contradictory realities of human desire?
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir built a philosophy that electrified a generation. But their own lives were complicated by a web of intellectual and romantic entanglements that often stood in stark contrast to their public principles. This comedy is based on the true story of the most challenging of those relationships: their involvement with two brilliant and vulnerable young students, the sisters Olga and Wanda Kosakiewicz.
Back by popular demand! After playing to packed houses for three weeks in 2025, Sartre and Simone returns for an encore run, opening January 29, 2026, at the legendary East Village venue Theater for the New City. This will be a strictly limited engagement of eight performances before the production moves to Paris. Don’t miss your chance to see the famous French existentialists brought to life at New York City’s premier Off-Off-Broadway theater.
2026 Performance Dates
- Thursday, Jan. 29 @ 8:00 p.m.
- Friday, Jan. 30 @ 8:00 p.m.
- Saturday, Jan. 31 @ 8:00 p.m.
- Sunday, Feb. 1 @ 3:00 p.m.
- Thursday, Feb. 5 @ 8:00 p.m.
- Friday, Feb. 6 @ 8:00 p.m.
- Saturday, Feb. 7 @ 8:00 p.m.
- Sunday, Feb. 8 @ 3:00 p.m.
Buy Tickets
All performances are at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets), New York, NY 10003. If you ever wish to contact the director to make sure you have a ticket for a particular show, feel free to reach out to Michael Christian, landline phone (914) 237-7795 or by email to mike@newluxtheater.com.