{"id":191410,"date":"2026-04-09T21:49:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191410\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:49:38","slug":"the-garden-players-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191410\/","title":{"rendered":"The Garden Players In May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Garden Players return to the Forest Hills stage with another original, big-hearted musical this spring. Local theater kids ages 5\u201315 will perform the original production \u201cSo Far From Home\u201d on Saturday, May 16th at 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 17th at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the CITG Community House, 15 Borage Place, Forest Hills. Tickets, $15\u2013$25, are on sale April 1st at gardenplayerstheater.com.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when home is no longer where you left it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Far From Home\u201d is a magical, musical adventure about storytelling, community, and the journeys that shape us, inspired by the complex emotions and experiences of refugees throughout history\u2014a story of love, loss, fear of the unknown, friendship, and reunion. When a group of dragons is forced to leave the cave they\u2019ve called home for generations, the oldest dragon begins to tell stories of others who have also been displaced, and what they discovered along the way. Can Martians convince humans to let them join life on Earth? Should the survivors of Atlantis hide their memories\u2026 or share them? And are those ogres really what they seem?<\/p>\n<p>Join dragons, Martians, Atlanteans, ogres\u2014and even singing crabs and trees\u2014on a journey filled with humor, imagination, and delightful surprises, where laughter and heart go hand in hand, and we discover that home may be closer than we think.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-195961 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Garden-Players-Flyer.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"695\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Garden Players return to the Forest Hills stage with another original, big-hearted musical on May 16 and May 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Garden Players return to the Forest Hills stage with another original, big-hearted musical this spring. Local theater&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-191410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}