This Season

The IndieChina Film Festival is a unique platform dedicated to showcasing the diverse, bold, and thought-provoking world of Chinese independent cinema. As China’s mainstream film industry continues to grow in scale and influence, a parallel world of fiercely creative, often underrepresented voices has emerged — and it is these voices that the IndieChina Film Festival seeks to highlight.

Alenka is struggling to communicate in a strange world much like ours, where language is diluted by algorithms, feelings, and animal impulses. Her cousin Frankie is coming to visit and won’t stop sending her reels. And her house is starting to voice its opinions out loud. In The Kick Inside, The Million Underscores_ _ invite us to join Alenka as she pulls at the thread of everyday communication in a lost city where humans, animals, and machines keep talking over each other. In a crisis of communication, can a new language be born?

Joey Arias and Basil Twist’s legendary musical extravaganza returns to its original home for a strictly limited engagement.

A hopeful meet-cute for theater, dance, and multi-disciplinary performance artists!

In this techno-noir thriller from the composer of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, everybody comes to Rix, the company where AI has been placed in charge of global surveillance. The immersive music-theatre experience LOOKING AT YOU returns to HERE in January 2027.

Set against the backdrop of Sikh-American life in the Bay Area during early social media, ādat delves into corrupted “motherland” nostalgia, addiction, and romantic hyper projection.

The Harmnf is Kevin (as a robot) Laibson’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Harmfulness of Tobacco and a lecture about his failed attempt to direct a virtual production of that same play using only AI collaborators, including a synthetic actor in the starring role.

A bold new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s short story The Black Monk by Egor Trukhin, an internationally acclaimed theater director whose work has been presented in 17 countries, tells the story of Andrei Kovrin, a brilliant young philosopher who begins to experience delusions of grandeur and encounters seven different versions of himself.

Basil Twist's annual celebration of puppetry returns - this time on Valentine's Day!

In an evening of music and storytelling, Lila Blue and their eight-piece band commune with the work and imagined life of artist Hilma af Klint. Surfacing where Blue’s life overlaps with that of the painter – in queerness, in love, and in loss – SEE/UNSEE invites you to delve into the alchemical waters of ecstatic creation.

Award-winning playwright Jeremy J. Kamps and Certified Nurse Midwife and birth justice advocate Trixie Ndanu Kioko have developed SKIN TO SKIN over three years of creative storytelling workshops with Black mothers and midwives. The play follows three women’s journeys through pregnancy, labor, and delivery, confronting systemic healthcare inequities through sharp humor and deeply personal narratives of survival, bodily autonomy, and maternal joy.

HERE's Dream Music Puppetry program presents PUPPETOPIA 2027! Our annual celebration of the imagination and possibility of community creation. Take a peak inside Dream Music's puppetry state of mind!

STONE BELLY is a dance-theater performance centering the resilient mythology of babaylans and teachings of land-based healers from the Philippines. Babaylans — women and trans shamanic healers — were our precolonial leaders, whose traditions still persist today, called by different names.

A Double-Bill of Plays and Symposium on Kuo Pao Kun, co-produced by Singapore Unbound and Pink Fang.

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.

The forces that would have us turn away from each other, that would have us distrust our neighbors and fear the unfamiliar, are louder than they have been in a long time. Gathering around art, song, dance, and story has always been how people metabolize the unbearable, imagine the impossible, and reach across great divides […]