Orlando Hernández & The Knee-Heart Connection share excerpts from Too soon to discover planets, too late to discover islands, an adventurous tap dance-theater work featuring live music, masks, and physical storytelling. The showing will revisit prior material alongside new work developed during their Works & Process residency at Bridge Street Theatre.

Orlando Hernández and the Knee-Heart Connection is a dance-theater project led by Orlando Hernández. It uses techniques and technologies of tap dance, mask-work, physical theater, jazz music, and improvisation to create unique experiences of rhythm + reflection, with a particular perspective in the Puerto Rican diaspora. This work has been supported and presented by New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks, Dance Now at Joe’s Pub, the CUNY Dance Initiative, the Center for Performance Research, the Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor, thePioneers Go East Collective, the Judson Church, Changing Times Tap Initiative, and the Jerome Foundation. 

Orlando Hernández is a tap dancer and choreographer based in NY. He is a member of the companies Music from the Sole and Subject:Matter.

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($80 Adults, $70 Students for SoloFest)

A fast-paced, razor-sharp 70-minute comedy that introduces Billie Bowtie, a gay robot built to entertain straight audiences. Though designed to deliver “crowd-friendly” humor, Billie quickly realizes his preprogrammed jokes aren’t going to cut it. Enter The Moderator (voiced by Broadway’s Julia Murney), a god-like, omnipresent engineer, who suggests downloading a personal history to humanize Billie’s performance.

What starts as a simple reboot spirals into a journey of self-discovery, as Billie grapples with a corporate world built on heteronormative ideals and an audience intrigued by his more “unpalatable” truths.

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Can Billie stay true to his newfound identity and be a successful product? As he code-switches through gay stereotypes, pop culture references, and every standup trope imaginable, Billie attempts to answer one deceptively simple question: what does it mean to be gay?

With a bold mix of sharp wit, emotional depth, and biting social commentary, Palatable Gay Robot is one truly piece of theater you won’t want to miss.

Directed by Zachary Prince

Produced by Klif Entertainmen

Creative Movement & Dance Improv

with Marcus McGregor

Four Saturdays, March 7-28, 2:00 – 4:00pm

$100 | Ages 13+

6 Student Minimum

Dance Improv is the spontaneous creation of movement in the moment, without pre-planning or choreography. It can be practice for pure expression, or a formal discipline for dancers.

Marcus McGregor has spent his life bringing movement to the stage! A former company member with Dance Theatre of Harlem and The Feld Ballet, he has performed works by Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Eliot Feld, among others. Now based in upstate New York, Marcus teaches ballet, choreographs for schools and theatres across the Hudson Valley, and continues to share his passion for dance and storytelling with new generations of performers.

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($80 Adults, $70 Students for SoloFest)

A witty, personal, and historically rich monologue that traces the journey of the playwright’s German Palatine ancestors from war-torn Europe to upstate New York, culminating in their pivotal—if tragic—role in the Battle of Oriskany during the American Revolution. Through humor, self-reflection, and vivid storytelling, the play explores how ordinary, often overlooked immigrants and marginalized groups have repeatedly shaped and saved America, not by seeking to become “real Americans” in some narrow sense, but by holding onto their unique identities while coming to the aid of their neighbors in times of crisis. The central theme is a powerful argument for pluralism and empathy: America’s greatness lies not in forced assimilation or exclusion, but in the freedom for each person to “do you,” to preserve their culture and individuality, and to answer the call when others are in need. The play ultimately challenges the audience to reject hardheartedness and nativism, urging them to save America’s soul by embracing diversity, compassion, and the spirit of mutual aid that has always defined the nation at its best.

