This Season

Nobody knows you like your sister. Let’s slip into something more comfortable. A roadside diner, a pet shop, the— Shh… this is a library! A pair of red high heels, a leather glove, obviously. Rusty, Dusty, Patsy, Mickey, Bailey, Emma, the librarian. Click clack, click clack. She’s coming. Are you? Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods is a fast, funny, and intimate theatrical experience.

Obie Award-winning writer/director Shayok Misha Chowdhury's newest work, RHEOLOGY, is a performance memoir created and performed with his mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty. Chakraborty's specialty is the titular science of rheology, the laws governing the malleability and movement of matter under force.

Based on an early childhood incident ,SECONDARY DOMINANCE—blending music, dance, psychology, myth, and neuroscience—kaleidoscopically explores trauma through the dual prisms of art and science.

See THE RING OF OUR VOICES, a culminating performance from Staging Pride: Queer Youth Theater. Staging Pride is National Queer Theater’s free, after school youth program.

On May 12th, HERE transforms our historic space into a cosmic playground where experimental performance collides with celestial wonder. For one unforgettable night, join NYC’s boldest creative forces as we celebrate 31 years of artistic revolution. BEYOND is our promise to the future of performance. Mingle with visionary artists while enjoying interstellar craft cocktails. Experience surprise performances that defy categorization. Witness the unexpected in a space where creative boundaries transcend gravity. We can’t wait to go BEYOND with you.

HERE’s Puppetopia, a two-week puppetry state of mind, returns for its fourth annual edition featuring The Harlem Doll Palace, Rhynoceron & Variations on (the) Water.

Discover The Harlem Doll Palace, part of HERE's Puppetopia, where Aunt Len’s dolls fight to keep memory alive in a magical, crumbling Harlem brownstone.

Experience the world premiere of Rhynoceron, a stunning puppetry performance tracing a one-horned rhino’s journey from wonder to exploitation. Created by KT Shivak & Company, this Chicago-based production makes its NYC debut at HERE’s Puppetopia.

Variations on (the) Water is an abstract, wordless puppetry experience that invites audiences to co-create meaning through imagery, empathy, and imagination. A poetic exploration by Lake Simons & John Dyer of their Raft Project.

Criminal Queerness Festival is a signature National Queer Theater program that supports the development and production of new plays by international and immigrant theater-makers and playwrights experiencing censorship or criminalization in their countries of origin. This is a Co-Production between HERE and National Queer Theater with three productions between June 11-28 at HERE's Mainstage: Tomorrow Never Came, What You Are To Me and frikiNation.

URHERE is a new one-of-a-kind, rigorously curated virtual platform for outdoor and digital premieres. URHERE aims to occupy an important part of the art ecosystem which nurtures experimentation, sparks dialogue, and creates engagement with the local community.

VICHITRA is an experiment in queer South Asian imagination. HERE is excited to present Episode 2: Englandbashi, a contemporary ghost story about taking reincarnation (too?) seriously.

Created by Joseph White and HARP Artist Gelsey Bell, the composers that brought you Cairns (included on the New York Time’s Best Theater of 2020 list), Meander encourages listeners to watch, listen, and reset their clocks to pastoral temporality, inviting them to sink into the complex patterns and fine details of the natural environment.