Our reviews from HERE Arts Center.
There’s a particular kind of electricity that comes from a show that knows exactly why it exists, and *The Menopause Monologues* at HERE Arts Center has it in abundance. What could easily have been a worthy but heavy evening instead unfolds as something vibrant, surprising, and consistently engaging, a production that blends urgency with genuine entertainment.
Another excellent night of theater at HERE Arts Center in Lower Manhattan, a venue that continues to champion bold, intimate, and deeply human storytelling.
What if the most ordinary place imaginable turned out to be the center of something inexplicably strange? Not a laboratory or a government facility, but a roadside gas station where the coffee is lukewarm, the fluorescent lights buzz overhead, and the bathroom might occasionally bend the rules of time and space. *Entangled: 12 Scenes in a Circle K Off the I-40 in New Mexico*, now playing at HERE Arts Center, explores exactly that possibility in a production that blends humor, mystery, and a touc
Those who do not know their history tend to repeat it. Yet history also repeats itself when we know it and still feel compelled to follow the same path. We sin by omission. Society teaches us to preserve tradition and to reproduce the lives of those who came before us. Marry young, remain in the hometown, live as our parents lived. To question these expectations can feel like rebelling against the family itself. Fear of judgment, fear of standing apart, fear of the unknown keeps us obedient to t
To love and be loved, to be in a couple or to have a partner?
Fresh water is no longer something we can take for granted. Rivers run dry with alarming regularity and the reservoirs that supply the world’s largest cities continue to recede, leaving behind pale “bathtub rings” as stark reminders of our collective thirst. It is often predicted that future wars will be fought not over oil or gas, but over access to safe, clean drinking water. Scarcity is no longer a distant threat. It is a present reality.
As we took our seats in the dimly lit theatre, set up in the round with a striking centerpiece of metallic columns and lights suspended above a large circular table, we genuinely did not know what to expect from *Dream Feed by The HawtPlates*. Various musical instruments were carefully placed around the stage and throughout the audience, hinting at something immersive yet undefined.