This Season

Small Acts of Daring Invention, inspired by the life and work of Dare Wright, is an image rich, musically driven exploration of the space between this life and the next. The play teases the realness of the unreal and investigates the endless resources of the imaginative realm. With one actress and four puppeteers, Small Acts follows an unmoored woman, adrift in the isolation and fog of forgetfulness, towards an encounter with her long-lost companions – and life.

In Glisten, Sparkle, Shine, queerness is on full display – celebrated for its beauty and the power that comes from being truly authentic to oneself.  The artworks while colorful and seductive in their materiality hold deep challenges to the status quo and highlights the complexity of queer bodies and expression.

Priestess of Twerk: A Black Femme Star Temple + Wisdom School is a ritual-opera and a temple that merges African traditional religious approaches to healing and Black feminist theologies to both envision and enact a more evolved world through embodied experiences. By centering all radical forms of Black femme agency across time, including dreamwork, coming to voice, creative expression, sacred sexuality, and gender affirmation, Priestess of Twerk takes witness-participants on a journey populated with glorious music, spell-casting choreography, and their own personally tailored guidance throughout the piece, teaching the inter-relationship between Black Femme health and the health of our planet.

Our 30th Anniversary Gala will honor three decades of experimental, groundbreaking creative energy and unparalleled support for artists. Join us for an unforgettable evening filled with celebrations, performances, food, drinks, dancing, and 30 birthday cakes from local bakeries and HERE’s community. You’ll also get a chance to access one-night-only private performances by some of the most iconic HERE artists. 

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.