HERE Arts Center
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| type = Off-Off-Broadway
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HERE Arts Center is a New York City off-off-Broadway producing and presenting home, founded in 1993. Their location includes two stages specializing in hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media and puppetry in addition to art exhibition space and a cafe. Since 1993, HERE reports having supported over 15,000 artists and hosting over 1,000,000 audience members.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
HERE is located in Hudson Square, SoHo on 145 Avenue of the Americas, New York, between Spring Street and Broome Street. In 2008 the space underwent extensive renovations which saw the venue take its current form.
History
Founded in 1993, The New York Times says HERE "has produced innovative new theatrical work since it was founded".{{Cite news|last=Isherwood|first=Charles|date=2009-06-10|title=Arts Groups Seek Safety in Numbers|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/theater/14ishe.html|access-date=2022-02-12|issn=0362-4331}} Examples include productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique, and Young Jean Lee's Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. Work produced and presented at HERE has garnered 16 OBIE awards, two OBIE grants for artistic achievement, a 2006 Edwin Booth Award (“for Outstanding Contribution to NY Theatre”) from the CUNY Graduate Center, seven TONY nominations, six Drama Desk nominations, two Berrilla Kerr Awards, two Bessie awards, four NY Innovative Theatre Awards and two Pulitzer Prizes and one nomination and two MacArthur fellowships.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} In 2005, HERE purchased its long-time home and completed a complete renovation in 2008, all through a five-year, $5 million “Secure HERE’s Future” campaign.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} There are two theatres, a cafe, gallery, and support spaces. In July 2025 HERE announced the appointment of Jesse Cameron Alick, Annalisa Dias, Lanxing Fu, and Lauren Miller as co-directors of the institution, succeeding founding artistic director Kristin Marting.
Prototype Festival
{{Main|Prototype Festival}}
January 2013 marked the launch of the PROTOTYPE Opera/Theater/Now festival featuring contemporary artists from around the world, co-produced with Beth Morrison Projects. The festival lasts for less than two weeks and works are staged at various venues around New York City. The 2021 Prototype Festival occurred in a digital format. The 2022 festival had planned to return in person but had to be cancelled due to Covid.{{Cite news|last=Soloski|first=Alexis|date=2022-01-03|title=Coronavirus Is Surging. Avant-Garde Arts Festivals Are Closing.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/theater/festivals-covid-coronavirus.html|access-date=2022-02-12|issn=0362-4331}}
Significant productions
- Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues
- Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique
- Hazelle Goodman's On Edge
- Young Jean Lee's Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven
- Faye Driscoll's 837 Venice Boulevard
- Basil Twist and Joey Arias's Arias with a Twist
- Mohammed Fairouz's Sumeida's Song
- 2016 world premiere of Hansol Jung's Among the Dead{{Cite web|last=Norman|first=Robert|date=2016-11-14|title=Review: Among the Dead at HERE|url=http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-among-dead/|access-date=2021-06-15|website=Exeunt Magazine}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.here.org/}}
- [https://nyc.spacefinder.org/organizations/2579 HERE Theatre Specs] from Fractured Atlas SpaceFinder
- [http://prototypefestival.org/ PROTOTYPE Festival Homepage]
- [https://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations/189/here HERE Overview] at NYC Arts
- [http://www.allwearbowlers.com/ all wear bowlers] Official website
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Category:Theatres in Manhattan
Category:Performance art in New York City
Category:Theatre companies in New York City
Category:1993 establishments in New York City