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Kevin Cheng’s Sunset Diner, starring Cheng, Jennifer Analise Roberts, and Jemma Giberson, runs at Secret Theatre as part of the Queens Short Play Festival with performances on October 15, 19, 24 and November 1.
Ken Habarta performs in Take This to Your Grave at The Rat NYC on October 19.
Erich Rausch performs in the film Sotto Voce, screening at Regal Union Square as part of the SoHo Film Fest on October 9.
Ginger Grace appears in Rob Asaro’s Lost Again, screening at Cinema Village as part of the New York Shorts International Film Festival on October 14.
Chris Jaymes stars in the short film Pixelworld, screening at Roxy Hotel Theater as part of the Downtown Festival on October 14.
Burak Tatar directs First Date, starring Michael Tyrell, screening at The Secret Theatre as part of Queens Short Play Festival on October 16, 22, 25, and 31.
Chris Jaymes stars in short films Gramercy and Veiled, both screening at Cinema Village as part of the New York Shorts International Film Festival through October 18.
Burak Tatar directs Prime Real Estate, starring Pat Clune and James Fordyce, screening at Utopia Film Festival in Maryland on October 18, NYLIFF in Long Island on October 25, Bernardsville Film Festival in New Jersey on October 26, and AMT Film Festival in Manhattan on October 30.
Ginger Grace appears in a new version of The First Ladies Coalition, her one-woman show directed by Austin Pendleton, presented by the Greenhouse Ensemble inside St. Michael’s Church on November 8, 9, and 11.
Neeraja Ramjee performs in Broken Images at Paradise Factory Theater from November 6-23; use discount code BISTUDENT25 for $25 tickets.
Franco Pistritto plays the role of R.M. Renfield in Bram Stoker’s Dracula at Southampton Arts Center from October 17-26.
Basement Theatrics presents Lysistrata, directed by Moshe Henderson with Associate Director Eve Bianco, featuring HB artists Lluvia Almanza*, Guillermo Arias, Coretta Bradley, Jyan (Janelle Jung), Drew Limon, Juan José Mojica, Elenore Nebot, Maria Politano, Hana Roh, Scott Rogers, and Sean Simmons at HB Playwrights Theatre from October 16-19; use code HBFRIEND for $15 off tickets. *Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production. This is an Equity Approved Showcase.
Maite Martin‘s short film The Unprofessional screens at the 11th Annual Digital Sketch-fest at The PIT on October 15.
Andrew Heinze‘s new play The Bliss Option runs at The Chain Theatre (3rd Floor) through October 12.
Kevin Cheng performs in The Attic, co-created and performed by Camilla Nigro, Sara Velasco, and Cheng, with assistant director Juanita Santafe Sabogal, at Brooklyn Art Haus on October 7.
Albert Insinjnia leads the Creative Drama Workshop at the Jersey City Free Public Library Creative Arts Center each Tuesday through October 14.
JNK Enzo‘s new play S.C.U.M., starring Enzo, Merlin McCormick, GG Generally, and Janey Biss, plays at The Tank NYC October 1, 3, 5, and 10.
Maja Wampuszyc directs and performs in Zagłada, starring Len Cariou, at American Theatre of Actors from October 16 – November 2; use code FF20 for HB student and faculty discount.
Dayna Richardson performs Disco Daze at Bloom Botanical Bistro on October 1.
Nancy Redman performs in BUM BUM (or, this farce has Autism) at HERE Arts Center from December 4-14.
Chris Hahn makes his off-Broadway debut in André De Shields is Tartuffe at House of the Redeemer through November 23.
Lynda Crawford is the winner of the 2025 Women in Arts & Media Collaboration Award for her play with dance DUSK!, along with choreographer Kat Files.
Erich Rausch performs in The Last Musician at the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival through September 13.
