This Season

Pearl is a historical feminist play that reimagines the Mongol invasion of Iran through the untold perspective of women. Rather than focusing on the conquerors, the story highlights the resilience, courage, and resistance of women who defied violence and terror. It is a narrative of survival, strength, and solidarity that sheds light on overlooked voices […]

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.

The story of a boy that was born a robot.  We meet Mother and Father, a young couple who are excited to have their first baby. During labor, catastrophe occurs when Mother dies giving birth to a jagged, metal robot. Immediately causing a major rift between Karkoid and Father, who can’t help but blame his son for the death of the love of his life.   

Set within a world of the broken bridge, rivers, and rain, Qing Bai reimagines ancient Chinese legends through movement, sound, and ritual gesture. Performed entirely in Mandarin, the piece explores transformation, memory, and the fragile boundary between human and myth.

In this conversation about where chamber orchestra intersects with drag, Angelica will discuss her experience developing this performance piece using fragmented childhood memories, the profound influence of her experience as a Puerto Rican living in the diaspora, her intimate working relationship with the drag community and the dramaturgy of family lore.  

In a world where the government assigns gender, we rise up and fight back. Gen-Directed crafts a dystopic world where those in power would rather isolation prevail. And yet, hope is found and community is cultivated in underground, nightlife spaces! Told through original scenes, songs, and lip sync performances, watch as the oppressed and their oppressors collide.

Basil Twist's annual puppet celebration returns to HERE for three nights in December! Featuring Joey Arias performing songs from his new Christmas album, Tau Bennett premiering a gorgeously grotesque character from his show Medicine Men, and downtown ventriloquist Sophie Becker. With live music by Jono Mainelli.

For three days only, experience bold new work from visionary artists redefining what's possible on stage. Kat Mustatea's The Mutable's and Official Puppet Business' Bill's 44th!

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.

“Any Minute Now” by Alix Sobler is an 80-minute, mind-bending, dark comedy that explores what happens when one American family is brought face-to-face with past mistakes and a future that’s irreversibly doomed.

A winter review of HERE’s puppetry state of mind; Dream Music’s annual celebration of imagination, possibility, exciting techniques and community creation. Featuring the World Premiere of PARCHED by Official Puppet Business, RUBY & CHARLIE by Jessica Simon & Co, and more!

Inspired by swing dance and the music of Ray Charles, Ruby & Charlie is a wordless, dance and movement-focused piece utilizing tabletop puppetry to tell the story of a couple in the 1950s.

In the far-flung future, water scarcity has led to humanity's extinction. A sentient mushroom, inhabiting plastic bottles like a hermit crab, is scouring the wastes for water. Getting lost in a sandstorm she stumbles upon a remnant of human technology, a deep well drill, and manages to turn it on.

Puppetopia Show Three! To be announced soon – stay tuned!

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

It's 2011, and for a certain recent graduate and actor-hopeful, things are not going...well. When a Facebook message from a mysterious stranger named John arrives, she's forced to reckon with a past that comes hurtling back.

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.

A dynamic theatrical production featuring professional actors and first-time performers - expressing themselves through storytelling, dance, poetry, puppetry, and more. Be a part of the Theater Movement that's bringing menopause out of the darkness and into the spotlight, one real-life story at a time!

Developed in EiO’s The Writers’ Room, Constance: A Confession is a comedic journey following one woman’s devotion to the long art of the con. The opera starts with a shocking act of violence in a grad school art class, and continues as Constance finds work as a psychic, becomes a wellness influencer and grows her online empire into a cult—with deadly consequences.

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.