BESHERT by Daniel Kushner
Join NY Classical for a free public reading of BESHERT by Daniel Kushner, presented as part of New Visions, NY Classical’s play development initiative supporting bold new works inspired by and in conversation with the classical canon.
Selected for development through Cycle 2 of New Visions, Beshert transports audiences to New York’s Lower East Side in 1927, where love, ambition, identity, and survival collide.
About the Play
Set on the Lower East Side in 1927, Beshert follows two men—business partners and lovers—who must conceal their relationship to protect their livelihood. As their success grows, so does the risk of exposure, forcing them to navigate love, ambition, and survival in a tightly surveilled community.
At once an intimate love story and an exploration of the pressures exerted by family, community, commerce, and social expectation, Beshert asks what it costs to build a life together when the world insists that life remain hidden.
About the Playwright
Daniel Kushner is a New York City–based writer and actor whose work spans stage and screen, including Law & Order: SVU and the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof. He has also performed Off-Broadway and at regional theatres including Ogunquit Playhouse, Asolo Rep, A.C.T. of Connecticut, and Warehouse Theatre.
His writing has appeared in publications including New Voices Magazine and Pillar of Fire: A Queer Haggadah. He holds a B.A. in History from Brown University.
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Event Details
Public Reading:
BESHERT by Daniel Kushner
Date: October 26, 2026
Time: 7:00pm
Location:
ART/NY South Oxford Space Studios
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Admission:
Free and Open to All
About New Visions
New Visions is NY Classical’s play development initiative supporting playwrights who reimagine, respond to, and engage with classical stories, themes, and traditions through contemporary perspectives.
Through workshops, readings, and continued artistic development, New Visions creates space for playwrights to explore how inherited stories can speak to the world we live in now.