Sydney Holmes revisits her dad’s passing, funeral, and the double life he left behind. A musical comedy investigation into death, deceit and daddy issues.
April 5th, 7ht, 11th, 12th, 13th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th at 7pm
April 6th, 14th and 21st at 3pm
The Human Dream Project is a multimedia puppetry and performance project that collects recordings of people candidly describing dreams they have had, and illustrates these intimate recordings with colorful puppetry, stop motion animation, live music, and other video and performance art.
Victor Jones figures out who they are, live, on camera, in front of an audience. Pop music, comedy, theater, and more...
The Frontera Series is a play reading series dedicated to highlighting the next frontier of great American Playwrights.
The Vicky Archives is an intimate immersive theater experience in which 30 guests enter an enigmatic memory archive, whose peculiar members recall and refine each other’s life stories.
April 25, 26, 28 at 7:00 PM
April 27 at 3:00 PM
A sorority Exec board is plagued with drama after a harassment claim is placed against the president.
A sketch troupe that is quite a disgrace, but still suitable enough to be shown in public.
Brett Epstein reflects upon the highs and lows of being an artist, being a gay male, being alone and Being Alive™. A darkly comic Brooklyn Bottling Company solo show.
Four Fragments and A Spirit of Some Strange Love
April 29th at 7:00 PM
Join us for a night of Theater at The Tank with Sarah Lawrence and Take in Romeo & Juliet getting re-imagined in A Spirit of Some Strange Love, dance with us in Solo Performance fragments
A workshop of a new dance-theatre show about substitutions, replacements, and feeling expendable. A workshop of a new dance-theatre show about substitutions, replacements, and feeling expendable.
May 5th and 19th at 3pm
May 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 16th, 17th, and 18th at 7pm
Ghetto Alchemy: A Lunchroom Survival Guide is an afrofuturist coming-of-age story that transports us from the outer reaches of space to the rhythmic tables of a middle school lunchroom in Detroit, MI.
THE TRUE STORY OF THE FIRST GIRL WHO SMASHED PATRIARCHY AND WAS MURDERED FOR IT.
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May 5 at 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM, May 9 at 9:30 PM , May 12 at 9:30 PM
The pivotal year of 1357 in Iran's solar calendar marks the Islamic Republic revolution in Iran, a year that transformed the Middle East and marked the mass suicide of a nation.
A performance duet of sonic verse dance and audience experience. This show explores expectations and the divergence from that. The audience will be asked to consider their own ideas of “shoulds.”
Tier5 presents a staged reading of Seth Barnes' hilarious and poignant take on underworldly office behavior.
May 7, June 4, July 23 at 7:00pm
Join Road House Sketch Comedy at their season opener on Tuesday 3/26 at 7PM at The Tank!
Six Degrees of Separation is an annual showcase that brings together choreographers separated by one degree of association. This season, SDS presents work by artists who choreograph in tandem.
Allie, Charlie, and Jessie have returned to work at their childhood summer camp. On their first day back, they can't help but reminisce about their last summer together. New beginnings follow.
Gi60 International One Minute Theatre Festival: US - 20th Anniversary!
May 15, 16, 17 and 18 at 7:00 PM
May 19 at 3:00 PM
Gi60 International One Minute Theatre Festival: US - 20th Anniversary! 60 plays (40 from 'the vault' and 20 new) performed by 17 actors in one evening! Join us for this exhilirating smorgasbord of stories!
COVID PROTOCOL: Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Patrons will also be required to wear masks when not eating or drinking.
A seance of sorts is occurring in a New York City one-bedroom apartment 4 years into the pandemic, on the eve of a momentous event planned for the next day.
On a broken- down bus outside of Victorville California, a bus driver and his diverse group of passengers fester in the heat as they wait for a replacement bus. A shocking shift in their reality creates a scramble to survive.
Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Lincoln attempt a reconciliation, exposing their long-held grievances as they struggle with trauma, drug, and alcohol abuse.
May 31st at 7pm
June 1st, 2nd, 6th, 8th and 10th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 20th, 21st and 23rd at 7pm
June 7th at 11pm
June 9th, 16th and 22nd at 3pm
Join the infamous Drag-Vamp, Midnight Coleslaw as she hosts a campy, queer and horrific evening of one-act plays conjured up by Joey Merlo (On Set with Theda Bara) and director Nick J. Browne. The Tank presents Midnight Coleslaw’s Tales from Beyond the Closet!!!
A mother and her daughters navigate grief after deciding to end her suffering via assisted suicide. Add a husband, a pedophilic priest and a death doula- what could go wrong?
The Bechdel Group presents the staged reading of our 2023-34 Resident Playwright Mollie Gordon's play The Tin Man's Daughter. The Tin Man's Daughter (working title) is a piece is inspired by The Wizard of Oz, and centers on a young woman, perhaps even a girl, named Tina, who doesn't want the heart that the Tin Man so desperately craved. Instead, she wants a new body.
Things go awry when a group of girls accidentally get high during an event at their prestigious boarding school. Well.. sorta kinda!
Leave If No Response
June 12 at 7:00pm June 14 at 9:30pm June 15 at 3:00pm June 16 at 7:00pm
In this queer coming-of-age story, best friends Mira and Ariel grow up in a tight-knit Jewish community. Together, they remember what was. Apart, they wonder what could have been.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
A play about the making of LOVE. Not Making Love.
yo ho. is a sexy, funny, and heartfelt swashbuckling adventure that explores the relationship between Mary Read and Anne Bonny, gender, transitioning, sexuality, and power.
