If you missed the first run of Slanted Floors, consider this your cosmic second chance — and maybe your last. The site-specific play that the Daily Beast called “one of New York’s most unique and exclusive pieces of theatre” is returning to the exact Greenpoint apartment where it first quietly detonated, running May 26 through June 26, 2026. Only 150 seats exist across the entire engagement, and tickets are on sale now.

Created and produced by Billy McEntee, and directed and produced by Ryan Dobrin (Associate Director on Becky Shaw and Merrily We Roll Along), Slanted Floors reunites its original cast: Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominee Kyle Beltran (A Case for the Existence of God, The Flick, Gloria) and Lortel Award nominee Adam Chanler-Berat (Gossip Girl, Next to Normal, Mother Russia). Their chemistry is the engine of the whole thing, and critics went out of their way to say so the first time around.

The premise is deceptively small. Kaplan (Chanler-Berat) is a freelancer whose brain won’t stop blurring the boundary between the media he consumes, the gigs he works, and the ideas he’s trying to actually finish. Meanwhile, his partner Teddy (Beltran) is on his way home to cook a very specific dinner. Audiences — six per night — are invited inside a real apartment to witness the surreal churn of one freelancer’s day and then sit with the quiet radicalism of two partners dining, dishing, and dreaming. It’s a portrait of queer domesticity that refuses to be precious about itself.

The return engagement is produced in association with Patrick Catullo (Oedipus, American Utopia) and Clint Ramos (Here Lies Love, Eclipsed), two producers whose involvement alone tells you how seriously the industry took this tiny apartment show. “The singular experience Billy and Ryan created meant many audiences didn’t have the chance to see Slanted Floors during its initial run,” Catullo and Ramos said in a joint statement. “We’re thrilled to bring it back, giving more theatergoers the opportunity to experience it.”

McEntee and Dobrin, who were Drama Desk nominated for their previous site-specific collaboration The Voices in Your Head, framed the return as a philosophical stance as much as a revival. “We were profoundly moved by the way audiences embraced this intimate, site-specific apartment production,” they said. “It means everything to have Patrick and Clint — two artists and producers we deeply admire — supporting this return so the work can reach more people. Theatre doesn’t require a traditional stage; it can exist anywhere people come together, and this piece leans into that liveness and sense of shared experience.”

The critical corner agrees. Jackson McHenry included Slanted Floors on his Vulture list of the Best Plays of 2025, writing, “I recognize that it’s inside baseball to recognize a production that played to only a half-dozen audience members a night inside an apartment in Greenpoint, but I hope it’s cause enough to bring Slanted Floors back to a larger audience.” Helen Shaw, in her year-end piece for The New Yorker, singled it out: “In a year full of apartment shows, I particularly loved Slanted Floors, where Kyle Beltran and Adam Chanler-Berat played a couple trying to imagine utopia.” Tim Teeman at The Daily Beast put it even more plainly: “the play shows the power of evoking the ordinary to unpeel something profound.”

The original production team is back in full: Jess Tsang (Chef), Nick Auer (Lighting and Co-Sound Designer), Dan Kuan Peeples (Video and Co-Sound Designer), Isabelle Chirls (Associate Director), and Damayanti Wallace (Stage Manager). Caitlin Bebb returns as Artwork Designer, and Sandro Lorenzo joins as Associate Producer.

A few practical notes before you try to grab a seat. The play is staged for an audience of six and set around a dinner — yes, a real one, prepared by a chef whose last gig was playing percussion in the Tony-winning Illinoise. No-fee, no-tax tickets start at $79 and include a meal. Fair warning: the apartment is a walk-up, and audiences should expect to climb two flights of stairs to reach the performance.

With a hard cap of 150 seats over a five-week run, this is not a show that will wait around for you to decide. Slanted Floors runs May 26 through June 26, 2026, in its original Greenpoint apartment, and tickets are on sale now.