Quick Dish NY: “Hallmark Presents Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis” 1.31 at Caveat

It’s a new year! A time to shed the old skins, and be born anew. So there’s no better time to enjoy a new, hour-long version of “Hallmark Presents Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis!” Saturday, January 31st at 1:30pm is the time for THE CHANGE:

Greg Samsa’s Big City Job sends him on assignment to his rustic hometown mere days before Christmas. As if that wasn’t stressful enough, now he’s been transformed into a hideous giant bug! Can he get the big promotion AND reconnect with his high school crush? Will he learn the true meaning of Christmas while being a metaphor for the destruction of the individual by industrial capitalism? Will he have to work during the Big Christmas Parade?

The show stars Tom Buffalo Powers, Hattie Hayes, Omar Evans, Erin Davis, Lida Darmian, Farshad Khansari, Jonathan Greaser, Rebecca Skowron and Grant Cleaveland, and is written by Myles Hewette and Directed by Shem Pennant.

Come start your 2026 with absurdist, existentialist, magically realistic fun in bug form!

Mentions: Doors 1pm, Show 1:30pm ET. Livestream & In-Person tickets: $15 early bird (until Jan 24, 01:30PM), $20 standard, $25 at the door, $10 livestream. 21+. Location: Caveat | 21A Clinton Street, Manhattan, 10002. Feed the algo.