Great Aunts
June 24 at 7:00pm
Great Aunts transports audiences to Gran's home for some Southern cooking, spirited phone calls, and a look into family photo albums that are full of diagnoses and revelations.
House of Legendary is an opera about double lives and destructive desires set in the glory days of New York City’s underground drag culture.
Turnover: A New Leaf
June 28 at 7:00pm
Turnover: A New Leaf is a plant-based musical about how two business-owning families, rooted in prejudice, overturn their views when their queer kids start rooting for each other.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
Tier5 presents a staged reading of Rachel Greene's powerful deconstruction of Mamet's Oleanna
In this story of queer self-discovery and liberation, two women find themselves trapped inside an AI experience. They must look inward and forge new connections to make their way home.
April 20 at 3:00pm
April 21 at 7:00pm
This is a story of Anatolian women who chose to fight alongside their countrymen for freedom.
April 17 and 18 at 9:30pm and April 19, 20, 23, and 24 at 7:00
In ORLANDO: A Rhapsody, two actors, father and daughter, place gender onstage as a theatrical material to wrestle with, in all of its violence and all of its poetry.
The Resurrectionist tells the mirroring stories of 1890s Clara and modern Roxie as they navigate their male-dominated worlds. We learn that the past is not so different from the present.
Exquisite Drones is a drone-based piece for cello, live electronics and films patterned after the surrealist drawing game “exquisite corpse.” The group-work connects three compositions, written in isolation.
When The Greenery, a Bushwick music venue, is faced with the fear of getting shut down, a group of regulars must fight to keep their home away from home alive.
garland of songs is a showcase that weaves flowering fusion dance with mesmerizing story telling. rooted in Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance, geatali presents a bouquet of artistry, emotion, and introspection.
New York City's Trashiest Talk Show
Since he was a young boy, Benny Winner dreamed of hosting his own talk show, like his heroes Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, and Maury Povich.
A one-person show about falling in- and out- of love with the theatre
An operatic musical comedy about the intimacies of our iPhones.
Before Amelia Earhart, there was Bessie Coleman. In 1921, Queen Bess was the first American to receive an international pilot’s license.
A surreal and poetic chamber oratorio with ballet that follows a shape-shifting figure displaced by war, a ghost child on an infinite errand.
FAST ONES is a night of quick theater featuring 5 never-before-seen works by emerging NYC theater artists.
April 4, 6, 11, 13 at 7:00 PM
The world is ending. Thea Collins is taking notes. A surreal, comedic meditation on an apocalypse of language, PLUME explores the absurdity of keeping history at history’s end.
The beloved late-night play competition is BACK for the first time ever at The Tank! SERIALS is a raucous night of serialized plays featuring some of the hottest actors, directors, and playwrights in the indie theater scene. Five teams perform five original, ten-minute episodic plays with only six hours of rehearsal time. Then YOU, the audience, vote for your three favorites. The plays with the most votes come back with a brand new episode of the same storyline the following week of SERIALS. Teams with the least votes come back with a pilot episode of a brand new storyline.
You're invited to an intimate and immersive saloon reading of 'Dorian Gray', an adaptation of Wilde's infamous novel.
Join The Makers' Ensemble for our 3rd Annual SHORT PLAY FEST. Four Powerful Plays, Four Dynamic Directors. Four Nights Only.
A muralist. A firefighter. Four claustrophobic walls covered in paint. Houses invites you into a troubled home and implores you to embrace your mistakes with ferocity.
Who dares knock, knock, knock on the Raven's chamber door? He'll have you know he's a poet, and he's very busy avoiding his romantic life and sobering up for Prospero's party. When his life as a writer and life as a forever-bachelor collide in a time jumping vignette adventure through the bibliography of one Edgar Allan Poe, fate propels the Raven to further dissect his own avoidance of love.
"The Glass Between Stars" follows Claire and Gideon from ages 17 to 32, as they journey through love, loss, reconciliation, and hope.
March 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 25th at 7:00 pm
43 STAGES OF GRIEVING: A COMEDY tells the story of a pregnant, dying robot and a human who attempted to live forever. This is a comedy for a grief saturated world.
Join the chorus of a new musical about how we find our authentic voice, process grief, and… live in a musical. Be a part of the first public staged reading!
The Slop Bucket runneth over. An evening of unfinished plays, songs, stories, images, textiles, and people. If you can't take the slop, stay out of the bucket!
March 5th, 6th and 7th at 7pm
March 9th at 3pm
Winner of the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival and the Voices of Women Theatre Festival. Searching for Abuelo is a one-woman show framed in the Puerto Rican musical style of Bomba.
About the complex life of Isabella Stewart Gardner following the people she meets, the losses she encounters, and the garden she grows.
Pick-Nic is a variety show that remixes Nicolas Cage's career and prolific memetic capacity with LGBTQ/BIPOC performers. Together, we celebrate our Patron Saint of White Masculinity. Together, we Pick-Nic.
A night of all new comedy sketches from the Clementine Players, written and performed by amateurs and refined with the help of a pro.
It's the end of an era! After ten years of memories and laughter, producer Brett Epstein invites you to the Tank one last time to celebrate with the artists and audiences who've made 7x7 a decade-long short play smash.
A grief-stricken man in the guise of mime attempts to bring his sister back to life after her untimely death.
After struggling over what to write in a coworker’s birthday card, Trish discovers that whatever she writes comes true. When her coworkers accidentally forget her birthday, things...take a turn.
