This Season

Theater in Quarantine imposes its strictest limitations to date in this hybrid, digital confrontation performed entirely from a box measuring only 34” wide by 19” tall. Pushing the boundaries of, and proximity to, a concept of self-exposure that’s becoming the default extension of our ever more codependent relationship with technology and life online, [Untitled Miniature] asks how we find ourselves embedded within all this technology. How is our body exploited when the content we share is ourselves?

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.

B, a potter, is content with their life as an artist and spouse until their partner, K, asks for a special commission. K, buckling under the grief of their gender transition leaving them looking near-identical to their abuser, asks for a vitally important, impossible creation: a new face.

Reading of a new play, AMERICAN STEEL, by Alex Lin, directed by Cara Hinh, presented by Working Theater in partnership with The Action Lab. AMERICAN STEEL is a multigenerational story of the steelworkers who built this nation. This evening will be the first public reading of this commission and will have members from the United Steel Workers Union in attendance.

Obie Award-winning writer/director Shayok Misha Chowdhury's recent play, Public Obscenities, is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and was singled out as one of the best theater works of 2023 by The New Yorker. His 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. Another of her loves is the poetic songs of Bengali composer Rabindranath Tagore. These songs paint glorious pictures about the drama of nature: monsoons produce drum-like thunder claps, rivers let loose their long hair into waterfalls, music flows through generations. Chakraborty learned these songs from her foremothers, then passed them on to Misha. In this production, an artist son studies his physicist mother while she studies the strange behavior of sand. Together, they try to understand the science and perform the story of how things flow.

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.

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 festival of new puppetry 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.

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.