Sick of their pelvic pain, five friends form an amateur witches’ coven to cast a healing spell in their vacation rental... and accidentally summon a demon.
Two girls trapped in purgatory must confront each other and their own demons to face what they’re truly willing to do to escape.
A new play by Tyler Anthony Smith about Halston designing a gown for Elizabeth I.
A witty ensemble comedy exploring how truth changes as it passes from person to person. TAASNY Academy’s After Work Acting Lab brings its graduation production to The Tank.
"MEAT CUTE" is a bloody double-feature of two short plays that explore themes of the body, mind, and heart as meat.
The sharply-penned solo-dramedy about a boy finding his way, torn between his Mormon religion and his obsession with the male anatomy.
Each performance is a unique, one-night-only event filled the weird characters, crazy premises and other comedy buzz words!
Ready to get sweaty, 8th graders? Ready to run your heart out? Vikings, hormones, and wolf skulls…Go Dogs!
Be Gay. Do Crime. Come see A Queer Little Murder!
Marfa, Texas. Two women reunite with their childhood best friend, only to find that his politics have gone askew. Very Blue Light is a play about people caught in the conflict between emergent technology, our networks, and the natural world.
A knight and squire arrive to execute a witch. What follows is a fast, profane, absurd debate about honor, faith, and obedience, and how we justify our worst behavior.
It’s a talk show! It’s a variety show! It’s a late night show at a reasonable hour! Anne Gridley hosts an all-star lineup of dance, performance, music, comedy, and theater, with extra-special guest Annie-B Parson!
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New works, Copla, Don’t Look So Damn Surprised, and Tame the Noise.
Fast and Furious is a show about collective experience. Five artists get together to make fun and meaning of all the things we experience together as New Yorkers, internet-scrollers, and happening-noticers, but may not have been given a moment to say, “Wow, that was crazy, right?”
Based on an all crazy, all nasty and all true story. A simple trip with Mom turns out to be anything but simple. Crazy rituals. An ancient God. And a possession. What else can you expect from an Asian parent?
Performer Zina Ellis weaves together history, sociology, personal stories, song, and her signature sense of humor to explore the past, present, and future of Black women in musical theatre.
A character in the play wants to get back at the prime minister over a personal feud that started in the mid-2000's whose self-ascribed life motivation is "G.B.A.T.P.M.O.A.P.F.T.S.I.T.M.T.T."
You Can’t Tell Anyone
September 23rd at 7:00pm, September 24th at 9:30pm, September 25th at 9:30pm
CREATIVE TEAM
Katy Copeland & Louis Sallan (Writers and Director)
Four friends are forced to face themselves, how they truly feel about each other and the gossip that divides and unifies them. But promise you won’t tell?
1980. New Haven, Connecticut — Four months before he will attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr. moves into the Colony Inn with a simple plan to make Jodie Foster his girlfriend. In his first night at the hotel, John and meets Eddie, the night concierge, where they discover a shared dilemma: both are in love with Yalies who don’t know they exist. When Eddie offers to connect John to Jodie in exchange for an investment, their business partnership blossoms into an unexpected friendship, revealing a growing crisis neither recognizes in the other before it’s too late. Falls For Jodie, a dark comedy by Eric Micha Holmes, dares to ask: “How can the pursuit of love escalate to a national tragedy”?
Persephone reimagines the ancient myth through migration, identity, and the bond between mothers and daughters, following a young woman suspended between Sicily, New York, and two versions of home.
PUNCH Puppet Slam: PRINCESS BRIDE
9/29 at 7pm
by Drama of Works
Join us for another PUNCH puppet slam - where a diverse group of puppet artists use a wide variety of puppet styles to tell one story or collaborate on one wonderful puppet experience.
Take a trip into a fairytale land full of rodents of unusual size, pits of despair, brute squads, and -- ew -- kissing?!?!?!!! We'll see hand puppet marriage squabbles, shadow puppet dream sequences, marionettes with flowing white dresses, and much much more! Drama of Works hosts as Fred Savage and Peter Falk, obviously...
The Two Worlds Project is a verbatim documentary play created by artist-researcher Ryan Howland, EdD, that seeks to disrupt the urban-rural divide in New York State.
Ham is a West Texas meatpacker who desperately wants a promotion. He will do anything to get it. MEAT is a dark comedy exploring the everyday horrors of labor.
Beach Pageant
September 30th at 7:00pm, October 2nd at 9:30pm
Beach Pageant is an immersive spiritual service dedicated to the healing properties of the ocean. Lead by Pearl Emerson, this bizarre quasi-cultish performance piece will leave audiences with a metaphorical sunburn and sand between their toes. Grab your bathing suit and your iced coffee, and lets make the beach!
