Best friends, unfiltered internet access, and the summer before 8th grade. Growing up is virtually impossible.
Eating your favorite food as hot and as fast as possible increases its savoriness, and thus increases its potential for an emotional energy release. A scientist attempts to prove this theory.
At defense contractor Boykin Dean, certified girlbosses Millie and Francine train computers to do…something. Something crucial for protecting our protectors, our ‘boys’ (sorry, our ‘people’) who fight for our freedom.
When Dr. Nicholas A. Laurenstien isn't teaching archeology at Cambridge University, he's exchanging blows with the endless assortment of cartoony villians entering his office.
In an apocalyptic future, four survivors Lionel, Lude, Virgile and Gog seek shelter in a cave to survive. There, they find something impossible: a little girl named Sophia protecting a gigantic egg she claims contains the future of humanity. How will they react to such news where all seems lost? Will they believe? Doubt? Or worse...
Tier5 finishes its SpookyFest staged reading series with Matilda Corley Schulman's scars & stains!
"Doubt That the Stars Are Fire" is a queer mythological fairytale that explores the intersection of queerness, faith, and identity in a world where societal and divine expectations reign supreme.
Tier5's SpookyFest staged reading series continues with James Cougar Canfield's DRACULA: BLOOD & GLITTER.
Tier5's SpookyFest staged reading series kicks off with Justin McDevitt's gay ghost story, Haunt Me.
Haunted prodigal playwright Sloane and their botanist husband Gwyn are due to settle the estate of Sloane's ailing grandmother. When Gwyn's childhood friend Beckham arrives to help the couple bury the hatchet, they soon discover there may be more to the dusty old house, and to Sloane's twisted past, hidden beneath the foundation.
A one-hour comedic version of William Shakespeare’s tragic play, Hamlet on the Run. Seven actors play twenty-four characters in one hour. It’s the play we all know but shorter.
What do you believe in next when the Wizard is just a bald man behind a curtain?
An edgy playwright creates a new musical about the Unabomber. Featuring Ecoterrorist Taylor, queer romance, rape culture, and the search for tenderness at the end of the world.
Manifest Destiny takes place on the ocean floor during the American war on Asia. Laura, an Asian-American pacifist, suddenly develops supernatural powers and must decide her place in the War.
An unflinching take on the roles we play to survive and living to tell the tale.
Experience dark humor and supernatural twists in three thrilling short plays exploring modern fears and absurdities.
In a world where art is banned, the Raccoon Princess creates a secret sanctuary in her bar's basement, building a shrine to a goddess she prays will save her.
Recycling the refuse of earlier writing projects, uncollected trash collection is an essay-in-dross about the relationship between art, trash, love, death, and transformation.
When Princess Frankie of Sewer City is flushed away by The Evil Clog, she must rediscover who she is and find her path to destroy the evil plaguing her kingdom.
Planting Day grapples with the inescapable fact that two things can be true at the same time. How do we plan for an uncertain future in a world that is slowly burning?
July 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 at 7:00 PM
July 6 at 9:30 PM
When two strangers run into each other (and can’t stop running into each other) they get locked in a disaster-prone back-and-forth fraught with injury, mail related felonies, and hypothetical questions.
April 17 and 18 at 9:30pm and April 19, 20, 23, and 24 at 7:00
In ORLANDO: A Rhapsody, two actors, father and daughter, place gender onstage as a theatrical material to wrestle with, in all of its violence and all of its poetry.
About the complex life of Isabella Stewart Gardner following the people she meets, the losses she encounters, and the garden she grows.
A showcase of four comedic & socially conscious one-act plays making their NY premiere, performed by new and undiscovered NYC actors, written by emerging playwrights.
This performance takes a poetic voyage into the life of three Kurdish women, inspired by the poetry of Kajal Ahmad the epic poem Gilgamesh. Two actresses interpret the different women and how they react to a violent and unstable outside world.
Sistersongs
by Rachael Sage
Rachael Sage brings selections from her critically acclaimed “Sistersongs” to the IHRAF on the heels of releasing her 15th full-length album, “The Other Side”. Sage has been at the forefront of the NYC indie women’s music scene for over 20 years, having founded MPress Records to release her and many other artists’ work. Sage’s empowering lyrics and genre-crossing musical compositions have been described as “wildly expressive” by Paste Magazine and garnered listeners everywhere from Ireland to Japan. Informed by her own experiences as a survivor of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and cancer while also harnessing a seemingly unlimited amount of idealism and hope for a better future, Sage’s “Sistersongs” take the listener on a journey exploring our common humanity while challenging us with difficult questions and a world reimagined, where inclusion and compassion reign supreme. www.rachaelsage.com
Sacred Women
by Moving Spirits
Sacred Women is a dance that honors Black women and their role in society as healers through the traditional dances of Oya, coming from the sacred Yoruba movements; the Cabolco, coming from the sacred Indigenous movements from present-day Brazil; and movements coming from the descendants of African ancestors in the United States.
No More Fairy Mary’s
by Steph Prizhitomsky
Girlhood in motion is a ballet up close. Sweat, blood, tears, and all. Mary wakes up in a body that does not feel her own, in a world she knows not the rules of, with only the choices to sink or to swim.
Viable
by Cate Wiley
In a comic triptych, Viable probes the paradox of the female body in twenty-first century America. On the one hand, sex positivity, SlutWalks, no more fat shaming! On the other, the end of legal abortion in half the country. Why is half the American body politic still a problem, and what’s a person with a uterus to do?
La Monica
by Artist Collective
This multidisciplinary performance work represents women's freedom of choice with movement, texts and music.
November 11 at 3PM,
November 12 at 12PM,
November 18 at 3PM (livestream available),
and November 19 at 12PM (livestream available)
“Obsession”: Six Violinists, two Dancers and one Actor explores the agonies of creation and perfection of art through music, movements and monologues.
November 10th at 1PM and 4PM
The Last Man is an original Korean solo musical set in a Korean-style zombie apocalypse. With a gender-swapped cast, two actors will portray a survivor in the world of zombies.
