Lilith, a new play by Adina Aaron and directed by Samantha Ozeas, is new interpretation of the myth that investigates the gender dynamics, narratives about desire, and embrace of duality which continues to define our culture.
How much can happen before the semester starts?
Britt Benson’s flying high as her buzzy autobiographical play gets national news coverage— but once the cameras start rolling, the play is no longer center stage and a s***storm ensues. 😉
Equal parts true story, theatrical play, live music, and spiritual gathering, Godfriend asks audiences to practice radical belief in each other while facing uncertain futures
Six years after Joanna vanishes, her mother reappears in her ex-boyfriend’s life, befriending his much younger current girlfriend and triggering a whirlpool of insecurity, blurred boundaries, and obsession.
When five friends take refuge from a storm in an old cabin they become pawns in an evil game.
Quitting: easiest thing in the world, right? One night only, an expert explains the history and science of letting go, right up until her past arrives, uninvited, to prove otherwise.
This play is about you laughing at my jokes, but not wanting to love me. Or maybe about wanting to be someone else. Or maybe it’s about training a dog.
Twins Michael and Michaela grapple with death and identity by each independently enlisting the help of the same mysterious escort who engages them in bizarro power games.
Did you just call her virgin? Oh no u didn’t.
A time traveling secret agent goes on a quest to save the world from nuclear war. Her caveman boyfriend, a sentient potato, and her mommy issues are all at play in JUMP!
12-year-old trans kid Max and his 7-year-old sister Ellie try to make sense of gender, growing up, and siblinghood through the sacred tools of magic, pretend, and the internet.
Part dark comedy, part psychological fever dream, GOOD MOTHERS (KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON) is an experimental ensemble play about postpartum depression, psychosis, and the fragile agreement we call reality.
After three years of no contact, Joan reappears in Ellis’ life with a million-dollar opportunity. All he has to do is finish the collection of paintings he swore he’d never complete.
You turn thirteen, and your mom leaves. How do you figure out femininity without her? With a self-help book written by an Old Hollywood movie star.
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.
Two plays for one night only.
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.
"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?
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.
A comedy about theories, loneliness, anarchism, and just staying on the phone.
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.
WELCOME TO THE GAME OF AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
Join Maude Lardner Burke as she takes you on her journey of sex, love, the Hollywood Blacklist, and the power of song!
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.
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.
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.
Three college literature professors grieving a former student fall asleep on a train.
PASSIONEL tells the story of four young girls whose history will push them to do anything. And I do mean anything.
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.
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.
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?
Is revolution achieved by word or by deed, by blood or by creed?
Have I seen you here before? The Girls on the Floor have been waiting for you. Tip, Please.
A comedic and cathartic immersive concert-theater experience about an encounter with a will-o-wisp to the Council on Mythical and MAgical Creatures.
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 collage of sound, story, and spectacle, Sublimation / Irisation is a trans odyssey into the afterlife/atmosphere.
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.
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 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.
Fed up with the pain in their uteruses, 5 friends form an amateur coven to cast a healing spell... but they don't know what they're doing, and may have accidentally summoned a demon….
The story of Francesca Da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta told through a new light, written for a modern audience.
A role reversal, a return to form, a performer in the dark, two discoveries over two nights.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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."
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.
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.
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 tender, time-bending exploration of love, regret, and the lives we almost lived. Expect a night of sharp, witty dialogue and unflinching emotional honesty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An experimental drug trial. A secret arrangement of sex, caretaking, feeding, and kink. MOONBODIES interrogates shame, body politics, and being fully seen in a world that wants you smaller.
INVINCIBLE / THE BULLETS PASS THROUGH ME / LIKE LIGHT follows the ghost of an old Korean woman killed in a hate shooting who teams up with a comedian to find the killer.
REPLACED! is a surrealist sci-fi tragicomedy following a Daughter who returns to her hometown to find that everyone in it has been replaced by aliens. Come out and join us. We’ll get you in the end anyway.
