Torn Space Theater’s funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been terminated. On Friday May 2, 2025 we received an email from the N.E.A stating that “The N.E.A. is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation’s rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the president. …

Torn Space Theater is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $25,000. This grant will support a digital arts performance series with the Buffalo audiovisual collective Groupwork.  “Projects like Torn Space Theater exemplify the creativity and care with which …

This month Torn Space is breaking ground on the final stage of our multi-phase capital project, creating a campus setting geared for community engagement, complimenting and supporting recent neighborhood revitalization efforts, increasing the capacity and volume of an outdoor performance area, and transforming the site into a larger multi-use space focused on integrating the campus …

Torn Space has been selected to the internationally curated exhibition Acts of Assembly as part of the Prague Quadrennial. Torn Space will join Netherlands, Uruguay, Spain, Greece, France and Brazil among others countries in this international survey of the best in contemporary stage design and scenography  The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space was …

Torn Space Theater has received $500,000 to continue Phase 3 of its capital improvements, building on major renovations of its performance space, a neighboring gas station-turned design studio, and the landscaping of its East Side home at the Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle. This funding supports Torn Space’s continued commitment to the revitalization of …

Torn Space has been selected to present an original featured performance at the Prague Quadrennial 2023, an international conference of contemporary performance and design. Torn Space was part of the U.S. exhibition in the 2019 quadrennial, featured alongside other extraordinary theaters across the country recognized for exemplary production design, but next summer they will have …