This Season

A NYC train singer named Tariq wakes up in Purgatory with no memory of his death. Despite a rocky past and with big plans for the future - including an impending proposal to his pregnant girlfriend, Marissa - Tariq convinces God to let him live one more day to prove his life deserves more living. Except God is a bad communicator, the music of the city is loud, and there’s something going on with Marissa that everyone except Tariq seems to know about…

Pretty Delusional is a solo coming-of-age musical comedy about a horny hopeless romantic, fighting to stay true to herself in the face of rejection. Through personal storytelling, original songs and a quarter-life crisis, writer/performer Gianna Milici marches heart-first into the battle of loving too much or not at all. But most importantly, trying to not vomit in the process.

Memoirs (Act 2) is the second act of GUT (굿), a three-act autobiographical hybrid/dance work and the fifth and final installment of Soomi Kim’s series exploring mortality in Korean and Asian American lives. It examines the complex legacy between a Korean American daughter and her immigrant father, as she pieces together the history of a man she never truly knew. Set between 1950s postwar Korea and present-day America, Memoirs traces a poetic journey through grief, fragmented memory, and complicated love—asking: how can we let go when grief is a knot of longing and regret?

Can you be Black and not perform? Incorporating art gallery aesthetics and an electronic soul score, Eisa Davis performs a piece about performance, exploring the cultural techniques that make musical expression a kind of imprisonment – or a transcendent liberation.

We’re literally throwing open the doors at HERE for a celebration you won’t want to miss. Think: listening party featuring music from HERE’s upcoming season, special sneak peeks at upcoming projects, flash tattoos, light bites by some of our favorite culinary artists, curated wine tastings, behind-the-scenes tours, and more. Stay tuned for the full lineup, […]

What is said cannot be unsaid. What is unspoken is alluded to, wrapped in metaphor, layered in allegory, gestured at. What is gestured at, is not silence. THE MUTABLES weaves cutting edge technology for speech production with mythographies of the feminine monstrous to expand and reorient our intuitions for what can be put into words. Using a unique sensor-based instrument for embodied speech called BodyMouth, this eerie performance intertwines bodies and vocals as dancers sound out words phoneme-by-phoneme by enacting specific gestures in sequence, turning the body quite literally into a mouth. Situated at the edge of experimental opera and dance, the piece is inspired by female forest creatures in Balkan folklore called ielele whose voices were said to lead men astray and who could render listeners instantly mute. The project is a meditation on the question What does it mean to have a voice?—a provocation to the bleak histories of totalitarian rule where alternate modes of speech became an urgent form of survival and resistance.

Dimension Zero is a sci-fi puppet-filled musical theater spectacle. This absurdist adventure story challenges the status quo / powers that be as our planet falls apart. Drawing inspiration from iconic works of science fiction like Metropolis and Flash Gordon, and classic off-beat musicals like Little Shop of Horrors, and Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dimension Zero features a live rock band that will guide the audience on an epic adventure that spans the vastness of New York City and the human experience. It is a grand love letter to our city, an ode to classic sci-fi, rock-n-roll, and a tribute to badass space-adventuring women battling against the madness of unbridled capitalism and giant space monsters everywhere.

Inspired by Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the work follows Janair, a Black domestic worker in Rio de Janeiro, as she confronts racial, gender, and class-based oppression.

EPIC Players, New York’s leading neuroinclusive theater company, presents the world premiere of BUM BUM (or, this farce has Autism); a sharp-witted, genre-bending comedy by award-winning Autistic playwright Dave Osmundsen. Blending farce, satire, and social critique, BUM BUM is a radical, hilarious takedown of how media and society package neurodivergence for mass consumption. EPIC’s neurodivergent cast brings authenticity and bite to this bold new work, continuing the company’s mission to challenge stereotypes, increase representation, and center Disabled artists as creative leaders. And, in a perfectly meta turn, EPIC holds a mirror to the industry and joyfully dismantles the very tropes they've spent years replacing.

Basil Twist's annual puppet celebration returns to HERE for three nights in December!

An electroacoustic song cycle by one of NYC’s most exciting theatrical bands that drops audiences into the humor, terror, beauty, and allure of an active mind within a slumbering body. A 2023 HARP commission with additional commissioning support by UTR, this psychedelic live concept album makes its world premiere in the 2026 Under the Radar Festival.

A comedic journey following one woman’s devotion to the long art of the con. We first meet our titular character during her last days of grad school when she persuades a classmate to participate in a shocking act of violence as a conceptual art project. A year later, struggling to earn money in New York City, Connie finds work as a psychic. Soon, she expands her business and becomes a wellness influencer and her online empire grows into a cult—with deadly consequences.

Off the I-40 in the American southwest sits a Circle K gas station where something strange is happening: Time and space shift, happy couples suddenly break up, and people disappear for days after stepping into the tiny bathroom. Is this place a portal, tied to the decades of deathly scientific research just a few miles away? In this play - born from ensemble research, debate, and playwright-driven improvisation - theories of free will and quantum science play out in massive dance parties and micro emotional exchanges

Parched is a full-length puppet theater piece set in a future where water scarcity has caused humanity’s extinction. In a desolate land made of sand and salt, decayed inhabitants strive to survive, seeking revenge not only for smaller day-to-day transgressions, but for the larger ruin of their existence. From the team that brought you Bill’s 44th (Drama Desk Nominated, New York Times’ Critics’ Pick), this new show seeks to find the remains of humor and humanity in a world that can’t seem to forget our impact even after we’re gone.

A participatory theatrical intervention aimed at the American Criminal Justice System, and an offering for those with active criminal records to have a free consultation with criminal justice attorneys.

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.