JESUS CHRIST!! These freaky little strange girls have done it AGAIN!!! Damned if they don’t damned if they do. Will you save them? 🥹🥹
BFFs Claire and Mona lock themselves in the school bathroom and get ready for one last dance before the climate apocalypse ruins everything — including their makeup.
Oxford and NYU’s debate teams go head-to-head at their final World Universities Debating Championship, facing deadly minigames, K-pop idols, eternal bathrooms, and a drug-dealing horse along the path to victory.
Ten years after Tom and Julia parted ways as creative partners, Julia has finally completed her Great Gatsby adaptation. However, she has been turned into a giant pile of scarves.
After the mysterious onset of a life-changing neurological condition, Danielle must navigate an escalating disability while confronting her mortality and reckoning with an unexpectedly fractured sense of self.
Helena might be dying. But not according to her husband, Stan. With the help of their adult children, they will heal Helena of death!
And Eat It Too follows a long-term friend group through what should be a normal game night, if not for everyone bringing in their own baggage to derail the evening.
He was a turtle. She was a girl. And then there’s drugs. Franklin the Turtle is a hilarious and heartbreaking one-woman show about addiction, stigma, and the unexpected creatures that help us survive.
Seagull’s Gay Bar is a safe space. But is it safe enough? With bestie/bar-manager Dexter’s help, Daphne knows she can make Seagull’s even safer for her newly queer partner.
Can love survive? After a massive extinction event, three British reality contestants keep trying and failing to couple up.
Petey wakes up tangled in ropes. In a group no one wants to be a part of. There's a box of Krispy Kreme donuts. and also the world is ending in two months.
Lake Effect is a sharp, darkly funny two-hander about siblings Ari and Shana, stuck in a cabin and in each other across time. As identity, trauma, sex, and family tension collide, their bond starts to feel less like home and more like a storm they’re trapped inside.
“CCC: A Montalk In the PanMonticon” is an interactive one-woman-show performed, directed, and written by Montgomerie West that physicalizes the digital experience of ideas, information, and social media circulating.
Come to Lizzie Borden’s haunting party on the anniversary of the axe murders of her father and stepmother where ghosts appear forcing conflicting memories and secrets into the light.
"Brace Yourself: A Musical Apocalypse" is a campy pop-rock musical following Holly and her friends on a quest to get her braces off during the apocalypse. This dark comedy deals with accepting change and finding hope in chaos.
Baby Bipolar is the story of one woman’s journey from getting diagnosed with bipolar 1 to embracing a life where that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Inspired by two of the most important stories of our time; Twilight and Point Break. Moonlighters is a piece about Vampires, Undercover Cops, the power of the stars.
OVERFLOW is a multidisciplinary fever dream blending contemporary dance, theatrics, humor, and tragedy to explore severe personality disorder, emotional fragmentation, and a woman’s distorted sense of reality through fast moving vignettes.
HatHead is a heartfelt slice-of-life dramedy seen through the eyes of a family navigating the changing landscape of dementia.
It's 2014 as four best friends in suburban New Jersey celebrate the end of their junior year with a night of games, gossip, and secrets that come out, or don't.
Elena and Maxine begin making wrestling fetish content to make rent. As the requests keep getting darker, how will their relationship fall out.
A Gay Guy Works Through the Complications of Gay Guy Relationships™ Through Pop Divas, Music Videos, and The Art That Draws Us Together
A writer sleepwalks through 30 years of memory, guided by her own subconscious, a live cello, and an audience that decides what she remembers next.
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.
Coco pays a psychic to bring back the man she lost. But the ritual opens a door she was never meant to walk through.
A tragicomedy about elite NYC families and the college admissions circus. An arms race of billionaires vs. millionaires and their unqualified sons, with one rule: no safety schools.
"My Way" follows a Girl being haunted by a Ghost. A ghost in a fedora.