Burak Tatar directs Stay Calm by Randy McHaney, starring Michael Donaldson, Erdem Ülker, Olivia Hardin, John Payne, and Connor Chase Stewart, at Theater for the New City from September 19-28; use discount code HBFRIEND for $15 off tickets.
Chia Kwa performs in Psychomagic 9 at The Classics Department October 16-19.
Ayaka Yamamoto performs her play In Search of “True Love” at Theater for the New City from September 2-14.
Chris Jaymes stars as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Richard Feynman in One in Twenty Five as part of the Dream Up Festival at Theater for a New City from August 23 – September 10.
Chris Jaymes performs in the upcoming Bruce Springsteen film, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which premieres as the New York Film Festival’s 2025 Gala Spotlight film on September 28 before opening in theaters nationwide October 23.
Ginger Grace performs in Rob Asaro’s Lost Again at Chain NYC Film Festival 2025 (part of their “Shorts Block” called Remembrance) on Saturday, August 16.
Home Testing, developed by Andrew Matthews in Playwriting class at HB Studio, runs at Foothills Performing Arts Center from September 19-21.
Krit McClean stars in the world premiere of Achilles in Arcadia at Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles from August 9 to September 21.
Moshe Henderson directs Off the Shelf Series: Reading #3, with Jack Mallett, Luke Kissick, and Katie Van Riper, at Helen Gallagher Studio Theatre on August 9.
Lluvia Almanza performs in Bargaining Chip at New Perspectives Theatre Company, as part of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, the 2025 Meganne George Women’s Work Short Play Festival, from August 4-9.
Noa Worsek Rosenberg performs in Indoor Kids at The Players Theatre on August 8.
Charly Wenzel performs in Sweet & Lucky: Echo at Denver Center for the Performing Arts from August 13 to October 5.
Catch the film premiere of A Little Jaded by Kelley Lord, with Nikki Montano and Tim O’Reilly, at The Local NY on August 26.
Kathleen Files performs in Barren Landscape at Elmwood Playhouse on July 25-27.
Sandra Weldon performs in the cabaret show Don’t Tell Mama at 92NY on July 22.
Matthew Cade directs and performs in his play The Celestial Field, alongside Yule Donald and Anna Kaliuzhnaia, at New York Theater Festival on July 24, July 26, and July 27.
Basement Theatrics presents a staged reading of Lysistrata, directed by Moshe Henderson, at HB Playwrights Theatre on July 19 at 2pm & 7pm (pay-what-you-wish).
Philip Cioffari‘s play Questions I Keep Asking Myself, starring Deirdre Hering and Supreet Mahanti, will be presented at Chain Theatre, as part of the Summer One-Act Fest, on July 18 and July 19; use code ASK25 for ticket discount.
An additional performance of Philip Cioffari‘s play Questions I Keep Asking Myself, starring Deirdre Hering and Supreet Mahanti, has been added at Chain Theatre, as part of the Summer One-Act Fest, on July 31.
Dafna Rosenblum plays Robin in The Merry Wives of Windsor with Bird-on-a-Cliff Theater Company in Woodstock at their Shakespeare Festival from July 25 – August 31.
Kevin Cheng performs in his play Uptown Express at Chain Theatre, as part of the Summer One-Act Fest, on July 12, July 17, and July 23; use code UPTOWN25 for 25% off tickets.
Craig Perkins stars in his play Christine or Dark Phantom Sex Goddess (Depending on Time of Day) at Hudson Guild Theater, as part of New York Theater Festival, on July 15 and July 18-19.
Anya Zhang stars in her play Dissolving Boundaries at Chain Theatre on July 16, July 26, and July 31; use code BOUND25 for 20% online ticket discount.
Elise Hansen performs in The Golden Ibburs, part of New York Theater Festival, at Hudson Guild Theater from June 26-29.
Ginger Grace appears in Frank Tangredi’s The Innocence of Eli Druce, part of the Greenhouse Ensemble Summer Reading Series, at St. Michael’s Church on June 28 at 3pm.
