In honor of our first anniversary, Dyke Theater Co. presents The First Timers’ Club: an evening of pre-selected first draft showings and an open mic with the theme “My First __.”
This one-man comedic true-crime thriller follows Dylan Guerra as he attempts to solve a mystery that's been looming over another Dylan Guerra for years.
Using drag, clown, and audience participation, Shell confronts what we know and don’t know about our bodies, their power, and what happens when we truly ask for what we want.
Take a dive to the bottom of the ocean with Silvia, the Octopus living inside of her chest (yes you read that right), and Blue, her new lover who harbors a big blue secret.
What happens when a transexual is swallowed by a whale? My guess... Indegestion.
David Quang Pham returns with CHEMICALS IN THE WATER, a musical romantic comedy where two chemicals fall in love during an environmental disaster.
One drag queen. Four hard-front wigs. The greatest tele-script of all time.
a wide ranging discussion with my gay actor friends
Mercutio and the band from Verona are dead and pissed. They are also in NYC for TWO NIGHTS ONLY, telling the TRUE story of the infamous star-crossed lovers through their debut album.
SISYPHUS'S STONE is about the choices we make, the hope we have, and who - or what - we’re willing to live for.
As part of our annual PrideFest, The Tank is proud to host a PrideFest Puppet Slam, featuring the work of puppeteers making new visual work surrounding queerness.
The Sickness of Wanting is a short one act play about desire, intimacy, and allowing one’s self to reach beneath the facade of casual romantic connection.
Mickey, Moe and Miriam roadtrip it east to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, to pull a Dustin Hoffman at the end of “The Graduate” and reunite Mickey and Maude in “Dead End Kids”!
A night of pure, ridiculous fun! @roadhousecomedy on Instagram
A brother and sister embark on an epic quest in search of their mother, whose newfound obsession with techno has taken her to an infinite nightclub city of dreams.
In this darkly comedic farce set on Hollywood’s Biggest Night in 2018, irreverent and deranged hosts Talia and Erin will stop at nothing to execute the perfect Oscars watch party.
On his loneliest birthday, rotten Huxley is whisked away by the surreal Mr. Cardboard! This side-splitting clown show folds the grotesque into the beautiful, ripping hearts along their perforated edges.
A spellbinding story of love, loss, and the impossible—OPEN takes the stage Off-Broadway July 8–27 as a recipient of the WP Space Program.
Who is Anonymous? Who is the God of Beans? This Dream Has Teeth is a savage comedy about dangerous truths, the lies that keep us safe, and finding the courage to resist,
Craig and Elaikay reveal the word of Ramu Davi™ through miracles, ceremony, and divine transmission. Walk the Ramuvian path and become Fully Loaded — the ultimate state of human consciousness.
A new comedy about a bunch of raccoons in a Brooklyn dump.
Glinda the good witch is full of shit! We never had the power to go home all along… or did we? From licking Jessica Rabbit’s tits on the TV screen to falling head over heels for his straight best friend, Michael DeBartolo takes you through the pubescent anguish of his formative years, a journey that exposes the dark recesses of the queer mind. Will he ever learn that home isn't somewhere over the rainbow?
Thank goodness you're here! A dead mime needs help. At this interactive seance, audiences must think outside the box to help a family of ghosts resolve their unfinished business. Play charades, solve puzzles and pierce the veil between life and death on a madcap quest for forbidden knowledge.
In this absurdist comedy from writer-performer Emily Weitzman, boyfriends are armchairs, lampshades and futons. Hailed as 'hilarious', 'weirdly poignant' and 'loopily, luminously charming' (BuzzPei.com), Furniture Boys explores how furniture endures, but boyfriends – not so much. Blending theatre, comedy, clown, spoken word and furniture showroom, this one-woman show has been called 'imaginative, thoughtful, playful, hilarious and relentlessly, infectiously joyous' (BuzzPei.com). Winner of Theatre’s Choice at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse in NYC, the Fringiest Show Award at the 2025 Orlando Fringe FestN4, and the 2024 Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Award. 'Furniture,' writes one reviewer, 'has never been more moving'.
An amnesiac time traveler needs the audience's help to recover the defining moments of his life. A lighthearted and sentimental exploration of the beauty of human relationships. Who is worth remembering and who would you rather forget?