Content Warnings: Flashing lights, possible physical contact upon asking consent
Domov
October 4th at 7pm, October 11th at 3pm & 7pm, October 16th at 9:30pm, & October 17th at 3pm
Kat Tobits, Playwright and Director
Maryclare Ramirez, Producer
Carly de la Masa, Producer
Adeline Grimmett, Production Stage Manager
Matisse Carmack as ANA
Katharine Yeargin as GENESIS and JANKA
Karen Genaro-Dosanjh as MAMA
Emma List as BABKA and MÁRIA
McAllister Stowell as ĽUDOVÍŤ ŠTÚR and JÁNOŠÍK
Neil Ruffier Gaillot as LUKÁŠ
Luca Plitz, Set and Props Designer
Sofie Daley, Costume Designer
Domov is a story about a young Slovak-American woman who journeys to reconnect with her past, discovering old and new friends who help piece together her fractured identity. It’s a story of ancestry, Slovak culture, family relationships, and reclaiming something that was lost, while also reflecting the experience of immigrant children that have lost touch with their parents’ home country, family, and culture. Made possible by the Phillip Waller Launch award in tandem with The Tank.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Adult language and themes
In 1967 a sad, sensitive 6 year old boy saw a French waif on TV and was affected in ways it took him the next 58 years to fully comprehend.
THE SUM OF THESE PARTS is a contemporary dystopian sci-fi retelling of Romeo and Juliet that focuses on class conflict and the ethics of capitalism, taking place in a not so distant future where humans prolong their lives by replacing their body parts.
Face Tape is back for another year of the chaos, camp, and all out hilarity that you know and love!
“◼️⚫🅾” culminates a four yearslong choreographic exploration of geometric shapes: spatially, geometrically, and physically. This hourlong quintet features original sound design by Ross Daniel utilizing the sonic landscape created by the movement itself.
In this modern romcom twist on Cyrano de Bergerac, Leroy, a love columnist with little to no real knowledge of love, is hired with the task of writing someone else's wedding vows.
A mother and her two grown daughters attempt to leave the house for a funeral on time, without killing each other.
A tender, time-bending exploration of love, regret, and the lives we almost lived. Expect a night of sharp, witty dialogue and unflinching emotional honesty.
An original devised production about the stories we’ve built and inherited navigating this world in our human bodies.
In Prague 1950, Milada Horáková stands trial for treason in an absurdist satire of authoritarian justice, where mustaches abound, guilt is scripted, truth is manufactured, and history is written by the victors.
After a psychic reading goes awry, Themi Tsamos, a gay Greek virgin, discovers his Thea placed a curse on him, repelling all men from being attracted to him.
Sybil Creepe's House of Mysteries
Tuesday, October 20 @ 7pm
Laurel Andersen, Playwright
Erin Reynolds, Director
James Cougar Canfield, Executive Producer
Diane Bertrand-Goldsmith, Associate Producer
M. Hatten, Associate Producer
Charlotte Ferraro, Literary Manager
Thunder! Lightning! Nebulous time period resembling a turn-of-the-20th century past!
Young scholar Arthur Tuck is on a quest for a mysterious magical artifact when he finds himself lost in the countryside during a thunderstorm — good thing there’s aforeboding Gothic manor happy to let him in! Arthur is warmly welcomed by the lady of the house, the cryptic Sybil Creepe, and her trusty manservant Wadsworth, but he can’t help but feel like they’re keeping something from him about the previous master of the house, Sybil’s nephew (nothing scarier than nephews) …not to mention all the scary-but-alluring violin music he keeps hearing! Arthur’s curiosity finally leads him to an attic room, where he discovers the Creepes' biggest secret – a young man playing the violin who has been hideously transformed into a – wait, what is he, exactly?
SYBIL CREEPE…is a queer, romantic fantasy comedy featuring as many Gothic lit tropes as (in)humanly possible — including haunted chain-smoking dolls, evil exes, butlers and cooks, Something We Don’t Talk About in the Basement, Big Bad Museum Curators, portraits, portals, and gnomes, all played by a small ensemble of actors.
SYBIL CREEPE'S HOUSE OF MYSTERIES is presented as a part of Tier5 Theatre Company's SPOOKYF3ST, our third annual horror-themed new play staged reading series at The Tank.
In a farcical setting, a family faces the loss of a loved one, unaware of the visits of the Angel of Death and Azazel, as if in a parallel universe.
Frankie is a fuck-up, maybe even a horrible person. Everything changes when she meets John, a charming Chicagoan. After lying about her life, Frankie grapples with the consequences.
An evening of sketch-comedy, drag, music, burlesque, and more! This lively, elegant, and bold duo just keeps getting better with time.
As Halloween approaches and a strangler is on the loose, Devin, a jaded waitress at Butterloafs, a chain restaurant in New England, gets to know Don Franz, her most devoted customer. In this comedy, bananas appear from sleeves, grief is shared, and a story’s resurrection changes lives in the blink of an eye.
Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella and set in San Francisco 1971: this sexy, queer, violent take on the classic story questions what one would give up to finally be free to do whatever they want- no matter the consequence.