Moshe Henderson directs his play Velvet Rage: A Queer-Ass Play at HB Playwrights Theatre from June 19-22; use discount code YASSHB for $15 off.
Tatiana Korinfsky directs Shostakovich in New York, adapted by Korinfsky, at Polaris North Studio from June 27-29.
Gabriel Robinson performs in Once On This Island at Schneider Theater at the Bloomington Center for the Arts from October 2-26.
Kevin Cheng stars with Elizabeth McBryde in Cheng’s play Dear Diary at The Players Theatre from June 12-15 as part of the 14th Annual Short Play Festival – use code CAST for ticket discount.
Raymond Turturro‘s film The Swan Way runs at the Cinema Village Theatre on June 16 as part of the Manhattan Film Festival.
Riven, an eco-theatre play associate produced by Covi Loveridge Brannan, runs at the site-specific location Sure We Can from June 13-27.
Sandra Weldon performs at the Don’t Tell Mama’s cabaret show on June 24.
Pat Dwyer performs his play THURBER: Not Unmeaningless, presented by The Shakespeare Forum, at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 through June 7.
Lorna Courtney stars in the return of Heathers the Musical at New World Stages from June 22 – September 28.
Youlim Nam directs the return of her play Just a Yellow Cab in New York City, starring Delil Baran and Han Na Shin, at Theatre Row from June 18-22.
Aarti Tiwari performs in Madhuri Sheka’s House of Joy at Seattle Public Theatre through June 8.
Arezu Riaz performs in Kisses and Bullets, one of five short films included at Shorts: Hopes and Dreams at the Shorts Theater at Spring Studios for the Tribeca Film Festival from June 8-15.
Deedee Woche stars in Dolores by Edward Allan Baker at Stephanie Feury Theatre for Hollywood Fringe Festival from June 8-29.
Chris Jaymes is a recurring character on Season 5 of Law & Order: Organized Crime, out now on NBC and Peacock.
Wynn McClenahan performs in Doughboys at The Vino Theatre from April 24-30.
A table reading of Velvet Rage: A Queer-Ass Play, written by Moshe Henderson and performed by Henderson, Seann Gallagher, Royce Johnson, and Zaq Latino, will take place at HB Playwrights Theatre on April 12.
Shyla Idris performs in Adam Driver at Chain Theatre as part of New York City Fringe from April 5-19.
Lynda Crawford has three plays in performance – The Audit at Urban Stages (performances through March 16) and both The Wonderer and Artificial Light at the Chain Theatre’s Spark Theatre Festival (single performance March 16).
Praying for Shakespeare, written and performed by Eric Weiner, plays at The Barrow Group Solo Show Festival on April 6 at 3:30pm.
Kathleen Files performs in An Ideal Husband at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, NY, through March 30.
Ginger Grace appears in her interactive performance piece The First Ladies Coalition for Women’s History Month at the Moving Forward Together: Women Inspiring Generations Festival in Queens, NY from March 8-22, as well as Dave Brubeck Hall in Wilton, CT, on March 23.
Michelle Park stars in Truth Be Told at The Gene Frankel Theatre through March 9.
Mio Nakanishi performs in Avenue Q at Cultural Arts Playhouse on March 9 at 7pm and March 15 at 8pm.
John L. Payne performs in an upcoming production of The Taming of the Shrew with Frog and Peach Theater Company at American Theatre of Actors through March 23.
Chad Kaydo‘s play I’m Repeating Myself finishes its run at The Brick from March 4-6 at 8pm.
Techno Diva (UK link), directed by and starring Mare Costello, begins streaming on Amazon Prime.
Andrew R. Heinze has been awarded a New Jersey State Council for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, a $17,000 award to be used for further artistic exploration.
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Book & Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Dominic McHugh, a primary authority on the work of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, and Emily Altman, president of the Frederick Loewe Foundation. With songs performed by Tony-nominee Melissa Errico in a special guest appearance.
