Performatist
    Comedy

    Halwa by Amit Tandon

    Illustration for Halwa by Amit Tandon

    Sunday, October 11, 2026

    6:00 PM

    Town Hall

    New York, NY

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Halwa by Amit Tandon comes to Town Hall; the comedian's material is grounded in everyday domestic life and the small negotiations of modern adulthood. His stage persona is conversational and paced, letting jokes build through observation rather than character spectacle, and the theater-shaped set favors clarity of structure, timing and language over crowd-work.

    About Halwa

    *Halwa* arrives at Town Hall as a live stand-up set shaped by the immigrant vernacular of New York, where food names can double as shorthand for memory and belonging. Amit Tandon anchors the evening with observational comedy that moves between domestic life, language, and the social negotiations of diaspora. The show lands in a Midtown venue more often associated with lectures and concerts, which lends the material a slightly archival feel. No definitive NYC-premiere history is widely documented, but its context is legible: comedy as a record of how communities acclimate.

    About the Artist

    Amit Tandon

    Amit Tandon

    Amit Tandon is a stand-up comedian whose work draws on everyday domestic life and the small negotiations of modern adulthood. His stage persona is conversational and paced, with jokes that build through observation rather than character spectacle.