L’Alliance New York Announces By Heart in association with BAM 2025 Crossing The Line Festival

L’Alliance New York is proud to announce the upcoming production of By Heart in association with BAM as part of the 2025 Crossing The Line Festival on Monday, November 3 and Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM. The performance takes place at the Florence Gould Theater, L'Alliance New York, 55 East 59th Street, New York, NY, 10022. Tickets start at $15. For more information and to reserve tickets, click here.
Returning to Crossing The Line after his directorial work on last year’s Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists, Tiago Rodrigues presents another internationally acclaimed performance—only this time, he’s directing his audience. Ten audience members come together onstage for an act of collective memorization, learning a Shakespearean sonnet by heart. The results are, according to a New York Times Critic’s Pick review, “miraculous … [a] communal act of translation,” performed while Rodrigues offers direction and commentary on the transformative personal and political dimensions of memorization.
Tiago Rodrigues is a Portuguese actor, director, playwright and producer. He is the current Director of Festival d’Avignon, in France.