HOBOKEN
Fall 2024 - Summer 2025
We are leading a bridge-building theater project focusing on strengthening relationships between siloed communities in Hoboken. A group of local artists working with ITP’s national team, will be sparking conversations with Hobokenites to better understand and honor the multiplicity of perspectives that exist among neighbors and their complex relationships with water (the Hudson, riverfront, flooding, etc.). We are partnering with local educators, activists, artists, civic & religious leaders, and community members from all over Hoboken to ensure that everyone is invited into the playmaking process.
UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS
all times in EST
Event Details
MAY
Community PlayLab: Create Together
📅 Sunday, May 4 | 12:30 – 3:30 PM
📍Monroe Gardens Community Room at 221 Jackson
We’re one month away from performance time—now’s the moment to shape what we’re putting on stage. Join Inheritance Theater Project (ITP) for an afternoon of collaborative art-making, movement, and reflection as we explore Hoboken residents' varied relationships with water.
This is a participatory session: we’ll be making things, sharing stories, and inviting your thoughts and opinions on how the performance is taking shape.
Whether it’s your first time or you’ve been coming all along, you’re welcome here. Help us ask: Whose voices are missing from the story? What conversations do we want this performance to open up in Hoboken?
Free | Snacks provided. | All ages welcome.
Drop in anytime.
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Community PlayLab: Shape the Story
📅 Saturday, May 10 | 12:30 – 3:30 PM
📍 St. Matthew Trinity Lutheran Church | 8th & Hudson Streets
As we get closer to the performance, we’re shaping more than just a show—we’re building a conversation across Hoboken.
This session will be filled with hands-on creative activities—art-making, movement, acting—paired with space to reflect, give feedback, and share ideas. What direction should the performance take? What future do we want to imagine together?
Whether this is your first time or you’ve been with us from the beginning, your presence and perspective are needed.
Free | Snacks provided. | All ages welcome.
Drop in anytime.
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Community PlayLab: Build What’s Next
📅 Saturday, May 17 | 12:30 – 3:30 PM
📍Location TBD
This is our final PlayLab before we move into open rehearsals—so come play with us!
Expect a mix of collaborative art-making, movement, and theater-building, plus space to share your thoughts and reactions to what’s been created so far. Your feedback will directly inform the final version of the performance.
Whether this is your first time or your fifth, we want your voice in the room. Together we’ll ask: What do we want this project to spark after the curtain comes down?
Free | Snacks provided. | All ages welcome.
Drop in anytime.
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Open Rehearsals: Be Part of Shaping the Final Performance
📅 Saturday, May 24 | 📍 St. Matthew Trinity Lutheran Church | 8th & Hudson Streets
📅 Sunday, May 25 | 📍Location TBD
12:30 – 3:30 PM
Join us for an open rehearsal with the creative team. You won’t just be watching—you’ll be invited to share your feedback, offer your ideas, and help shape how this performance speaks to the city. This is a space to reflect, contribute, and connect as we put the finishing touches on a collective work that honors both the tensions and the possibilities of community life in Hoboken.
All are welcome—whether you’ve been part of the process before or are joining for the first time. This is your chance to help shape a story about water, connection, and the future of our city.
Free | Snacks provided. | All ages welcome.
Drop in anytime.
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Friday, May 30 | 7:00 PM
Saturday, May 31 | 2:00 PM
Sunday, June 1 | 2:00 PM
Email hoboken@inheritancetheater.org to get involved!
Click here to sign up for the Hoboken project mailing list and receive invites to future events.
Local Participating Organizations
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City of Hoboken Office of Constituent Services
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City of Hoboken Office of Cultural Affairs
Support for this project comes from individual donors along with institutional and/or grant support from:
