2025 Season
2025 has been a year of development, with lots of readings and workshops of new plays by talented emerging artists. You can read more about these workshops here.
Also in 2025, The Hearth has received a number of significant grants recognizing the value of our work in the industry—they’ve included:
A two-year operating grant from A.R.T./New York Small Theatres Fund
A grant from the A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunities Fund
A generous grant from the NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music & Theatre to retroactively support our production of Nia Akilah Robinson’s Push Party
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2024 Season
December 6 - 22 at ART/NY Mezzanine Theatre
By Kallan Dana | Directed by Sarah Blush
Featuring: Camila Canó-Flaviá, Jessica Frey, Julia Greer, Ryan King and Bruce McKenzie
Set Design by Brittany Vasta | Lighting Design by Cha See and Bev Fremin | Sound Design by John Gasper | Costume and Property Design by Normandy Sherwood | Technical Director Jack Woods | Production Stage Manager Allison Raynes | ASM Cori Diaz | Press Representative Emily Owens PR | Associate Producer McKenna Harrington | Lighting Associate Miller Koppang
A daughter and father embark on a shapeshifting road trip across the country, into the past, through the gelatinous terrain of their shared nightmares. So exciting, it's not safe, such a fun trip!
Push PartY
By Nia Akilah Robinson | Directed by Chesray Dolpha
Featuring: Nedra Snipes, Breezy Leigh, Clarissa Vickerie, Claudia Logan, Mikayla Bartholomew, & Brittany Davis
Scenic Design by Ant Ma with Yun Yen | Costume Design by Patricia Marjorie | Lighting Design by Xotchil Musser | Sound Design by Jordana Abrenica with Kaitlyn Trusty | Property Design by Jacqueline Brockel | Production Stage Manager Cassandra Gutterman-Johns | ASM Amanda Reynoso | Press Representative Emily Owens PR
Nia Akilah Robinson’s Push Party is a lively ensemble comedy about six Black women trying to uphold fifteen years of friendship at a post-birthing party in Harlem. All Lelo wants is for this event to go smoothly, but tensions among the group rise and then explode when an unhoused person lands in the community room. Inspired by Black women’s stories of birth and motherhood and by the joys and challenges of life in Harlem, this new play confronts the moments when friendship erodes, when hope starts to falter, when we argue until we laugh, and when Black folk see other Black folk suffering and die a little inside.
We are completely overwhelmed and overjoyed that The Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation sponsored a Community Night of Push Party.