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($80 Adults, $70 Students for SoloFest)

The boundaries between eulogy and confession, comedy and heartbreak, blur as Archie Parish—a reluctant, irreverent eulogist—navigates the messy, beautiful truth of what it means to be remembered. Through a series of raw, unsparing memorials for the flawed and the forgotten, the play confronts the universal longing for meaning, forgiveness, and connection in the face of mortality. With biting wit and deep compassion, it challenges us to mine the “hidden gold” in every life, urging us to embrace honesty, vulnerability, and the courage to dance—shamelessly and joyfully—while the music lasts

Acting Outside the Box (intro series!)

with Davi Cohen

Three Saturdays, April 11-25 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

$75 | Ages 15+

In Acting Outside The Box students will cultivate stage presence, deep listening skills, and the freedom to make creative choices on stage and in life. We will incorporate vocal and physical training, improvisation, meditation, and permission to be your most grounded, wildest, weirdest, and discerning self. No experience on stage or prior training required. The only prerequisite is a willingness to experiment and learn in a brave, supportive space. Ages 15 and older.

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($150 Adults, $125 Students – 6 for the price of 5!)

Inspired by true events this play is a hilarious and thought-provoking comedy-drama that pits small town smarts vs big city credentials in a battle over art and authenticity. Maude, brash and unapologetic, buys a thrift-store painting she’s convinced is a lost masterpiece worth millions, she calls in Lionel Percy, a highbrow art expert from New York City, to authenticate it. What follows is a fiery battle about truth, worth, and integrity. As tempers flare and worlds collide, this witty, gripping play celebrates the courage to stand your ground and fight for what you believe in, no matter who—or what—tries to convince you otherwise.

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($150 Adults, $125 Students – 6 for the price of 5!)

A gripping, heartfelt drama that asks what it means to stand up for yourself when family collides. After inheriting a drive-in theater and the care of his late husband’s teenage son, Remy—a Black, gay man—forms a fragile bond with Pup over classic monster movies. But when Remy uncovers Pup’s cruel bullying of a gay classmate, their relationship is thrown into turmoil, forcing both to confront the real monsters demons within prejudice, grief, and moral compromise. This haunting yet tender play explores the gray spaces between right and wrong, challenging us to face the monsters that live off-screen.

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($150 Adults, $125 Students – 6 for the price of 5!)

A razor-sharp exploration of obsession, identity, and the fragile bonds of chosen family, set against the backdrop of opera’s soaring passions. When two friends—one a flamboyant opera aficionado, the other quietly unraveling—collide over love and betrayal, their witty banter spirals into a devastating confrontation that exposes the cost of living for art versus living for truth. At once hilarious and heartbreaking, this play asks: how far will we go to protect the illusions that define us?

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($150 Adults, $125 Students – 6 for the price of 5!)

This masterpiece, which led to Beckett’s 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, is a hauntingly comic meditation on resilience and the human spirit. Trapped waist-deep—and later neck-deep—in earth, Winnie clings to optimism and routine as her world literally closes in around her. Beckett transforms this stark image into a powerful exploration of hope, habit, and the absurdity of existence, reminding us that even in the most confining circumstances, the will to endure—and to find joy—persists.

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($150 Adults, $125 Students – 6 for the price of 5!)

Three sisters reunite in their late father’s backyard, transforming the task of sorting through his belongings into a raw, electrifying reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear. As childhood games collide with adult grief, the sisters slip between roles—parent and child, ruler and rebel—exposing the stormy legacy of family, memory, and forgiveness. With biting humor and aching honesty, the play explores how we inherit not just possessions, but wounds and love, asking: how do we keep hold of selfhood as we weather the past together?

$30 Adults

$25 Students

Season Tickets available here ($150 Adults, $125 Students – 6 for the price of 5!)

WORLD PREMIER!

A poignant, time-hopping tapestry that explores the fierce, funny, and often fraught bonds between mothers and daughters spanning across generations. This is a story about finding freedom in establishing who we are at our core—sometimes in spite of, sometimes because of—the tangled relationships that binds us. At its heart, this play is a moving meditation on the search for connection and understanding—how the secrets we keep, the words we withhold, and the histories we inherit, shape who we are. With wit and raw honesty, we witness the messy beauty of family: the longing to be seen, the ache of forgiveness, and the liberating power of finally standing strong in our own truth.