STADTTHEATER NEW YORK is presented in association with -
and in the spaces of


145 6th Avenue
(between Spring and Broome)
New York, NY 10013-1548

Subway: C or E Train to Spring Street
Entrance on Dominick Street

Phone: 212/647.0202
Fax: 212/647.0257
E-mail: info@here.org

Executive Director Kristin Marting


HERE Mission

HERE Arts Center supports artists' independence  within an interdependent community. The HERE community provides the artist with access, arts management innovation, and nonprofit enterprise. HERE measures its success by the lively, active exchange that occurs in its spaces daily. With this in mind, the seasons are driven by the needs of the community.

HERE Story

Since 1993, HERE has been one of New York's most prolific producing organizations, and today, it stands at the forefront of the city's presenters of daring new hybrid art. HERE supports multidisciplinary work that does not fit into a conventional programming agenda. HERE’s aesthetic represents the independent, the innovative, and the experimental: HERE has developed such acclaimed works as Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues ; Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique; Hazelle Goodman's On Edge; Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle's all wear bowlers; and original musical and dance works created and directed by HERE Co-Founder and Executive Director Kristin Marting.
The New York Times  has called HERE “one of the most unusual arts spaces in New York and possibly the model for the cutting-edge arts spaces of tomorrow.” Indeed, HERE has become successful at creating a new kind of arts enterprise—the collaborative multiarts center. In 12 years, HERE has supported over 11,100 artists and attracted over 850,000 arts patrons.   HERE’s  aim is to integrate art into daily life and engage the community's needs and interests on as many different levels as possible.

Over the last 12 years, HERE and the work presented HERE have garnered 10 OBIE awards, an OBIE grant for artistic achievement, two Berrilla Kerr awards, two New York Innovative Theatre Awards, and nominated for both Pulitzer and Drama Desk awards. With its multidisciplinary approach HERE engages the audiences of tomorrow, ensuring a healthy and productive future for the performing arts field at large.

HERE produces work that is challenging and alternative—offering the audiences the opportunity to feel that they are part of something new and fresh. Key elements of HERE’s performance programming are designed to allow the public to have as many access points to the development of original art as possible through work-in-progress showings, workshop productions, postshow artist talkbacks, informal discussions in the café and full productions.