For more than a decade, the Rough Draft Festival at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC) has provided artists with a place for that process. Through readings, workshops, audience feedback, and artistic support, the festival gives playwrights and theater makers an opportunity to test ideas, hear their work aloud, and uncover what their pieces need next.

More than two thousand years after it was first performed, Euripides’ The Trojan Women continues to resonate through its portrayal of grief, displacement, survival, and the devastating human cost of war. This spring, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, in collaboration with Eclipses Group Theater NY, brings the timeless Greek tragedy to The Little Theater through a multicultural production directed by Ioanna Katsarou, featuring a new translation and original music by Demetri Bonaros. 

Forty years after the passage of the New York City Gay Rights Bill, LPAC was proud to partner with the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives to host Policing, Pews, and Firehouse Politics, a timely conversation examining the long fight for LGBTQ+ rights in New York City and the complicated relationship between those rights and the institutions that once resisted them.