This Season

A multi-sensorial live performance: part-ritual, part-celebration, part-installation, and part-dinner by critically acclaimed multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. Commissioned by HERE and co-produced with LEIMAY, A Meal explores our deep connection with food—where it comes from, what we eat, and who we share it with.

Set in New York City and Pittsburgh in 1953, the inspiring play with music follows the real-life professional and personal relationship between actress-singer Christine Jorgensen, the first transgender individual to become widely known in America, and forgotten songwriter, dancer and pianist Myles Bell.

Whore’s Eye View is a comedic mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex worker’s perspective. Equal parts stand up comedy, history lecture and personal storytelling Kaytlin Bailey unpacks the oldest profession by weaving together the wisdom of lived experience with a compassionate, clarion call for progress.

A special one-day-only work-in-process reading, written and performed by Tara Moses (Seminole/Mvskoke). This is the New World is not a play, but a call to action. Through direct community engagement, experimentation of process, stories, and song, together we travel to the New World where one Native person is able to live free from the legacy of Christopher Columbus. But what will it take to arrive there? This is an interactive performance that will ask audience members to take action before they leave the theatre.

Oud Player on the Tel presents a story about the founding of Israel from both sides' perspectives, though very sensitive to the Palestinian narrative. The premise is that there are two true, competing, and irreconcilable narratives around the founding of the State, and the first step toward peace is understanding the validity of the other side’s point of view.

Dream Music’s annual celebration of new puppetry shorts returns! This two-night-only event is curated and hosted by Basil Twist.

Based on the novel by Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document unfolds in the wake of a radical protest gone wrong. Shifting between the 1970s and the 1990s, this new opera by composer John Glover, librettist Kelley Rourke, director Kristin Marting, and music director Mila Henry considers idealism, activism and consequences, while exploring connections between the two eras – their language, technology, music, and activism.

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.

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.

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? [Untitled Miniature] is being developed as a durational, solo-performance for a Spring 2025 premiere intended for both an in-person audience at HERE’s DOT theater in New York City, and a live-streamed audience on HERE’s digital platform URHERE.​​

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.