Microsoft Word’s writing assistant, Clippy, has seen the future—and it is bleak. Determined to prevent the impending techno-dystopia brought about by artificial intelligence, Clippy travels back in time to warn humanity in a thrilling, time-traveling adventure through the internet.
Sam and his dead grandpa have a conversation about everything from resisting fascism (in the US, in Europe, and in Palestine) to growing up with mobsters – all with the help of a mystical creature from Yiddish folklore. Developed from the private journals of Saul N. Sherman, a Jewish WWII veteran, blended with the writings from his grandson, Sam Sherman ""kaddish (how to be a sanctuary)"" explores what our ancestors can teach us about the messy path towards standing up for what is right.
SERIALS is a late-night episodic play competition series. Each weekend of performances, five original, never-before-seen 10 minute works are rehearsed, teched, and fully staged, premiered live in front of our audience.
NYC-born clown and woman Funmi swims in Fish, a one-woman clown show about a fish (played by Funmi) who wants to be a human (played by Funmi playing Fish). Part of EdFest, a festival of NYC Edinburgh Fringe previews produced by Jess Ducey, with technical director Jen Leno. Catch this and 11 other shows before they head to Scotland.
The forgotten story of Amadeus’ genius sister, who performed alongside him to equal acclaim. Set in a stunning 18-foot dress, this multi award-winning production ushers you into a world of opulence and delight – obscured by restriction and prejudice. Inspired by the Mozart family’s hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Nannerl Mozart finally tells her story. Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen (Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival) bring Nannerl’s musical imagination to life with an award-winning original music using clavichords, music boxes, teacups and fluttering fans. Performed, in rotation, by Sylvia Milo and Daniela Galli. ‘Strikingly beautiful’ (New York Times).
Five lonely women. A grocery store. A blizzard. An ex-girlfriend's surprise arrival. They all get trapped in a grocery store together, slowly realizing they all know one another.
With her co-star unaccounted for, Lizzy Sunshine must carry a double act... alone. A positively chaotic comedy hour by addiction's (fun!) little sister. It's like Glee unwilling to admit it's Baby Reindeer. But don't worry it's not sad!!! This show-within-a-show features: audience participation, big characters, big feelings and your very own rose-coloured glasses. After a sold-out run in NYC and US tour, Liz Coin (Amazon Prime, The Second City) makes her Fringe debut! Directed by Makena Reynolds.
In a twist of fate, an ordinary man finds himself magically transformed into the Queen of the Carnival. Part of EdFest, a festival of NYC Edinburgh Fringe previews produced by Jess Ducey, with technical director Jen Leno. Catch this and 11 other shows before they head to Scotland.
Based on the true story of a tarot-reading lesbian forced from her home by Christian neighbours likely in a cult, Gretchen Wylder's darkly comedic one-woman show explores witches as healers, the patriarchal systems that burned them and the modern dangers of organised religion. Living a double life – reading tarot in Salem while living in a creepy cottage town run by zealots – her personal horror show becomes a fierce reclamation of spirituality. Reinterpreting Biblical women’s stories and exposing the ongoing persecution of the divine feminine, all while trying not to get burned at the stake.
Hockey bro Andy is leading a new sex ed club to B(reak) R(eproductive) O(ppression). The Peanut in his hockey bag is hungry for your desires. And the performer beneath it all is cracking open. Part play, part interactive workshop, part unleashing, Shell confronts us with what we know and don’t know about our bodies, their power and what happens when we truly ask for what we want.
Sylvia flies again! Told through music, movement, and projection Sylvia tells the tale of a dinosaur turned bird turned ??? surviving in spite of it all.
Four years, one gender transition, and copious amounts of psychedelics later Ryann Lynn Murphy tells a story about a girl who got groomed
Two theater geeks and a mad scientist bunker down in an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese for the apocalypse.
The crew of a whaling ship hurtling through a polluted ocean finds themselves hunted by an immense and incomprehensible beast in this short eco-horror play.
Join two puppet roommates in a sitcom-style romp through the New York job market!
THE THIRD TRACK is a darkly satirical play where seven women of color, trapped on a surreal interview-train, confront surveillance, bias, and each other in a corporate simulation gone hostile.