Margot returns home and finds a journal written by her stepsister. As she reads, she relives their memories, revealing the past she’s fled from.
John loves Kate. Kate loves Man Ray. Rachel loves true crime podcasting. A play about photography, obsession, and body parts.
Waco, 1993. The true story of the standoff between cult leader David Koresh and the FBI, with a script crafted entirely from hundreds of hours of recorded government negotiation transcripts.
Inspired by Japanese legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox, this original dance theatre piece explore love, war, power, and the mysterious bond between humans and spirits.
Real-life neighbors and dancers Regina Nejman and Despina Sophia Stamos turn everyday proximity into charged choreography—crossing, colliding, transforming, and revealing the intimate worlds women carry beneath the surface.
A Foreigner arrives in a Town kept alive by hydrangeas blooming only when surrounded by love. A tyrant's hunger to control the Town's story threatens the flowers. A dark musical.
Echo is a retelling of the Greek Myth of Echo and Narcissus. Our retelling is done through an emphasis on the female experience, heightened text, and modern dance. At the crossroads of Shakespeare, Greek text, and Sarah Ruhl's poetry; you will find Echo.
A lonely dodo on a trash island tries to hatch a plastic egg in this puppet show about extinction, memory, and the things we’re willing to throw away.
She kills bad men. He taught her how. Somewhere between the blood and the bodies, it became something else. Close Distance Disappearing Acts — sexy, funny, and dangerously romantic. Some love stories just have a higher body count.
Two Scientists test the limits of their experiment on identity. Two subjects confront familiar memories in a strange place. The results stage a collision between their two worlds.
A role reversal, a return to form, a performer in the dark, two discoveries over two nights.
The story of Francesca Da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta told through a new light, written for a modern audience.
In The Lolita Apologies, one woman confronts the legacy of Nabokov’s Lolita. This isn’t a retelling; instead, the play explores the aftermath: how Lolita has been interpreted, distorted, and romanticized.
What does love mean to you? Can you move forward while longing to stay in memories? Sydney's autobiographical journey takes everyone from her dreamlike childhood into truths never quite spoken.
In 2007, burnt-out vlogger Kelly finds a mysterious diary. Reading it, she meets Ruth, a self-destructive painter from 1959. Kelly must learn from Ruth’s mistakes, or else helplessly echo them.
A collage of sound, story, and spectacle, Sublimation / Irisation is a trans odyssey into the afterlife/atmosphere.
It Just Takes Time is a contemporary song cycle that weaves together songs exploring anxiety, loneliness, impatience, and unexpected connection during the COVID19 lockdown. Though the future is unknown, each character learns to lean on their loved ones and appreciate the "little wins."
A comedic and cathartic immersive concert-theater experience about an encounter with a will-o-wisp to the Council on Mythical and MAgical Creatures.
Have I seen you here before? The Girls on the Floor have been waiting for you. Tip, Please.
Is revolution achieved by word or by deed, by blood or by creed?
My great-grandfather directed 21 films in 1930s China. Nobody told me. Tonight, I start a conversation with him. Can his remains give me a reason to keep being an artist?
Turner Street has the art world at his feet — until his brother shows up, his date turns dangerous, and the shadows close in. One apartment. One night. One living nightmare.
When Jane, a wedding photographer, starts running into her exes at weddings, she is confronted with uncomfortable reunions as she navigates her complicated feelings of past relationships and self worth.
PASSIONEL tells the story of four young girls whose history will push them to do anything. And I do mean anything.
Three college literature professors grieving a former student fall asleep on a train.
This girl just wants to have fun and never think about the economy. Or death. She’s determined to have the most fabulous night, at any cost. Even blood.
Do I Know You? follows an emotionally stunted English major through personality quizzes, parasocial relationships, and writing deadlines, exploring the gap between who we think people are and who they actually are.
Andie the alien is trying to become a human. The Scientist has a new way to study her. Together, they travel to the Andromeda Galaxy.
Join Maude Lardner Burke as she takes you on her journey of sex, love, the Hollywood Blacklist, and the power of song!
WELCOME TO THE GAME OF AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
Jason and Nick will do anything to win Annaliese's affection. Buying her a pig is just step one. A dark satire about sitcoms, misogyny, and society’s most controversial animal.
A comedy about theories, loneliness, anarchism, and just staying on the phone.
When quirky May and rigid Theo share a whirlwind airport meet-cute, a spontaneous leap of faith changes everything. But this sweet, nostalgic 20-minute romance is headed somewhere you won’t expect.
"She Is Risen" is a much sexier night at the museum. Adelina Marinello & Lila Marooney’s play resurrects the age-old question: can a good first date fix everything?
This is Where You Live is a comedy about our relationship to time, the rugs that get pulled up from under us, and whether they were all that cozy to begin with.
Two plays for one night only.
We fight to become someone new, but what if we're destined to repeat the lives we're escaping? BLACKOUT is a familial drama blending Reiki, queerness, Latine identity, generational trauma, and resilience.
