#CultureSharesTheMic Pride 2025
Welcome to New Yorkers for Culture and Arts’ page featuring Pride 2025 related programs and events.
Seven new plays about the intimate “behind the scenes” of Queer relationships from LOM playwright Nolan Kennedy. These plays range from hook-ups to break-ups, from midnight murderers to garbage barge rides. Each piece hones in on the moments of joy, struggle, decision, and anticipation that prisms life for Queer people in the world today. With a diverse cast and creative team comprised of some of the most promising Queer, Trans, and Womxn talents in NYC, this anthology of works triumphs over isolation and loneliness, mostly. Above all, they yearn for connection, validation, embrace, and humanity.
Short Plays where the Queers Win (mostly)
Letter of Marque Theater
Wow Cafe Theater, E 4th st
May 29 -May 31
Heal Me at the Disco
New York City Gay Men’s Chorus
Friday, June 6 & Saturday, June 7
🎉 Celebrate Pride in NYC with "Heal Me at the Disco," a high-energy concert by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus!
Get ready to dance your worries away as we immerse you in the pulsating beats of gay disco and club hits that will lift your spirit and make your heart soar.
An Asteroid Named Kate Bush
Cosmic Cherry Arts Festival
Thursday, June 5 & Friday, June 6
A teenager obsessed with Kate Bush finds an unlikely friend in Pluto (a.k.a The Loneliest Planet). Welcome to a surreal, queer cosmic party—you won't even have to leave earth's atmosphere to get there. Stay afterwards for Kate Bush inspired karaoke (Thursday night 6/5) and dance party (Friday night 6/6)! Written by Jan Rosenberg, Directed by Elizabeth Jarrett, Featuring Elizabeth Jarrett and Kat Warnusz Steckel, Produced and original performed at the Cosmic Cherry Arts Festival
Criminal Queerness Festival (CQF) is National Queer Theater‘s Obie Award Winning initiative developing groundbreaking new plays by queer artists from around the world fighting censorship or criminalization in their home countries. Straight from sold-out runs at Lincoln Center and PAC NYC, CQF has been featured in The New York Times, and is a recipient of the NYC Mayor’s Grant for Cultural Impact. This is a Co-Production between HERE and National Queer Theater featuring three productions June 11-28 at HERE’s Mainstage: Tomorrow Never Came, What You Are To Me and frikiNation.
The Criminal Queerness Festival
National Queer Theater
June 11 - June 28
FRIGID New York is calling all Revolting Queers together for a celebration of queer resilience and revolution! The annual Queerly Festival has long been a space for queer folks to present their art to their community without feeling any need to edit or censor themselves to be more palatable for cis-het audiences, and this year we’re going full throttle with 20 shows from queer artists. Running June 12th through July 3rd at UNDER St Marks Theater--and (for most shows) live streaming world wide!
The Queerly Festival
FRIGID New York
June 12 - July 3
After a smash hit inaugural 2024 show, Let's Hear It For the Boys will return to NYC this summer! This all-transmasculine variety show, a co-production of Max Raymond (he/him) and Charlie Hano (he/him), is a celebration of trans man and transmasc talent and artistry with marketing + design by Max Raymond and casting by Hano Casting.
Let’s Hear it for the Boys: A Transmasc Cabaret
Charlie Hano & Max Raymond
Saturday, July 5