The year is 1970, and a group of five disaffected, Marxist college students build a bomb in New York’s Greenwich Village to protest the Vietnam War.
If the tides were rising, where would you go? This family escapes to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where they learn to survive off of humanity’s most abundant creation: trash.
TWIG is a tale about boyfriends, betrothals, and being the best at sucking off the people we love - or, wait… Do we really love them? How can we ever know?
Siblings, Toby and Emma have to tell one last campfire story around the fire pit in their backyard in rural Texas. Come listen to the fable.
Cardboard is every surprisingly scary kids’ movie you watched growing up injected with real issues today, where three brave boxes stand against a recycling bin society built on a lie.
Award-Winning Playwright and Visionary Sebastian Maroun is bringing his brand new play, A Thousand Rainy Mornigns, to the Tank as a soon-to-be-award-winning Staged Reading. Please come see it.
POV you're about to watch “Mad About It”: Damn, this pre-show announcement is loooooong. This stage manager sure has a lot of opinions. Is that a guitar? What’s going on?
A solo show with voices on the seductions of climate nihilism and how we should live in the end times.
Join us for a swashbuckling, hilarious, and heartrending high seas adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, adapted by the award winning James Cougar Canfield. One night only staged reading!
Two Black entertainers, a 20-year music veteran and a retired Pop the Ballon host, are tasked by BETN (Black Entertainment Television Network) to find the best re-run to air on their network.
Hilarious and evocative, Landing on Me takes you on a journey with Lisa and Michelle, who search their crushes, kisses, relationships, and life paths only to realize they’re already enough.
LILI/DARWIN
Written & Performed by Darwin Del Fabro
Featuring Costumes by Darwin Del Fabro in collaboration with DIOR
August 2, 2025 - August 23, 2025
A poetic solo performance exploring the intimate, overlapping journeys of Lili Elbe and Darwin Del Fabro, LILI/DARWIN invites the audience into a raw, unflinching world of identity, memory, and becoming. Through voice, projection, and powerful language, Darwin brings to life the blurred lines of self and story, history and present.
Darwin Del Fabro is a Brazilian writer, performer, and producer based in New York. After years of creative work in theater and music, LILI/DARWIN marks her return to the stage following her gender transition. Drawing from an inspiring lifelong connection to the story of Lili Elbe, Darwin intertwines personal narrative with historical record in this intimate, genre-defying piece.
A group of girls obsessed with the occult perform a ritual gone wrong at a sleepover, after which they must reverse a demonic possession to save their best friend.
How to have your heart broken but not your spirit
The Bear Family is known for two things: they never take off their bear suits, and they’re even wilder beneath the fur.
You remember the hit TV show "Smash"? You remember the musical about that show that JUST closed? This is season 3 of Smash. You're welcome.
In this contemporary fairytale, a neurodiverse woman dives into the rabbit hole of memory, connection, and the tough task of being honest with yourself.
Sometimes the best place to find yourself is a Walmart parking lot.
Examples of Lingua Franca is a dark comedy about a Catholic Church rebranded as a startup, where faith, metrics, and marriage collide in a satire of religion and corporate ambition.
ou'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll scream! IT'S TRUE--I Was a Teenage Reptilian! Were you?
In this comedic one-woman show, Marina explores why she hit her sensual peak in elementary school -- and how her dating life crumbled after puberty.
Why does nobody wanna sit down and play a long board game these days? Free Parking is a hilarious look at the chaos that happens when four people have a game night (and shouldn't.)
A magical comedy about grief and the consequences of living truthfully, with a crow fued, ghosts, and little german boy.
An antique dealer helps her hoarder friend to not lose her apartment. While they work their way through thousands of objects, the complexity of their relationship rises, in the same pace that one of them realises she is not where or when she thought she was.
A prison chef has made 217 last meals for death row inmates. But his 218th wants to eat dirt. . Can he be saved? Can anyone on death row be saved? Inspired by real events, Huntsville asks: what is the value of a last meal, when everyone gets "Texacuted" anyway?
Jack, Spencer, and Audrey have two things in common. 1) Best friends, and 2) Obsessed with horses. Their enrollment at a prestigious horse camp tests these friend and equine bonds.
