This Season

HERE’s Puppetopia, a two-week puppetry state of mind, returns for its fourth annual edition. Curated by HERE Co-Founder Barbara Busackino and Dream Music Artistic Director and star Alum Basil Twist, the festival presents original work.

Join us on June 6th from 4-7pm for our Queer @ HERE Kickoff: Community Art Build & happy hour, to make signs for direct actions for queer resistance and liberation! In partnership with National Queer Theater

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.

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.

QUEER @ HERE is a festival that was born in 2001 and that HERE is proud to revive 24 years later, in the context of the present moment and our continued joyful struggle for queer liberation!

A Queer @ HERE event. Get ready for an intimate evening with Softee as they strip it all down for a special acoustic set. Featuring raw, emotional performances from their unreleased upcoming album, and reimagined versions of fan favorites, this show offers a rare, up-close look at the heart of their music.

A Queer @ HERE event. In a celestial rock opera of queer curiosity, A TRIP TO THE MOON blasts off into the stratosphere with a flamboyant Victorian stargazer's cosmic quest. With a soundtrack that's a wild mashup of prog, punk, electronica, and 19th-century operetta, this odyssey dares to ask the universe: do we belong amongst the stars?

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.

A Queer @ HERE event. POP! A night of performances. An array of remarkable artists. Meet us at HERE, grab a drink and prepare for an energizing evening of revelry and wild beauty. Buckle up. 

A Queer @ HERE event. A participatory solo performance exploring the wisdom of plants and how they can help us re-align ourselves to the natural rhythm of earth’s ecosystems. Let’s co-create a magic for one night with the help of these plants, a little manic storytelling, and, of course, the power of DANCE!

A Queer @ HERE event. would you mind? could you? can I ask? is it possible? is a solo (?) performance with text, sound, and movement created, run, and performed by Garrett Allen in a theater in New York, here, now, with you. It explores help--support, assistance, resources, service, and presence.

A Queer @ HERE event. Produced by Ten Toes Theater Collective. This supernatural love story chronicles grief, transness, and the shifting current of American politics.

A Queer @ HERE event. Solo music set. treya lam is a composer, interdisciplinary performing and recording artist whose intersecting identities ignites their work. lam’s voice culminates in liberation-oriented songwriting and environmental scores throughout solo and collaborative work that “perfectly captures the mixture of love, loss and hope” (Smithsonian Magazine).

A Queer @ HERE event. Art Chirch is A Binaural Beat Brain Massage Dance Party that Diana Oh used to throw out of the Warehouse they used to live in. Art Chirch?! They now call it PUNK MONK: A SHAMANIC DANCE RAGER. TLDR: introverts welcome. a dance party you can crawl to. Please find a space in the Spaceship and lay down. I will gift new music. Matt Park and I will be Performing Korean Shamanic and Clairvoyant Brain Cleaning and we will PUNK MONK for the DANCE SET.

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.