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Wed July 9 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival The Infinite Pride by the NYNeofuturists
30 short plays, 1 queer hour. The New York Neo-Futurists will attempt to perform 30 of their favorite, queerest plays in a race against the clock!
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Wed July 9 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Greta Sofia: Not Another Drag Queen! by Andrea Ibba Monni
Life, adventures, and misadventures of a clumsy drag queen full of dreams and hopes.
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Thurs July 10 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Mother’s Milk HOT 2025 Curated and hosted by Eleanore Pienta
A variety show with comedy & dance performers trying things they’ve never done before (something they’re scared of!)
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Fri July 11 2025 7:30 pm
HOT Festival HOT Dance! Curated by Sangeeta Yesley
An evening of dance featuring queer identified choreographers.
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Fri July 11 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival The Queer Woods by Dr. Mimi McGurl
This talk proposes that forests, woodland meadows, and maybe even a large backyard have been there too, offering those of us who never quite fit in a place for self-discovery and acceptance.
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Sat July 12 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival The Lesbian Lab: The (Re) Awakening of A Black, Middle Age Doctor in the United States by Dr. Micia Mosely
A hilarious midlife spiral meets queer theory in Dr. Micia Mosely’s comedy-lab of healing and heart.
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Sat July 12 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Queer Lab: Live & Unfiltered by Jack Shamblin and Adrian Crawford
Bold, electric work from Queer Lab—artist-led, hierarchy-free, and open to all who want in.
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Mon July 14 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Lip Service: Black Queers and Their Words Featuring Justin Allen, Janelle // jei Lawrence, and Pamela Sneed
Lip Service is an evening of bold words and brilliant voices, featuring Black authors and poets who are reshaping the literary landscape. As part of the HOT Festival, this event centers queer Black storytelling—from the intimate to the imaginative, the grounded to the Afrofuturist.
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Mon July 14 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival HOT PANTS: An Evening of Queer Shorts featuring Kirby Denny & Clay Wild Munley; Grayson May; Douglas Mu
Slip into something scandalous and join us for HOT PANTS: An Evening of Queer Shorts. Expect sweat, sass, and surprises in all the right places. Part of Dixon Place’s HOT Festival, where queer theater bares all and leaves you begging for more.
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Tues July 15 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Don’t Cry For Me – My Yeshiva by Joe Fox
An orthodox Rabbi father. A coke snorting mama. Adoption. Yeshivas. 6”2 Lesbian cousins and more. And you thought your “coming out “ story was strange.!? Just wait ‘til you hear Joe Fox’s! Some song. No dance. And a bit of “rainbow connection“ romance.
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Tues July 15 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Minor History of Major Homosexuals: Now With Footnotes and Fringe by Shelton Whimsy
Exploring everything from Hadrian’s boyfriend to the Uffizi’s spicy saints—history’s queer, loud, proud, and fabulous.
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Wed July 16 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival TEENAGE WASTELAND: Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen by David Dean Bottrell
Five Hilarious (and Tragically True) Tales of Heartbreak, Hard-ons & Hair!
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Wed July 16 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Love and Other Hard Truths by Valarie Walker
Love in all its forms can be hard to survive. Come hear love stories (of self, of others, sexy love, and deep friendships).
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Thurs July 17 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Missives From The Hellmouth by Val Ramirez
PART SHARED HALLUCINATION PART FRACTURED MEMORY PART FEVER DREAM CALLED COMMUNION
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Fri July 18 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Glory W(hole) HOT Festival 2025 Curated and hosted by Lili Pujol & Mateo Rodriguez-Hurtado
This curated show is a chance for up & coming queer comedians of color to have their downtown debut amongst seasoned veterans of the comedy scene.
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Fri July 18 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Queer Summerween: A Night of Horror and Comedy by Kai Xing Mun
A surreal anthology of original horror short plays ranging from campy comedies to bloodbaths that’ll make you laugh, scream, and give you an unforgettable summer night.
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Sat July 19 & Mon July 21 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival [palatable] Gay Robot by Stephen Brower
Step into the tech world as HumaVibe unveils their latest product: Billie Bowtie. A gay robot built to entertain straight audiences...what could go wrong? -
Sat July 19 2025 @7:30 pm
HOT Festival The Bitch Index by Kevin R. Free
What is the right container to hold all your grudges? Where to keep our 1000 natural shocks that flesh is heir to? Let’s all raise a glass to NEVER LETTING GO. A tale as old as time told by Kevin R. Free.
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Mon July 21 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival The Anecdotes of a Lesbian Princess by Rachel Saruski
A 20 something queer Jewish Latina who is messy, too emotionally available, and overtherapized tries to “hack” lesbian culture in New York City.
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Tues July 22 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival The Body of Mary: A Play in Three Acts (of God) by Katie Cappiello
A play about controlling the means of reproduction, the narrative, and Mary. It's funny because it’s true.
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Wed July 23 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival King! by Gabriel Gara Lonning & Mariposa Coalson
A pursuit unfolds in the fever dream of New York City’s Urban Realm—classic comedy collides with the surreal, and nothing stays in one shape for long.
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Wed July 23 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival After Before by Daniel McCoy
A reading of six short plays about an apocalyptic utopia. What happened? Everything. What's left? We are.
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Thurs July 24 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival suck the d*vil’s d*** on a sunday by Brynne O'Rourke
Éabha, a Puerto Rican and Irish Trans woman, learns how to love herself against all odds.
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Fri July 25 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Me- Wee’s Playhouse – Juneteenth in July! by Nicole Hill
Part performance art, play-date & social experiment, Me-Wee’s is a child-like space for grown-ass folk up in these "United States of Traumatization”.
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Fri July 25 2025 @ 7:30 pm
HOT Festival Blank Pages by Dui Jarrod
The show follows Dui Jarrod, as he is trapped between artistic truth and audience expectation as he attempts to write the next great American film. Set in a theatrical space where the artist becomes both subject and commodity, the play confronts the cost of creation, the legacy of trauma, and the power of reclaiming one's voice.