Jake is a recent college graduate and aspiring gay porn star. The only problem is his family doesn't approve because they are all colonial pilgrims except for him.
Real couples. Real booze. Real gay people.
In the “tank” of surveillance and control, two queer “fish” embark on a wave-like, poetic quest for truth and freedom. How can they escape – through love, death, or something beyond?
like Freaky Friday, but you're on acid and boys are kissing and it's half theatre and half film
Inspired by Carolee Schneeman's Fuses, (softspells) is a ritual space unfolding from the flesh of two trans lovers’ embodied + visual experiences of domesticity via vessels of movement + projection.
A hungry boy, a drag queen, and Mariah Carey save the world.
Its final callbacks for Glinda and Early might be the first non-binary Glinda. This dark comedy exposes what happens when the personal cost of having a dream ignites righteous anger.
Using her magical voice and charisma, Lena Horné presents “Lena Sings!” An evening of song, love, and whimsy, expect to be transported to a land where the heart beats fast and eagerly for love in every form.
Five middle schoolers navigate chaos, play, (un)masking, queer friendships, intimacy, and finding their part through theatre and dance, all in the middle of a dodgeball game.
Hugo, obsessed with perfection, decides on cartography as his next project, leaving Hamlin to pack his lunchbox. An absurd quest to complete the impossible, and a parable of unrequited love.
A carnal dissection of trans identity, gender performance, and the razor-thin line between affirmation and transgression.
In this queer coming-of-age tale with a folkloric twist, Mayari finds her other half in her goth classmate Glorianne, and fends off her uncle in his hunt for the manananggal.
Retro(aid): A Sankofa Musical Offering is a Black Queer Church experience that uses music as a vessel to connect us to those who came before us. Gather, reflect, and look back in order to move forward.
Miles, a firefighter-in-training, meets Jake, a man with body-swapping abilities. Their encounter ignites a supernatural battle over masculinity, vulnerability, and desire in a world where strength isn't everything.
On the eve of a catastrophic flood, two Bostonians reunite along the Charles River esplanade to smoke, change, and turn into eggs.
Gregory (the bug) itches to tell A Travel Story. Through the Big Forest and to the Molting River to shed his exoskeleton and then come Home (the coming Home matters).
A Prophet Muhammad impersonator takes the right-wing Indian conspiracy theory of love jihad, in which Muslim men seduce, marry, and forcefully convert Hindu women, to. a new level in America.
The storytelling series, Queer To Tell, presents "Captured In Color," a show where storytellers share tales inspired by the six initial colors of the Pride Flag and their meanings.
Some ideas need time to brew. Night Coffee is a gathering of works in progress, artistic experiments, and bold choices in their earliest stages, all served with a side of bagels and caffeine at an objectively bad hour.
A lonely, genderfluid cockroach at the end of the world searches for divine purpose in this solo-show about grief, exile, queer desire, and the dance of solitude.
Ioli Andreadi masterfully directs a ritualistic “Helen”, overthrowing the clichés of how tragedy is usually being played and leading Vasiliki Troufakou to her personal acting transcendence.
"Let Me Interrupt You" contends with grief, terror, and the other complex feelings that arise when we no longer have control over our bodies, our voices, and our freedoms.
A pitch black comedy, this is a brutal, blood-drenched portrait of an American family in crisis.
An interactive odyssey through time (with a mail-man).
There are an estimated 450 million guns in this country. More guns, in fact, than people. Christopher has collected more than his share. He loves looking at them. For now.
1950. Prague. Milada Horáková vs. the communist regime in one of Eastern Europe’s largest sham trials. An absurdist satire of Stalinist propaganda and authoritarian justice. Whoever controls history, creates it.
In this raunchy dark comedy, journey through the bawdy backstories of six soiled doves, and learn how they thrived in a male dominated, lawless land.
Young Playwrights Ukraine founded by writer Laura Cahill, presents two new one acts: Boom by Karina Syrota, Life is Absurd, but Love is Good, by Asia Pshenychna.
Help internet-brained theatre artist Leo Grierson decode potentially steamy letters from Barbara Walters to his grandfather while exploring truth in media, Jewish American assimilation into whiteness, and more.
